On October 8, Professor of English Chris Foss presented a paper entitled “‘The secret of life is suffering’: Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis as Hard Times Survival Guide” at the Victorians Institute annual meeting, held this year in Raleigh, NC.
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.
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.
Professor Gary Richards presented “One Book, One Festival: A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines” on Friday, November 5, as part of the Louisiana Book Festival, held virtually this year because of the pandemic. For details about the festival, see the festival’s website.
Professor Maya Mathur recently participated in the session “Sustainable Small Networks: Creating a SoTL Scholars Program at a Teaching-Focused University” at the virtual conference for the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL), which was held from October 26-28, 2021. She discussed her ongoing research on the intersectional teaching of Shakespeare along […]
