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We ask you to remember the dedicated and beloved faculty of our department that we have lost.
Prof. Taddesse Adera (1952-2006)
The Department of English, Linguistics, and Speech mourns the loss of its colleague, Professor Taddesse Adera, who passed away unexpectedly on January 17, 2006. Dr. Adera had been a member of the faculty since 1989.
Dr. Adera’s teaching and research interests included South African, Caribbean, oral and postcolonial literature; literature of the Resistance; women of color; 19th-century British fiction; rhetoric and composition; and teaching English as a second language. He edited Silence is Not Golden: A Critical Anthology of Ethiopian Literature and The Road Less Traveled: Reflections on the Literatures of the Horn of Africaand translated V.I. Lenin’s The State and Revolution into Amharic. Among his awards were Virginia’s Outstanding Faculty Award by the State Council of Higher Education and the university’s Jepson Fellow Award.
We have established a scholarship fund in honor of Professor Adera’s extraordinary contributions to Mary Washington College and the University of Mary Washington community. Donations in his honor may be sent to the University of Mary Washington Foundation–Adera Scholarship, 1119 Hanover Street, Fredericksburg, VA 22401.
An article on Professor Adera’s death from the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star is available here
Prof. Christina Kakava (1960-2010)
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The ELC Department and the University of Mary Washington mourn the loss of Dr. Christina Kakava, Professor of Linguistics. A beloved teacher and colleague, Professor Kakava died on Saturday, February 20, 2010 after a courageous struggle with brain cancer, leaving her husband, Dr. Paul Fallon, and their son Yanni.
Click here to read Dr. Kakava’s obituary in the Free-Lance Star.
