Department of English: News and Events

• The English Department is pleased to welcome three Clinical Assistant Professors: Dr. Daniel Gibbons, Dr. Todd Lidh, and Dr. Taryn Okuma. Dr. Lidh is also serving as Coordinator of the First Year Experience, while Dr. Gibbons is taking over as Director of Undergraduate Studies. To learn more about our new faculty, please visit our Faculty page.
• On October 17 Tobias Gregory will deliver the fall 2009 Newberry Milton Seminar at the Newberry Library, Chicago.
• On October 15-18 the International Shaw Society will hold a conference, "Shaw and Politics," on the CUA campus. For information see http://www.shawsociety.org/DC-Shaw-Conference.htm.
• Steve Wright's essay, "Wrangling Livestock, Dragons, and Children: Practical Stagecraft and Its Thematic Consequences in the Augsburg St. George Play (ca. 1486)" , recently published in Research Opportunities in Medieval and Renaissance Drama, has been awarded the 2009 Martin Stevens Award by the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society for the year's best essay in early drama studies.
• CUA alumna Sarah Campbell (PhD, English, 2005) has received a Fulbright research grant to Wales to extend for publication her doctoral thesis "The 'Strong Man' and Its Contexts: An Edition, Translation, and Study of a Medieval Welsh Morality Play."