Tom Earles and Leigh Ryan’s article, “The Writing Center as Workplace: Teaching, Learning, and Practicing Professionalism,” appears in the May/June issue of WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship.
Sabrina Islam has received a Memorial Scholarship to attend the Philadelphia Writers' Conference this summer. She also has a short story "Nakshi Kathas" appearing in the Fall issue of Prairie Schooner.
Stephen Rojcewicz, a 2017 PhD alumnus in Comparative Literature, published a “Review of Tacitus, by Victoria Emma Pagán," in Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature 34(1): 127-132, 2019.
Tom Earles and Marina Seamans presented “'I’m Only Here Because I Have to Be': Reassessing Required Visits” at the 2019 Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association Conference at Lafayette College.
From Friday, May 17 to Thursday, May 23, the Old Greenbelt Theater will screen the new film, Wild Nights with Emily, which draws from Professor Martha Nell Smith's work on Emily Dickinson. The film is also on view at a few other local area theaters.
Howard Norman's new novel, The Ghost Clause, will be published on July 2. To date, it will be published in six languages. His graphic noir, Detective Levy Detects, is scheduled to be published in late August.
Ralph Bauer's co-edited collection, Translating Nature: Cross-Cultural Histories of Early Modern Science has been published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Bob Levine has given recent talks on Melville and Irish emigration at the University of Kansas, Catholic University, and Indiana State University. His new essays include a piece on Frederick Douglass and synchronicity in Black Perspectives and the Afterword to The New Melville Studies (Cambridge UP, 2019). His updated second edition of the Norton Critical Edition of Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables will be published later this year.
