University of Mary Washington Professors Mara Scanlon and Mindy Erchull will be featured in upcoming episodes of the With Good Reason public radio program. During Professor of English Mara Scanlon’s encore interview, to be broadcast June 27 to July 3, she discusses Walt Whitman and his time as a nurse during the Civil War in […]
Dr. Mara Scanlon, Professor of English, has published an essay collection entitled Poetry and Dialogism: Hearing Over. Scanlon co-edited the volume with Dr. Chad Engbers of Calvin College and wrote its introduction. The book, published by Palgrave MacMillan, extends the theoretical conversation on poetry that is oriented toward an Other and contributes as well to […]
English Professor Mara N. Scanlon’s interview about Walt Whitman and the famed poet’s experiences as a Civil War nurse will be rebroadcast on the public radio program “With Good Reason” beginning Saturday, June 21.In 1862, poet Walt Whitman went to Fredericksburg to search in field hospitals for his brother who had been wounded in a […]
The University of Mary Washington presented its top honors during commencement ceremonies Friday, May 9 and Saturday, May 10. Daniel W. Lipscomb of Purcellville, Va., and Leah C. Tams of Midlothian, Va., received the Colgate W. Darden Jr. Awards, which are presented to the students with the highest grade-point averages (GPA) in the four-year undergraduate […]
