Poetry reading by Collette Bryce, visiting Heimbold Professor in Irish Studies, during Villanova's 20th Annual Literary Festival
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.
A reading by Ariel Levy during Villanova's 20th Annual Literary Festival
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
PhD Candidate Robert Leib gives his defense of his dissertation for the Department of Philosophy at Villanova University.
We celebrated the publication of CONCEPT: Villanova University’s Interdisciplinary Journal of Graduate Studies. Editors, authors and peer-reviewers involved in the project will be recognized for their contributions.
One of the greatest Christian spiritual writers of the 20th century, Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, wrote numerous poems on spiritual devotion, romantic love, grief, and the beauties of nature.
Dr. Louisa Matthew from Union College will investigate the profession and materials of Renaissance pigment sellers in Venice, and their importance in the city's artist culture as a part of the Art History Lecture series.