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.
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.
Antonio Barrenechea, Professor of English, recently presented “Alucard and Alucarda: From Universal to Hemispheric Horrors” at the Literature/Film Association Conference in New Orleans, October 20-22, 2022.
Alumna Natalie Sayth (’09 English / Music) is a writer’s assistant and researcher for the new CW series Walker: Independence!For more information, including episodes available for streaming, check The CW website.
Antonio Barrenechea, Professor of English, presented “‘Una América Total’: New World Encyclopedism in the 1970s” at the American Comparative Literature Association conference, held online June 15-18, 2022.