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Tyler Mills (MFA '08) Receives 2017 Akron Poetry Prize
NewsTue, 09/12/2017Tyler Mills, a graduate of the MFA Program in Creative Writing, was recently selected by Oliver de la Paz for the 2017 Akron Poetry Prize. Her manuscript Hawk Parable is forthcoming...
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Congratulations to Kari Kraus on Indiecade 2017 Selection
NewsWed, 09/13/2017The Tessera--the NSF-funded game Kari Kraus and her collaborators launched last spring--will be showcased as an Indiecade 2017 Official Selection at this year's festival (press...
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MFA Coordinator Lindsay Bernal Wins National Poetry Series
NewsThu, 09/14/2017Lindsay Bernal, whose poetry collection What It Doesn't Have to Do With is forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press, has been selected for the 2017 National Poetry Series...
View ArticleRobert Levine on C-Span
NewsThu, 10/05/2017The National Archives hosted a dramatic reading of an 1852 speech by former slave and abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass on the meaning of American independence to slaves,...
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Maud Casey Publishes Book in the "Art of" Series
NewsTue, 10/10/2017Maud Casey's story, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," appeared in The American Scholar and her story, "Two Inclinations," is forthcoming in Conjunctions. Her essay, "To Be Undone,"...
View ArticleCreative Writing Minor '13 Marlena Chertock featured in -Terp Magazine.-
NewsWed, 11/08/2017Praise for her second poetry volume -Crumb Sized- in the -Chicago Review of Books.-Read the full story here: http://terp.umd.edu/universal-truths#.WgMyuYZrxGwNews Category:...
View ArticleMy Darling Detective Featured on NPR's Best Books of 2017 List
NewsThu, 12/07/2017Professor Howard Norman's latest novel My Darling Detective was included on NPR's 2017 "Best Books" list. The book wasrecommended by Robert Siegal, host of All Things Considered. You...
View ArticleUMD Students Featured on Australian News
NewsThu, 01/11/2018Students studying abroad with Jason Rudy in Australia for the Winter semster were featured on the news of the Australian NBC network. The students are enrolled in Professor Jason...
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Mary Helen Washington Appears in PBS Documentary
NewsTue, 01/23/2018Mary Helen Washington appears in the new PBS documentary on playwright Lorraine Hansberry, which is available for free viewing here. Professor Washington was also interviewed by the...
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Congratulations Matt Kirschenbaum on receiving a Mellon Foundation Grant!
NewsSat, 01/13/2018Matt Kirschenbaum has been awarded a Mellon Foundation grant for Books.Files, a new project designed for assessing the potential for the archival collection and scholarly study of...
View ArticleThe Department Welcomes David Simon!
NewsThu, 02/15/2018The English Department is delighted to announce that Professor David Simon will be joining us this fall as Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland.Professor...
View ArticleThe Department Welcomes Gershun Avilez!
NewsTue, 02/20/2018The English Department is delighted to announce that Professor GerShun Avilez will be joining us this fall as Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland.GerShun is...
View ArticleJohn and Anne Long Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Endowment
NewsThu, 02/22/2018John J. Long and Anne C. Long, Ph.D., give $100,000 to the Department to enhance students' education by recognizing, rewarding, and supporting faculty as they develop curricular and...
View ArticleCongratulations to Professor Kim Coles
NewsThu, 03/15/2018The Department of English is delighted to announce Kim Coles has been selected for an Arcan Semester Research Award for fall 2018. This semester leave from teaching and...
View ArticleThe Department Welcomes Chad Infante!
NewsTue, 03/13/2018The English Department is delighted to announce that Professor Chad Infante will be joining us this fall as Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland. Chad's...
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Merle Collins Selected as 2018-2019 Distinguished Scholar Teacher
NewsTue, 04/03/2018This distinction honors faculty members who have demonstrated outstanding scholarly achievements, as well as exemplary contributions as teachers and leaders in their respective...
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Congratulations to Alumnus Reginald Dwayne Betts!
NewsThu, 04/05/2018Congratulations to former English major, Reginald Dwayne Betts, who recently received a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship! You can read more about Betts here. News Category:...
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Liz Patterson wins Library Award for Undergraduate Research
NewsMon, 04/09/2018Patterson's project consisted of a poster, an essay on the experience of researching, and a biography on the Maryland suffragist Eliza F. Messenger.The project can be accessed here....
View ArticleJoshua Weiner Publishes Chapbook!
NewsTue, 04/10/2018Joshua Weiner's chapbook, "Everything I Do I Do Good: Trumpoems" is now available as a free pdf download and a virtual flipbook on the Dispatches website.The poet Tom Sleigh has this...
View ArticleJoshua Weiner elected Chair of the Writing Committee at the Fine Arts Work...
NewsWed, 04/18/2018Congratulations to Professor Joshua Weiner, who was recently elected chair of the Writing Committee at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the premier residency in the U.S....
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