Literature and Arts - Audio

The Department of English and Falvey Memorial Library’s annual Open Mic event will take place on Tuesday, April 17, at 12:00 p.m. in the library’s Speakers’ Corner.

The theme of this year's Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium is "Community Outreach in the Arts".

The theme of this year's Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium is "Community Outreach in the Arts".

The theme of this year's Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium is "Community Outreach in the Arts".

The theme of this year's Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium is "Community Outreach in the Arts".

The theme of this year's Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium is "Community Outreach in the Arts".

The Villanova University 2017 Literary Festival presents Reginald Dwayne Betts.

McCafferty’s most recent play Quietly had its US premiere in New York in July 2016. It was first produced at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin in 2012 as part of their Great Irish Writers Season. The play was nominated for Best New Play at the Irish Times Theatre Awards. In 2013 the Abbey Production of Quietly played at the Traverse Theatre during the Edinburgh Festival and was then transferred to the SOHO Theatre, London. Owen McCafferty’s recent play Death of a Comedian was a co-production between The Abbey, The Lyric, Belfast and SOHO and was shown in Dublin, Belfast and London. His previous play Unfaithful was produced at The Traverse Theatre in 2014, to great acclaim and will be produced in London in August 2016 starring Niamh Cusack and Sean Campion. Owen performs a dramatic reading of 'Quietly,' for Villanova's 2017 Literary Festival.

The Department of Irish Studies presents acclaimed poet Mary O'Malley reading excerpts from her collection, "Playing the Octopus."

The Department of Humanities & Classical Studies Program at Villanova University presents The Villanova Russell Kirk Society Lecture-Defending What We Are by Sir Roger Scruton.

Villanova University's 2017 Literary Festival presents Brit Bennett performing a reading from her book, "The Mothers."

Please join us on Friday, February 3 at 2:30pm in Room 204 of Falvey Memorial Library for the launch of "Music in Twentieth Century American History," our latest Digital Scholarship project. During the Fall 2016 semester, history majors enrolled in Dr. Paul Rosier's Junior Research Seminar at Villanova University embarked on a multi-media and interdisciplinary examination of the cultural, social, political, and economic dimensions of music in American history from the end of the Civil War to the early 2000s. Focusing on the ways in which music reflected and shaped developments in American society -- in particular at the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality -- students analyzed a variety of musical topics from the origins of jazz to the emergence of the Hip-Hop Nation and Rap. This event will provide an overview of the class and a walk-through of the site.

James Richardson gives a poetry reading for the Villanova University 2017 Literary Festival

Faculty Candidate Yumi Lee, Ph.D. gives her presentation to the Villanova University Department of English.