The YAWP: Villanova's Graduate English Program Blog

 The Graduate Program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Falvey Memorial Library have established an assistantship in Irish Studies and Distinctive Collections, tenurable for one year by a student admitted to the Masters program in one of the following departments or programs: Classical Studies, Communication, Counseling, Education, English, History, Human Resource Development, Liberal Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Public Administration, Psychology, Theatre, or Theology. The Assistantship has been created to attract to the Graduate Division of Liberal Arts and Sciences outstanding students committed to Irish Studies and to recognize the strength of the Graduate Division’s faculty resources in Irish Studies across the humanities and social sciences. Because the Center for Irish Studies at Villanova University emphasizes the links between theory and practice, academic learning and its application, we expect the holder of the assistantship to be a ...

Professor Mary Mullen will be speaking at an upcoming CUNY C19 conference on “Hard Border(s): Ireland and the British Question,” to take place virtually on May 7. Professor Mullen will be speaking about Ireland and the Colonial Politics of Public Interest. The conference's speakers will touch on a variety of themes related to Ireland and its relationship to Great Britain, including "imperial hauntings," "nationalism," and "populism."  Professor Mullen is the author of Novel Institutions: Anachronism, Irish Novels, and Nineteenth-Century Realism (Edinburgh, 2019), which won the Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature from the American Conference for Irish Studies. She has published articles on settler colonialism, the politics of time, public humanities, fast-day literature, and nineteenth-century English and Irish writing. She is currently working on a new book project on the colonial politics of public interest, which considers how public i...

Congratulations to Dr. Tsering Wango Dhompa, whose new poetry chapbook, Revolute , was just published by Albion Books.