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Reunion Weekend 2019, May 31-June 2

Each year the Office of Alumni Relations hosts Reunion Weekend on the Mary Washington campus. Over 800 alumni and guests are expected to come back to campus and participate in dozens of intellectual, cultural, and social activities. While alumni from all classes are welcome at Reunion Weekend, classes ending in fours and nines from 1949 to 2009 […]

Grothe Quoted in Article on the Effects of Melting Sea Ice

Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Pamela Grothe was quoted in an article on MEA WorldWide (MEAWW) entitled “Melting sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic may be an economic boon, but it spells doom for sea life.” She said that Polar regions are important for regulating global temperatures. “Sea ice is highly reflective […]

Faculty and Staff Volunteers Needed for Orientation

The Office of Student Activities & Engagement is looking for faculty and staff volunteers for Orientation. Every year, new students and guests comment on the helpfulness of our community during this time, such impressions have a profound impact on how new students see Mary Washington!Plenty of dates and times remain to volunteer. We need your […]

Haffey Publishes Book on Literary Modernism and Queer Temporality

Kate Haffey, Associate Professor of English, has just had her book, Literary Modernism, Queer Temporality: Eddies in Time​, published by Palgrave Macmillan. Per the summary on the back of the book, “This book explores the intersection between the recent work on queer temporality and the experiments of literary modernism. Kate Haffey argues that queer theory’s […]

Barrenechea Interviewed for MEAWW Articles

Antonio Barrenechea, Associate Professor of English, was recently interviewed for two articles published in the web magazine MEAWW. The first was on the relationship between summer and romantic comedies. The second probed the link between intelligence and dark humor.https://meaww.com/the-last-summer-romantic-comedies-netflix-romcom-kj-apa-summer-of-love-tyler-poseyhttps://meaww.com/dark-comedy-dark-humor-21st-century-dead-to-me-intelligence-black-comedy-movies-tv-shows.