{"id":18411,"date":"2013-01-10T09:37:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T13:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umweagleeye.wpengine.com\/?p=18411"},"modified":"2013-01-10T09:37:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T13:37:38","slug":"english-faculty-present-at-mla-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2013\/01\/10\/english-faculty-present-at-mla-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"English Faculty Present at MLA Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><figure id=\"attachment_18413\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18413\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/umweagleeye.wpengine.com\/2013\/01\/10\/english-faculty-present-at-mla-conference\/richards-gary12\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18413\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-18413\" alt=\"Gary Richards\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/01\/Richards-Gary12-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary Richards<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Two professors and one recent alumnus of the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication presented at the Modern Language Association Conference that met Jan. 3 through 6 in Boston, Mass. Assistant Professor Zach Whalen presented the paper &ldquo;OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and the Vestigial Aesthetics of Machine Vision&rdquo; on the panel Reading the Invisible and Unwanted in Old and New Media. Associate Professor Gary Richards presented the paper &ldquo;Tennessee Williams and the Burden of Southern Sexuality Studies&rdquo; on the panel The South and Sexuality. Alumnus Tyler Babbie, &rsquo;08, presented the paper &ldquo;Another Term: Richard Aldington and Imagism(e)&rdquo; on the panel From Imagism to &ldquo;Amygism&rdquo; to Vorticism.<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_13163\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13163\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/umweagleeye.wpengine.com\/2012\/04\/18\/zach-whalen-publishes-scholarly-essay-on-early-video-game-console\/whalen-zach08\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13163\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-13163\" alt=\"Zach Whalen\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/Whalen-Zach08-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zach Whalen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[caption id=\"attachment_18413\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"150\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/umweagleeye.wpengine.com\/2013\/01\/10\/english-faculty-present-at-mla-conference\/richards-gary12\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18413\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-18413\" alt=\"Gary Richards\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/01\/Richards-Gary12-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> Gary Richards[\/caption]\n<p>Two professors and one recent alumnus of the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication presented at the Modern Language Association Conference that met Jan. 3 through 6 in Boston, Mass. Assistant Professor Zach Whalen presented the paper &#8220;OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and the Vestigial Aesthetics of Machine Vision&#8221; on the panel Reading the Invisible and Unwanted in Old and New Media. Associate Professor Gary Richards presented the paper &#8220;Tennessee Williams and the Burden of Southern Sexuality Studies&#8221; on the panel The South and Sexuality. Alumnus Tyler Babbie, &#8217;08, presented the paper &#8220;Another Term: Richard Aldington and Imagism(e)&#8221; on the panel From Imagism to &#8220;Amygism&#8221; to Vorticism.<\/p>\n[caption id=\"attachment_13163\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"150\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/umweagleeye.wpengine.com\/2012\/04\/18\/zach-whalen-publishes-scholarly-essay-on-early-video-game-console\/whalen-zach08\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13163\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-13163\" alt=\"Zach Whalen\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/Whalen-Zach08-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> Zach Whalen[\/caption]\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":18413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[9043,455,960],"class_list":["post-18411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-professional-notes","tag-department-of-english-linguistics-and-communication","tag-grichard","tag-zwhalen","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}