News and Events
Bywords

Bywords is a monthly newsletter that highlights the accomplishments of faculty, graduate students, and staff in the English Department. Send your news, events, and items of note to englweb@umd.edu.

Current Issue

application/pdf icon May 2012 Bywords (597.43 kb)

Highlights:

  • Department of English Commencement 2012
  • Awards, Awards, Awards!

Recent Issues

application/pdf icon April 2012 Bywords (590.34 kb)

Highlights:

  • Guggenheims, Book Awards, and a slew of departmental accomplishments
  • MFA Awards: Academy of American Poets and the Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize (Reading May 2!)
  • Commemorations of the lives of Jackson Barry, Don Kleine, and Reed Whittemore
application/pdf icon March 2012 Bywords (515.32 kb)

Highlights:

  • Michael Ondaatje's upcoming visit
  • Fifth Annual DC Queer Studies Symposium
  • A slew of events and publications
application/pdf icon February 2012 Bywords (482.73 kb)

Highlights:

  • GEO Conference this weekend
  • A Symposium honoring Jeanne Fahnestock
  • "Race, Law, and Literature" Conference
application/pdf icon January 2012 Bywords (481.33 kb)

Highlights:

  • Progress toward the Grossman Lecture Series
  • Theresa Coletti wins Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
  • Several upcoming conferences for your calendar
application/pdf icon November 2011 Bywords (478.40 kb)

Highlights:

  • Two exciting, upcoming conferences
  • Sangeeta Ray's successful "Rethinking World Literatures" conference
  • A slew of awards
application/pdf icon October 2011 Bywords (493.77 kb)

Highlights:

  • “Rethinking World Literature/Other World Literatures” Symposium
  • A slew of department news
  • A series of exciting events at CLCS

Past Issues