Rhonda Cooksey to Present at the American Folklore Society and South Atlantic Modern Language Association

MFA student Rhonda Cooksey presenting two papers at conferences this semester! In October, she will present “Folk Healing Communities in the Ozarks” at the joint meeting of the American Folklore Society and the International Society for Folk Narrative Research. And in November, she will present “Abject Other in 18th Century Eastern European Folklore and Gothic…

RSVP Conference Lecture Videos

Lecture by Mary L. Shannon at the Nelson-Atkins Museum September 9, 2016 Video of Mary L. Shannon’s Lecture Dr. Mary L. Shannon is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Roehampton, London, where she is newly-appointed having held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship there for three years. She is the author of Dickens, Reynolds and…

Jennifer Phegley Recent Presentation

Jennifer Phegley presented a paper based on an essay co-written with John Barton, Kristin Huston, and Jarrod Roark entitled “Teaching Transatlantic Sensations” at the Modern Language Association Conference in Vancouver, Canada on January 9, 2015.

Frangos Presents at ASECS Annual Conference

Jenni Frangos attended the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual conference in Williamsburg, Virginia (March 20-22, 2014), where she chaired two panels (one on slavery and the new world, and one on Jane Austen and her contemporaries) and delivered a paper on Daniel Defoe’s _A Tour thro the Whole Island of Great Britain_ on a…

Metzger Presents at Medieval Conference

Cheryl Metzger (MA 2013) presented her paper “A Woman’s Handbook to Power: Christine de Pizan’s Scholastic Argument in Le Livre des Trois Vertus” at the “Making Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Culture” Conference on April 4th and 5th in Chapel Hill, NC. The conference was co-sponsored by the University of North Carolina and King’s…

Bar-Nadav’s Recent Publications

Poet and faculty member Hadara Bar-Nadav recently celebrated the following: Awards/Nominations –Winner, Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize, Crazyhorse, for “Thumb” (2013). –Finalist, Rilke Poetry Prize, University of North Texas, for Lullaby (with Exit Sign) (2014). –Nomination for a Pushcart Prize, Crazyhorse, for “Thumb” (2013). –Nomination for a Pushcart Prize, Bellingham Review, for “I am Only Home…