Professor of English Chris Foss delivered a talk titled “The Gospel According to Oscar: Progressive Politics and Social Critique in Wilde’s ‘The Young King’” on Oct. 12 in New York City.Foss was one of three speakers of the night for an event organized by Felicia Ruff of Wagner College as the first of a series […]
Tevya Zukor, director of UMW’s Talley Center for Counseling Services, has authored a book chapter in the recently published “The College Counselor’s Guide to Group Psychotherapy.” The chapter is titled “Trainee Development in Group Psychotherapy,” published by Routledge.The Talley Center is committed to advancing mental health for college students and is considered a leader among […]
Angie White, Digital Resources Librarian, co-led a workshop at the Digital Library Federation Forum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 23. The workshop centered on digital library pedagogy, where participants left with a lesson plan regarding teaching with digital collections or building digital collections as a class project. Following the workshop, Angie and her colleagues led […]
Gary Richards, Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, recently led the book-in-common discussion of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire at the Louisiana Book Festival in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, held Oct. 28. The discussion marked both the 70th anniversary of Williams’ play and the tricentennial of the founding of New […]
Dan Hirshberg, assistant professor of religion, delivered a paper titled “Spontaneous Presence: The Rapid Normalization of Padmasambhava’s Iconography in Image (and Text)” at McGill University’s School of Religious Studies (Montréal, Quebec, Canada). Drawn from research he is pursuing for his Jepson Fellowship, this paper focuses on the earliest extant paintings of a renowned 8th ce. master of esoteric Buddhism, and […]
