Two museums administered by the University of Mary Washington will reopen to the public on Monday, September 14, 2020 after a six-month shutdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.Gari Melchers Home and Studio at 224 Washington Street in Falmouth is a National Historic Landmark that interprets the legacy of American impressionist painter Gari Melchers (1860-1932) and […]
To the UMW community:President Paino convened The UMW Police Community Advisory Panel (CAP) in the wake of the protests (the Protests) in Fredericksburg May 31st and June 1st, 2020, and the impact of police involvement on members of our UMW Community. CAP was charged with providing a full and open accounting of the events surrounding the […]
The University of Mary Washington Board of Visitors will hold an electronic meeting on Friday, September 18, 2020, beginning at 8:30 a.m. A lunch break will be taken at approximately noon. This is a scheduled quarterly Board meeting to discuss and take action on University affairs and Board operations. Members of the public may witness this meeting […]
A book chapter by Brenta Blevins, Assistant Professor of English, was recently published in Modern Language Association’s Writing Changes: Alphabetic Text and Multimodal Composition, a collection edited by Pegeen Reichert Powell.Blevins’ chapter, “Of Writing and the Future: An Essay on Augmented Reality Composition,” makes the point that Augmented Reality (AR) not only incorporates but depends […]
Maya Mathur, Professor of English in the Department of English and Linguistics, published a book chapter entitled “Identities” in the volume, A Cultural History of Comedy in the Early Modern Age. The volume was published by Bloomsbury Academic. The chapter examines the literary origins of early modern comic characters and considers how their portrayal is […]
