Head Coach of Men’s and Women’s Track & Field and Cross Country Kunle Lawson, who is also UMW Athletics’ Diversity and Inclusion Director, was featured in The Free Lance-Star on his passion and innovative way of playing disc golf. WHEN Kunle Lawson started playing disc golf on the course at Loriella Park in Spotsylvania County […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
