Author: Erika Spivey

Foss Presents Paper Celebrating the Work of Claudia Emerson

On Nov. 13, Professor of English Chris Foss presented a paper titled “‘The body’s own account’: Disease, Disability, Death and the Argument for Life in the Poetry of Claudia Emerson” at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association annual convention in Durham, N.C.  The paper celebrates Claudia’s unflinching consideration of disease, disability and death in her […]

Meet Our New Employees

Please join us in extending a warm UMW welcome to our newest employees:Kirk Darrough – Docent for Gari Melchers Home and Studio.Trudy Hardcastle – Docent for Gari Melchers Home and Studio.Karen Howard – Desk Attendant for Eagle Landing.Caitlin McCabe – Residence Life Area Coordinator.Zamara Montalvo-Perez – Financial Assistant.Thomas Schukis – Grounds Lead Worker.Junaid Shahid – […]

Harris Presents Paper at Slavic Studies Conference in Philadelphia

Department of History and American Science Professor Steven E. Harris presented his paper, “The Soviet Martyrdom of an Aeroflot Stewardess in the Age of Détente,” at the 47th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies in Philadelphia, Nov. 19-22, 2015. At this same conference, Harris was also a panelist on the roundtable titled […]