Recent Awards, Grants & Professional Activities

Professional Activities

Professor Piggford's current work focuses on Forster’s spirituality and his connection to the Hogarth Press, the aesthetics of Evelyn Waugh, and mysticism in Flannery O'Connor.  Professor Piggford has participated in the SURE program twice, working with student research assistants on O’Connor’s fiction and the poetry of Walt Whitman and Sherman Alexie.