Assistant Professor of English Colin Rafferty’s creative nonfiction piece “Digging In” is featured in the Winter 2012 edition of The Baltimore Review.
Colin Rafferty Featured in The Baltimore Review
Category: College of Arts and Sciences
Rosalyn Cooperman Offers Opinion on D.C. Radio Program
Rosalyn Cooperman, associate professor of political science, was a featured guest on Voice of Russia Radio on January 24. In the panel discussion, Cooperman discusses her impressions of President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union address.
The full interview is available at http://english.ruvr.ru/2012/01/26/64656496.html.
Allison Seay Wins Prize for Poetry Collection
UMW’s Arrington Poet-in-Residence Allison Seay ’02 has received the 2012 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry.
The award is a collaboration between Persea Books and the Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Project to sponsor the annual publication of a poetry collection by an American woman poet who has yet to publish a full-length book of poems. The winner receives an advance of $1,000 and publication of her collection by Persea Books. Seay won the prize for her collection of poetry, “To See the Queen,” scheduled for publication in April 2013.
As the Arrington Poet-in-Residence, Seay teaches the advanced poetry workshop and the creative writing seminar in poetry at Mary Washington. A Midlothian, Va., native, she is the recipient of the 2011 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, one of the largest awards offered to aspiring poets in the United States, and two fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including Poetry, Crazyhorse and The Southern Review.
For more information, read the full news release from January 25.
Michael McCarthy Will Appear in The Southern Review
Michael McCarthy, a senior lecturer in the Department of English, Linguistics and Communication, has had four poems accepted for publication by The Southern Review, the literary journal edited at Louisiana State University. The prestigious journal, founded in 1935, is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. McCarthy’s poems, dealing with trees, alienation and the poet William Blake, are to appear in the Fall issue.
Stephen Davies to Feature in IEEE Computer
Stephen Davies, assistant professor of computer science, will have his paper “Cinefile: A Category-Based Analytic Browser” published in IEEE Computer. The paper, co-authored with former students Stacey Aylor ’11 and Jesse Hatfield ’10, discusses a new user interface paradigm for analyzing patterns in a large database, specifically using the IMDB movie database.
The paper will appear on the publication’s website and in the print version later this year.
