Maya Mathur, associate professor of English, recently presented the paper “Romans as Cheap as Volscians: Citizens and Servingmen in Coriolanus” at the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, which met in San Juan, Puerto Rico on October 24-27.
Gary Richards, associate professor of English, was recently a member of the discussion panel composed of contributors to The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American South at the Louisiana Book Festival, held in Baton Rouge on November 2. He also led the One Book: One Festival discussion devoted to Shirley Anne Grau’s 1961 novel, The House on Coliseum […]
Jon Pineda, assistant professor of English, recently showcased his novel Apology at a trio of the nation’s foremost literary festivals. On October 5, he was a panelist/featured reader at the Page Turner Festival, held in Brooklyn, NY and sponsored by the Asian American Writers Workshop. On October 12, he was a panelist/featured reader at the Southern Festival […]
An essay by Colin Rafferty, assistant professor of English, has been named a Notable Essay in the 2013 edition of Best American Essays, edited this year by Cheryl Strayed. Rafferty’s essay, “Notes Towards Building the Monument,” was originally published in the Spring 2012 issue of Witness. This is the third time in four years that Rafferty has been […]
Antonio Barrenechea, Associate Professor of English, recently presented “All-American Literature” within an experimental “Ideas of the Decade” panel at ACL(x)/E(x)amine, a conference of the American Comparative Literature Association. Hosted by Penn State University, the conference ran September 27-28, 2013.
