Dr. Maya Mathur recently presented the paper “Comedy Is Not a Victimless Crime! Laughter in Gammer Gurton’s Needle and The Shoemaker’s Holiday” at the annual conference of the Shakespeare Association of America held in Los Angeles, CA.
Congratulations to the 2018 winner and finalists of the Barbara Thomas Phillips Creative Writing Scholarship: Elizabeth Stone, Lauren Taylor, and Kathryn Chau!
Congratulations to this year’s winner, Kaitlin Lamb, for her poem “Dear Persephone,” and to Sarah Stephen, who was awarded an honorable mention for her poem “A Broken Wishbone Sits in My Palm.” The contest was judged by guest poet James Arthur of Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Gary Richards recently led the breakfast book discussion of James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain at the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival in New Orleans, LA.
Professor Shumona Dasgupta recently published an article and gave an invited talk. The article, “‘His Blood Was Pure English’: Border Anxiety, Race, and Mimicry in Post-Imperial Mutiny Fiction,” appeared in The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 4.2. The invited talk, “From the other side of Silence: Indian women write the Partition,” was given at […]
