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January 17, 2012
Read about Vin Carretta at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
January 3, 2012
 "The Muses of Insert, Delete, and Execute" provides a profile of Matt Kirschenbaum's recent lecture and forthcoming book, Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing (Harvard UP, forthcoming 2013)
October 25, 2011
This symposium promises to help participants redefine and rethink the ways they research, teach, discuss, and conceptualize categories surrounding “world literature" and promises to have wide-ranging impact across the humanities.
September 19, 2011
The department welcomes Sarah Blake, author THE POSTMISTRESS (2010), as Petrou Writer in Residence for 2011-2012.
September 13, 2011
The September 5, 2011, edition of Publisher's Weekly identifies Vincent Carretta's Phyllis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage (University of Georgia Press, 2011) as "a thoroughly readble, fully schoarly life of Wheatley."
April 13, 2011
We will hold a memorial service for our esteemed colleague, Professor Marshall Grossman, on Tuesday, April 26, from 4-5 p.m. at the gallery of the David Driskell Center in the Cole Student Activities Building on the University of Maryland campus.
March 14, 2011
Norman will serve on the jury of a premier Canadian literary prize.
March 2, 2011
Olmert's new play, "Moving the Chains: The Darryl Hill Story," appears as a rehearsed staged reading, a co-production of Theatre J and the Lincoln Theatre on Monday, March 21, 2011.
January 25, 2011
Stanley Plumly, Professor and Director of Creative Writing, will deliver the 2011 Turnbull Lecture at Johns Hopkins University on Tuesday, February 15. His talk is titled "My Keats."
January 12, 2011
The English Department is bringing Michael Dirda, "Book World" columnist for the Washington Post, to campus for the spring semester as the "Petrou Reader in Residence." The goal is to have Dirda be a real presence in the department and contribute to its already-vibrant intellectual community in an ongoing way.
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Following is a list of the Lecture Series available through the Center for Literary and Comparative Studies:

Eighteenth-Century Reading Group

LGBT Studies

Local Americanists

Reading the Lyric

Renaissance Reckonings

Transatlantic Poetics

Washington Area Romanticists Group

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