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Lia Purpura, English, in the New Yorker

A poem by Lia Purpura, writer-in-residence in English, recently appeared in the “New Yorker.  “Beginning” was published on April 29 and can be read here.

Posted: April 30, 2013, 7:26 PM

Lindsay DiCuirci, English, Awarded Fellowship

Lindsay DiCuirci, assistant professor of English, has been selected as the Stephen Botein Fellow in the History of the Book in American Culture at the American Antiquarian Society. She will be...

Posted: April 30, 2013, 7:15 PM

Piotr Gwiazda in The Nation

An excerpt from Piotr Gwiazda’s translation of Grzegorz Wroblewski’s book of prose poems, Kopenhaga, scheduled for publication by Zephyr Press, is scheduled to appear in the April 1, 2013 issue of...

Posted: March 29, 2013, 3:35 PM

UMBC English in the Chronicle of Higher Education

The UMBC English department’s composition course redesign was recently profiled by the Chronicle of Higher Education. “In an age when many educators are promoting active learning by “flipping”...

Posted: March 26, 2013, 6:37 PM

Christopher Corbett, English, in the Washington Post

Christopher Corbett, professor of the practice of English, recently reviewed a new book about Davy Crockett for the Washington Post. In “Born on a Mountaintop,” author Bob Thompson visits sites...

Posted: March 26, 2013, 5:46 PM

Ryan Bloom, English, Awarded Fellowship

Ryan Bloom ’03, visual and performing arts, and English lecturer, was recently awarded a fellowship at Yaddo, an artists’ community in Saratoga Springs, New York. Yaddo’s mission is to nurture the...

Posted: March 21, 2013, 3:18 PM

Jessica Berman, English, Awarded Fellowship

Jessica Berman, professor of English, will spend the spring semester as a fellow at the Institute of Arts and Humanities (IAH) and a visiting Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the...

Posted: December 10, 2012, 8:08 PM

Jessica Berman, English, Gives Talk

Jesica Berman, professor of English, recently gave a talk at Vanderbilt University on entitled, “Documentary Interruptions: Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas and the Media of War.”  The talk was part...

Posted: November 8, 2012, 6:36 PM