Academic Programming Grants (fall 2018; spring 2018; fall 2017; spring 2017; fall 2016; spring 2016; fall 2015; spring 2015; fall 2014; spring 2014; fall 2013; spring 2013; winter 2013; fall 2012) | Faculty Research & Writing Group Awards (AY 2018-2019; AY 2017-18; AY 2016-17) | Beyond the Classroom Awards (fall 2018; spring 2018; fall 2017; spring 2017; fall 2016)Program GrantsFunded fall 2018, all to be held during the 2018-2019 academic year:Luka Arsenjuk, SLLC/CMLT/Film, conference: Empathy, Narcissism, Anonymity, 15-16 November 2018Justine DeCamillis, MEM-UM, workshop series: Engaging the Medieval and Early Modern Archive, spring 2019William Gonch, Graduate English Organization, conference: GEO Conference: Witness, 9 March 2019Matthew Kirschenbaum, Book Lab/Textual & Ditigtal Studies Area Group, symposium: Unamed Forms: Perspectives on the Post-Digital Book, early spring 2019Gerard Passannante, CMLT, conference: Time (after Time), 3 May 2019Kristofer Reed, Graduate Student Committee for Latin American Studies Center, conference: HURACÁN, TORMENTA, STORM: WINDS OF CHANGE Latin American Studies Center Annual Student Conference, 2-3 May 2019Scott Trudell, symposium: Symposium on Poetic Form, early spring 2019Orrin Wang, Film Studies, lecture: Jerome Chistensen, "How to Sue Warner Brothers Next Time: The Dark Knight Rises, The Aurora Massacre, and the First Amendment," 1 November 2018Blake Wilder, Whistling Vivaldi Reading and Discussion Group, 6 February 2019, 6 March 2019, 10 April 2019, 8 May 2019Funded spring 2018, all to be held during the 2018-2019 academic year:Legacy Lecture Series:Chanon Adsanatham, Tenure-line faculty, Language, Writing, Rhetoric Speaker Series. October 2018 and March 2019Lindsay Bernal, Staff, Creative Writing Program. Writers Here & Now. 9/26/18; 11/7/18; 12/5/18; 2/13/19; 3/13/19; 4/10/19.Tita Chico, Tenure-line faculty, English, 18th-c reading group, Supplement (part 2) for 18th-c reading group, spring 2019Theresa Coletti (submitted in consultation with S. Trudell), Tenure-line faculty, English, Medieval and Renaissance/Early Modern Area Group, Marshall Grossman Lecture Series, 2018-19 Academic year, 10.29.2018, 12.03.2018, and spring semester.Robert S. Levine, Tenure-line faculty, English, Local Americanists, fall 2018-spring 2019Laura J Rosenthal, Tenure-line faculty, English. Eighteenth Century Reading Group (part 1), Sandra Sherman and Viv Soni, fall 2018.Jason Rudy (with Martha Nell Smith), Tenure-line faculty, English. Transatlantic Studies Group. Lecture Series 2018-19. 10.26.2018 and spring semester.Orrin Wang, Tenure-line faculty, English, Washington Area Romanticists Group, The Tax of Quick Alarm (GMU, October 13, 2018); The Body of Frankenstein (UMD, November 9, 2018).Special Projects:Aqdas Aftab, Graduate Student, Trans Theory Reading Group, Fall 2018Lauren Baker, Undergraduate Student, English and Classics, The Paper Shell Review. Publication of The Paper Shell Review, Spring 2019Ralph R Bauer, Tenure-line faculty, ENGL, 2018 ARHU Undergraduate Research and Arts Celebration. Spring 2019. Chen Edrei, Graduate Student, ENGL/CMLT. CMLT History and Time Theory Reading GroupDerek Shane Ellis, Graduate Studentd, English - Creative Writing. Larry Levis: A Late Style of Fire Symposium & Film Screening, Saturday, October 20, 2018Jessica Enoch, Tenure-line faculty, English, Rhetoric Society of America Institute, June 3-9, 2019.Annesha Goswami. Undergraduate Student, English Undergraduate Association, Writers Dead and Gone Series, Fall 2018: 9/25, 10/30, 11/27. Spring 2019: 2/26, 3/26, 4/30.Gerard Holmes, Graduate Student, English, Humanities Beyond the Academy, Humanities Beyond the Academy. 3 in fall, 3 in springMichael Israel, Tenure-line faculty, The UMD Living Language Project. Language Matters: A Roundtable Discussion and Movie Series on the Diversity of Englishes. Roundtable; two movie events each semester.Michele M Mason, Tenure-line faculty, SLLC/CMLT. Nuclear Futures in the Post-Fukushima Age, April 2019Emily Mitchell, Tenure-line faculty, Contemporary Fiction Reading Group meetings, monthly during the semester, fall 2018 - spring 2019.Zita C Nunes, Tenure-line faculty, English. Public Lecture and meeting with graduate students: C. Riley Snorton. fall 2018Brian Richardson. Tenure-line faculty. English. Twentieth Century Studies Group. Virginia Woolf and Resistance. Nov 29, 2018.Jason Rudy, Tenure-line faculty, English. The Spirit Photographer: A Conversation with Jon Varese. October 10, 2018.Justin Thompson, Graduate Student, English, Black Radical Reading Group.Funded fall 2017, all to be held during the 2017-2018 academic year:Kimberly Coles, "Anti-PC Idol-Smashing Isn't Just a Joke": A Discussion of the Alt-Right with Angela Nagle and Jacob Siegel, 04/10/2018Sangeeta Ray, Form Reading Group, Spring Mini-Conference: Thinking Form, 04/04/2018Mary Helen Washington, African American Literature Colloquium: Reading & Speaker SeriesRandy Ontiveros, support for 2018 Biennial Conference of the Latina/o Studies Asociation, 7/11/18-7/15/18Vessela Valiavitcharska, Stasis Theory Workshop for Graduate Students, Faculty, and Secondary School Teachers, October 2018Justin Charles Lohr, Writing for Change Final Performance, 04/27/2018Kayla Harr Doucette, Formations (11th Annual GEO Conference), 03/10/2018Gerard Passannante, Comparative Literature Symposium: Media & Form, 05/04/2018Kristofer Jon Reed, Latin American Studies Center Annual Student Conference, "Queer Americas: Rebels, Counternarratives, Solidarities," 05/03-04/2018William Gonch, GEO Event: "Publishing: A Graduate Student's Guide," 04/17/2018Lauren Baker, The Paper Shell Review publication supportMaria Aragon, "Queer Reads, LGBTQ+ Reading and Writing Club," spring 2018Aqdas Aftab, Graduate Student Trans Theory Reading GroupRyan Long, Lecture: Ignacio Bajter, "Felisberto Hernandez, a Peripheral Biography: Rediscovered Letters and Newspaper Articles," 11/08/2017Funded spring 2017, all to be held during the 2017-2018 academic year, include these:Funded fall 2016, all to be held during the 2016-2017 academic year, include these:Graduate English Organization Conference: “Worked Up: Labor, Literature, and Culture,” organized by Hillary Beth Roegelein.Film Recording of Writing for Change Performance, organized by Danielle Griffin.CMLT Symposium: The Challenge of Scale, organized by Gerard Passannante.Program in Comparative Literature and Washington Area Romanticists Group: “Language-in-Use and the Literary Artifact”, organized by Gerard Passannante.“Images of Housework: Expression, Representation, and the Time of Domestic Labor in Gilles Deleuze’s Study of the Cinema,” Eric Zakim.Northeast Victorian Studies Association conference, submitted by Jason RudyCarnival and the Carnivalesque in Caribbean Literature, organized by Merle CollinsProfessionalizing Humanities Graduate Study Across / Beyond Academic Boundaries Reading / Working Group, submitted by Gerard Holmes(1/31/17)(3/7/17)(4/11/17)(5/2/17)Funded spring 2016, all to be held during the 2016-2017 academic year, include these:Medieval and Early Modern Graduate Student Pedagogy Group: Globalizing the Curriculum in Early British Literature, organized by Rob Wakeman.The Writing Center: Writing Fellows Pilot Training, spearheaded by Tom Earles.Historical Poetics Working Group, organized by Jason Rudy10/15/2016English Undergraduate Association: Writers Dead & Gone, organized by Elizabeth Caldera.Disability Studies Reading Group, organized by Ruth Osorio.Criptiques (10/17/16)Encountering New Worlds in Early Modern Europe, organized by Ralph Bauer.12/4/2015African Diasporas Reading Group #Diaspora: The Digital Odysseys of African Experiences in the 21st Century, organized by Agyeiwaa Asante and Chioma Dunkley.Complexifying Conversations, Part One (11/10/16)Complexifying Conversations, Part Two (11/11/16)Contemporary Fiction Reading Group, facilitated by Lee Konstantinou.The Vegetarian by Han Kan (10/25/16)The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (11/29/16)The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips (1/31/17)The Lost Child by Caryl Phillips (2/28/17)Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill (4/25/17)The Paper Shell Review, organized by Emily Tuttle.Conference: Women, Writing, Rhetoric, organized by Jessica Enoch.Graduate School Field Committee in Film Studies, organized by Elizabeth Papazian.Local Americanists Lecture Series, organized by Robert Levine.Judith Madera (10/28/16)Erik Dussere (11/18/16)Carter Mathes (2/7/17)Erica Edwards (3/2/17)Philip Gould (5/12/17)Washington Area Romanticist Group, organized by Orrin Wang.Mary Favret (2/25/17)Jamison Kantor (5/6/17)Language, Writing, and Rhetoric Area Group. "Perspectives on Rhetoric and Writing,” organized by Scott Wible.Writers Here & Now 2016-2017, organized by Lindsay Bernal.Álvaro Enrigue and Patrick Phillips (9/28/16)Lauren Acampora and Ocean Vuong (10/26/16)Rita Zoey Chin and Hayes Davis (11/30/16)Alexander Chee and Eliza Griswold (2/1/17)Lily King and Natasha Sajé (3/1/17)Elizabeth Arnold, Howard Norman and Joshua Weiner (4/5/17)Transatlantic Studies Group: Transatlantic Lecture Series, organized by Martha Nell Smith & Jason Rudy.2 events, one to coincide with “Historical Poetics” on or near 10/14/2016.Eighteenth-Century Reading Group, organized by Laura Rosenthal.3 speakers, one in fall & two in spring.Medieval & Renaissance Area Group: Marshall Grossman Lecture Series AY 2016-2017, Kimberly Coles.Melissa Sanchez (12/1/17)Timothy Harrison (3/28/17)Elizabeth Scala (5/4/17)Funded fall 2015, all to be held during the 2015-2016 academic year: Funded spring 2015, all to be held during the 2015-2016 academic year, include these:Critical Approaches to Higher Education: A Reading Series, organized by Justin ThompsonContemporary Fiction Reading Group, sponsored by Lee Konstantinou and Emily MitchellOutline by Rachel Cusk (09/14/15)How to Be Both by Ali Smith (10/19/15)Mislaid by Nell Zink (12/07/15)Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera (02/02/16)Disability Studies in the Humanities Reading Group, facilitated by Ruth OsorioRace, Disability, and Education (09/18/15)Disability and Digital Humanities (10/16/15)Race, Mental Illness, and Film (11/13/15)Sick Woman Theory (02/24/16)Readings on Defining and Measuring Disability (03/23/16)Audre Lorde's Cancer Diarie (04/20/16)Disease, Medicine, and New World Colonial Studies, spearheaded by Bob Levine with support from the Stringer Fund, the Miller Center for Historical Studies, Local Americanists, the Eighteenth Century Reading Group, the Marshall Grossman Lecture Series, and the Transatlantic Lecture SeriesEighteenth Century Reading Group, convened by Laura Rosenthal, and featuring a symposium "The Restoration and British Empire," co-sponsored with Holly Brewer in the Department of History, in addition to a work-in-progress seriesFledglings Multimedia Exhibition, curated by Izetta Autumn Mobley and the AfroPessimists Working GroupGraduate English Organization Alumni Speaker Event, coordinated by Collier Cobb IVLanguage, Writing, and Rhetoric Area Group events, proposed by Jane Donawerth & Vessela Valiavitcharska: Speaker event centered on Disability Studies and Composition; Mini-Symposium "The Composition of Play"; and pizza lunches to introduce new graduate students in fall and to celebrate exams passed & dissertations defendedMarshall Grossman Lecture Series, overseen by Amanda Bailey, to include four speaker eventsGail Kern Paster (April 20, 2015)Julian Yates (November 4, 2015)Sharon Achinstein (March 2, 2016)"Playing with Transmedia in the Transnational," an event designed by Kayla Jean Watson and graduate students in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures"The Postman Always Rings Twice. . . or More," a conference orchestrated by Elizabeth Papazian on behalf of the Graduate Field Committee in Film Studies(Re-)Building Networks Conference, the annual event produced by the Graduate Field Committee for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, proposed by Christine Maffuccio, with sponsorships also from GFCMEM, Physics, ARHU, Math, MITH, the Miller Center for Historical Studies, the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and more pendingTransatlantic Speaker Series, organized by Martha Nell Smith and Jason RodyWashington Area Narrative Theory Study Group: Discussion Series, conceived by Brian RichardsonWashington Area Romanticists Group, coordinated by Orrin WangWriters Dead and Gone, organized by Vita Pierzchala for the English Undergraduate AssociationGolden Age of Science Fiction (September, 22 2015)Edgar Allen Poe (October 25, 2015)Gabriel Garcia Marquez (November 17, 2015)Writers Here & Now, organized by Lindsay Bernal for the Creative Writing Area Group wtih co-sponsorship from the Jimenez Porter Writing House and the College of Arts and HumanitiesJoshua Ferris and Matthew Zapruder (September 30, 2015)Natalie Diaz and Christine Schutt (October 28, 2015)Rita Zoey Chin, April Naoko Heck, and Anne Keefe (December 2, 2015)Courtney Brkic and Timothy Donnelly (February 10, 2016)Emily Mitchell and Stanley Plumly (March 9, 2016)Vievee Francis and Jim Shepard (April 6, 2016)Student Prize Reading (May 4, 2016)Funded fall 2014:GEO Conference: Departures, organized by Elise Auvil and Susie ComptonDistributing Cinema, organized by Oliver GayckenNew Work in Narrative Theory, organized by Brian Richardson for the Washington Area Narratology Study GroupTrauma and Global Literature Symposium, organized by Sheila Jelen for CMLT Graduate StudentsWriters Dead and Gone, organized by Vita Pierzchala for the English Undergraduate AssociationEdgar Allen Poe (October 28, 2014)Fitzgerald Feud (February 24, 2015)Agatha Christie Murder Mystery (March 31, 2015)GEO Professionalization Events, organized by Collier CobbEntangled Trajectories: Integrating Native American and European Histories, organized by Ralph BauerSeminar on the History of Emotions, organized by Laura RosenthalEncountering New Worlds in Early Modern Europe, organized by Ralph Bauer for an I-Series undergraduate conferenceENGL 292 and ENGL 388, organized by Scott Wible and Heather LindenmannENGL 368C, organized by Merle CollinsFunded spring 2014:Students for Students, organized by Lena Stypeck for Sigma Tau DeltaDisability Studies in the Humanities Reading Group, organized by Ruth OsorioPerformance at the Clarice Smith Perform Arts to dovetail with Staff Professional Development Seminar on Diversity, organized by Isabella Moulton for the English Department StaffLocal Americanists, organized by Robert LevineCaleb Smith (May 2, 2014)Ashraf Rushdy (October 2, 2014)Ellen Gruber Garvey (November 14, 2014)Anne Sarah Rubin (February 26, 2015)John Ernest (April 2, 2015)Washington Area Romanticist Group, organized by Orrin WangBrian McGrath (April 12, 2014)Writing Center Celebration and two graduate student pizza lunches, organzied by Jane Donawerth for Perspectives on Writing and RhetoricLearning Enhancement Grant: Writing Center Online Tutoring, organized by Leigh Ryan for the Writing CenterMarshall Grossman Lecture Series, organized by Amanda BaileyBruce Holsinger (April 28, 2014)Claire Sponsler (November 12, 2014)Comprehensive Exams Reading Group, organized by Sarah BonnieWriters Here & Now, organized by Maud Casey for the Creative Writing ProgramPeter Campion (poetry) (5 November 2014)Alumni Reading, Tyler Mills (poetry), Elissa Washuta (nonfiction), John Van Kirk (fiction) (3 December 2014)Jenny Offill (fiction) and Eduardo Corral (poetry) (18 December 2015)Faculty Reading, Elizabeth Arnold, Maud Casey, and Howard Norman (25 March 2015)Louise Glück (poetry) and Sigrid Nunez (fiction) (15 April 2015)Student Prize Reading (6 May 2015)Writers Dead and Gone, organized by Sarah Elizabeth Feeney for the English Undergraduate AssociationFairy Tales (6 May 2014)JRR Tolkien (23 September 2014)The Paper Shell Review, organized by Megan Cooley-KleinContemporary Fiction Reading Group, organized by Emily Mitchell and Lee KonstantinouKnowing Nature Conference, organized by Kellie Robertson for Graduate Field Committee in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEM-UM)Mithril Turtle, organized by Christopher CraneFeast of Words and Movement, organized by Merle CollinsMultimodal Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Technology in the Classroom, organized by Melissa RogersEighteenth Century Subject and Objects, organized by Laura Rosenthal for the Eighteenth-Century Reading GroupGraduate Student Conference: Moving Objects and Motion Pictures, organized by Oliver Gaycken for the Graduate Field Committee in Film StudiesFY15 Lecture Series, organized by Martha Nell Smith and Jason Rudy for the Transatlantic Studies GroupOral History Project, organized by Merle Collins for CarivisionOral History Project, organized by Merle Collins for CarivisionFunded fall 2013:Absorbing Encounters: Construction American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades (An International Conference), organized by Shelia Jelen for the Program in Comparative Literature/Meyerhoff Center for Jewish StudiesRevitalization of Membership and Activities On and Off Campus, organized by Aidan Rebecca Boyd for Sigma Tau Delta - English Honors Society.Workshop Series: Engaging Rhetoric with Voicethread, organized by Lyra Hilliard25th Annual MAWCA Conference, organized by Leigh Ryan for the Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association (MAWCA)GEO Conference: Trespassing(s), organized by Nicholas Slaughter for Graduate English OrganizationPublication of Journal for 2013-2014, organized by Megan Cooley-Klein for The Paper Shell ReviewConversation Series: Literature, Performance and Aural Culture, organized by Merle CollinsWorking Group on Translation (Visualizing Translation), organized by Ana FarachThe Muses of the Land: The Reception of Greece and Rome in the Hispanic World, organized by Francisco BarrenecheaQueer Intimacies: LGBT Studies Lecture Series & DC Queer Studies Symposium, organzied by Marilee LindemannFunded spring 2013:Perspectives on Rhetoric and Writing, organized by Jane Donawerth for Rhetoric and Composition Faculty and Writing Program AdministratorsReading by SF Author Judith Moffett, organized by Jane DonawerthThe National Conference of Peer Tutors in Writing, organized by Douglas Kern for the Writing CenterLocal Americanists Lecture Series, organized by Robert LevineCarla Mulford (April 26, 2013)Celeste-Marie Bernier (October 10, 2013)Washington Area Romanticist Group, organized by Orrin WangJoel Faflak (May 4, 2013)Writers Dead and Gone, organized by John Little for the English Undergraduate AssociationLewis Carroll (April 30, 2013)Dr. Seuss (September 24, 2013)Edgar Allan Poe (October 29, 2013)National Conference of Peer Tutors in Writing Attendance and Workshop, organized by Abby Shantzis for the Writing CenterContemporary Fiction Reading Group, organized by Emily Mitchell and Lee KonstantinouCritical Theory Reading Group, organized by Sarah BonnieThe Spectacle of Violence Reading Group, organized by Sarah BonnieEncountering New Worlds in Early Modern Europe, organized by Ralph BauerThe Marshall Grossman Lecture Series, organized by Scott Trudell for the Medieval and Renaissance Area GroupDaniel Shore (April 11, 2013)Ayanna Thompson (November 6, 2013)Writers Here and Now, organized by Maud Casey for the Creative Writing ProgramSally Keith and Elliot Holt (September 25, 2013)Tania James and Tim Seibles (October 30, 2013)Joshua Weiner, Katy Didden, and Shara Lessley (December 4, 2013)Denis Johnston and Laura van den Berg (February 26, 2013)Tracy K. Smith and Paul Yoon (March 26, 2013)Student Prize Reading (April 30, 2014)Thinking Transdisciplinarily and Transmedially, organized by Jason Rudy and Martha Nell Smith for the Transatlantic Studies GroupQueer Creative Praxis: Exploring Gender and Race through Technologies of Sound, organized by Melissa Rogers for the Queer Grads Working GroupEighteenth-Century Physicality, organized by Laura Rosenthal for the Eighteenth Century Reading GroupThe Filmmaker's Voice: The Essay Film and the Circulation of Ideas, organized by Oliver Gaycken for GFC Film StudiesFunded winter 2013:Writers Dead and Gone, organized by John Allen Little for the English Undergraduate AssociationDebilitating Queerness: LGBT Studies lecture series & DC Queer Studies Symposium, organized by Marilee LindemannDomina Illustris: Roman Literature, Gender and Reception, organized by Jane Donawerth, Lillian Doherty, and Judith HallettLampter Launch Party, organized by Vas BlagodarskiyKirsten Tranter Visit, organized by Jason RudyDigital Transformations, organized by Justin LohrSympathy and Nonhumans Symposium, organized by Rob Wakeman for the Nonhumans and the Humanities GroupCaptured Shadows: Circulating Images of Native Americans on Film, organized by Cailtin McGrath for GFC Film StudiesFeast of Words, Music and Movement, organized by Merle Collins for Carivision Community TheatreFunded fall 2012:“Encuentros con Junot Díaz”, organized by Nathan Dize for the Latin American Studies Students OrganizationMetamorphoses, playing at the Arena Stage in Washington, DC, organized by Isabella Moulton for the English Department StaffWriters Dead and Gone, organized by Abby Shantzis for the English Undergraduate AssociationInvisible Man, playing at the Studio Theater in Washington DC, organized by Mandy Lowman and Josh Ro for the ENGL 433 classAn Introduction to the World of Nontheatrical Cinema with Skip Elsheimer, organized by Oliver Gaycken for the Graduate Film Board“Nonhuman Humanities” Reading Group, organized by Rob WakemanFilAmplified: Filipino American History Month Talent Showcase, organized by Jonathan Reyes for the Filipino Cultural AssociationPanel Discussion on Writing the Graduate School Essay, organized by Robin Earnest(Dis)realities and the Literary and Cultural Imagination Conference(, organized by Uchechi Okereke-Beshel and Sarah Bonnie for the Graduate English OrganizationJames Joyce, Modernism, and Modern Ireland Mini-Symposium, organized by Brian Richardson for the Modernist Area GroupUndergraduates Present at the Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association Conference, organized by Leigh Ryan for the Writing CenterPaper Shell Review: An Undergraduate Journal of Critical Essays on Literary Topics, organized by Jamie Lee for the English Undergraduate Association Graduate Student/Invited Faculty Writing Workshop, organized by Sarah Sillin for the Organizing CommitteeWorkshop on Service Learning, organized by Zahara Heckscher for the Professional Writing ProgramArchetypes in the Classroom: An Experiential Workshop, organized by Kelly CresapLaw, Literature, and the Arab World Lecture Series, organized by Sheila Lelwani for the Professional Writing ProgramUndergraduate TA and Lecturer Pedagogy Reading Group, organized by Linda Macri for Academic Writing and the Undergraduate TA ProgramFacutly Research & Writing GroupsFunded for the academic year 2016-2017Digital Pedagogy. Organizer: Scott Moses. Members: Lyra Hilliard, Rosser Matthews, Clare Parsons, Kara Pleasants, Michelle Von EuwFantasy Studies, with particular interest in the works of JRR Tolkien. Organizer: Peter Grybauskas. Members: Verlyn Flieger, Christopher Crane, Michelle Markey Butler (UGST Honors College)Literature and Science Studies. Organizer: Tita Chico. Members:Kellie Robertson, Kim Coles, Christina Walter Media Theory and Studies. Organizer: Lee Konstantinou. Members: Luka Arsenjuk, Oliver Gaycken, Melanie Kill, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Scott Trudell, Orrin WangRhetorical studies faculty writing group. Organizer: Chanon Adsanatham. Members: Jessica Enoch, Scott Wible, Vessela ValiavitcharskaPerformance Studies and Theater. Organizer: Theresa Coletti. Members: Julius Fleming, Laura Rosenthal, Scott Trudell, Mary Helen WashingtonBeyond the Classroom GrantsSpring 2017Sharada Bachlandara, ENGL 368E: Tickets for “In the Heights,” Lin-Manuel Miranda, Gala Hispanic TheatreMerle Collins, ENGL 362, “Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Caribbean Litearture & Culture,” Symposium, March 31, 2017Merle Collins, ENGL 361, Publication of Cafe Connections Oral History CollectionJessica Enoch, ENGL 397/WMST 498V, Transcribe-a-Thon of Madge Preston’s 19th-c Diary, May 3, 2017Danuta Hinc, ENGL 394, Lake Artemisia Clean-up ProjectLinda Kauffman, ENGL 144 & ENGL 437, end-of-year and end-of-career celebrationJamison Kantor, ENGL 212, film screeningPatrick R. Nelson, ENGL 393, Gardening InitiativeMichael Olmert, ENGL 379M, Rehearsals for Rehearsed Table ReadingsRandy Ontiveros, ENGL 142, Class Outings: Riverdale Mansion in Riverdale and the Reginald F. Lewis Maryland African American History and Culture Museum in BaltimoreMaggie Ellen Ray, ENGL 304, film screening: Taming of the ShrewFall 2016Michael Olmert: Undergraduate Play Workshops: Sir Max Stafford and Stella Feehily. ENGL 454 and 479F. October 10, 2016, October 11, 2016; October 13, 2016Karen Nelson: Film Screening: Globe's Bollywood Midsummer Night’s Dream, November 2, 2016, for English 206, 244, 304, 305, 403, 404, 454.
