Program Grants
May 14, 2018
The first round of CLCS grants have been awarded to projects to be held during the 2018-2019 academic year.
The initiatives listed below were selected through a review process involving the steering committee. We look forward to the contributions that these events will make to the intellectual life of the department and thank the applicants for their efforts:
Lecture Series:
- Language, Writing, Rhetoric Speaker Series (Chanon Adsanatham)
- Local Americanists (Robert S. Levine)
- Washington Area Romanticists Group, The Tax of Quick Alarm, and The Body of Frankenstein (Orrin Wang)
- Eighteenth Century Reading Group - Sandra Sherman and Viv Soni (Tita Chico and Laura J. Rosenthal)
- Transatlantic Studies Group (Jason Rudy and Martha Nell Smith)
- Marshall Grossman Lecture Series (Theresa Colette and Scott Trudel)
- Writers Here & Now (Lindsay Bernal and Creative Writing Program staff)
Special Projects:
- Larry Levis: A Late Style of Fire Symposium & Film Screening, (Derek Shane Ellis)
- English Undergraduate Association, Writers Dead and Gone Series (Annesha Goswami)
- ARHU Undergraduate Research and Arts Celebration (Ralph R. Bauer)
- Nuclear Futures in the Post-Fukushima Age (Michele M. Mason)
- The Paper Shell Review. Publication of The Paper Shell Review (Lauren Baker)
- Rhetoric Society of America Institute (Jessica Enoch)
- Humanities Beyond the Academy (Gerard Holmes)
- The Spirit Photographer (Jason Rudy)
- Twentieth Century Studies Group. Lecture: Virginia Woolf and Resistance (Brian Richardson)
- Contemporary Fiction Reading Group (Emily Mitchell)
- CMLT History and Time Theory Reading Group (Chen Edrei)
- Public Lecture and meeting with graduate students: C. Riley Snorton (Zita C. Nunes)
- Trans Theory Reading Group (Aqdas Aftab)
- The UMD Living Language Project. Language Matters: A Roundtable Discussion and Movie Series on the Diversity of Englishes (Michael Israel)
- Black Radical Reading Group (Justin Thompson)