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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Matthew Kirschenbaum's Mechanisms has received awards from the Society for Textual Scholarship and the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing.
Marshall Grossman has received a Folger NEH Long Term Fellowship, and Sheila Jelen has received a fellowship from the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies.
Professor of English Marshall Grossman was quoted in the February 17 New York Times on the problem of grade inflation in higher education.
University of Virginia Rotunda Press has released Emily Dickinson’s Correspondences, edited by Martha Nell Smith and Lara Vetter, with consulting editor Ellen Louise Hart.
Matthew Kirschenbaum has a new essay in the January 23 Chronicle of Higher Education's titled "Hello Worlds: Why humanities students should learn to program."
Keguro Macharia (Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008) joins the Department as Assistant Professor of English.
The University of Maryland's General Research Board will be supporting two faculty projects this summer and five during the 2009-2010 academic year.
On the unanimous recommendation of the faculty, Hamilton will be awarded the status of Associate Professor Emeritus when he retires at the end of the fall semester.
Stanley Plumly's Posthumous Keats (Norton, 2008) has been turning up on a number of "best books of the year" lists.
Dr. Isabell Klaiber, Visiting Professor of English from the University of Tübingen, will soon bid farewell to the University of Maryland.