Shumona Dasgupta, Associate Professor of English, recently published an article and gave an invited talk. The article, “‘His Blood Was Pure English’: Border Anxiety, Race, and Mimicry in Post-Imperial Mutiny Fiction,” appeared in The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, Fall 2016, pp. 85-100. The invited talk, “From the Other Side of Silence: Indian Women Write the Partition,” was given at the South Asian Millennials Conference, organized by the South Asian Students’ Chapter at Columbia and Yale Universities February 3-4, 2018, at Columbia University in New York.
Rafferty Reads at Brigham Young University
Colin Rafferty, Associate Professor of English who specializes in the writing of creative non-fiction, gave a reading at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, as part of their English Reading Series on February 16, 2018.
Johnson-Young Publishes Essay in Health Communication
Elizabeth Johnson-Young, Assistant Professor of Communication, recently had her essay published online in the journal Health Communication.
Predicting Intentions to Breastfeed for Three Months, Six Months, and One Year Using the Theory of Planned Behavior and Body Satisfaction will also appear in the print version in the next edition of the journal.
You can read it here: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/icCiTHb9tKmyJy6b4JT3/full.
Rafferty Publishes Latest Essay in Presidential Series
Colin Rafferty, Associate Professor of English, had his essay on William Howard Taft, “Judgment (#27),” published in the newest issue of The Collapsar.
This is the latest in his series of essays devoted to U.S. presidents.
Rafferty Publishes Graphic Essay on James Monroe
Colin Rafferty, Associate Professor of English, recently had his graphic essay on James Monroe, “The Eye of James Monroe (#5),” published in the newest issue of Pinball magazine.
Richards Contributes Essay to Welty Collection
Gary Richards, Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, recently had his essay “Queering Welty’s Male Bodies in the Undergraduate Classroom,” published in Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty: Twenty-First-Century Approaches, edited by Mae Miller Claxton and Julia Eichelberger and released from University Press of Mississippi. His essay in particular analyzes the Welty stories “The Wide Net” and “Why I Live at the P.O.”
Mathur Contributes Essay to Shakespeare Collection
Maya Mathur, Associate Professor of English and Associate Chair of the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, recently had her essay “‘I Know Thee Not, Old Man’: Using Film and Television to Teach 1 and 2 Henry IV” published in the Modern Language Association Series Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s English History Plays, edited by Laurie Ellinghausen.
Richards Leads Discussion at Louisiana Book Festival
Gary Richards, Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, recently led the book-in-common discussion of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire at the Louisiana Book Festival in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, held Oct. 28. The discussion marked both the 70th anniversary of Williams’ play and the tricentennial of the founding of New Orleans. Richards also moderated a panel devoted to the novels of Ladee Hubbard and Crystal Wilkinson.
These books will give you some spooks (The Advertiser)
Subramanian Publishes Story in Discover Magazine
Sushma Subramanian, journalist and assistant professor in the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, has published the story “My Forgotten Language” in the November issue of Discover Magazine. Her reported personal essay looks into the science behind how she lost the ability to speak her first language, Tamil, after moving to the United States as a child and being encouraged to only use English by teachers. She speaks to neuroscience researchers about how language is stored in the brain, why she retains the ability to understand but not speak in Tamil and what it might take to bring back the full range of her language abilities.
