People
May 3, 2012
Professor Emeritus Jackson Barry, passed away on April 19, at the age of 85, from complications of Alzheimer's disease.
April 13, 2012
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
Reed Whittemore passed away on Friday, April 6 at the age of 92.
January 17, 2012
Read about Vin Carretta at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
January 3, 2012
"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
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
The department welcomes Sarah Blake, author THE POSTMISTRESS (2010), as Petrou Writer in Residence for 2011-2012.
September 13, 2011
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."
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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
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Renowned Dickinson scholar Martha Nell Smith began a digital humanities revolution at Maryland in the 1990s.
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