On Monday, February 8, Villanova English professor Dr. Travis Foster will join Dr. Lara Langer Cohen (Swarthmore College) and Dr. Edlie Wong (University of Maryland) for a conversation about his recently published book Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States. The event starts at 7.30pm. Please register here to receive the Zoom link.
On Tuesday, November 17, students, alumni, and faculty who have participated in the BIPOC Writing Group read from their work, which included poetry, prose, and nonfiction. The BIPOC Writing Group meets every other Tuesday evening via Zoom. For details, please contact Dr. Adrienne Perry at adrienne.perry@villanova.edu.
The reading was hosted by Dr. Adrienne Perry (top left) and featured the following presenters (clockwise from top left): Dr. Yumi Lee, Lydia McFarlane, Arman Salem, Kamakshi Ranjan, and Cindy Rene.
On Tuesday, November 17, seven students from Professor Graziano’s “Legal Writing” seminar participated in an online panel in which they shared their experiences of conducting legal research. Students discussed the challenges and excitement of conducting legal research in a range of areas, from patent law and assisted reproduction to monetary bail. They also discussed the opportunities the course provided to network with legal experts around the country and to deepen their understanding of the legal profession.
The panel was hosted by Professor Karen Graziano (top left), and included the following student presenters (clockwise from top left): Solange Stamatos, Karina Zakarian, Jen Lambert, Arianna Bufalino, Catherine Cook, Jacqueline Solomon, and David Izzo.
On Monday, November 16, the students in Prof. Cathy Staples Nature Writing Workshop read selections of their poetry and prose on Zoom to an audience of students, faculty, and community members. This event was sponsored by Stoneleigh and the Natural Lands conservation organization. Professor Staples and her students have spent the semester meeting in a safe, socially distanced manner in the Stoneleigh gardens, which are adjacent to the Villanova campus.
WIT, an annual multilingual literary journal for Villanova students, is inviting students to submit their work for publication in its 2021 issue. WIT, which stands for Writing in Tongues, was first published in the spring 2018 semester in the Department of Global Interdisciplinary Studies, focusing on GIS languages: Arabic, Chinese, Irish, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. The editors accept poems or very short creative prose compositions, original or in translation, along with artwork in any medium (drawing, painting, photograph, computer graphics etc).
Copies of previous issues of WIT are available for the curious at the GIS office (Garey 36), through several faculty members teaching GIS languages; at Falvey Library, and in PDF form through Arabic Instructor Barbara Romaine, who will send you the files if you contact her at barbara.romaine@villanova.edu. Selected compositions will be published bilingually (that is, in your language of study with facing English translation). The deadline for submissions is February 19, 2021.
On Wednesday, November 11, four Villanova writers—two students and two faculty members-- read from their work to an audience of more than one hundred students, faculty, and other Villanova community members. Dr. Tsering Wangmo began the evening by reading a selection of her recent poems. Sophomore Jacqueline Carroll read next, sharing a section of one of her short stories. Dr. Alan Drew then read from his upcoming novel. The readings concluded with senior Tia Parisi, who read several of her poems. The event concluded with a Q-and-A.
