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January 17, 2012

Read about Vin Carretta at the Massachusetts Historical Society.

January 3, 2012

New York Times on Kirschenbaum's Research

"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

Rethinking World Literature/Other World Literature: November 3 & 4

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

Sarah Blake: Petrou Writer in Residence 2011-2012

The department welcomes Sarah Blake, author THE POSTMISTRESS (2010), as Petrou Writer in Residence for 2011-2012.

September 13, 2011

Carretta's Biography of Wheatley receives starred review in Publisher's Weekly

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

Memorial Service for Marshall Grossman on Tuesday, April 26, 4:00 p.m.

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

Howard Norman Selected for Scotiabank Giller Jury

Norman will serve on the jury of a premier Canadian literary prize.

March 2, 2011

Michael Olmert's Play Debuts at the Lincoln Theatre

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

Plumly to Delivery Turnbull Lecture at Johns Hopkins University

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

Michael Dirda: Petrou Reader in Residence, Spring 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.