Marie Lathers

In the news: Lathers, Roberts, Sheppard, Wernke

Posted by on March 2, 2021

St. Louis Public Radio reporter Evie Hemphill interviewed Dr. Marie Lathers about pandemic literature and the course she is teaching on the topic this semester. The story, “‘It’s The Same Fears’: A Missouri S&T Class Finds Solace in Pandemic Literature’’ aired on Feb. 5.

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Pandemic literature course planned this spring

Posted by on December 7, 2020

A new one-time course on pandemic literature will be offered this spring as History/English/ALP 3001: Pandemic Literature. It will be taught by Dr. Marie Lathers, the Weiner Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Humanities, 2-2:50 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

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Pandemic literature course this spring

Posted by on December 5, 2020

A new one-time course on Pandemic Literature will be offered this spring as History/English/ALP 3001. It will be taught by Marie Lathers, the Weiner Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Humanities, on MWF 2-2:50. We will read fiction about plagues and pandemics by Daniel Defoe, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Katherine Anne Porter, Albert Camus, Geraldine […]

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‘Little Women’ events coming up

Posted by on November 9, 2020

Missouri S&T’s English honor society, Sigma Tau Delta, will host two events about the Little Women novel by Louisa May Alcott.

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Sigma Tau Delta brown-bag: Marie Lathers on “The Angry Professor’s Face”

Posted by on November 6, 2020

On Thursday, Nov. 12 at 3 pm, Marie Lathers will be speaking on Louisa May Alcott’s Professor Bauer and Virginia Woolf’s Professor von X. The event is hosted by Sigma Tau Delta and will be available on Zoom via bit.ly/seriesbrownbag.

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Engagement Week: Pandemic literature

Posted by on October 19, 2020

Join Dr. Marie Lathers, Maxwell C. Weiner Distinguished Visiting Professor of Humanities at S&T, for a talk titled “Pandemic Literature” 10-11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, via Zoom.

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Faculty writing groups to start Oct. 1

Posted by on October 1, 2020

Dr. Marie Lathers, the Maxwell C. Weiner Distinguished Visiting Professor of Humanities, is organizing two writing groups for faculty to meet and work on writing projects weekly.

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New faculty announced

Posted by on August 31, 2020

With expertise ranging from big data in precision medicine to 19th-century French literature, 20 new faculty are joining Missouri S&T this academic year. Please join the Miner community in welcoming these new faculty members:

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