Tag: Wallis Sanborn

Professor Sanborn interviewed for documentary on Cormac McCarthy

Wallis Sanborn III, PhD, Associate Professor of English and Faculty Assembly President, recently gave an interview to ARTE TV — the European Culture Channel — about the vanishing ranching life in Cormac McCarthy’s novel, “All the Pretty Horses,” and whether the romanticized notion of ranching ever existed.

Dr. Sanborn is an internationally recognized scholar on McCarthy, the late author who is considered one of the great novelists of his generation. 

The interview was conducted on a Hondo ranch in June. ARTE TV journalist Tao Favre (left) interviewed Dr. Sanborn. Cameraman Julien Bresson (right) shot the video. The documentary is scheduled to be released in the fall.

Reminder: OLLU Moody Professorship Lecture Series set for Wednesday

The 2022-23 OLLU Moody Professorship Lecture Series will be held on Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the Lake View Amenities Room, located within the Slater (Lake View) Apartments.

The three-hour event will feature the scholarship and research endeavors of OLLU’s Wallis Sanborn, PhD, Professor of English and Chair of the English, Mass Communications and Drama Department, and Lee Ann Waltz, PhD, RN, an Assistant Professor in the Ila Faye Miller School of Nursing at the University of the Incarnate Word.

Dr. Sanborn will speak on “The Paradox of Greatness: Language, the Natural World, Genocide, and the Limited Role of Women in the Fiction of Cormac McCarthy.” 

Those who wish to attend virtually, may join via Webex from the following link: 

https://ollusa.webex.com/ollusa/j.php?MTID=mebfb859e0f211ad7f4c21496a405a038

For more information, contact Connie Vargas-Esckilsen at ccvargas-esckilsen@ollusa.edu

One-day Literature and Arts Festival set for Saturday

Thirty-seven writers, poets and artists from around the U.S. will showcase their creative works during a one-day Literature and Arts Festival in Main Building, Room 311 on Saturday.

Presented by VersoFrontero, the festival will include the works of multiple faculty, including Octavio Quintanilla, PhD, Associate Professor of English; Yvette Benavides, MFA, Professor of English; Antoinette Winstead, MFA, Professor of Drama and Mass Communication; and Wallis Sanborn III, PhD, Associate Professor of English.