The YAWP: Villanova's Graduate English Program Blog

Dr. Carissa Harris, an Associate Professor at Temple University, will be presenting a talk entitled "Twice Militant: Women's Intersectional Anger from the 1381 Uprising to #SayHerName." This event will be held in the Idea Accelerator in Falvey Library on Oct. 25th at 5:30 p.m. The wearing of masks will be required.  Extra thanks to grad student Theo Campbell for designing the excellent flyer, which you can see below.

Professor Megan Quigley was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the International T. S. Eliot Society. This weekend she taught a seminar to scholars from India, the Philippines, and all over the US—one of the benefits of zoom! But on Tuesday she’ll be back in her Falvey classroom looking forward to the 100th birthday of The Waste Land with her graduate class here.

An interview conducted by Alexander Matkowsky, 1st Year MA/Graduate Assistant in English This week I had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Kimberly Takahata, the English Department’s new Assistant Professor of “Literature of the Americas to 1900”, who is currently teaching the undergraduate courses “American Literature Traditions 1” and “Race & Ethnicity in American Literature” in the Fall 2021 semester. Dr. Takahata pursued her undergraduate degree at Brown University and completed her graduate work and PhD at Columbia, working as a postdoctoral instructor at the West Point United States Military Academy. Her field of study, “Early American Literature”, is quite broadly defined; she works primarily with Long Eighteenth Century texts from Massachusetts down through the Caribbean. I asked her how her interest in this specific field came about. During her undergraduate experience, she found herself to be one of only a few students “jazzed by” Early American poetry and Puritan text...