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Washington Post

How Speculating Doomsday Scenarios Can Provide Paradoxical Comfort

March 10, 2022 English, College of Arts and Humanities

English Professor Matthew Kirschenbaum wrote about the dark Cold War genre, war games, and how speculating doomsday scenarios can provide paradoxical comfort in The Washington Post.

Body Literature

Body Literature Interviews Professor Joshua Weiner on Translating "Flight in Metamorphosis"

March 02, 2022 English

Poet and translator Joshua Weiner's translations of Nobel-prize-winning German poet Nelly Sachs (1891–1970) published as Flight and Metamorphosis.

The Diamondback

UMD Students and Faculty Say They Want ‘Academic Freedom,’ Not Book Bans

February 28, 2022 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

First-year English graduate student Shannon Neal interviewed by the Diamondback.

Maryland Today

Prisoners, Patients and Performers

February 24, 2022 English

UMD professor’s new book imagines lives of 19th-century women confined in Paris hospital.

Joshua Weiner, Translations and New Works Published

February 18, 2022 English

Read the newly translated release of Flight and Metamorphosis.

Elizabeth Arnold's Poem to be Featured in the Kenyon Review

February 18, 2022 English

Elegy will appear in May 2022.

Updates from Emeritus Professor Robert Kolker

February 18, 2022 English

Emeritus Professor Robert Kolker New book from Rutgers University Press

Upcoming Events and Talks with Professor Robert Levine

February 18, 2022 English

This spring, Professor Robert Levine will give several talks about The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson.

New Short Story from Gabrielle Fuentes

February 18, 2022 English

The story draws on the films and writing of Maya Deren.

Danuta Hinc Featured in MicroLit Almanac

February 18, 2022 English

An excerpt from Danuta Hinc's novel-in-progress was published in MicroLit Almanac.