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September 13, 2019
Remembering Virginia Beauchamp & Stanley Plumly [1]
Memorial services for each Virginia Beauchamp and Stanley Plumly will take place this month.
September 5, 2019
Jess Enoch publishes two new edited collections [2]
With Jordynn Jack, Jess Enoch published her edited collection Retellings: Opportunities for Feminist Research in Rhetoric and Composition Studies through Parlor Press.With David Gold, Jess Enoch published her edited collection Women at Work: Rhetorics of Gender and Labor through the University of Pittsburgh Press.
September 5, 2019
Jess Enoch, Katie Bramlett, and Elizabeth Novara published in "College English" [3]
Jess Enoch (English, faculty), Katie Bramlett (English, PhD student), and Elizabeth Novara (former UMD curator) published "Decoding (a Woman's) Diaries: The Transcribe-a-thon as a Public Memory Project" in the May 2019 issue of College English. This essay reflects on their pedagogical work, which was supported by the English department's "Beyond the Classroom" grant, in which they collaborated with their students in their Women and Public Memory course to engage the UMD public in the digital transcription of Margaret Preston's diaries.
August 29, 2019
Prof. Vincent Carretta edits The Writings of Phillis Wheatley for Oxford University Press [4]
Professor emeritus Vincent Carretta's edition of The Writings of Phillis Wheatley will be published in the United Kingdom by Oxford University Press in October 2019. Prof. Carretta’s edition includes all of Phillis Wheatley's known writings, some of them only recently discovered.
May 29, 2019
New Faculty Promotions [5]
Several faculty members have been recently promoted.
May 27, 2019
Manon Soulet's Recent Accomplishments [6]
This semester, Manon Soulet received the Wylie Semester Dissertation Fellowship for 2019/2020. She also presented a paper at the the NeMLA Conference entitled “The Trans- as an Aesthetic Category: A Study of Isabelle Eberhardt’s Notes de Route." 
May 24, 2019
Mal Haselberger Accomplishments [7]
Mal Haselberger presented a conference paper at the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, “‘Cur[ing] disappointment in love’: Emotional Consumption in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility," in March 2019. 
May 24, 2019
Updates from Martha Nell Smith [8]
Wild Nights With Emily, a feature film starring Molly Shannon as Emily Dickinson and based on Martha Nell Smith’s scholarship, premiered in New York City at Landmark 57 West on April 11th, and is now playing in more than 50 cities nationwide. Click here to find a showing.
May 23, 2019
GerShun Avilez Publications [9]
In May 2019, GerShun Avilez published two scholarly essays.
May 23, 2019
William Cohen Co-Edits Journal Special Issue [10]
William Cohen, with Laura Green, has edited and introduced a special issue of the journal Narrative, "Revisiting Dialogue" (May 2019), now available from the Ohio State University Press.
November 19, 2018
Celebrate Emily Dickinson's Birthday on December 10 with Events at the Folger! [11]
Free screening of "Wild Nights with Emily" at 5 pm, followed by "Birthday Tribute: The Gorgeous Nothings" featuring Jen Bervin & Martha Nell Smith at 7:30 pm.
April 23, 2018
Women in Classical Scholarship: A Colloquium Celebrating the Retirement of Judith P. Hallett [12]
Friday, 27 April, Francis Scott Key Hall Room 0106, 9 am. The reception will be in the Merrill Room (Key 2120)Please contact Gail Russell at gruss@umd.edu with any special parking requests or dietary considerations.
February 20, 2018
Victoria E. Burke, “Collecting, Compiling, and Creating: Engaging with the Bible in Seventeenth-Century Women’s Manuscript Writing” [13]
The next meeting of the Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies 2017-2018 series will take place on Friday, March 2nd, from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in the Rosenwald Room (LJ 205), 2nd floor, Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress. Dr. Victoria E. Burke will deliver a talk entitled “Collecting, Compiling, and Creating: Engaging with the Bible in Seventeenth-Century Women’s Manuscript Writing.”
November 29, 2017
Folger's Annual Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute [14]
Join us on Monday, December 11 at 7:30pm, as we celebrate the genius of Emily Dickinson with scholar and poet Sandra Gilbert. This third reading in the 2017/18 O.B. Hardison Poetry Series is co-sponsored with The Poetry Society of America.
September 19, 2017
TRANS(form)ing Queer, DC Queer Studies Symposium Deadline 12/01 [15]
We invite proposals for scholarly papers and panels at TRANSFORMING QUEER, the 11th Annual DC Queer Studies Symposium at the University of Maryland. The symposium will be a daylong series of conversations about the history, present, and future of trans and queer studies, bringing together scholars and artists whose work stands at the intersection of both.
June 29, 2017
Writers Here & Now Reader Named New Poet Laureate [16]
Tracy K. Smith, who read at Maryland as part of the Writers Here & Now Series, was recently named the new US Poet Laureate.
November 18, 2016
Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies 2016-2017 [17]
The next meeting of the Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies 2016-2017 series will take place on Friday, November 18th, from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in the Rosenwald Room (LJ 205), 2nd floor, Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress. Drs. Holly Peppe and Tim Jackson will  discuss their recent edited collection: Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay: An Annotated Edition.”
November 1, 2016
The Stamp Gallery Opening Reception for Black Maths [18]
The Opening Reception for The Stamp Gallery's latest exhibiton Black Maths is Free and Open to the Public and will take place Tuesday, November 1 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM.
October 2, 2014
Save the Date: Jonathan Auerbach, Distinguished Scholar Teacher Lecture, Thursday, November 13, 4:00 pm [19]
Jonathan AuerbachWeapons of Democracy: How Social Reformers Became Propagandists for World War IThursday, November 13, 4:00 pmUlrich Recital Hall, Tawes Hall
April 1, 2014
Spectacular Wickedness: book talk by Emily Landau of History Department, April 3, 4:00 pm [20]
Thursday April 3, 4:00-5:30 PMMcKeldin Library, Room 6137Special Events Room  
September 13, 2019
Remembering Virginia Beauchamp & Stanley Plumly [1]
Memorial services for each Virginia Beauchamp and Stanley Plumly will take place this month.
September 5, 2019
Jess Enoch publishes two new edited collections [2]
With Jordynn Jack, Jess Enoch published her edited collection Retellings: Opportunities for Feminist Research in Rhetoric and Composition Studies through Parlor Press.With David Gold, Jess Enoch published her edited collection Women at Work: Rhetorics of Gender and Labor through the University of Pittsburgh Press.
September 5, 2019
Jess Enoch, Katie Bramlett, and Elizabeth Novara published in "College English" [3]
Jess Enoch (English, faculty), Katie Bramlett (English, PhD student), and Elizabeth Novara (former UMD curator) published "Decoding (a Woman's) Diaries: The Transcribe-a-thon as a Public Memory Project" in the May 2019 issue of College English. This essay reflects on their pedagogical work, which was supported by the English department's "Beyond the Classroom" grant, in which they collaborated with their students in their Women and Public Memory course to engage the UMD public in the digital transcription of Margaret Preston's diaries.
August 29, 2019
Prof. Vincent Carretta edits The Writings of Phillis Wheatley for Oxford University Press [4]
Professor emeritus Vincent Carretta's edition of The Writings of Phillis Wheatley will be published in the United Kingdom by Oxford University Press in October 2019. Prof. Carretta’s edition includes all of Phillis Wheatley's known writings, some of them only recently discovered.
May 29, 2019
New Faculty Promotions [5]
Several faculty members have been recently promoted.
May 27, 2019
Manon Soulet's Recent Accomplishments [6]
This semester, Manon Soulet received the Wylie Semester Dissertation Fellowship for 2019/2020. She also presented a paper at the the NeMLA Conference entitled “The Trans- as an Aesthetic Category: A Study of Isabelle Eberhardt’s Notes de Route." 
May 24, 2019
Mal Haselberger Accomplishments [7]
Mal Haselberger presented a conference paper at the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, “‘Cur[ing] disappointment in love’: Emotional Consumption in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility," in March 2019. 
May 24, 2019
Updates from Martha Nell Smith [8]
Wild Nights With Emily, a feature film starring Molly Shannon as Emily Dickinson and based on Martha Nell Smith’s scholarship, premiered in New York City at Landmark 57 West on April 11th, and is now playing in more than 50 cities nationwide. Click here to find a showing.
May 23, 2019
GerShun Avilez Publications [9]
In May 2019, GerShun Avilez published two scholarly essays.
May 23, 2019
William Cohen Co-Edits Journal Special Issue [10]
William Cohen, with Laura Green, has edited and introduced a special issue of the journal Narrative, "Revisiting Dialogue" (May 2019), now available from the Ohio State University Press.
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