UMD Grad Jason Reynolds Awarded MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’
Popular author of YA, children’s books about kids of color to receive $800K.
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Professor Matthew Kirschenbaum's new book, Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination, has been published by the MIT Press. The book will be released on January 31, 2008.
Professor Brian Richardson's book, Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (Ohio State UP, 2006) has won the 2007 Perkins Prize.
Professor Marilee Lindemann has won the 2007 Michael Lynch Service Award from the Gay, Lesbian, Queer Caucus of the Modern Language Association.
Professor Theresa Coletti will be one of the leaders of a workshop on the medieval Second Shepherd's Play at Folger Shakespeare Library, December 13-14.
We're delighted to share the news that five English Department faculty members have received Semester Graduate Research Board (GRB) Awards.
Professors Vincent Carretta and Robert Levine were recognized at the 24th Annual Faculty and Staff Convocation on Tuesday, October 16, 2007.
Professor Jane Donawerth's award-winning essay, "Women's Reading Practices in Seventeenth-England: Margaret Fell's "Women's Speaking Justified" has won a second award.
Asst. Professor Vessela Valiavitcharska has been selected as the winner of the 2007 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Society for the History of Rhetoric.
If the department seems especially alive with creative energy this summer, it will surely be because Professors Merrill Feitell, Hank Lewis, and Stanley Plumly have been given CAPA awards for summer 2008.
A new book from Sheila Jelen and new articles from Ingrid Satelmajer.