Chris Foss, professor of English, presented a paper entitled “Engaging Eastern Enjoyment(s): Poetic Renderings of Hindu Festivals in Ghosh and Naidu” at the annual meeting of the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Association on Sunday, March 17. This year’s conference, hosted by the University of Virginia, was held in Charlottesville.
Chris Foss Presents at Conference
Chris Foss, professor of English, organized a roundtable discussion on autism studies at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Convention in Raleigh/Durham, N.C., on Nov. 10. For this special extended session panel, Foss joined four prominent national voices in offering short presentations to introduce threads of discussion that initiated a two-hour conversation on topics such as the nexus of autism and aesthetics, the nexus of autism and neurocosmopolitanism, and the nexus of autism and rhetoric.