The YAWP: Villanova's Graduate English Program Blog

 Dr. Mary Burke (UConn) is requesting papers for a 20-minute presentation in a panel on the Irish-American actress Grace Kelly. The panel will take place in March in Philadelphia at NeMLA, which is slated to be conducted in person.  According to the call for papers, "In the scholarship of Irish America, there is a startling absence of work on Grace Kelly (Princess Grace of Monaco), a cultured woman whose interest in her heritage led her widower to endow an Irish literature library in her honor. Irish American Studies has traditionally been preoccupied with narratives of Irish suffering or with prominent and powerful men, which does not gel with the story of an exceedingly photogenic woman from an immediate background of some privilege. Nevertheless, this glamorous veneer is the end-point of a multi-generation family story that follows the broad contours of post-famine Irish immigrant experience." More details can be found here . 

Professor Adrienne Perry will be taking part in an evening of poetry on Zoom, presented by Belladonna Collaborative. The event will take place on Tuesday, August 18th, at 7 PM. Professor Perry will be joined by fellow contributors to Matters of Feminist Practice : Frances Richard, Rachel Levitsky, Serena Chopra, and Yanara Friedland. Belladonna "promotes the work of women and feminist writers who are adventurous, experimental, politically involved, multi-form, multicultural, multi-gendered, impossible to define, unpredictable, and dangerous with language." This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are available here .