English department faculty are closely engaged with the
Africana Studies,
Irish Studies, and
Women's Studies Programs,
as well as the
Concentration in Writing & Rhetoric.
Prof. Crystal Lucky is the director of the Africana Studies Program. Prof.
James Murphy is the director of the Irish Studies Program. Prof. Lisa Sewell is
co-director of the Women's Studies Program, and Profs. Ellen Bonds, Heather Hicks,
Jean Lutes, Lucy McDiarmid, Evan Radcliffe, and Jill Rappoport all serve on the
Steering Committee. Prof. Karyn Hollis directs
the Concentration in Writing and Rhetoric.
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Africana Studies
The Africana Studies Program of Villanova University was initiated in
1994 and is open to all students of the University. It offers a rich,
deep, dense, innovative, and integrative interdisciplinary intellectual
fare from most of the major disciplines of the College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences and its attendant programmatic structures. Africana Studies
engages Africa and peoples of African descent wherever and whenever they
might be found. Its fundamental premise is quite straight forward.
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Irish Studies
Irish Studies explores the history and culture of the Irish people
from the different perspectives of literature, history, art, politics,
and folklore, enabling students to understand the richness of Irish
culture. It is a culture which traces itself back to the dawn of Western
Civilization when the earliest Celts, who were known to the Greeks and
challenged by the Romans, established an art which influenced the early
Christians. In the ensuing centuries, Irish culture has continued to
influence life in Europe and North America while exploring its own
directions.
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Women's Studies
The Women's Studies Program is an interdisciplinary program providing
courses and a minor and a concentration in Women's Studies. It is open
to students in all degree programs.
Identifying gender as fundamental to the way that men and women
understand themselves, Women's Studies focuses on the position of women
and, thus, causes us to rethink history and culture. The academic
discipline of Women Studies continues to transform scholarship and basic
assumptions in all areas of the humanities, social sciences, and the
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Concentration in Writing & Rhetoric
As an interdisciplinary program with courses from the Departments of
English and Communication, the Program in Writing and Rhetoric will
offer students opportunities to gain significant experience in a range
of writing environments as well as knowledge of the rhetorical framework
constituting professional, aesthetic and everyday writing. The program
will allow students who want to pursue study in writing and
communication to do so in a focused and comprehensive way with
examination of the theoretical, historical, and philosophical aspects of
these disciplines.
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