Assistant Professor of English Brenta Blevins recently presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication 2022 Virtual Conference. Blevins presented as part of the cross-institutional panel “Informal Reading Groups as Inclusionary Practice for Facilitating Graduate Students’ Disciplinary Access and Professionalization.” Analyzing an informal, multi-year reading group, the panel identified how professional reading groups produce […]
Maya Mathur, Professor of English, recently presented the paper “Intersectionality, Inclusion and the Shakespeare Survey Course” at the 53rd annual convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, which was held in Baltimore, Maryland March 10-13, 2022. Her paper was part of the seminar “After the Plague Year: Caring for/with Shakespeare in Text and Performance.”
On October 22, Chris Foss, Professor of English, presented a paper entitled “Reflection and Refraction in Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Selfish Giant’ and Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant” at the annual conference of the Victorians Institute in Charlotte, NC.Foss first examined Wilde’s literary endorsement of fantasy over realism as a valuable entry point for considering Victorian reflections […]
Professor Maya Mathur recently participated in the session “Sustainable Small Networks: Creating a SoTL Scholars Program at a Teaching-Focused University” at the virtual conference for the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL), which was held from October 26-28, 2021. She discussed her ongoing research on the intersectional teaching of Shakespeare along […]
Professor Maya Mathur presented her research on global adaptations of Shakespeare at two virtual conferences this summer. The first paper, “Cross-Cultural Casting and Queer Desire in Global Adaptations of Twelfth Night,” was presented at a conference organized by the European Shakespeare Research Association June 3-6, 2021.The second paper, “Eat the Rich: Race, Class, and Caste […]