Category: Professional Notes

Richards Contributes Essay to Welty Collection

Gary Richards, Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, recently had his essay “Queering Welty’s Male Bodies in the Undergraduate Classroom,” published in Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty: Twenty-First-Century Approaches, edited by Mae Miller Claxton and Julia Eichelberger and released from University Press of Mississippi. His essay in particular […]

Jesse Stommel Featured on NPR

Jesse Stommel, who directs the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies, was recently interviewed in an NPR story called Laptops and Phones In the Classroom: Yea, Nay Or a Third Way?“Ultimately, I see strict laptop policies (and especially blanket bans) as a form of control,” Stommel said.  

Mathur Contributes Essay to Shakespeare Collection

Maya Mathur, Associate Professor of English and Associate Chair of the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, recently had her essay “‘I Know Thee Not, Old Man’: Using Film and Television to Teach 1 and 2 Henry IV” published in the Modern Language Association Series Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s English History Plays, edited by Laurie Ellinghausen.