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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Jonathan Rick workshops at National Conference of State Legislatures, Young America’s Foundation, and Gerson Lehrman Group
August 30, 2019Jonathan Rick delivered workshops to the National Conference of State Legislatures, the Young America’s Foundation, and the Gerson Lehrman Group.
Britt Starr, Rhetoric Award and College Writing Conference Presentation
August 29, 2019Britt Starr is the recipient of a 2019 Graduate Development Award from the Rhetoric Society of America Institute.
Prof. Vincent Carretta edits The Writings of Phillis Wheatley for Oxford University Press
August 29, 2019Professor emeritus Vincent Carretta's edition of The Writings of Phillis Wheatley will be published in the United Kingdom by Oxford University Press in October 2019.
Tita Chico, New Publications and Talks
August 29, 2019Tita Chico recently published essays in Year’s Work in Cultural and Critical Theory, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, and Litro Magazine
Cheryl Spinner speaks at Cornell’s American Studies Colloquium
August 29, 2019On October 24, 2019, Dr. Cheryl Spinner will be giving an invited talk, “Lincoln, the Clairvoyant: Representations of Spiritualism During the Civil War, 1861-Present."
Matthew Kirschenbaum, Talks at UMD, UPenn, and the English Institute
August 29, 2019Matthew Kirschenbaum will present work at several upcoming events.
Danielle Griffin, ISHR 2019 Conference, Rhetorica journal publication, Snouffer Fellowship
August 29, 2019Danielle Griffin presented at the International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference in New Orleans.
Emily Flamm’s story published in SmokeLong Quarterly
August 29, 2019Emily Flamm story "This Woman Is the Only Woman" was published in August by SmokeLong Quarterly.
Nicolette Polek (MFA '19) Wins 2019 Rona Jaffe Award
August 28, 2019Nicolette Polek, who graduated from the MFA Program in May, has won a 2019 Rona Jaffe Award in fiction. This prestigous award is given annually to six women writers who are are in the early stages of their careers.
Alumna Hannah Baker Saltmarsh Publishes Book
August 26, 2019Hannah Baker Saltmarsh, a UMD alumna who graduated with her BA in English in 2004 and her MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 2006, recently published her first book, a work of poetry criticism.