Congratulations to Sylvia Sierra! She was a UMW special major in linguistics major graduate from 2008 who earned her Ph.D. in linguistics at Georgetown in August 2016. She is now a tenure-track assistant professor teaching discourse analysis in the Communication & Rhetorical Studies Department at Syracuse University.
Accompanied by senior English majors Christina Cox, Shannon Birch, and Bailey Meeks, Dr. Scanlon recently attended the H.D. and Feminist Poetics Conference, where she presented the paper “Charlotte Mew, H.D., and the Magdalen: ‘what she did everyone knows.’” The paper examined the Magdalen figures in two poems, not only analyzing the representations of their sexual […]
Congratulations to the 2015 winner of the Barbara Thomas Phillips Scholarship in Creative Writing, Aeriel Merillat, and to finalists Virginia Dare Cox and Sydney Allen!
Congratulations to Samantha Worman, who was just elected President of the Student Government Association! Samantha is a double major in English-Creative Writing and Psychology. Poetry CAN get you a job, folks. Good luck, Sam!
Many congratulations to Tess McClellan! She is the 2013 winner of the Barbara Thomas Phillips Creative Writing Scholarship. Three cheers as well for the finalists, Virginia Cox and Claire Winkler!