Rosemary Haskell chairs conference session, presents paper

Haskell, professor of English, participated in the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Meeting held Nov. 16 in Atlanta.

Professor of English Rosemary Haskell

Rosemary Haskell, professor of English, recently chaired a session titled “The Rhetoric of Contact Between Military and Civilian Life” at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, held Nov. 16 in Atlanta.

Haskell also presented a paper at this conference session: “The Power Vacuum: Two Kinds of `Inner Emigration’ in Ben Fountain’s ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.'”

Fountain’s 2012 novel explores the experiences of a group of young U. S. soldiers as they are feted during the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys’ football game for their now-famous, but deadly, firefight at the battle-front in Iraq.