VU English Podcast: Recent Episodes
Villanova English Department
Professor Alice Dailey discusses her new book, How to Do Things with Dead People: History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol. We touch on Shakespeare, Warhol, x-rays, cloning, and so forth (you all see the pattern, right?)
Professor Adrienne Perry and Katherine Reed '23 discuss the literary magazine Bridges, produced by students in Professor Perry's Editing and Publishing class. Find the magazine at https://www.bridgesvillanova.com/ Find the DEI article we discuss in the episode at https://www.bridgesvillanova.com/post/fact-or-fiction-dei-at-villanova-a-reviews-interviews-special-feature
The second annual Villanova English Career Panel, 2022: featuring alumni Joanna Bowen '07, Patrick Mullaney '09, and Meghan Muniz '05.
A panel discussion about the legal research and writing course taught by Professor Karen Graziano at Villanova University. The panelists are Maddie McClay, '23, Bobby Montesano, '22, Erin Neilsen, '23, Ana Sokolowski, '22, and Karina Zakarian, '23.
Professor Evan Radcliffe and VU English major (and senior) Amanda Smith discuss the fall 2021 Harry Potter course, Quests and Questions.
Seniors from Professor Lauren Shohet's Villanova English Senior Seminar share their reflections and projects on Shakespeare, Milton, and their contemporaries. Featured seniors are Joe D’Antonio, Shivani Patel, and Tileyna Zamorano-Gonzales.
Alumni Career Panel featuring Colleen Francke, '15, Jill Kingsland, '05, Elizabeth Kreider, '07, and Kristy Wallace, '99.
This panel of students, organized by Professor Karen Graziano, discusses their experiences in her Legal Writing and Analysis Course. The panelists are Arianna Bufalino, '22; Catherine Cook, '21; David Izzo, '21; Jennifer Lambert, '22; Jacquelyn Solomon, '21; Solange Stamatos, '21; and Karina Zakarian, '23.
We discuss translation theory and the monolingual paradigm, with reference to 'Beyond the Mother Tongue?' by Yasmin Yildiz.
A live reading event (over Zoom) featuring Dr. Tsering Wangmo, sophomore Jacqueline Carroll, Dr. Alan Drew, and senior Tia Parisi.
We discuss lyricization, lyric poetry, Emily Dickinson, Robert Lowell, and Claudia Rankine. We reference Eric Hayot's "Against Historicist Fundamentalism" and Kamran's article, "The Atlantic Ocean Breaking on our Heads: Robert Lowell, Claudia Rankine, and the Whiteness of the Lyric Subject."
We discuss applying contemporary critical theory to medieval texts. We touch on D.W. Robertson's Preface to Chaucer (1962); Louise O. Fradenburg's "'Voice Memorial': Loss and Reparation in Chaucer's Poetry" Exemplaria 1.1 (Spring 1990); and Geraldine Heng's "Inventions/Reinventions: Race Studies, Modernity, and the Middle Ages" from her book The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2018.