Dr. Douglas Murray, professor of English, recently attended the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he presented papers on three roundtables.
In a session on “Becoming Generalists at the Teaching-Centered College,” Murray spoke on “Jane Austen in the Composition Classroom.” In a roundtable on “Austen’s Scale,” his paper was entitled “Austen and Global Displacement.” In a session on Enlightenment Pedestrianism, Murray presented “‘Nothing to Recommend Her but Being an Excellent Walker: The Case of Pride and Prejudice.”