Chris Foss’s The Importance of Being Different Book Reading April 24, 5 PM | Combs 139 Professor of English Chris Foss will read from his newly published book, The Importance of Being Different: Disability in Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tales. He’ll talk about and read from the book for about 30 minutes and take questions from […]
Professor of English Chris Foss presented a conference paper entitled “Temporal Fusion(s) in Psychic Messages from Oscar Wilde” at last month’s Nineteenth Century Studies Association Annual Conference in New Orleans.Foss explored how Hester Travers Smith’s 1923 book detailing her conversations with the dead man represents a fascinating instance of such fusion, a unique dramatic rendering […]
Professor of English Chris Foss presented a paper entitled “ ‘The secret of life is suffering’: Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis as Hard Times Survival Guide” on Sun. Oct. 8th at The Victorians Institute’s Annual Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. In the paper Foss argued that (as an analysis of De Profundis, his tour de force […]
Professor of English Chris Foss is slated to deliver an evening lecture at James Madison University on Monday, Oct. 30, on disability in Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales. He also will present a CFI roundtable on Universal Design and the Pedagogy of Care(taking) based on his article in the journal Pedagogy, “Individual Redemption Through Universal Design; […]