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April 18, 2019
Robert Levine to Give Talk at Catholic University [15]
Distinguished University Professor Robert Levine will give a talk next week at Catholic University entitled, "What Is an American? Race, Emigration, and Nation in the Writings of Herman Melville.” 
April 12, 2019
In Memoriam: Stanley Plumly [16]
It is with great sadness that we mourn Distinguished University Professor Stanley Plumly, who died on Thursday, April 11, 2019, of multiple myeloma.
April 10, 2019
USLT presents Semana de la Latina [17]
The U.S. Latina/o Studies Program at the University of Maryland is hosting Semana de la Latina during the week of April 15th.
April 9, 2019
From the BBC: Major in Humanities! [18]
Why a 'Worthless' Humanities Degree May Set You Up For Life
April 3, 2019
Mike Olmert To Give Talk [19]
Mike Olmert will be giving an illustrated talk on the History of Slave Infirmaries, to the Annual Meeting of the St. Michael's Museum, Talbot County, MD.
March 27, 2019
Karen Lewis Appointed Regional Division Representative [20]
Karen Lewis has been appointed to the leadership position of Regional Division Representative within NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising.
March 22, 2019
Orrin Wang featured on Keats-Shelley Association "What Are You Reading?" [21]
The blog highlights new and recent scholarship in the field of Romanticism.
March 14, 2019
Maud Casey Selected as AY19-20 Long Teaching Fellow [22]
Maud Casey has been selected to be the AY19-20 Long Teaching Fellow. Each academic year, one tenure-track faculty member seeking to enhance the classroom experience serves as the Department of English’s Long Teaching Fellow.
March 14, 2019
UMD English at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference [23]
During spring break, many current and former (and an incoming) members of the English Department will be participating at the annual American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference in Denver, CO. 
March 14, 2019
Crystal Parikh Wins Award [24]
Crystal Parikh's book entitled Writing Human Rights: The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color has won the 2019 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Outstanding Achievement in Humanities and Cultural Studies: Literature.
March 13, 2019
@UMDEnglish #4C19 [25]
NCTE hosts its annual CCCCs convention in Pittsburgh March 13-16, 2019. UMD English faculty, students, and alumni present research in twenty-one sessions.
March 11, 2019
From UC-Irvine: "4 Reasons the Future Will Rely on Humanities Majors" [26]
Tyrus Miller, Dean of the Humanities at UC Irvine, observes, "The humanities are where many future leaders, communicators, scholars, CEOs, storytellers, creatives, directors, writers and entrepreneurs come to get their start. While the disciplines of the humanities themselves are distinct, together they provide students with a common set of skills that employers of today, and especially those of the future, will rely on."
March 8, 2019
Joshua Weiner's New Translations, Publications [27]
Joshua Weiner's translations of Silesius, Goethe, and Ernst Janl were published last month in Great River Review, the literary journal revived by Peter Campion at University of Minnesota.  Three new poems appear in the current issue of Manchester Review (UK).
March 8, 2019
Martha Nell Smith: "Wild Nights With Emily" [28]
Wild Nights With Emily, the feature film based on Martha Nell Smith’s work, opens April 12th at the Landmark 57 and the Quad in New York and The Landmark in LA, and then in 50 cities after that. 
March 6, 2019
Remembering Virginia Beauchamp [29]
Virginia Beauchamp, Professor Emerita and dear friend to many passed away on February 10, 2019. Professor Beauchamp enjoyed a long career in our department and was instrumental in starting Women's Studies at UMD.  
March 6, 2019
DeLisa D. Hawkes Wins 2019 ALSCW Dissertation Fellowship [30]
DeLisa D. Hawkes is the winner of the 2019 ALSCW Dissertation Fellowship. 
March 6, 2019
Kent Cartwright: Essays and Updates [31]
Kent Cartwright had three essays on Shakespeare published or about to be published in 2019, including a self-interview on Hamlet; an essay on secularism and wonder in All’s Well That Ends Well; and a much enlarged version, for book publication, of his review of the 2016 production of The Merchant of Venice in the Venetian Ghetto.  He continues to make progress on his monograph, “Shakespeare and the Comedy of Re-Enchantment.”  
March 6, 2019
Tita Chico Recognized at the Inaugural Maryland Research Excellence Celebration [32]
Professor Tita Chico was recognized at the Inaugural Maryland Research Excellence Celebration, at The Hotel on February 28.
March 6, 2019
Barry Lee Pearson Interview [33]
Barry Lee Pearson was an interview subject and contributor to "American Icons: 'Cross Road Blues.'" 
March 6, 2019
Tom Earles and Leigh Ryan Recent Publication [34]
Tom Earles and Leigh Ryan published "Teaching, Learning, and Practicing Professionalism in the Writing Center," a chapter in How We Teach Writing Tutors, the first Digital Edited Collection from WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship. 

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