Casey, Olmert, Ray Promoted

C.D. Mote, President of the University, has approved promotions for Professors Maud Casey, Michael Olmert, and Sangeeta Ray.

Maud Casey has been promoted to associate professor with tenure. Casey is the author of two novels, The Shape of Things to Come (HarperCollins, 2001) and Genealogy (HarperCollins, 2006), and a collection of short stories, Drastic (HarperCollins, 2003). The winner of many awards and fellowships and widely published in leading literary journals, Casey also serves as the Associate Director of Creative Writing for the department.

Michael Olmert has been appointed Professor of the Practice. Crediting Olmert's twenty years of service to the department as a senior lecturer, the appointment received the unanimous support of the department's full professors. Olmert, who received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, is the author several books, two plays, two feature films, and over 90 TV documentaries. He has won three Primetime Emmy awards for writing television documentaries. In 2005, Olmert was inducted into the University of Maryland Alumni Hall of Fame.

Sangeeta Ray has been promoted to full professor. Ray is the author of two monographs, En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives (Duke, 2000) and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: In Other Words (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), and is co-editor of A Companion to Postcolonial Studies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2000; paperback 2005). Ray serves as the Director of the Cultures of the Americas program for College Park Scholars and was instrumental in the formation of the University's Asian American Studies program.