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Faculty member invited to participate in roundtable at conference
Dr. Iclal Vanwesenbeeck of the Department of English has been invited to join a board-sponsored roundtable at the Northeast Modern Language Association on the “Status of Study Abroad Programs in a Post-COVID World.”
Vanwesenbeeck presents talk in the Netherlands
Department of English Professor Birger Vanwesenbeeck gave a public lecture at Utrecht University in the Netherlands at the invitation of the research groups for Modern and Contemporary Literature and Terra Critica.
McVicker has paper published and will present at international conference
Jeanette McVicker, professor of English, will have an expanded version of her 2022 conference paper for the annual international conference on Virginia Woolf, "Woolfian Ethics, Heterotopias, and Nonviolence" published in the online _Selected Papers_ (2024), edited by Amy Smith, for Clemson University Press.
Impact of Jarvis’s Vonnegut scholarship continues to grow
Department of English Professor Christina Jarvis continues to share Kurt Vonnegut’s social justice and environmental legacies with new audiences.
Vanwesenbeeck pens Plath article for peer-reviewed journal
A scholarly article, “Plath Translates Rilke,” by Department of English Professor Birger Vanwesenbeeck has just appeared in the winter issue of the peer-reviewed journal Twentieth-Century Literature, published by Duke University Press.
Vanwesenbeeck article published in top journal
Department of English Professor Birger Vanwesenbeeck has written a scholarly article, “Paul de Man’s Flemish,” published in the winter issue of the top-tier quarterly journal...
Jarvis’s ‘Lucky Mud & Other Foma’ brings Vonnegut’s Planetary Citizenship to new audiences
Dr. Christina Jarvis has been busy, busy, busy. That’s what Bokononists, members of the invented religion in Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle,” say when they contemplate how “complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.”
Students partner with school district to copyedit newsletter
During the fall semester, WRTG 354: Foundations of Editing, a course taught by Professor Natalie Gerber in the Department of English and the new Writing major, partnered with Fredonia Central School to copyedit the district newsletter.
Gerber interviewed on UC Berkeley’s East Bay poetry podcast
Department of English Professor Natalie Gerber revisited her graduate school years at the University of California, Berkeley – nearly three decades later – as a guest on a recent East Bay podcast “Poetic Pontification” that commemorated the founding of the campus’ very popular Lunch Poems series in 1994.
Jarvis to hold reading from acclaimed Vonnegut book
Department of English Professor Christina Jarvis will give a reading from her new book about Kurt Vonnegut, “Lucky Mud and Other Foma,” on Thursday, Oct. 13, at 7 p.m. in Diers Recital Hall.