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 […]
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.
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.
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.”
