Dylan Lewis Named to Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography
The prestigious fellowship is a capstone graduate career achievement for the English doctoral candidate.
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Emily Flamm’s fiction has recently appeared in Catapult, Carve Magazine, Crab Orchard Review, and other places.
Author/Lead: Emily Flamm
Dates:
Publisher: Territory
Publisher: Territory
She has been a finalist for the Jack Dyer Fiction Prize and the Raymond Carver Short Story Prize. She teaches at the University of Maryland.
Against Sunset: Poems
A powerful new volume from the National Book Award finalist that demonstrates how the lyric is essentially elegiac.
Author/Lead: Stanley Plumly
Dates:
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Whether addressing the deaths of friends and other poets or celebrating the closing of the day and the autumn of the seasons, Against Sunset reveals Stanley Plumly at his most personal and intimate. As much an homage to the rich tradition of the Romantics as it is a meditation on memory itself, these poems live at the edges of disappearances.
Nat Turner after 9/11: Kyle Baker's Nat Turner
Drawing on comics theory, Bruno parses the visual rhetoric of Kyle Baker's popular and increasingly studied comic Nat Turner, in which Baker tropes Nat Turner as Christ just as Nat Turner himself did in his Confessions.
Author/Lead: Tim Bruno
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Publisher: Journal of American Studies
Publisher: Journal of American Studies
Peer-Reviewed Essays "Nat Turner after 9/11: Kyle Baker's Nat Turner," Journal of American Studies, 50.4 (November 2016): 923-951.
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2016 Donna B. Hamilton Award for for Teaching Excellence in General Education
Associate Professor Randy Ontiveros has won the Donna B. Hamilton Award for Teaching Excellence in General Education.
Author/Lead: Randy Ontiveros
Dates:
Award Organization: Donna B. Hamilton
Award Organization: Donna B. Hamilton
According to Undergraduate Dean William Cohen, Randy was nominated by nine of his students for his instruction with ENGL 289M: Literary Maryland; ENGL 370: Junior Honors Conference; and ENGL 327: The Suburbs in American Literature and Film.
Come Down to the Water
Carve was founded in 2000 to publish short stories online and has hosted the annual Raymond Carver Short Story
Author/Lead: Emily Flamm
Dates:
Publisher: Carve Magazine
Publisher: Carve Magazine
Print and digital quarterly issues began in 2012 and feature our signature HONEST FICTION, poetry, nonfiction, interviews, illustrations, and more. The editors, staff, and volunteers who help the magazine thrive are based all over the world.
Beastgirl and Other Origin Myths
Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths is a collection of folkloric poems centered on the historical, mythological, gendered and geographic experiences of a first generation American woman.
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Publisher: YesYes Books
Publisher: YesYes Books
Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths is a collection of folkloric poems centered on the historical, mythological, gendered and geographic experiences of a first generation American woman. From the border in the Dominican Republic, to the bustling streets of New York City, Acevedo considers how some bodies must walk through the world as beastly beings. How these forgotten myths be both blessing and birthright.
Modifying Reading and Writing Theories for the Writing Center: A Practical Guide for Tutors of ESL Students
Over the past century, scholars have paid great attention to the ways English-speaking students learn to read and write in classroom settings.
Author/Lead: Dara Liling
Dates:
Award Organization: University of Pittsburgh Composition Program
Award Organization: University of Pittsburgh Composition Program
Over the past century, scholars have paid great attention to the ways English-speaking students learn to read and write in classroom settings.
"A Window Toward the Medium: A Media Specific Analysis of Chemical Landscapes Digital Tales"
Journal Article, Digital Studies/Le Champ Numerique
Author/Lead: Mehdy Sedaghat Payam
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Published by Canadian Society of Digital Humanities (2016).
Rehabilitation of Language, review of LOOK by Solmaz Sharif
Lit Pub has featured over 250 emerging and established authors,
Author/Lead: Emily Flamm
Dates:
Publisher: The Lit Pub
Publisher: The Lit Pub
They launched in 2011.
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“What We Talk About: Interview With Emily Flamm,” interview by Marléne Zadig
Carve was founded in 2000 to publish short stories online and has hosted the annual Raymond Carver Short Story
Author/Lead: Emily Flamm
Dates:
Publisher: Carve Magazine
Publisher: Carve Magazine
Print and digital quarterly issues began in 2012 and feature our signature HONEST FICTION, poetry, nonfiction, interviews, illustrations, and more. The editors, staff, and volunteers who help the magazine thrive are based all over the world.
Read More about “What We Talk About: Interview With Emily Flamm,” interview by Marléne Zadig