Category: Professional Notes

Barry Presents on Gender Violence

Jennifer Barry, assistant professor of religion, presented a portion of her recent work at the Women’s and Gender Studies Brown Bag lunch on Wednesday, Jan. 24.The talk was the result of her Faculty Research Grant awarded for the 2017-2018 academic year. Barry’s next major book project is on male fantasies of gender violence in late antiquity.A description […]

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.