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October 10, 2019
Emily Mitchell awarded an Arcan Semester Research Award (ASRA), Spring 2020 [2]
The English Department is delighted to announce that Emily Mitchell has been selected for an Arcan Semester Research Award (ASRA) for Spring 2020.  This semester leave from teaching and administrative responsibilities aims to support faculty at the rank of associate and full professor, with preference given to associate professors for whom the completion of a major project will lead to promotion to full professor.
October 9, 2019
Short Documentary Film “Deserted” Screening by PWP instructors, Eric Thiel and Martha Thomas [3]
The film "Deserted" exposes the sparse and unhealthy food choices in an economically disadvantaged Baltimore City neighborhood and the lifelong consequences this has on its residents. It also looks at innovative approaches to addressing food deserts, including a startup “social supermarket” in Baltimore.
October 4, 2019
Alexandra Calloway's class produced stories for NASA magazine. [4]
ENGL 393Q students helped write stories for the NASA Goddard Tech Transfer Magazine
September 27, 2019
Strategies for Providing Timely Feedback on Student Writing [5]
Professional Writing policy calls for faculty to return students’ major writing projects with feedback within two weeks of submission, and no later than before the next major assignment is due.
September 13, 2019
Dr. Gerard Passannante promoted to Full Professor [6]
Dr. Gerard Passannante has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor. His most recent book, Catastrophizing: Materialism and the Making of Disaster, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2019. This follows his first book, The Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition (Chicago, 2011). While at the University of Maryland, Dr. Passanante has taught a range of classes from large lectures on Renaissance drama to smaller seminars on literature, philosophy, and science such as “Leonardo, Montaigne, and Shakespeare,” and “Early Modern Literature and Disaster.”
September 13, 2019
Dr. Jessica Enoch promoted to Professor [7]
Jessica Enoch has been promoted to the rank of Professor. 2019 saw the publication of four projects for Dr. Enoch: her second monograph, Domestic Occupations: Spatial Rhetorics and Women's Work; her co-edited, bilingual critical anthology with Cristina Ramírez, Mestiza Rhetorics: An Anthology of Mexicana Activism in the Spanish-Language Press,1887-1922; and two edited collections, Retellings: Opportunities for Feminist Research in Rhetoric and Composition Studies (with Jordynn Jack) and Women at Work: Rhetorics of Gender and Labor (with David Gold).
September 13, 2019
Dr. Tita Chico promoted to Professor [8]
Dr. Tita Chico has been promoted to the rank of Professor. She published The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment with Stanford University Press in 2018, and her new book, Wonder in Literature and Science of the Long Eighteenth Century, is under contract with Cambridge University Press. This year she begins a three-year term as Member-at-Large elected to the Executive Board of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, and will be a Research Fellow at New College, Oxford University during Trinity Term 2020.
September 13, 2019
Dr. Ralph Bauer promoted to Professor [9]
Dr. Ralph Bauer has been promoted to the rank of Professor. Recent publications include "The Crucible of the Tropics: Alexander von Humboldt’s Hermeneutics of Discovery" in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 59.2 (Summer 2018), as well as an edited collection with Jaime Marroquin Arredondo), Translating Nature: a crosscultural history of early modern science (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019). His latest book, The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World (UVA Press) will appear in print in October. He is the general editor of the Early Americas Digital Archive, and is currently serving as associate dean for academic affairs at the College of Arts and Humanities. Dr. Bauer has been with the University of Maryland since 1998.
September 13, 2019
Dr. David Simon promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure [10]
Dr. David Carroll Simon has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. His first book, Light without Heat: The Observational Mood from Bacon to Milton (Cornell University Press, 2018), argues for the importance of careless inattention and open-ended receptivity to the literary and philosophical experiments of England's scientific revolution. He is now at work on a study of misogyny and comic experience in early modern literature and philosophy. Dr. Simon joined the University of Maryland faculty in Fall 2018.
September 13, 2019
Dr. Scott Trudell promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure [11]
Dr. Scott Trudell has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. His research focuses on early modern poetry, drama, music, and pageantry, as well as media studies, sound studies, performance studies, gender studies, and theories of the lyric. He is the author of Unwritten Poetry: Song, Performance, and Media in Early Modern England (Oxford UP, 2019); he has published in journals including Shakespeare Quarterly and Studies in Philology; and he is a co-principal investigator of Early Modern Songscapes, an interdisciplinary digital humanities project on the musical performance of English Renaissance poetry.
September 13, 2019
Remembering Virginia Beauchamp & Stanley Plumly [12]
Memorial services for each Virginia Beauchamp and Stanley Plumly will take place this month.
September 13, 2019
Justin Thompson presents at Ecology and Religion in the Nineteenth Century conference [13]
Justin Thompson will be presenting work at the Ecology and Religion in the Nineteenth Century virtual conference, a collaboration between Georgetown Univeristy, Armstrong-Browning Library at Baylor University, the University of Washington, and Lancaster University (UK). His paper is entitled, "Evangelic Erasures: Louisa Atkinson and Indigenous Bodies".
September 13, 2019
April Fuller published in Folger Library's blog "The Collation" [14]
April Fuller and Laurel Bassett's "Got Gout? Eighteenth-Century Global 'Remedies' in Mary Kettilby’s Receipt Book" has bee published by the Folger Library's The Collation. Read the article here.
September 12, 2019
Kent Cartwright presents at Italian English Studies Association conferenece in Padua [15]
Professor Emeritus Kent Cartwright presented a paper on “Forgiveness in Shakespeare's Comedies” at the biannual meeting of the Italian English Studies Association on September 6 at the University of Padua.  The paper was part of his ongoing book project on Shakespearean comedy.
September 12, 2019
William Cohen, Plenary Speaker at Dickens Day Conference [16]
William Cohen has been invited to serve as plenary speaker at the 2019 Dickens Day conference on Dickens and Bodies at the the Institute of English Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, on October 19.
September 12, 2019
Joshua Weiner: New Publications, Interviews, and Readings [17]
A new poem by Joshua Weiner led off the summer prose poem issue at the online journal B O D Y, which also ran his review of Tom Pickard's Fiends Fell journal.  You can read them here.He was interviewed by Thomas Whyte in June.  You can read the short interview here.Joshua also read poems by Bertolt Brecht at an evening devoted to his work sponsored by the Goethe-Institut of Washington D.C.  You can read about it here.
September 12, 2019
Elizabeth Benton published in Teachers College Record [18]
Elizabeth Benton’s “From Nostalgia to Student Success: A Professor’s Journey with Open Education Resources” was published in August in Teachers College Record.
September 12, 2019
Tom Earles published in Research in Online Literacy Education [19]
Tom Earles's article, "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Asynchronous Online Tutoring," will appear in the forthcoming issue of Research in Online Literacy Education.
September 12, 2019
Randy Ontiveros essay published in Latinx Environmentalisms [20]
Randy Ontiveros’s essay “Between Water and Song: Maria Melendez and the Contours of Contemporary Latinx Ecopoetry” is set for release on November 1 in the edited collection Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial (Temple UP).
September 12, 2019
Claudia Rojas Wins 2019 Peter K. Hixson Memorial Award for Creative Writers [21]
First year graduate student, Claudia Rojas (MFA, Poetry), has been selected for the 2019 Writer's Relief Peter K. Hixson Memorial Award for Creative Writers.  The award is presented to one poet and one short story writer for three cycles of Writer’s Relief submission services free of charge. To learn more about the award and Writer's Relief visit the Writer's Relief website.

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