Department News

October 23, 2018
Peter Mallios Selected for Arcan Semester Research Award for Spring 2019
This semester leave from teaching and administrative responsibilities supports faculy as they complete the major project required for promotion to full professor. Mallios plans to complete Literary President: Woodrow Wilson and the Making of American Modernism.
October 18, 2018
FrankenTerps Community Print at BookLab
Stop by BookLab in 3248 Tawes Hall to print quotes from Mary Shelley's 1818 edition of Frankenstein in ghoulish green and other spooky colors!
October 11, 2018
2018 National Book Award Finalist: Elizabeth Acevedo
Elizabeth Acevedo's novel, The Poet X, has been announced as a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
October 4, 2018
Courtney Connolly (MA 2011) Featured in CHRONICLE OF HIGHER ED
The article and video, "Create a ‘Personal Brand,’ and Other Tips Learned During a Day With a Recruiter," highlight Connolly's experience as a recruiter.
October 1, 2018
Merle Collins Awarded Global Classrooms Initiative Grant
The $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 faculty at the University of the West Indies.
September 20, 2018
Robin Earnest and Patrick Nelson to Present at 2019 4Cs Convention
Robin Earnest and Patrick Nelson will be presenting at the 2019 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Annual Convention in Pittsburgh this coming March. 
September 20, 2018
Shara Lessley's Recent Publications
University of Maryland MFA alumna Shara Lessley published a new book of poems, The Explosive Expert's Wife (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018). She also co-edited a collection of essays titled, The Poem's Country: Place and Poetic Practice (Pleiades Press, 2018).
September 18, 2018
David Biespiel's Book Release
David Biespiel's book, The Education of a Young Poet (Counterpoint Press, 2018), will be released on Tuesday, October 9th. David Biespiel is the former coordinator of the MFA program and a University of Maryland alumnus.
September 13, 2018
Jamie Kantor Published in PMLA
Recent PhD alumnus and Ohio State University-Mansfield Assistant Professor Jamie Kantor was recently published in Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (PMLA). 
September 13, 2018
THE POET X by Elizabeth Acevedo (MFA '15) is on Longlist for National Book Award
The National Book Foundation recognized ten authors for "Young People's Literature."  

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