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August 23, 2019
Rion Amilcar Scott's Recent Book Reviews and Interview [2]
Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Rion Amilcar Scott, recently had his collection of short stories, The World Doesn't Require You, reviewed by both The New York Times and by NPR (National Public Radio). Scott was also recently interviewed by NPR regarding the short story collection.
July 24, 2019
Club Highlight: Video Game Journalism Club [3]
The UMD Video Game Journalism Club was started by student Michael Cutler, and is a new, up-and-coming video game club option for students who are interested in reporting on gaming news. The club's rising publication, Gaming in a Shell, is aiming to become the community's central news source for all things gaming related.
July 22, 2019
Alumni Profile: Danielle Gillis [4]
Danielle Gillis graduated from the University of Maryland with her Bachelor’s degree in both English and Journalism and a minor in Black Women’s Studies. She currently works as an associate producer for WJZ-TV, the local CBS news station in Baltimore.
July 11, 2019
Carnegie Medal Goes to Elizabeth Acevedo, First Writer of Color in Medal's History [5]
Elizabeth Acevedo's novel, The Poet X, has won the Carnegie Medal. Acevedo is the first writer of color to recieve the award in the Medal's history. She earned her MFA in Poetry at the University of Maryland in 2016.
July 11, 2019
Recent Lecturer Promotions [6]
Ross Angelella, Emily Flamm, Heidi Scott, Radford Skudrna, and Dennis Winston have been promoted to Senior Lecturer.  Pamela Gerhardt, Mark Forrester, and Caroline Wilkins have been promoted to Principal Lecturer. Candidates for appointment to the rank of Senior Lecturer must demonstrate a sustained record of exemplary teaching and exhibit promise in the areas of research, service, mentoring, and/or program development. 
July 10, 2019
Club Highlight: The Writer's Bloc [7]
If you’ve ever wondered why popular publications such as The Diamondback never seem to highlight the creative activities that permeate throughout the University, the answer is quite simple. You’ve been looking at the wrong source for your daily dose of creative content!
July 8, 2019
Alumni Profile: Jeana DelRosso [8]
Jeana DelRosso received her Masters in English from the University of Maryland in 1993 and her Ph.D in 2000. She also received a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies in 1998. Dr. DelRosso currently works as a professor at Notre Dame of Maryland University. In this interview, she shares her experience as someone with a degree in English, and offers some advice for English majors.
June 11, 2019
Tyler Mills Wins 2019 Snowbound Chapbook Award [9]
Tyler Mills, a 2008 MFA alumna, has won the 2019 Snowbound Chapbook Award for her chapbook of poems entitled The City Scattered. 
May 29, 2019
New Faculty Promotions [10]
Several faculty members have been recently promoted.
May 29, 2019
Andrew Katz's Recent Presentations and Conferences [11]
Andrew Katz's paper, which focuses on the culture around a method of investing that was new in the 19th century, known as speculation, in the U.S. and U.K. through literature, was recently accepted to several conferences and professional research competitions. His work was recognized at Stanford’s SRC as the top presentation in a qualitative social science.
May 28, 2019
Gerard Passannante Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship [12]
ACLS Fellow Professor Gerard Passannante has also been named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for his project "God is in the Detail: Cosmic Order and the Sense of Scale."  
May 28, 2019
32nd Annual Professional Writing Contest Awards and Winners [13]
Please see below the winners of the 32nd Annual Professional Writing Contest.
May 28, 2019
Professor Jermaine Jones's Accomplishments [14]
Professor Jermaine Jones won the 2013 Best Male Author of the Year Award for his publication, From Poverty to Prosperity: A Ghetto Exit Strategy as a Rite of Passage.
May 28, 2019
Konstantinos Pozoukidis's Presentations and Talks [15]
Konstantinos Pozoukidis presented his paper “Disastrous Encounters in William Wordsworth’s ‘Simon Lee’” at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference in Denver, CO, March 21st, 2019.
May 27, 2019
Matthew Kirschenbaum Updates [16]
Matthew Kirschenbaum has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP). He will present research at the Society's annual conference this summer in Amherst. Also this summer, he will return to teach at the University of Virginia's Rare Book School.
May 27, 2019
Thibault Raoult's Recent and Forthcoming Publications [17]
Thibault Raoult's poems have recently appeared in typo and OVERSOUND and are forthcoming in Western Humanities Review.
May 27, 2019
Manon Soulet's Recent Accomplishments [18]
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
Updates from Martha Nell Smith [19]
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 24, 2019
Mal Haselberger Accomplishments [20]
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 23, 2019
Mark Fitzgerald Book Launch [21]
On June 25th, Mark Fitzgerald will launch his new book, Downburst, at the West Greenwich Library in London. 

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