
Bookstore Kicks Off Wait for New Harper Lee Novel with Read-a-Thon of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ (The Free Lance-Star)

Filed under: UMW in the News
by Melina Downs
Journal of American Studies, the preeminent journal of the field, recently published Associate Professor of English Antonio Barrenechea’s review of Colleen C. O’Brien’s Race, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century (University of Virginia Press, 2013). Professor Barrenechea’s review appears in Volume 49, Number 2.

Filed under: Professional Notes
by Melina Downs
For the second year in a row, Antonio Barrenechea, Associate Professor of English, has been selected to participate in one of the two Jessie Ball duPont Summer Seminars sponsored by the National Humanities Center. His seminar, “Sound Studies in the Humanities and Beyond,” will meet May 31 to June 19 in Chapel Hill, N.C. His application was approved in conjunction […]

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by Melina Downs
Gary Richards, associate professor of English, Linguistics and Communication, can be heard on With Good Reason from Oct. 4 to 10 as part of an encore presentation of the “Gospel Roots of Rock and Roll.”Here’s the description from With Good Reason: “The Broadway musical has often taken up southern themes, from Show Boat and Porgy […]

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by Brynn Boyer
Anand Rao, Associate Professor of Communication and Director of the Speaking Intensive Program and the Speaking Center, gave two presentations at the National Association of Communication Centers conference at Arizona State University-West on Friday, April 11, 2014. The first was on “Assessment Best Practices,” and the second was on “Negotiating Identity and Place at Institutions without […]

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