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Richards Leads Discussion for 75th Anniversary of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’
To mark the 75th anniversary of Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire, Gary Richards led the discussion of that play in the One Book, One Festival series at the Louisiana Book Festival on Saturday, October 29, 2022, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This was his tenth time to participate in that series at the festival, having […]
Mathur Presents Paper at Shakespeare’s Globe
Maya Mathur presented the paper, “Strange Fish: Laughter and Race-Making in The Tempest” at the academic symposium, “Shakespeare and Race: Spoken Word(s),” which was held at Shakespeare’s Globe, London, on November 4-5, 2022. The conference was organized by the Shakespeare Center, a collaboration between Shakespeare’s Globe theater and King’s College, London.
Foss Presents Paper on Oscar Wilde
Professor of English Chris Foss recently presented a paper, “‘We are the zanies of sorrow’: Oscar Wilde’s Post-Prison Relationship to Mental Disability,” on Sat. Oct. 15th at the Anniversaries and Auguries: The Victorians Institute’s Golden Jubilee Conference in Spartanburg, SC.