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THE POET X by Elizabeth Acevedo (MFA '15) is on Longlist for National Book Award
NewsThu, 09/13/2018The New Yorker recognized ten authors for "Young People's Literature." Acevedo's novel, The Poet X, "crackles with energy and snaps with authenticity and voice," according to Justina...
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Merle Collins Awarded Global Classrooms Initiative Grant
NewsMon, 10/01/2018The $10,000 award will support Professor Collins's course, "Caribbean Literature: Literature and Ideas in the Caribbean," which will be held in collaboration with students and...
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Courtney Connolly (MA 2011) Featured in CHRONICLE OF HIGHER ED
NewsThu, 10/04/2018The article and video, "Create a ‘Personal Brand,’ and Other Tips Learned During a Day With a Recruiter," highlight Connolly's experience as a recruiter."Know yourself.""It's all...
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2018.10.12: Theory Colloquium: Intersectional Feminism, Community Building,...
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2018.10.17: Local Americanists: Hsuan Hsu
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2018.10.17: EUA Coffeehouse: What is a Personal Statement?
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Kari Kraus Named Kluge Fellow for 2018-19
NewsTue, 07/24/2018The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress sponsors the annual fellowship in Digital Studies to support scholars exploring how “groundbreaking technological innovations” can...
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FrankenTerps Community Print at BookLab
NewsThu, 10/18/2018Stop by BookLab in 3248 Tawes Hall to print quotes from Mary Shelley's 1818 edition of Frankenstein in ghoulish green and other spooky colors!BookLab Open Hours:Monday, 10.22.2018,...
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Peter Mallios Selected for Arcan Semester Research Award for Spring 2019
NewsTue, 10/23/2018This semester leave from teaching and administrative responsibilities supports faculy as they complete the major project required for promotion to full professor. Mallios plans to...
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Neil Fraistat Heads #Frankenreads Read-a-Thon at LOC
NewsTue, 11/06/2018Watch (or listen) to the 1818 edition of Frankenstein, read aloud, via the livestream on YouTube!For information about related activities at UMD, visit...
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Aaron Brown's Poetry Collection Wins Awards
NewsThu, 11/01/2018The poetry collection, Acacia Road, by Aaron Brown, has been awarded the Nelson Poetry Book Award by the Kansas Authors Club. This is an annual award given to a poetry collection...
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Wyatt, Collier, Ontiveros Publish Essays in New Collection
NewsThu, 11/08/2018In September David Wyatt published American Literature in Transition, 1960-1970, as part of a new series being produced by Cambridge University Press. This edited volume contains...
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Alumna Rhondda Thomas Fellowship and Award
NewsTue, 11/13/2018Alumna Rhondda Thomas has been named the Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University, where she is an associate professor in the Department of English. She was also...
View ArticleHoward Norman Upcoming Publications
NewsTue, 11/13/2018Howard Norman's graphic noir novel, Detective Levy Detects, will be published in 2019 (illustrations by Annie Bastk). Howard's new novel, The Ghost Clause, will be published July 2,...
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Elizabeth Acevedo's THE POET X Wins 2018 National Book Award
NewsThu, 11/15/2018The Poet X (HarperCollins, 2018), by Elizabeth Acevedo, won the 2018 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Acevedo earned her MFA in Poetry at the University of Maryland...
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Dominique Young Receives Mellon Mays Predoctoral Research Grant
NewsThu, 11/15/2018Dominique Young, a current PhD student of English literature at the University of Maryland, received the 2018 Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Mellon Mays Predoctoral Research...
View ArticleMerle Collins to Give Lecture and be Recognized as a Distinguished...
NewsThu, 11/15/2018Merle Collins, respected scholar of Caribbean literature and culture, will give a lecture today on Louise Langdon Norton Little, mother of Malcolm X.Merle Collins is a writer of...
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CLCS Awards 9 Program Grants in Fall 2018 Cycle
NewsMon, 11/26/2018Programs supported include conferences, workshops, lectures, and more, and will be organized by graduate students, professional track faculty, and tenure track faculty.Academic...
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Fall 2018 Bywords is now available!
NewsFri, 11/30/2018The Fall 2018 Bywords Newsletter is now available. Learn more about recent publications, presentations, and scholarly achievements here. News Category: AlumniAcademic...
View ArticleQuiet Study Spaces During Finals Week
NewsTue, 12/04/2018Need a quiet study space to prepare for final exams or to work on final papers? Click here to learn about spaces near you.News Category: Center for Literary and Comparative...
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