Dr. Ray Levy, Assistant Professor of English teaching in the Creative Writing program, has published Issue Twenty-Three of DREGINALD, marking the ten-year anniversary of the inception of this literary journal. DREGINALD Issue Twenty-Three also showcases writing by two UMW ENLI alums: Gus Grohmann, currently a first-year creative-writing MFA student at Hollins University. James Pryor, currently a […]
Author: Brenta Blevins
Barrenechea Presents at Literature/Film Association Conference
Antonio Barrenechea, Professor of English, recently presented “Hot/Cold Ecosystems in the Americas: Recycling Trash Cinema from Santo to Dr. Humpp” at the annual conference of the Literature/Film Association in Missoula, Montana, Sept. 21-23, 2023.
Richards Delivers on Eudora Welty at the American Literature Association
Professor of English Gary Richards delivered a paper titled “Lily Daw and the Erotic Spaces of Disability” on the panel “The Sensual, Sexual, and Erotic Welty,” sponsored by the Eudora Welty Society at the American Literature Association Annual Meeting in Boston this past May.
Barrenechea Publishes Review
Professor of English Antonio Barrenechea recently published a review of Fellow Travelers: How Road Stories Shaped the Idea of the Americas, by John Ochoa (University of Virginia Press, 2021), Comparative Literature Studies 60.2 (2023): 418-21.
ENLI Alum Kimber Foreman to Attend Law School
Congratulations to recent graduate Kimber Foreman, who is entering the Vermont Law and Graduate School, which focuses on Environmental Law! Foreman is a 2021-2022 Departmental Honors recipient who completed an honors project, “Mutually Exclusive: Being Gay and Being a Man in E. M. Forster’s Maurice,” in ENGL 449T under the sponsorship of Professor Kate Haffey.