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“For major league baseball fans in Washington, it’s been 79 years of waiting for another postseason appearance. The last time they made it to the playoffs, Herbert Hoover was just leaving the...
Posted: October 5, 2012, 7:26 PM
On July 20th, the Virginia radio program BackStory With the American History Guys tackled the history of postal delivery in America in an episode entitled “You’ve Got Mail: A History of the Post...
Posted: July 24, 2012, 2:12 PM
For Father’s Day 2012, The Baltimore Sun published an essay written by alumnus Seth Sawyers ’99, history, entitled “Driving with Dad.” Sawyers, who teaches essay writing for the English...
Posted: June 20, 2012, 6:38 PM
The zombie trend continues to spread across the pop cultural landscape and shows little sign of slowing down. Speaking with The Baltimore Sun‘s John-John Williams IV for a June 9 story entitled...
Posted: June 11, 2012, 7:18 PM
In aJune 5 article entitled “What’s the Buzz? Beehives Burgeon in Baltimore Backyards,” Rachel Wilkinson, adjunct professor of English, recently reported on the local beekeeping community for the...
Posted: June 11, 2012, 3:04 PM
The never-ending battle between advocates of the prescriptive and descriptive schools of language was touched off in the last few weeks, starting with a May 14 article in The New Yorker titled...
Posted: June 5, 2012, 8:18 PM
Piotr Gwiazda, associate professor of English, read at the Walters Arts Museum on March 10 as part of the Smartish Pace Reading Series. A video of his reading appears below....
Posted: May 31, 2012, 8:28 PM
On saturday, April 14, Michael Fallon, senior lecturer of English, read at Baltimore’s City Lit festival. Below is a video of his reading....
Posted: May 31, 2012, 8:26 PM
The Department of English is pleased to announce that Deborah Rudacille, will join the department as a visiting professor of the practice this fall. A 1998 science writing graduate of Johns...
Posted: May 31, 2012, 1:54 PM
English lecturer Ryan Bloom was recently published on the New Yorker’s “Page-Turner” blog. His post, “Lost in Translation: What the First Line of ‘The Stranger’ Should Be” discusses the first...
Posted: May 22, 2012, 7:36 PM