Five Must-Read Summer Book Picks by Asian and Asian American Authors
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DeLisa D. Hawkes is the winner of the 2019 ALSCW Dissertation Fellowship.
Virginia Beauchamp, Professor Emerita and dear friend to many passed away on February 10, 2019. Professor Beauchamp enjoyed a long career in our department and was instrumental in starting Women's Studies at UMD.
Sangeeta Ray will be running a seminar at the ACLA (of which she is Second Vice President) on "Properties of the Global Novel: Comparative and Otherwise," March 7-10th at Georgetown University.
Maud Casey's nonfiction book The Art of Mystery: The Search for Questions (Graywolf Press) was named one of Spirituality & Practice's Best Spiritual Books of 2018, along with, among others, books by Pope Francis and Nadya Tolokonnikova.
Stephanie Allen's novel, Tonic and Balm, was published in February of this year.
David Y. Todd was among teachers receiving an MVP ("Most Valuable Professor") award from the UMD Women's Basketball Team on February 21.
Sarah Lind presented "Marking the Music: Transformations of the Line in Early Modern England" at the Early Modern Songscapes Symposium at University of Toronto on February 8, 2019.
Associate Professor Tita Chico's book "The Experimental Imagination" is reviewed in TheTLS.
Jonathan Rick delivered three workshops in recent months:
Howard Norman's new novel, The Ghost Clause, is published in July, and will have Spanish, French, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Hebrew, Urdu and Japanese editions.