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MFA Coordinator Lindsay Bernal Wins National Poetry Series

September 14, 2017 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Lindsay Bernal, whose poetry collection What It Doesn't Have to Do With is forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press, has been selected for the 2017 National Poetry Series competition.

Congratulations to Kari Kraus on Indiecade 2017 Selection

September 13, 2017 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

The Tessera--the NSF-funded game Kari Kraus and her collaborators launched last spring--will be showcased as an Indiecade 2017 Official Selection at this year's festival (press release here). 

Michael Olmert Updates

September 13, 2017 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Michael Olmert lectured on “18th Century Architecture and the Creation of Sacred Spaces,”

Tyler Mills (MFA '08) Receives 2017 Akron Poetry Prize

September 12, 2017 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Tyler Mills, a graduate of the MFA Program in Creative Writing, was recently selected by Oliver de la Paz for the 2017 Akron Poetry Prize. Her manuscript ​Hawk Parable is forthcoming in 2019.  

Christin Taylor '13 Receives Book Contract

September 06, 2017 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Christin Taylor '13 recently got a book contract with the University Press of Mississippi for a version of her dissertation, directed by David Wyatt.

Article Featuring PhD Student Dominique Young

September 06, 2017 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

PhD student, Dominique Young, was recently featured in an article about the graduate school's mentoring and diversity initiatives. 

2017-18 New Faculty Appointments

September 06, 2017 Art, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

ARHU welcomes new faculty cohort to UMD.

2017-18 New Faculty Appointments

September 06, 2017 Art, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

ARHU welcomes new faculty cohort to UMD.

Jason Rudy Interviewed on WBJC's "Booknotes"

September 05, 2017 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Judith Krummeck spoke with Rudy about his forthcoming book, Imagined Homelands: British Poetry in the Colonies (Johns Hopkins UP, December 2017). 

Emily Johnson '17 Participates in Folger Institute Workshop

August 28, 2017 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

This summer, Johnson gained admission to a Folger Institute workshop on digital archives at the Folger Shakespeare Library.