Professor Chris Foss delivered a talk on Wilde’s fairy tales entitled “The Gospel According to Oscar: Progressive Politics and Social Critique in Wilde’s ‘The Young King’” as one of three speakers for an event sponsored by The LGBT Center of New York and The Church of the Village in conjunction with The Oscar Wilde Temple, […]
Dr. Gary Richards recently led the book-in-common discussion of Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire at the Louisiana Book Festival in Baton Rouge, LA. The discussion marked both the seventieth anniversary of Williams’s play and the tricentennial of the founding of New Orleans. Richards also moderated a panel devoted to the novels of Ladee Hubbard and […]
Professor Sushma Subramanian was awarded a Genetics and Human Behavior Journalism Fellowship by the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia, a grant aimed at early- and mid-career journalists. Continuing her focus on science writing, Subramanian will use the fellowship to observe researchers studying the physiology of the Bajau laut, a group in Indonesia […]
Dr. Mara Scanlon recently delivered a lecture at the Fredericksburg Branch of the Central Rappahannock Regional Library entitled “The Great War from the Margins: WWI Literature by Women and African Americans.” The lecture was presented in conjunction with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a Library of America program called “World […]
Sushma Subramanian recently published the essay “My Forgotten Language” in the November issue of Discover Magazine. The piece looks into the neuroscience behind how she lost the ability to speak her first language, Tamil, after moving to the United States as a child and being encouraged to only use English by teachers, and what remains […]