Department News
September 21, 2012
Professor Laura Rosenthal gave a keynote address for the conference "‘The Authenticity of Emotions: Sceptical and Sympathetic Sociability in the Eighteenth-Century British Public Sphere’ An Interdisciplinary Collaboratory" held in Adelaide, Australia, September 18-19. She has essays appearing this fall in the journals PMLA, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, and The Arts and Humanities in Higher Education.
September 21, 2012
For nearly 70 years, The English Institute has been a major resource for developments in criticism, theory, and scholarship, while honoring traditional fields of interest and modes of literary analysis. Each fall it sponsors a prestigious conference, whose proceedings are subsequently published.
September 18, 2012
Anna Bedford (CMLT) presented a paper titled “Exploitive Foundations: Bodies and Resources in the Futuristic Metropolises of Atwood and Hopkinson,” at the annual Science Fiction Research Association in July. She presented as part of a panel with scholars Amy Ransom and Grace Dillon, who work in Canadian science fiction and Indigenous science fiction. Anna's participation in this conference, held in Detroit, was made possible by a travel grant from the English Department.
September 13, 2012
Professor Martha Nell Smith has helped to confirm only the second known picture of Emily Dickinson, and the only picture of the reclusive poet as an adult.
September 12, 2012
In September, Vin Carretta is giving the 2012 Leonora Woodman Memorial Lecture at Purdue University, as well as the 2012 James Russell Wiggins Lecture at the American Antiquarian Society.
September 11, 2012
Congratulations to Professors Amanda Bailey and Jerry Passannante on this momentous achievement.
September 11, 2012
In March, Professional Writing Program lecturer Daniel Pendick became the executive editor of Harvard Men's Health Watch, a monthly consumer health newsletter published by Harvard Medical School and the Belvoir Media Group.
September 10, 2012
Mark Fitzgerald was one of the featured readers at the 18th Anniversary Celebration of the IOTA Poetry Series on September 9. He read from his book, By Way of Dust and Rain (Cinnamon Press, 2010).
September 10, 2012
A busy summer with lots of news in the Professional Writing Program.
September 10, 2012
Rebecca Borden, Peter Mallios, and Jennifer Wellman collectively wrote "American Women Reading Conrad, 1900-1940: An Overview," which will appear in a special issue of Studia Neophilologica on "Transnational Conrad" in November 2012.
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Department of English, 2119 Tawes Hall, College Park, MD 20742
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Department of English, 2119 Tawes Hall, College Park, MD 20742
301-405-3809 | english@umd.edu
