The English Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Chris Hudgins has taught at Emory, Old Dominion, and, since 1976, at UNLV. Hudgins previously served as Chairman of the English Department from 1984-93 and was instrumental in establishing both the PhD and the Creative Writing Programs. During that time, the Department mounted one of the best lecture/reading series in the U.S., bringing to Las Vegas five Nobel Laureates and other writers such as Robert Stone, Robert Coover, Charles Johnson, John Barth, and Hayden Carruth, as well as scholars such as Christopher Ricks, William Arrowsmith, Stanley Fish, Stephen Greenblatt, Wayne Booth, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The recipient of a number of important grants, including two NEH grants and an Eisenhower Grant, Hudgins has also been active in grants organizations. He served on the Nevada Humanities Committee from 1993-2000, chairing that state division of the NEH for the last two years. Hudgins also served as a member of the Commission for Cultural Affairs, State of Nevada (1997-99), one of five commissioners distributing $18 million in State funding for historical preservation. He received the Governor's Award for Service to the Humanities in 2001, and the Donald Schmiedel Award for Service to the University and Community in 2000. Returning to the Chair's office in 2005, Hudgins has led the Department through its recent revision of the English undergraduate major. Hudgins' writing and scholarship include his co-edited book, Gender and Genre: Essays on David Mamet and 19 articles or chapters in collections on Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Stanley Kubrick and others. He is nearing completion of a book on Pinter's filmscripts and serves on several editorial boards. He is also a board member of the Black Mountain Institute.