Carla Peterson Wins Guggenheim Fellowship
NewsWed, 04/06/2016Professor Emerita Carla Peterson has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for 2016, one of only two fellowships in American Literature.Past Departmental awardees...
View ArticleUMD at AWP
NewsWed, 04/06/2016The Association of Writers & Writing Programs held their annual conference, AWP, this past week in Los Angeles. The creative writing undergraduate and graduate programs were well...
View ArticlePOST reports, "Next hot job in Silicon Valley is for poets"
NewsFri, 04/08/2016Read the full article here.Featured: YesFeatured Start: Friday, April 8, 2016Featured End: Friday, April 22, 2016
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2016.04.25: CFRG: John Keane, COUNTERNARRATIVES
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2016.04.30: MD Day: Explore English!
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Graduate Student John Macintosh Wins Mary Savage Snouffer Dissertation...
NewsWed, 04/27/2016John Macintosh is the recipient of the 2016-2017 Mary Savage Snouffer Dissertation Fellowship for his thesis tentatively titled, "The Trouble with Precarity: Representations of Labor...
View ArticleRuth Osorio Awarded a Graduate School All-S.T.A.R. Fellowship for 2016-17
NewsThu, 04/28/2016Congratulations to Ruth Osorio, recipient of one of sixteen Graduate School All-S.T.A.R. Fellowships. Ruth is a representative of the College of Arts and Humanities and the award...
View ArticleAmanda Bailey and Ted Leinwand Present at Cambridge University's Centre for...
NewsWed, 05/04/2016Amanda Bailey and Ted Leinwand presented at Cambridge University's Centre for Research in the Arts two-day colloquium on "Change and Exchange" (April 29-April 30), which explored the...
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David Wyatt's Essay Published in The Hemingway Review
NewsWed, 05/04/2016David Wyatt's "More Time: Reading Hemingway's Across the River and into the Trees appears in the Spring 2016 issue of The Hemingway Review.News Category: BywordsSpring 2016...
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Matthew Kirschenbaum Publishes Two Books
NewsThu, 05/05/2016Matthew Kirschenbaum has published two new books, Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing (Harvard UP/Belknap) and Zones of Control: Perspectives on Wargaming, co-edited...
View ArticleRandy Ontiveros Awarded the Donna B. Hamilton Award for Teaching Excellence...
NewsMon, 05/09/2016Associate Professor Randy Ontiveros has won the Donna B. Hamilton Award for Teaching Excellence in General Education. According to Undergraduate Dean William Cohen, Randy was...
View ArticleSharon Rosenblatt, BA 2010, Offers Advice to Graduating Seniors
NewsFri, 05/13/2016Read more in her article, "Coders Need Not Apply: Why Technology Needs English Majors"Hack your own career. That’s my advice for the terrified English majors, this class of 2016....
View ArticleElizabeth Arnold Forthcoming Publications
NewsMon, 05/16/2016Elizabeth Arnold has a longish sequence of poems coming out in Chicago Review this summer. It's a central part of her next book, Skeleton Coast, which is set to appear from Flood...
View ArticleJoshua Weiner Adds to the BERLIN NOTEBOOK, Gives Readings in London and Prague
NewsWed, 05/18/2016Joshua Weiner was in Berlin in April, adding to the Berlin Notebook, which the Los Angeles Review of Books will publish this summer as an e-book. In May he gave poetry readings in...
View ArticleJulius Fleming Jr. Awarded Carter G. Woodson Postdoctoral Fellowship, Among...
NewsWed, 05/18/2016This semester, Julius Fleming, Jr. was awarded the Carter G. Woodson Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Virginia. He also delivered an invited lecture at Princeton...
View ArticleEnglish is Going Google on June 3!
NewsWed, 06/01/2016As part of the University's switch, faculty and staff in the English department will switch to Google Apps for email and calendar on June 3, 2016. Read here for additional...
View ArticleCongratulations to Matthew Kirschenbaum,who has been promoted to Full Professor!
NewsWed, 06/08/2016Congratulations to Matthew Kirshenbaum for his promottion to full professor! Thank you to Matt's APT subcommittee, composed of Neil Fraistat (chair), Brian Richardson, and Orrin...
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Announcement: Amanda Bailey Becomes Department Chair
NewsThu, 06/09/2016Congratulations to Amanda Bailey, who has accepted an appointment as Department Chair beginning in July. We look forward to working with Professor Bailey in her new position!News...
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Congratulations to Leigh Ryan, founder of the University Writing Center, on...
NewsThu, 06/09/2016The English Department congratulates and thanks Leigh Ryan for her 30+ years of service and unwavering dedication.As a faculty member in the English Department, Ryan received many...
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