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 … including his bathroom. The episode can be found online on: https://www.withgoodreasonradio.org/episode/beyond-the-book/?t=665&autoplay=1#s665 … [Read more...]
Scanlon Talks about Class Tour of Whitman’s Home, Literary Tourism on ‘With Good Reason’
July 28, 2022 by
Fallon Leads Student Research into Writing Systems and Database Development in UMW Summer Institute
June 14, 2022 by
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 Center, is open to the public. Fallon's student team is presenting at 3 p.m. Writing Systems Inventory Database. Student researchers are Isabella Cunningham, Matias Esquivel and Ezra Hanning. https://www.umw.edu/news/2022/06/14/humanities-symposium-highlights-faculty-student-research/ … [Read more...]
Foss Receives 2022 Waple Faculty Professional Achievement Award
April 21, 2022 by
At the general faculty meeting on Wednesday, April 20, the University of Mary Washington bestowed the distinguished Waple Faculty Professional Achievement Award for 2022 on Professor of English Chris Foss. https://www.umw.edu/news/2022/04/21/professors-receive-top-faculty-awards/ … [Read more...]
Barrenchea Receives Research Fellowship
April 20, 2022 by
Antonio Barrenechea, Professor of English, was recently awarded the 2022-2023 Reese Fellowship in American Bibliography and History of the Book in the Americas, from the Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. His project "One Hemisphere Many Nations: Boltonian Americanism and Literary Historiography" will explore the Herbert Bolton archive in relation to the emergence of literary pan-Americanism in the lead up to World War II. The full project will entail working with rare, untranslated, and out-of-print scholarly books forming the early Literature of the Americas academic field. … [Read more...]
Barrenchea Presents at University of Glasgow Symposium
April 13, 2022 by
On April 11, 2022, Antonio Barrenechea, Professor of English, was an invited speaker at the University of Glasgow symposium “Fictional Maximalism and the Americas: New Voices, New Perspectives." His presentation, “Literature of the Americas as Maximalist Discipline" discussed scholarly and historiographical encyclopedism in hemispheric American literary studies. … [Read more...]
Rafferty Participates on Literary Festival Panel
April 4, 2022 by
On March 22, Associate Professor of English Colin Rafferty participated in a virtual panel at the literary festival SMOL Fair, titled “Baobab Press Reintroduces Spring 2021,” with the poet Jesse DeLong and the novelist T Cates. Rafferty read from his new book, Execute the Office: Essays with Presidents, and discussed working through the pandemic with the other authors. The recording is archived here. … [Read more...]
Richards Leads Literary Festival Discussion
March 28, 2022 by
Professor of English Gary Richards led the Books and Beignets forty-person discussion at the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival on Saturday, March 26, 2022, in New Orleans. To mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of A Streetcar Named Desire, the group analyzed that play, focusing particularly on its form. … [Read more...]
Barrenechea Publishes Enclopedia Entry on Literature of the Americas Story Content
March 21, 2022 by
Antonio Barrenechea, Professor of English, recently published “Literature of the Americas” in The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction, 1980-2020. Ed. Leslie Larkin, Stephen Burn, and Patrick O’Donnell. London and New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2022: 835-44. … [Read more...]
Blevins Presents at Flagship Composition Conference
March 16, 2022 by
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 multiple disciplinary preparation benefits and provided suggestions for implementing reading groups. … [Read more...]
Mathur Presents Paper on Teaching Shakespeare
March 14, 2022 by
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.” … [Read more...]