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An obituary for  Professor Emeritus Patrick J. McCarthy  
An obituary for  Professor Emeritus Patrick J. McCarthy  
Sad News - Professor Emeritus John Ridland
March 9, 2020 Dear Members of Our Campus Community, With a heavy heart I am writing to share the...

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Faculty Bookshelf

The Subaltern Ulysses
Duffy, Enda

How might an IRA bomb and James Joyce's Ulysses have anything in common? Could this masterpiece of modernism, written at the violent...
Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages
Pasternack, Carol Braun

Exposes complex intersections between genders and other identities in medieval...
The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism
Duffy, Enda

Speed, the sensation one gets when driving fast, was described by Aldous Huxley as the...
Poetry for Young People: William Wordsworth
Liu, Alan

William Wordsworth’s finest poems take you on a captivating adventure to another time and place....
Authors in Court: Scenes from the Theater of Copyright
Rose, Mark

Through a series of vivid case studies, Authors in Court charts the 300-year-...
Wordsworth: The Sense of History
Liu, Alan

The imaginative power of Wordsworth’s poetry stems from a denial of history so strong and precise that denial itself – the...
Letters from the Underworld: Fictions of Women and Writing
Waid, Candace

In this book, Candace Waid presents an innovative reading of the work...

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