VU Faculty at the MLA in Toronto

While everyone else was being festive, English professors were busy at the Modern Languages Association Conference in Toronto in January. Professor Kamran Javadizadeh, the chair of the executive committee for the MLA’s Poetry and Poetics Forum, chaired two panels on poetry. Professor Megan Quigley delivered a paper entitled “Modernist Impersonality in the Age of AI,” and was an official mentor for other faculty at the conference! Per Dr. Quigley, "It was cold but wonderful."

Coming Up: Augustine and AI, a Panel Conversation

Coming Soon! Augustine and AI Panel discussion, on Monday, January 26th at 6 p.m. in Falvey 205. Featuring as a special guest Villanova MA alum el friedman, along with Villanova faculty. Organized by the English department AI committee.

Listen Back to the Natural Lands Reading!

As has become a tradition, students in Professor Cathy Staples's Nature Writing course once again presented this past December as part of the Natural Lands’ Outdoors Online: Prose and Poetry with Villanova Student Writers event. Many of the students' works are inspired by the nearby Stoneleigh Natural Gardens, which we encourage Villanova students to visit. You can view a recording of this event here.