Dr. Christopher Swanson conductor for State Honors Choir

Dr. Christopher Swanson, associate professor of music, was a guest conductor for the state honors middle school choir held on Saturday, March 1 in Roanoke VA. Dr. Swanson worked all day with 170 sixth, seventh and eighth grade singers and presented a concert of choral music that evening.

Kat Tracy interviewed on NPR’s With Good Reason

Enjoy a lively introduction to the great heroes of Medieval literature. Kat Tracy (Associate Professor at Longwood University) reacquaints us with the popular characters—like Gawain, Robin Hood, and Richard the Lionheart—and the lesser-known heroes, like Hengist and Horsa and Havelok the Dane! The interview aired on Oct. 26, 2013, but here’s a link to the […]

SOLstice featured in Bay Journal Article

Longwood’s SOLstice – Summer of Learning – Science Teachers Investigating the Chesapeake Environment – Program was recently featured in an article entitled “Passing on their pearls of wisdom : Waterman heritage tours catcing on with tourists” in Bay Journal. The accompanying photo is of SOLstice students and Mark Fink is quoted. Read the entire article […]

History Professor has a new article accepted for publication.

Assistant Professor Phil Cantrell in the Department of History has a new article forthcoming in Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture.  The article is titled “We Were a Chosen People: The Return of the East African Revival to Post-genocide Rwanda” and will appear in June, 2014.

Group Art Exhibition, featuring Michael Mergen | 9/5/13 6pm, Richmond

1708 Gallery is pleased to announce its third biennial juried exhibition, FEED2013, on view September 6 through October 19. Join us for an opening reception and gallery talk with the artists and jurors on Thursday, September 5, from 6 to 8 p.m. The talk will begin at 6:30 p.m. 1708 Gallery, 319 W. Broad Street, […]

Robin Hood Comes in from the Forest

Larissa “Kat” Tracy’s article “‘For Our dere Ladyes sake’: Bringing the Outlaw in from the Forest—Robin Hood, Marian, and Normative National Identity,” has just been published (a little late) in Explorations in Renaissance Culture (EIRC) 38 (Summer & Winter 2012): 35–66.

Jennifer Miskec

Jennifer Miskec’s article “Pedi-Files: Reading the Foot in Contemporary Illustrated Children’s Literature” will be published in the 2014 annual journal Children’s Literature.  Her article “Young Adult Literature and the Canon” came out in ALAN Review this summer.  Miskec is also happy to announce that Longwood University will be the host of the 2015 Children’s Literature Association annual […]

Article on speech standards in ancient India by Ramesh Rao

Ramesh Rao, Professor, Communication Studies, has an article published in the latest issue of China Media Research (January 2013, Vol 9:1).  The article is titled, “Navigating “Truthfulness” as a Standard for Ethical Speech: Revisiting Speech in Ancient India”.

Op-ed piece in The Pioneer, New Delhi

Ramesh Rao, Prof, Communication Studies, has a new op-ed in The Pioneer (New Delhi), on the politics of official apologies:  http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnists/item/53477-the-politics-of-apology.html

Ramesh Rao, Professor, Communication Studies had an op-ed published in The Pioneer (New Delhi) on January 26, 2013. “Will he consolidate or buckle?”, (January 26, 2013), http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnists/item/53288-will-he-consolidate-or-buckle?.html