Drew Holladay Speaking at June 10 Inclusive Language Event
Drew Holladay, assistant professor of English, will be making a presentation and leading discussion as part of UMBC's virtual event, "The Evolving World of Inclusive Language" on Wednesday, June 10. Holladay will be speaking at 11:00 AM on the topic, "Disability, Neurodiversity, and Practicing Inclusion."
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In addition to many undergraduate students in the English major, two students graduated this week from our Texts, Technologies & Literature MA program.
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Next week, Lindsay DiCuirci will be facilitating a conversation with faculty and staff about teaching online during the COVID-19 crisis. DiCuirci is the Humanities Teaching Lab director.
Thursday, May 14, 2020
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
On Webex
"An ever-growing list of resources has supported our online
teaching this spring during the COVID-19 crisis. Instead of offering
more tips or best practices, this Humanities Teaching Lab will focus on
the real hits and misses we’ve experienced over the last six weeks. The
discussion will offer a chance to reflect on what worked well, what
needed tweaking, and what flopped. We hope this HT Lab will serve as a
community conversation and shared learning opportunity to help us
recognize the aspects of teaching this semester that deserve to be used
even in a more normal semester and prepare, together, for potential
future online instruction."
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Chris Corbett, prolific journalist and Professor of the Practice in the English department for many years, has been awarded Emeritus faculty status by the university. Join us in congratulating...
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This Week: English Students Presenting at URCAD 2020
This year the Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD) will be hosted online, and many English students will make presentations about their compelling research. Find all their names in the list below and read summaries of their work under the Presenters tab on the
URCAD website.
Jonathan Acuna-Lopez | English
Seeing in Parts: Borderlands Consciousness in Bless Me, Ultima
Mentor: Sharon Tran
Kiara Bell | English
Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: Using Afrofuturist Theory to Examine Themes of Black Visibility
Mentor: Maleda Belilgne
Anna Hartman | English
Understanding Uprisings: Media Discourse and Maryland Race Uprisings (1845-2015)
Mentor: Lindsay DiCuirci
Anna Hartman | English
Timed Writing: Perfecting This Essential College-Readiness Skill
Mentor: Cheryl North
Ajay Kharkar | English
Developing More Effective Tutoring Strategies for Multilingual Writers in the Writing Center
Mentor: Elaine MacDougall
Tanya Ramsey | English
Peer Education Impacts on Student Outcomes: A Case Study from the UMBC McNair Scholars Program
Mentor: Elaine MacDougall
Tiwalade Topia | English
Poems About Homes
Mentor: Lia Purpura
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McKinley Essay on Boccaccio and Coronavirus Pandemic
Published on international journalism forum The Conversation
Professor Kate McKinley discusses similarities between responses to the coronavirus pandemic and Boccaccio's accounts of the Black Plague on the international journalism forum, The Conversation.
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Are you looking for some motivation and guidance to process our unique and troubling times through writing? Author Suleika Jaouad recently initiated The Isolation Journals, which sends free writing prompts to participants each day April 1 to May 1. Jaouad modeled The Isolation Journals on a project she undertook while in isolation for leukemia treatment, committing to "a small creative act" each day for 100 days.
As she writes, “The goal of this is not to write the next King Lear or to churn out publishable masterpieces. It’s an opportunity to pause, take a few moments to exhale and reflect, and to expand our creativity as a community during this extremely challenging time.” Anyone can join and receive daily prompts by email like this one:
Write a travel journal entry from your home, could be your living room, could be your bed. Write as though you’ve just arrived in a new place (because, in many ways, you have) and what you’re observing about the place and how you feel in it. Write what you see, hear, and touch, as though it’s all brand new. What are you learning about yourself in this different land, with all its deprivations? If you’d like to turn this into a visual entry, draw a map complete with notes about this foreign land’s customs, rituals, and routines.
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UMBC students have been writing about their experiences during the coronavirus/COVID-19 crisis, and you can find three of their essays below from the Baltimore Sun and The Retriever, UMBC's student newspaper supported by the English department.
"As the deaths rack up, we must remember that the numbers are people. They deserved to live. And the only thing you and I can do is stay inside. We do not have to wait for the leadership that will not come and has not supported us for a long time. There is no time to waste. And though I didn’t know Professor Berger personally, as the death count rises, by the end of this, I’m sure I will know someone who has died from this pandemic. Possibly even another UMBC community member."
"Discovering that you suddenly have cancer at 22 is already painful enough on its own. I was feeling completely fine except for the occasional unexplained bruise or nosebleed, so the shock of this diagnosis came from nowhere and with absolutely no warning. I have been trying desperately to cope with the fact that everything I wanted to do with my life has to be put on halt as I undergo daily chemotherapy for months on end, but it has been all the more impossible with no one here to support me. ...What I hope to say here is that even though this is a truly horrific time for all of us, please try to remember that we at least have each other. While the coronavirus is destroying plans and forcing people to change their lives, please remember that there is value in having a community, even if it is at a distance."
"9:03 p.m.: This is real. This is happening. This is really happening.
Brighton has felt like Brighton all day
long, more or less: though COVID-19 is looming, everyone you’ve seen in
town has been moving about as if the world isn’t caving in. But you have
not felt like you all day long. The weight of the dwindling time you
have left (39 hours now!) keeps crashing over you like waves against the
Palace Pier.
Tonight, your friends from the UoB Musical
Theatre Society threw you a goodbye party. Now you and your friends are
heading to the bus stop, and you know this is goodbye, and you’re not
ready. Everyone is grinning, and most people are singing, and a few
others are hugging you. The wave crashes and you can’t fight it off this
time. Soon enough you’re sobbing through the streets, overflowing with
gratitude and grief.
You’re not ready to leave them or this beautiful place. But you have to."
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