Professor Eric Lorentzen presented over the summer a paper as part of the “Dickens and Education” panel of the annual Dickens Society Symposium. His talk, “Happy Shepherd-Boys and Closing Prison-Houses: The Importance of Connection in Wordsworth, Dickens, and Tolstoy,” originated in a UMW Faculty Development Summer Grant and detailed, in part, the creation of a […]
Professor Shumona Dasgupta presented “Subaltern Pasts: Other Archives of the Indian Partition (1947)” at the thirtieth annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies conference (BCPSC) hosted by the Georgia Southern University, GA (February 15-19, 2021) and held as a virtual conference.She also presented “A Geography of Crisis: Memorializing the Partition (1947) in Indian Cinema” at the […]
Antonio Barrenechea, Professor of English, recently presented “A Hemispheric World of Differences: Luis Alberto Sánchez and Stanley T. Williams” at the meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, which took place virtually this year.
Janie Lee, Associate Professor of Linguistics, recently led a teach-in in the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. The teach-in was part of the workshop “Room at the Table: Locating Asian Identity in Linguistics and the LSA.” In it, Lee gave a short presentation on teaching Asian American linguistics and facilitated an […]
Eric G. Lorentzen, Professor of English, was one of six international Dickens scholars who took part in a roundtable presentation and discussion on Dickens and Contagion. The roundtable was part of a virtual global conference which took place on 9 June, which was the 150th anniversary of the Victorian writer’s untimely death. #Dickens150 featured Dickens scholars […]