Professor and Department Chair Jonathan Levin delivered a paper titled “’A tree is a passage between earth and sky’’: Navigating Scientific and Animistic Frameworks in Richard Powers’s The Overstory” at the American Literature Association Annual Meeting in Boston this past May.
Professor of English Eric G. Lorentzen presented a paper entitled “The Sights/Sites of Dickens in 2023: Literary Tourism, Cultural Studies, and the University Literature Classroom” at the recent Dickens Society Symposium in Rochester (RIT).The talk included research he conducted in museums and other literary sites across England, as well as the pedagogical methodologies involved with […]
Professor of English Maya Mathur’s essay, “When Students Recognize Gender but not Race: Addressing the Othello-Caliban Conundrum,” was recently published in the collection, Teaching Race in the European Renaissance: A Classroom Guide, edited by Matthieu Chapman and Anna Wainwright, ACMRS Press, 2023, pp.15-33.Professor Mathur also presented the paper, “The Ballad of Tom and Greg: Comic […]
Antonio Barrenechea, Professor of English, recently authored “The Story of Rare Books at Mary Washington, 1963-Present” for the UMW Simpson Library.Professor Barrenechea currently serves as faculty liaison to the UMW Simpson Library Special Collections.
Gary Richards, Professor of English, led a discussion of six of Kate Chopin’s representative short stories at the sold-out special event “Books and Beignets with Gary Richards” at the Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival on Saturday, March 25.Richards has presented in this series fifteen times since 2007, lecturing on authors that include Ellen […]
