Gary Richards, Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, recently facilitated the discussion of John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces at the Books and Beignets program of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival held March 27-31 in New Orleans, LA. This program has become a tradition at the […]
Maya Mathur, Associate Professor of English, presented the paper “Twelfth Night in Tragic and Comic Registers” for a panel on “Shakespeare and South Asian Cinema” at the 50th Annual Northeastern Modern Language Association Conference in Washington, DC. Her paper examined two cinematic adaptations of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (1601), Tim Supple’s Twelfth Night (2003) and […]
Associate Professor Ranjit Singh (Political Science and International Affairs) presented his research on Stafford County private landowners’ attitudes towards land conservation March 26th at the annual Environment Virginia Symposium at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington. Thus far, Singh has interviewed 52 landowners in the county, which is a conservation “hotspot.” His research will continue through […]
Marjorie Och, professor of art history, will present a free lecture on Jacopo Tintoretto, one of the three giants of 16th-century Venetian painting, at 7 p.m. Friday at St. George’s Episcopal Church, 905 Princess Anne St. The talk is timed to coincide with “Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice” at the National Gallery of Art, which […]
Elizabeth Freund Larus, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, was quoted in an article entitled “Is Brunei instating harsh anti-LGBT laws to appease Saudi Arabia for economic favors?” Brunei is the first East and Southeast Asian country to introduce sharia penal code, drawing widespread condemnation from the international community. “Early measures included the 2015 […]
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