Brenta Blevins, Associate Professor of Writing Studies and Digital Studies, recently presented Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) research on “low stakes” reflective journal assignments at the Corridors, the Blue Ridge Writing and Rhetoric Conference, in Blacksburg, VA. She also delivered a workshop on journal writing and conducting writing studies related SoTL research.
Antonio Barrenechea, Professor of English, recently presented “Hot/Cold Ecosystems in the Americas: Recycling Trash Cinema from Santo to Dr. Humpp” at the annual conference of the Literature/Film Association in Missoula, Montana, Sept. 21-23, 2023.
Professor of English Gary Richards delivered a paper titled “Lily Daw and the Erotic Spaces of Disability” on the panel “The Sensual, Sexual, and Erotic Welty,” sponsored by the Eudora Welty Society at the American Literature Association Annual Meeting in Boston this past May.
Professor of English Antonio Barrenechea recently published a review of Fellow Travelers: How Road Stories Shaped the Idea of the Americas, by John Ochoa (University of Virginia Press, 2021), Comparative Literature Studies 60.2 (2023): 418-21.
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.
