Harrington Completes Fulbright Semester in Poland

SALISBURY, MD---Dr. Gary Harrington of Salisbury University’s English Department has returned from a semester as Fulbright Distinguished Chair at The Marie-Curie Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland.

 

While in Poland, Harrington presented a paper, “Searching for the Sun:  Travel in Flannery O’Connor,” at the annual convention of The Polish Association for American Studies in Wroclaw.

 

He also chaired a separate session devoted to the Literature of the American South.  By invitation, he gave a lecture, “Shootism vs. Sport:  An Ecocritical Approach to Hemingway and Faulkner” at The Catholic University in Lublin. 

 

Closer to home, Harrington’s essay “The Shattered Mirror:  Representations of Blanche in Streetcar” recently appeared in the volume Staging a Cultural Paradigm: The Political and the Personal in American Drama.