Gary Richards, associate professor of English and chair of the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, presented the paper “From Hairspray to Hamilton: Productions of Southernness in the Contemporary Broadway Musical” at the Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference, themed “The South in the North,” that met in Boston on March 10-12.
Antonio Barrenechea, associate professor of English, recently published the retrospective review essay “Thomas Pynchon, Literary Giant.” It is the lead essay in an issue on “Big Novels” for American Book Review 37.2 (2016).
Maya Mathur, associate professor and associate chair of the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, presented the paper “Riotous Genres” at the annual conference of the Shakespeare Association of America, which was held in New Orleans from March 24-26, 2016. Her paper was part of a seminar on “Shakespeare and Riot.”
Luke Johnson, adjunct professor of English, has had his poem “Sally Takes an Art Class” featured as Poem of the Week at The Missouri Review (http://www.missourireview.com/archives/luke-johnson-sally-takes-an-art-class/). He also has two poems included in the new issue of Painted Bride Quarterly and two poems in the new issue of Image.
Jon Pineda, Assistant Professor of English, has recently had his poem “Rapidan Bestiary” accepted for publication by Gray’s Sporting Journal. Other new fly-fishing poems–“Rappahannock Bestiary” and “Smallmouth Bestiary”–will appear in the forthcoming issue of storySouth.His creative nonfiction essay “Circumference” recently appeared in the literary magazine Qu and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize (Pushcart Prize XLI: Best […]
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