Author: Mara Scanlon

Rafferty Publishes Essay

Professor Colin Rafferty had his essay on William Howard Taft, “Judgment (#27),” published in the newest issue​ of The Collapsar. This is the latest in his series of essays devoted to the US Presidents.

ELC Faculty Awarded UMW Grants

Congratulations to Dr. Chris Foss, who was recently awarded a prestigious Waple Professorship for 2018-2010, during which he will write a book on Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales and disability.  Foss was also recently awarded a UMW College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Grant for 2018-2019, as were Professors Paul Fallon, Brenta Blevins, and Mara […]

Skallerup Bessette Publishes Review

Lee Skallerup Bessette, Instructional Technology Specialist in DTLT and adjunct instructor in ELC, recently had her review of Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults published in The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.

Rafferty Has His Eye on Monroe

Congratulations to Colin Rafferty! His graphic essay on James Monroe, “The Eye of James Monroe (#5),” was published in the newest issue​ of Pinball magazine, available here: http://www.thisispinball.com/colin-rafferty/2017/11/29/the-eye-of-james-monroe-5

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 […]