The YAWP: Villanova's Graduate English Program Blog

A number of exciting opportunities to study or intern in Ireland have application due dates which are fast approaching at the moment. You can read about these opportunities on the relevant webpage offered by Irish Studies. You can also view a flyer, below, about the Jackie Clarke internship, which has a February 15th deadline. Please bear in mind that candidates need not have specific Irish experience (though that could help). It is possible to approach these opportunities from a variety of disciplines or areas of expertise, such as modernism, post-colonial studies, performance studies, et cetera. Many of our English MA students have availed themselves of chances to study in Ireland in recent years. Theo Campbell conducted research in Ireland , Jesse Schwartz interned there with the Jackie Clarke internship, and Caitlyn Dittmeier completed the Irish Theater Summer Studio . You can learn about their adventures in the above, linked articles and videos from the YAWP!

 By Matt Villanueva, MA '24 Over winter break, I had the privilege to attend the 139 th annual MLA conference in downtown Philadelphia. Throughout the four-day conference I was able to attend many panels and special sessions on various topics and presented on a special session “Recentering Black Women Intellectuals: A Philadelphia School District Collaboration” to discuss our research project with other scholars and educators and to debut the Taught by Literature website (taughtbyliterature.org). The conference days were, admittedly, tiring and overwhelming at times. Every block time had multiple sessions that I wished to attend and for three days, I bopped around the center city Marriot and Loews hotel conference rooms to hear fellow grad students adjacent to established scholars share their work. The two days I attended a myriad of sessions for the whole day ranging from topics of representation in digital humanities, the storytelling power of music, postcolonialism, and Fil

Periodically, our department put out a list of Reading Recommendations for those wishing to learn more about diversity, equity, and inclusion. With the aim of expanding on that effort, our DEI committee would like to provide another update on some of the works that we are currently reading or have recently read that touch on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We're interested in reading books that change, challenge, and expand our thinking on what's happening in our lives and in the world around us. We hope you'll find some exciting or intriguing titles on this list. For those interested in viewing more suggestions, we encourage you to revisit our earlier lists of recommended titles ( here  and  here ). You may also want to explore Falvey Library's diversity and inclusion  subject guide . Adrienne Perry: I’ve finished two books in the last week that I’m still thinking about. The first is  Interior Chinatown  by Charles Yu. The second is  After the Lights Go Out

We are pleased to announce that our department will be offering a summer course in 2024, taught by Professor Jean Lutes. Registration for Summer 2024 opens on March 14th! ENG 9640 – 020: The Modern American Novel CRN: 11087 Professor Jean Lutes Summer 2024, Session II 7/1/24 - 7/29/24 MTWR from 11:00 am to 01:20 pm in St Augustine Ctr Liberal Arts 110. This course studies significant works of American fiction written in the first half of the twentieth century and considers how writers responded to the sweeping changes that characterized modernity in America. As we chart modernism’s emergence, we will look both backward and forward, discussing how writers extended and challenged nineteenth-century literary traditions, as well as how they anticipated the concerns of our own historical moment.  We will open the term with the study of an award-winning 2017 novel rooted in nineteenth-century U.S. history, as a bridge between our twenty-first century moment and the hundreds of years of liter