Carey Cameron ’24 Plans Future in Media and Entertainment
The senior English major and creative writing minor has held multiple arts and culture roles in the D.C. region.
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The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, supported by the English Department and edited by Tita Chico, is a quarterly journal published by the University of Pennsylvania Press
The department would like to extend its congratulations to the following undergraduate English majors on their awards and achievements!
Verlyn Flieger, Professor Emerita, and Casey Patterson, Sophomore English major, are two of the speakers for the first TEDxUMD this Saturday May 3rd, from 9am to 6pm. Watch the Livestream of the event.
Congratulations to Tita Chico who was recently awarded a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Institute of English Studies, housed in the University of London’s Institute for Advanced Studies. Continue on to read more about Tita's latest accomplishments!
Congratulations to Danuta Hinc who received the Barry Hannah Merit Scholarship in Fiction to attend the MFA in Writing Program at Bennington College, Vermont.
Congratulations to English doctoral candidates Emily Yoon Perez and Nathaniel Underland for winning a Mary Savage Snouffer Dissertation Fellowship for 2014-15.
Two faculty members in English, Professor of the Practice Michael Olmert and Professional Writing Instructor Mark Forrester, have been selected for mentor awards by the Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars Program. Congratulations!
MFA Student Meg Eden was reviewed by Neon Magazine for her chapbook The Girl Who Came Back, which follows Maryland's Enchanted Forest park. Read it here: http://www.neonmagazine.co.uk/?p=4429 and read on to learn more!
UMD has officially joined the Committee on Institutional Collaboration (CIC) as a part of its broader integration with the Big Ten. Nearly every member institution offers a department or program in linguistics or speech-language pathology.
Bob Levine recently gave a talk on Frederick Douglass and the Reunion Narrative at the Glasscock Humanities Center at Texas A&M. Continue reading for more updates from Bob!