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Senior English major Norine McKee has received a 2014 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) from the US Department of State.
Check out the latest departmental news here: https://www.english.umd.edu/news-events/bywords/news-events/bywords/spring-2014
Katherine E. Young publishes her first book of poems, Day of the Border Guards (University of Arkansas Press).
Congratulations to Rebecca Holden, whose co-edited book Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler, has been named a finalist for the 2014 Locus Award.
In April, Michael Olmert gave two talks--one on colonial coffee house culture, and the other titled "Architecture and Meat: Building, Working In, and Living with the 18th C Smokehouse."
Kellie Robertson's article "Materiality and the Hylomorphic Imagination” appeared in Middle English Literature: Criticism and Debate, eds. Holly A. Crocker and D. Vance Smith (Routledge, 2014), pp. 67-375. Keep reading to learn more!
William S. Peterson (emeritus) will deliver the Peter Preston Memorial lecture in London, June 21, on "Virtual Partner: Emery Walker and the Kelmscott Press." It will take place at William Morris's home, Kelmscott House in Hammersmith.
On May 24, Cameron will deliver a paper, titled “Managing Fear and Anger in Climate Change Discourse,” at the Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Keep reading to learn more!
The department would like to extend its congratulations to the following recipients of various graduate fellowships and prizes!
Doctoral Student Natalie Phillips Hoffmann's double review of Mary Ellis Gibson's Indian Angles: English Verse in Colonial India from Jones to Tagore and its accompanying anthology, Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780-1913, has just been published