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Two faculty members in English, Professor of the Practice Michael Olmert and Professional Writing Instructor Mark Forrester, have been selected for mentor awards by the Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars Program. Congratulations!
MFA Student Meg Eden was reviewed by Neon Magazine for her chapbook The Girl Who Came Back, which follows Maryland's Enchanted Forest park. Read it here: http://www.neonmagazine.co.uk/?p=4429 and read on to learn more!
UMD has officially joined the Committee on Institutional Collaboration (CIC) as a part of its broader integration with the Big Ten. Nearly every member institution offers a department or program in linguistics or speech-language pathology.
Bob Levine recently gave a talk on Frederick Douglass and the Reunion Narrative at the Glasscock Humanities Center at Texas A&M. Continue reading for more updates from Bob!
In April, Matthew Kirschenbaum delivered the Mann Lecture in Book Arts at Penn State. Other spring talks included Georgetown, York College, and the CUNY Graduate Center. Continue reading for more updates from Matthew!
Congratulations to Stewart Foehl, of the Professional Writing Program, for the nomination of his novel The Secret Ingredient (Random House) for the Lambda Literary Award
Congratulations to M.K. Foster, Aaron Brown, Ali Goldstein, and Jacob Eckstein!
Michelle Boswell, Ph.D. had her review of Daniel Brown's Poetry of Victorian Scientists: Style, Science and Nonsense appear in the Autumn 2013 (44.4) issue of The Wordsworth Circle.
Congratulations, Emily!
Join scholars Jackson R. Bryer and Eleanor Heginbotham from the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference.