Category: Professional Notes

Whalen Appeared on ‘With Good Reason’

Associate Professor of Digital Studies Zach Whalen was interviewed on With Good Reason, which airs Sundays at 2 p.m. on Fredericksburg’s Radio IQ 88.3 Digital and at various times throughout the week on stations across Virginia and the United States. Check the website for show times.Beating The Game, airing Sept. 11 For decades, video games have inspired hit songs and […]

Mathur Presents Paper at World Shakespeare Congress

Professor of English Maya Mathur presented the paper, “Eat the Rich: Race, Class, and Caste in Bornila Chatterjee’s The Hungry,” at the World Shakespeare Congress, which was held virtually from July 19-24, 2021. Her paper examined the connection between racial difference in William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus and class and caste tension in Bornila Chatterjee’s The […]

Dasgupta Presents on the Indian Partition at Two Conferences

Associate Professor of English Shumona Dasgupta recently presented on representations of the Indian partition at two professional conferences.She presented “Subaltern Pasts: Other Archives of the Indian Partition (1947)” at the thirtieth annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies conference (BCPSC) hosted by the Georgia Southern University, GA (February 15-19, 2021) and held as a virtual conference.She […]

Larus Comments on Biden’s China Ambassador Pick

Elizabeth Freund Larus, Chairman of the Department of Political Science and International Affairs, commented on President Biden’s nomination of diplomat Nicholas Burns as U.S. Ambassador to China, on the Indus News program In Focus South Asia on August 23, 2021. Professor Larus claimed that the choice of a career foreign service officer, rather than a […]

Farnsworth Publishes co-authored article on Trump Presidency

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, is co-author of an article, “Intermedial #MAGA: The Trump Presidency on Screen,” recently published in the Australasian Journal of American Studies.Dr. Farnsworth also was featured in several local, regional and national news stories:With Professor of Geography Steve Hanna: […]