The YAWP: Villanova's Graduate English Program Blog

The 54th annual Northeast Modern Language Association convention will be held in Niagara Falls, NY, from March 23-26, 2023, at the University at Buffalo.  The 2023 NeMLA conference theme is RESILIENCE, an anchor term for critical and creative work that explores how we bear up under trauma, counter ableism, redress social and racial marginalization, environmental destruction, and how we celebrate bodily, cognitive, and neurological difference, access silenced voices, recover from the pandemic, and struggle to save the humanities, and humanity itself from the maw of neoliberalism. Session proposals are due April 29, 2022, and abstract proposals are due September 30, 2022.

Some of our students were recently reported on by the college of liberal arts and sciences; here is that report on Hannah Kahn and Caitlin Salomon: VILLANOVA, Pa. – First-year Villanova University English MA graduate students Hannah Kahn and Caitlin Salomon recently presented at The Conference on Christianity and Literature’s (CCL) 2022 Western Regional conference, “Literary Geographies – Space, Place, and Environments,” held at Biola University in La Mirada, California, April 7 to 9, 2022. Kahn discussed her work, “Embodied and Empowered: A Critical Analysis of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale .” "Presenting at the CCL conference was an enriching experience. Not only was I given the opportunity to share my scholarship on a topic that I'm passionate about but also was afforded the chance to partake in thought-provoking dialogue during the question-and-answer section," Kahn said. "It was a pleasure to meet other scholars from across the country and learn from eac

 VU Grad English student Ethan Shea blogs for Villanova's Falvey Memorial Library in connection with its 'Cat in the Stax' feature, and he has recently written a piece on Villanova's theater offerings through the years, in conjunction with the debut of a new production directed by Villanova's president, Father Peter Donohue, OSA PhD. You can check out the article here .  An excerpt from the article: "To begin, the 1999 production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood was another mysterious musical directed by President Donohue. The photo below shows Demetrios Bonaros, Polly Donovan, Mark Gornto, John O’Conner, Susan Bolt, and Sara Macerelli in a scene from a performance of this show which ran from April 14 to May 2."