English Professor Elizabeth Arnold Dies at 65
Arnold was a poet of national and international acclaim and a beloved teacher and colleague.
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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 has published “Storytelling and the Comparative Study of Atlantic Slavery and Freedom” in Social Text (2015).
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 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., served as a writing/legal consultant for Maryland State Delegate Alonzo Washington.
MFA Alumna Emily Flamm has recently published several very short stories in Catapult and Cosmonauts Avenue.
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.
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's article, “Journeys to the Middle: An Analysis of Liminality within 20th Century Middle Eastern Literature and Scholarship” was published
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.