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Monday, March 30, 2026
Book Club and Bookstore Expedition
Friday, March 27, 2026
Professor Mary Mullen published co-edited volume: Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century
Although people often think humanities research is conducted by individuals, it is always collaborative. For Professor Mary Mullen, there is no greater pleasure than thinking with other people and refining research and writing with them. Professor Mullen's recently published co-edited volume, with Professor Renee Fox, titled Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland, is the product of several collaborative conversations at the University of Notre Dame, Villanova University, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. The volume is dedicated to Sara Maurer, Mary's undergraduate professor, mentor, and friend, who dreamed up ideas behind the book.
For more about this important volume, see this recent blog post from Liverpool University Press.
Thursday, March 19, 2026
Tonight: VU Poetry Club
The first meeting of the newly-revived Villanova Poetry Club will be held tonight at 7 pm in Bartley 036. There will be pizza. Bring something you wrote--or don't! All are welcome.

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