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.

Award-winning Nigerian novelist, Helon Habila, is this year's Africana Senghor-Damas-Cesaire Lecturer. In this lecture, he speaks on the history of the African novel and its future.

PhD Candidate Robert Leib gives his defense of his dissertation for the Department of Philosophy at Villanova University.

Dr. Shauna Macdonald performs, "To Catch and To Keep," as part of the Villanova Department of Communications Fall 2016 performance series.

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.

The Nova Poetry Slam is a two day event that showcases the spoken word talents of both the Villanova Community and schools in the surrounding areas.

Asali Solomon Reading for the 2016 Villanova Literary Festival

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.

The Office of Disability Services at Villanova University has established the Father Bill Atkinson, O.S.A. Humanitarian Award to recognize an individual, group, or organization that exemplifies the spirit and service that Father Bill embodied throughout his life. The annual award, established in 2012 in honor of the late Father Bill Atkinson, is designed to recognize an individual, group, or organization for outstanding service to their community and beyond. On Thursday, February 11, Villanova University’s Office of Disability Services will present the fourth annual Fr. Bill Atkinson, OSA, Humanitarian Award to Tom Rinaldi, a correspondent and feature reporter for ESPN. The award will commemorate the five-year anniversary of Rinaldi profiling then-Villanova Men’s and Women’s basketball managers, Frank Kineavy and Nick Gaynor, both of whom have cerebral palsy, and were featured in the documentary, “Coming off the DL.” Rinaldi’s feature aired Feb. 12, 2011 during ESPN’s College Gameday, which broadcast live from The Pavilion on the campus of Villanova University. Since arriving at ESPN in 2002, Rinaldi, a winner of 12 national Sports Emmy Awards and six national Edward R. Murrow Awards, has covered some of the most impactful stories in sports, such as his 2014 piece, “The Man in the Red Bandana,” chronicling the heroism of Boston College’s Welles Crowther during the September 11th attacks. Rinaldi has also interviewed some of the world’s top athletes, including Tiger Woods, Kobe Bryant, Magic Johnson, Derek Jeter and countless others.

Daniel Torday is the author of the novel The Last Flight of Poxl West, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, and an Amazon.com Best Debuts of 2015. His novella, The Sensualist, won the 2012 National Jewish Book Award for debut fiction. Torday’s stories and essays have appeared in Esquire Magazine, n+1, The New York Times, The Paris Review Daily and Tin House. A former editor at Esquire, Torday serves as an editor at The Kenyon Review. He is Director of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College. At the event, Torday will read from his most recent novel The Last Flight of Poxl West. The event, co-sponsored by Falvey Memorial Library and the Department of English, was free and open to the public.

Robert M. Brimingham Lunch Series: "A Conversation With...": 10/22 "White Like Me: John Berryman and the Institutionalization of American Poetry at Midcentury," Dr. Kamran Javadizadeh, Assistant Professor, English Department, Thursday, Oct. 22, 12-1:30 p.m., SAC 300. How should we make sense of the fact that a major twentieth-century American poet’s appropriated, in the central work of his career, the racist performance tradition known as blackface minstrelsy? The Dream Songs were Berryman’s response to what he saw as a dead end in the history of modernism; they were also conceived and published within the period of some of the most intense violence of the Civil Rights Era. Berryman’s minstrelsy suggests the deep connection between those twinned crises.

Rodger Van Allen, PhD, Theology and Religious Studies, VIllanova University is featured as the fall 2015 Scholarship@Villanova speaker. He discussed the many years of research, publications and other academic contributions that he has made.

The Department of Humanities' annual Faith and Culture Lecture. The opening lines of "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri launched Rod Dreher on a journey that rescued him from exile and saved his life.

Arthur Cola, presents a lecture titled “The Silent Chime of the Bell, Immigrants, Riots and Old St. Augustine” about his new book, Pure and Tarnished Hearts.

The Villanova University Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships presents the 2015 Falvey Scholars Awards Presentation and Reception Ceremony.

The lecture is titled “Ralph Ellison Listens to Kendrick Lamar and Other Counterfactuals” given by Dr. Adam F. Bradley, associate professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Patricia Smith, National Poetry Slam Champion and author of "Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah", presents a reading at the 17th Annual Literary Festival.

Maureen O’Rourke Murphy is the Joseph L. Dionne Professor of Teaching, Literacy, and Leadership at Hofstra University. She is the author of Compassionate Stranger: Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine.

Lecture sponsored by Romance Languages & Literature. Topic: Antiheroism and Failure in Uribe's "Expediente del Atentado" and Fons's "El Atentado."

An encore performance offered by the student choir of THL5999 featuring selected works by Mozart, Durufle’ Lauridsen, Palestrina and more.

Beth Burns presents, "The Business of Playing Professionally: Making a Living in the Theatre" hosted by the Villanova University English Department.

Scholarship@Villanova Lecture featuring Lisa Sewell, PhD

This lecture given by Alan Hoffman offers a panoramic view of the young country and describes the Americans' enormous pride in the republican institutions created by the revolutionary generation and the ensuing growth and prosperity.

Author Jay Cantor presents at the 17th Annual Literary Festival.

Scholarly Talk by Prof. Zachary Lesser, University of Pennsylvania

Originally from Philadelphia, Bruce Smith is the author of several books of poems, including The Other Lover (2000), a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He will be reading selections from his collection entitled Devotions. Publisher’s Weekly called his poems “alternately sharp, slippery, and tender,” and in them he “finds a way to take in almost everything—'Shooter Protocol,' Charlie Parker, high school shop class—moving seamlessly between critique and embrace.”

16th Annual Literary Festival

Poet Frank Bidart reads selections from his work, Metaphysical Dog at Villanova University.

Heimbold Chair Lecture featuring Eamonn Wall, Irish Poet and Scholar.