Carey Cameron ’24 Plans Future in Media and Entertainment
The senior English major and creative writing minor has held multiple arts and culture roles in the D.C. region.
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On June 5-7, Leigh Ryan presented “Under His Voice: The Life and Legacy of Chaplain Henry Vinton Plummer” at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Conference in Cambridge, MD.
Maud Casey is a BAU Institute at Camargo Fellow for 2015. She will be in residence at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France for one month this summer.
Stephen Rojcewicz, a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature, has recently presented the following papers: “Latin Poetics and Jone Donne: ‘I Finde Myself Scattered.’ “Lacrimae Rerum: Wilder, Vergil and the Tears of the World.”
Brian Richardson delivered a talk on “Unnatural Narrative: Theory and Ideology” at the International Narrative Conference in Chicago in March.
Martha Nell Smith was invited to speak about her biography of Susan Dickinson on a “Writing about Writers” panel at the Biographers International Organization (BIO) Conference, National Press Club, Washington, D.C., 6 June 2015.
Peter Mallios is chair of the MLA's Law and Humanities Forum, and has organized and will be presiding at two of its sessions and the coming year's MLA convention in Austin, TX
Shanna Yetman's (MFA '12) flash fiction "The Miracle Is to Walk this Earth" recently won first place in the New Millennium Writing Competition. Her fiction will be featured in the 2016 anthology and she will receive $1000.
Nabila Hijazi and Douglas Kern presented on the English Department’s Academic Writing Teaching Partners Program at the Lilly International Spring Conference on May 29, 2015.
On June 3, 2015, Nabila Hijazi presented the Keynote talk, “Cultural and Linguistic Awareness,” for the Virginia Writing Center Association’s Writing Center Directors’ meeting.
Douglas Kern is serving as the Academic Advisor for Amiri Baraka’s entries in the 2014 Contemporary Literary Criticism and Drama Criticism series, published by Gale.