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Research & Innovation
Research in the arts and humanities represents a range of disciplines and distinctive modes of knowledge and methods that result in articles and books, ideas, exhibitions, performances, artifacts and more. This deliberate and dedicated work generates deep insights into the multi-faceted people and cultures of the world, past and present.
Whether individual or collaborative, funded or unfunded, our faculty are leading national networks and conferences, providing research frameworks, engaging students, traversing international archives and making significant contributions to UMD's research enterprise.
“Aristotle’s antistrophos in Middle Byzantine Accounts of Rhetoric.”
In Reshaping the Classical Tradition in Byzantine Texts and Contexts. Ed. D. Dimitrijevic, A. Elakovic-Nenadovic, and J. Sijakovic. Belgrade: Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade, 2018.
Author/Lead: Vessela Valiavitcharska
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The chapter argues for a correlation between rhetoric and dialectic in middle Byzantine rhetorical theory motivated by a serious engagement with argumentation; it also suggests that the intellectual climate of the Iconoclastic controversy propelled the selection and transmission of rhetorical theory in the period between the late eighth and the end of the tenth centuries.
Guggenheim Fellowship 2019-2020
My Guggenheim project, “God is in the Detail,” follows the concept of scale in early modernity as it moves between the realm of empirical observation and the intuitive realm of sense—from the seemingly tangible evidence of cosmic order to the unconscious
Author/Lead: Gerard Passannante
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After exploring a variety of literary and philosophical cases—for example, ancient arguments about cosmic order, Hamlet’s “bad dreams,” and the discovery of calculus—this project seeks to understand how our own contemporary patterns of thinking about scale bear the imprint of largely forgotten theological and philosophical controversy.
Remembering the Howard University Librarian Who Decolonized the Way Books Were Catalogued
Dorothy Porter challenged the racial bias in the Dewey Decimal System, putting black scholars alongside white colleagues.
Author/Lead: Zita Nunes
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Publisher: Smithsonian
Publisher: Smithsonian
As some librarians today contemplate ways to decolonize libraries—for example, to make them less reflective of Eurocentric ways of organizing knowledge—it is instructive to look to Porter as a progenitor of the movement.
"Election Day: Communist Poland."
The ballot didn’t fit, because my hands shook uncontrollably.
Author/Lead: Danuta Hinc
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Publisher: Popula
Publisher: Popula
The year I was eligible to vote for the first time, I announced to my parents that I would tell the communist officials at the voting place that I know it is all a sham. This is what eighteen-year-olds do, they announce their bravery, while the elders look at them with fear and pride. When I left the house that day, I carried myself with certainty and resolve suitable for someone who was about to change the world.
Introduction to "The Intermedia Restoration"
This special issue approaches English Restoration texts and art forms from the standpoint of their media—that is, the technological processes and communication conventions at stake in their circulation and production.
Author/Lead: Scott Trudell
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Publisher: Restoration 42
Publisher: Restoration 42
A special issue of Restoration, vol 42, no. 2 (Fall 2018): 3–11.
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2018 Global Classrooms Initiative Grant
"Caribbean Literature: Literature and Ideas in the Caribbean" course is facilitated by UMD Global Classrooms Grant.
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UMD Office of International Affairs
Professor of English Merle Collins received a $10,000 grant from the UMD Global Classrooms Initiative to support her course "Caribbean Literature: Literature and Ideas in the Caribbean," which will be held in collaboration with students and faculty at the University of the West Indies. This course will provide students with an innovative and exciting international, cross-cultural, and project-based learning experience.
The 2018 Global Classrooms Initiative grants are provided and by the Office of International Affairs in collaboration with Mthe University of Maryland Graduate School. These awards are intended to provide financial support to faculty to develop innovative, project-based courses that bring together UMD students and students from partner universities around the world using various digital technologies. These exciting new courses aim to provide our students with international experiences that mirror the kind of work they will encounter throughout their lives: cross cultural, virtual, and project-based.
International Association of University Professors of English
IAUPE is a global association of scholars and teachers dedicated to the study of English in all its facets.
Author/Lead: Tita Chico
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It was formed shortly after the Second World War with the idea of getting senior representatives of English as an academic subject together, irrespective of the ravages of war.
“From Fantasies of Wilderness to Ecological Sovereignty: An Ecocritical Reading of the Vita Merlini.”
Arthuriana: The Journal of Arthurian Studies 28
Author/Lead: Alan Montroso
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No. 1. Spring, 2018, pp 38-55.
Train your Brain for Job Search Success
As a recovering neuroscientist, I love applying research from cognitive science and neuroplasticity insights to help job seekers reach their goals faster.
Author/Lead: Mrim Boutla
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Publisher: LinkedIn
Publisher: LinkedIn
My passion is to do so with emerging leaders who want to secure jobs that blend financial rewards with social impact and environmental sustainability.
What It Doesn’t Have to Do With
Lindsay Bernal’s What It Doesn’t Have to Do With explores through sculpture, painting, pornography, and performance art changing views on gender and sexuality.
Author/Lead: Lindsay Bernal
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Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
The elegiac meditations throughout this collection link the objectification of women in art and life to personal narratives of heartbreak, urban estrangement, and suicide. Haunted by the notions of femininity and domesticity, the protagonist struggles to define the self in shifting cultural landscapes.