Alumni

November 30, 2011

Rebecca Coleman publishes a new novel.

October 3, 2011

Debo and Vetter: TEACHING WORLD LITERATURE: APPROACHES TO TEACHING H.D.'S POETRY AND PROSE

Annette Debo (Ph.D. 1998) and Lara Vetter (Ph.D. 2003) collaborated to edit a forthcoming offering in the MLA series "Teaching World Literature."

October 3, 2011

Hackman essay appears in AETHLON

Timothy Hackman (MA 2006) published "A Blues Song for Fighters: The Legend of Sonny Liston," in Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature 27:2 (Spring/Summer 2010), 1-22.

September 1, 2011

Simon & Schuster publishes memoir by Jon Reiner (MA '87)

On September 20, 2011, at 7:00 pm, Jon Reiner will read from his debut memoir, The Man Who Couldn't Eat, at the Bethesda Barnes & Noble.

May 23, 2011

Department Graduates Find Places to Continue Their Work!

Check out our up-to-date graduate placements for the 2011-2012 academic year.

March 2, 2011

Michael Olmert's Play Debuts at the Lincoln Theatre

Olmert's new play, "Moving the Chains: The Darryl Hill Story," appears as a rehearsed staged reading, a co-production of Theatre J and the Lincoln Theatre on Monday, March 21, 2011.

January 25, 2011

Plumly to Delivery Turnbull Lecture at Johns Hopkins University

Stanley Plumly, Professor and Director of Creative Writing, will deliver the 2011 Turnbull Lecture at Johns Hopkins University on Tuesday, February 15. His talk is titled "My Keats."

January 12, 2011

Michael Dirda: Petrou Reader in Residence, Spring 2011

The English Department is bringing Michael Dirda, "Book World" columnist for the Washington Post, to campus for the spring semester as the "Petrou Reader in Residence." The goal is to have Dirda be a real presence in the department and contribute to its already-vibrant intellectual community in an ongoing way.

January 11, 2011

Poetic. Aesthetic.

University of Maryland’s The Art Gallery, in collaboration with the departments of English and Art, have partnered with national and international artists to create new works of visual art inspired by literature.

December 20, 2010

Kelly Wisecup wins SEA Best Essay 2009-2010

Kelly Wisecup, Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Texas, received national recognition for her scholarship. The Society of Early Americanists awarded her essay, "Invisible Bullets and Literary Forms of Colonial Promotion," Best Essay in the Field for 2009-2010.