Associate Professor Paul D. Fallon of the Department of English and Linguistics was invited to review The Oxford Handbook of African Languages, edited by Rainer Vossen & Gerrit Dimmendaal, and published by Oxford University Press in 2020. His review appears online in The Linguistic List vol. 33, number 2209. The Linguist List is a major […]
The University of Mary Washington presented the Grellet C. Simpson Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching to Professor of English Maya Mathur at the general faculty meeting on August 16. This award, for which all full-time continuing faculty members are eligible. Simpson, UMW’s fourth president, is celebrated for his emphasis on academics and belief in the liberal […]
Professor of English Mara Scanlon appeared on an episode of With Good Reason radio called “Beyond the Book-Whitmaniacs.” Scanlon told the show’s host about taking her class of self-proclaimed “Whitmaniacs” to the Walt Whitman house in Camden, New Jersey. She says her students were awestruck by being in the intimate spaces where Whitman lived and breathed […]
Mary Cheney, English B.A. with a minor in linguistics ’21, M.Ed. ’22, who will head to South Korea on prestigious Fulbright Award!Linguistics Associate Professor Janie Lee supported Cheney’s Korean teaching interests. UMW Grads Win Fulbright Awards to Teach Overseas
Paul Fallon, Associate Professor of Linguistics, has led student research inventory and database of writing systems in UMW’s first Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Summer Institute (AHSSSI).The event concludes with presentations of research results of their monthlong research projects. The event, beginning at 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 15, in the Digital Auditorium of the Hurley Convergence […]