UMW EagleEye News recently featured Colin Rafferty, associate professor of English, discussing his recent essay collection, Execute the Office, his writing process, and offers writing advice:Colin Rafferty: A Penchant for Presidents

UMW EagleEye News recently featured Colin Rafferty, associate professor of English, discussing his recent essay collection, Execute the Office, his writing process, and offers writing advice:Colin Rafferty: A Penchant for Presidents

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Maya Mathur, Professor of English, recently published an essay, “Barbarous Customes: Mughal Might and Anglican Virtue in the Journals of Thomas Roe and Edward Terry,” in the volume Religion and the Medieval and Early Modern Global Marketplace, edited by Scott Oldenburg and Kirstin M.S. Bezio, Routledge, 2022, pp. 87-106.

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Eric G. Lorentzen, Professor of English, published a review of Adam Grener’s new book, Improbability, Chance, and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel, in the latest volume of the Victorians Institute Journal (48). Grener’s novelists (Austen, Scott, Dickens, Trollope, Hardy) were committed to a mode of fiction that primarily foregrounded chance and coincidence to “represent a historical […]

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Paul Fallon, Associate Professor of Linguistics, presented a poster on “Proto-Agaw in relation to Bender’s Proto-Cushitic” on January 8, 2022 at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, held in Washington, DC.

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Antonio Barrenechea, Professor of English, recently published “Fear and Loathing in São Paulo: Slum Metaphysics in the ‘Coffin Joe’ Triptych (1964-2008)” in a special issue of Telos on The Modern City in World Cinema.

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