Tag: English, Linguistics and Communication

UMW students cast their lines for literature.

Summer session feeds students’ passion for writing

Adam Hunter pedaled from California to Virginia, blogging about his experiences along the way.

Mollie Welty’s UMW journey, which started in 1989, came full circle at Commencement.

Students work to produce a literary journal with a lasting legacy.

Internships in the nation’s capital provide real-world experience for students.

Professor Anand Rao uses every opportunity to make his students better communicators.

Pulitzer Prize-winning professor is passionate about poetry and mentoring students.

For Warren Rochelle, professor of English, a class is a conversation where knowledge goes both ways. “Classes are conversations between students and the professor. Knowledge isn’t static,” he said. “We make and discover meaning in conversation, whether it is a conversation with self, with a text, and in this case, in a classroom, with those […]

For Shirin Afsous, the problem of sex trafficking in the Middle East hits home. The 2012 graduate of the University of Mary Washington was born in Iran and grew up making occasional visits to the country with her family. When Afsous learned that human rights activist Leila Asadi wanted help with research on gender and […]