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Teaching of Writing Transforming Undergrad Courses

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What Architecture Can Teach Us about Reading a Poem

Sunset on Grounds at UVA

Statements Against Racism

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Spring 2025 Courses

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News & Announcements

January 26, 2025
Prof. Anna Beecher's second Book is The "Guardian's" Book of the Day
January 12, 2025
Prof. Anna Brickhouse wins Award for Excellence in the Arts & Humanities
November 24, 2024
Prof. Lisa Russ Spaar's poem appears in "The New Yorker"
November 24, 2024
Prof. Sylvia Chong earns Center for Global Inquiry grant, and Page-Barbour Workshop grant

Events

Publications

The Genius of Democracy

The Genius of Democracy : Fictions of Gender and Citizenship in the United States

Victoria Olwell

Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press (2011)

The Daughter’s Return: African-American and Caribbean Women's Fictions of History

The Daughter’s Return: African-American and Caribbean Women's Fictions of History

Oxford University Press (2001)

Cambridge Companion to 21st Century American Fiction

Cambridge Companion to 21st Century American Fiction

Cambridge University Press (2021)