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Gary Richards (grichard)

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Combs Hall Room 342
grichard@umw.edu
540-654-2365


Academic Degrees

B.A., Trinity University; M.A., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University

Gary Richards, Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, earned a Ph.D. (1996) and a M.A. (1992) from Vanderbilt University and a B.A. (1991) from Trinity University in San Antonio. He is an expert on southern literature and culture, American fiction, contemporary drama, and sexuality studies.

Gary Richards in the News

Barrenechea Receives Research Fellowship

Antonio Barrenechea, Professor of English, was recently awarded the 2022-2023 Reese Fellowship in American Bibliography and History of the Book in the Americas, from the Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. His project "One Hemisphere Many Nations: Boltonian Americanism and Literary Historiography" will explore the Herbert Bolton archive in Read more…

Barrenechea Presents at University of Glasgow Symposium

On April 11, 2022, Antonio Barrenechea, Professor of English, was an invited speaker at the University of Glasgow symposium "Fictional Maximalism and the Americas: New Voices, New Perspectives." His presentation, "Literature of the Americas as Maximalist Discipline" discussed scholarly and historiographical encyclopedism in hemispheric American literary studies. [...] The post Barrenechea Read more…
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