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Monday, March 30, 2026

Book Club and Bookstore Expedition

 Join the Reading and Community Class for a Book Club and Bookstore Expedition!


Reading and Community may be over, but our community reading isn’t! Join us to read Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Atmosphere (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646858/atmosphere-a-gma-book-club-pick-by-taylor-jenkins-reid/) on Tuesday nights from 5:30-6:30 in Garey Hall B03. We will read roughly the first 100 pages (if you are reading on a e-reader and want to know where to stop reading, email Dr. Mullen at mary.l.mullen@villanova.edu). Everyone is welcome.

We will also go to Main Point Books on Sunday, April 19 at 10:30. We will browse books, maybe buy a few, and then grab coffee and talk about good reads! If you are interested in attending, RSVP here: https://forms.gle/TdHfB8SZWG78GfFA7

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.