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Jeanne Fahnestock Gives Lectures in Sweden, Copenhagen

December 09, 2015 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Jeanne Fahnestock, Professor Emeritus, was invited by the Rhetoric Programs of the University of Lund, Sweden (October 11-17), and the University of Copenhagen (October 17-24), and gave a seminar and public lecture at each school.

Rebecca Ritzel Serves as 2015 Literature Grant Panelist for the Ohio State Arts Council

December 09, 2015 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

PWP lecturer Rebecca Ritzel was chosen to serve as a 2015 literature grant panelist for the Ohio State Arts Council and traveled to Columbus in December to adjudicate the criticism category.

Randy Ontiveros Gives Lecture, Will Present at MLA Convention

December 09, 2015 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Randy Ontiveros gave a guest lecture on what role literature can play in engineering to students in the course “Engineering for Sustainability” (ENCE215).

Oliver Gaycken Gives Talk at Cambridge University, Among Other News

December 09, 2015 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

In September, Oliver Gaycken gave a talk, “Cinema’s Plasticity: The Embryological Series and Animation,” at the Reproduction on Film Conference, which was hosted by the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, at Cambridge University, UK.

MFA Alums Lindsay Fowler and Carlea Holl-Jensen Present at University of Central Missouri

December 09, 2015 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Carlea Holl-Jensen and Lindsay Fowler presented our paper, "Reading Weird: Teaching Experimental Fiction in the Creative Writing Classroom," at the University of Central Missouri's Creative Writing & Innovative Pedagogies Conference. 

Howard Noman Awarded CAPAA

December 02, 2015 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Professor Howard Norman has won a Creative and Performing Arts Award (CAPAA) to work on his new novel-in-progress, Thirteen Crowded Hours. We wait in anticipation!Join us in congratulating Howard!

Congratulations to the Following Recipients of Research and Scholarship Awards

December 02, 2015 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Congratulations to Ralph Bauer and Oliver Gaycken for winning semester RASAs from the Graduate School. Congratulations to Chanon Adsanatham and Jerry Passannante for winning summer RASAs.

PWP Lecturer Daniel Pendick Joins UM Center for Environmental Science

December 02, 2015 English

Daniel Pendick left his former position as executive editor of Harvard Men’s Health Watch to become the new science writer (one of three) at Maryland Sea Grant, which is part of the UM Center for Environmental Science.

Intro Journals Project Nominees

December 02, 2015 English

The MFA Program in Creative Writing is pleased to announce our nominees for AWP's Intro Journals Project (2016)

MLA Honors Washington for THE OTHER BLACKLIST

December 01, 2015 English

Washington wins honorable mention in the competition for the Association's William Sanders Scarborough Prize for an Outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American Literature