Richards Publishes Essay on Welty

Dr. Gary Richards recently had his essay "Queering Welty's Male Bodies in the Undergraduate Classroom" published in Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty: Twenty-First-Century Approaches, edited by Mae Miller Claxton and Julia Eichelberger and released from University Press of Mississippi. His essay in particular analyzes the Welty stories "The Wide Net" and "Why I Live at the P.O." … [Read more...]

Mathur Publishes on Teaching Shakespeare

Dr. Maya Mathur recently saw her essay “‘I Know Thee Not, Old Man’: Using Film and Television to Teach 1 and 2 Henry IV” published in the Modern Language Association Series Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s English History Plays, edited by Laurie Ellinghausen. … [Read more...]

Dr. Lorentzen Gives Pedagogical Presentation

Professor Lorentzen (aka The Radical Schoolmarm) recently presented a talk at the Victorians Institute conference entitled "'The Narrative of the Tombstone': Teaching English 251S -- British Victorian Detective and Sensation Novel." Lorentzen shared the pedagogical philosophies and praxes that he has employed in this course, and his summer course on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in our department. … [Read more...]