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May 3, 2012
In Memorium: Jackson Barry [1]
Professor Emeritus Jackson Barry, passed away on April 19, at the age of 85, from complications of Alzheimer's disease. 
May 2, 2012
Awards for Jeanne Fahnestock! [2]
The RSA honors Jeanne for her work.
May 1, 2012
Bob Levine wins a Guggenheim Fellowship! [3]
Read on to hear more about this great honor!
April 13, 2012
In Memoriam: Don Kleine [4]
Don Kleine, scholar of modern literature and member of the faculty from 1967 until his retirement in 2007, died on March 31, apparently of pneumonia, after having been hospitalized with a lung disorder; he was 82 years old. 
April 13, 2012
In Memoriam: Reed Whittemore, Former Poet Laureate [5]
 Reed Whittemore passed away on Friday, April 6 at the age of 92. 
January 17, 2012
Vin Carretta Speaks About His New Book [6]
Read about Vin Carretta at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
January 3, 2012
New York Times on Kirschenbaum's Research [7]
 "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 [8]
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 [9]
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 [10]
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."

Upcoming Events

Wednesday, September 12

1:00 pm Work in Progress: Matt Kirschenbaum, "Track Changes: The Literary History of Word Processing" [11]

Thursday, September 20

3:30 pm First Marshall Grossman Lecture Series: David Lee Miller [12]

Friday, October 19

2:30 pm Local Americanists: Elizabeth Fenton, "Grafting, Pastiche, and Intertextuality in THE BOOK OF MORMON" [13]

Thursday, October 25

4:00 pm Petrou Lecture: W. J. T. Mitchell [14]

Friday, October 26

3:00 pm Petrou Critic in Residence: W. J. T. Mitchell [15]

Thursday, November 8

4:00 pm Distinguished Scholar Teacher Lecture: Theresa Coletti [16]

Friday, February 8

2:30 pm Local Americanists: Brian Norman, "Dead Women Talking" [17]

Friday, April 26

4:00 pm Carla Mulford: "Benjamin Franklin and the Art of Science" [18]

Lecture Series

Following is a list of the Lecture Series available through the Center for Literary and Comparative Studies:

Eighteenth-Century Reading Group

LGBT Studies

Local Americanists

Reading the Lyric

Renaissance Reckonings

Transatlantic Poetics

Washington Area Romanticists Group

Works in Progress

Featured Profile

Stanley Plumly [19]
Professor, Director of Creative Writing

Director of Creative Writing Stanley Plumly was named Maryland's Poet Laureate in 2009.

read more > [20]

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