Dr. Laura Bylenok, Assistant Professor of English and current coordinator of UMW’s Creative Writing program, has just been announced by the University of Nebraska Press as the winner of the Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry for 2021.The book based on her manuscript Living Room will be published in the fall of 2022.For more information, see […]
Congratulations to alumna Alexandria Riker ’18! Alexandria’s dystopian horror short story “Weighing In” was just published in The Yard: Crime Blog online magazine.Alexandria is a December 2018 magna cum laude graduate who majored in English: Creative Writing and studied under Dr. Warren Rochelle and participated in his study abroad program in 2018 at Bangor University […]
Marie McAllister, Professor of English, recently published “Rhetoric, the Pox, and the Grand Tour,” which appeared as the lead article in the April 2021 issue of Eighteenth-Century Life.She also recently published a review of Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination, by Noelle Gallagher, in Journal of the History of Sexuality.
Maya Mathur, Professor of English, recently published an encyclopedia entry “Twelfth Night (Dir. Tim Supple, UK, 2003)” in the online edition of the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare, edited by Alexa Alice Joubin. The encyclopedia entry examines the role of immigration in the production history and reception of Tim Supple’s adaptation of Twelfth Night, which […]
The Rumpus has published two essays written by Colin Rafferty, Associate Professor of English. The essays are excerpts from Rafferty’s forthcoming book Execute the Office: Essays with Presidents.The first, “Preamble,” is the first essay of the book, while the second, “Dissolve To,” considers the Reagan presidency through the lenses of film scripts and John Wayne […]
