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Linda Coleman Presents at All-Day Seminar for Smithsonian Associates

March 03, 2016 English

Linda Coleman presented an all-day seminar for the Smithsonian Associates on January 30. The title was "Word Biographies: Origins and Meaning in Everyday Life."

Edlie Wong Publishes in SOCIAL TEXT

March 03, 2016 English

Edlie Wong has published “Storytelling and the Comparative Study of Atlantic Slavery and Freedom” in Social Text (2015). 

Alumna Karen Karydes Publishes HARD-BOILED ANXIETY

March 02, 2016 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Karen Karydes, a former graduate student in the department, has just published Hard-Boiled Anxiety: The Freudian Desires of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, and Their Detectives.

Mark Fitzgeral Poetry Reading at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900

February 29, 2016 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Mark Fitzgerald was invited to the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, where he read from a selection of poems included in his new manuscript. His poem, "Afterglow," will be published this summer in Slipstream.

Robin M. Earnest, Esq Contributes to the Baltimore Sun

February 29, 2016 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Robin M. Earnest, Esq., served as a writing/legal consultant for Maryland State Delegate Alonzo Washington.

M.F.A. Alumna Emily Flamm Publishes Short Stories

February 29, 2016 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

MFA Alumna Emily Flamm has recently published several very short stories in Catapult and Cosmonauts Avenue.

Michael Collier Reading at Politics and Prose

February 29, 2016 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Michael Collier will read this Sunday, March 6 at 1:00 PM at Politics & Prose (5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20008) along with Lia Purpura and W. M. Rivera. More details about the reading are available HERE. 

Congratulations to Chuck Caramello, the new CGS Dean in Residence

February 25, 2016 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Charles (“Chuck”) Caramello, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Maryland, College Park will be appointed CGS (Council of Graduate Schools) Dean-in-Residence beginning August 1, 2016.

Sara Faradji Published and to Present Paper at Harvard University

February 25, 2016 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Sara Faradji's article, “Journeys to the Middle: An Analysis of Liminality within 20th Century Middle Eastern Literature and Scholarship” was published

Bob Levine Gives Talks on THE LIVES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS

February 25, 2016 English

Bob Levine gave talks on his recently published THE LIVES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS at Politics and Prose, the Smithsonian, Lincoln's Cottage, McKeldin Library, and the University of California--Santa Barbara.