Faculty Member Dr. Lindsay DiCuirci Wins National Book Prize Bibliographical Soc. of America Awards Prize Every 3 Years Lindsay DiCuirci's book, Colonial Revivals: The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Early American Print (Penn Press, 2019) has been awarded the 2020 Bibliographical Society of America's St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize. This prize is awarded every three years to an outstanding work of scholarship in the bibliography of American history and literature. Dr. DiCuirci shares the award with Dr. Derrick Spires, associate professor of African-American literature and print culture at Cornell University, for his book The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States (Penn Press 2019).

Congratulations, Dr. DiCuirci!

For more information on the award, visit: https://bibsocamer.org/news/st-louis-mercantile-library-prize-winner-announced/


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According to Montgomery County Media, "Pang received a $1,000 grant, which he plans to use to film a documentary that brings light to financial issues in Montgomery County that he believes go unnoticed. He hopes that the exposure will raise money for county businesses and shelters that help students who struggle financially." Read the whole article here.

Pang was previously named the Washington Post Teacher of the Year in 2017.

Watch an interview with Pang on Fox 5 News (DC) here: https://www.fox5dc.com/video/643831
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Happy New Year 2020 from the UMBC English Department! Faculty and staff are preparing for another exciting semester in the spring.

The best way to keep up with our news and events is to follow UMBC English on myUMBC, Facebook, and Twitter (links below). You can support the department's work by sharing posts with friends and colleagues. Turn on notifications to make sure you don't miss an announcement!

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Engagement with our social media boosts awareness for all our activities, including faculty accomplishments, guest speakers, student events, information sessions, and department awards. Thank you for helping UMBC English increase its presence in our university and the world!


Do you have an announcement or event you would like to promote through UMBC English?

Contact Drew Holladay to plan a social media post. No time is too early to inform the department about your work in the spring semester! Drew is also happy to set up multiple reminder posts for events later in the semester, so that your message reaches as many people as possible.

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Today, Dr. Earl Brooks and MD senator Mary Washington will be speaking on "Rhetoric and Social Justice." The event will be held in the AOK Library Gallery at 4:00 PM. We hope to see you there!

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On Tuesday, November 26 Dr. Earl Brooks will be hosting Maryland state senator Mary Washington for a discussion about "Rhetoric and Social Justice." Just this week, Washington announced that she will be running for mayor of Baltimore. You can find a full description and the event flyer below.

If you're planning to attend, please mark "Going" on the Dresher Center's myUMBC page!
https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/dreshercenter/events/77415

For more information, please contact Dr. Earl Brooks at earlb@umbc.edu

From the Dresher Center:
State Senator Dr. Mary Washington (District 43, Baltimore City) will join Dr. Earl Brooks, the students of ENGL 300, and the greater UMBC community to discuss the intersection of rhetoric and social justice.

In 2010, Senator Washington made history when she became the first openly LGBTQ African-American elected official in Maryland – and only the second such state legislator in the country. In her seven-plus years in the House of Delegates since, she has distinguished herself as a leader fighting for affordable access to water, protecting families at risk of losing their homes to unfair tax sales and foreclosures, making sure Baltimore city schools get the fair and equitable funding they deserve and helping unaccompanied homeless youth get the services and support they need.

Senator Washington is currently a member of Women Legislators of Maryland and the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland and an Associate Member of the Latino Legislative Caucus. She is also a part-time faculty member at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and teaches public policy and sociology courses.


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If you're planning to attend, please mark "Going" on the Dresher Center's myUMBC page!
https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/dreshercenter/events/77415

For more information, please contact Dr. Earl Brooks at earlb@umbc.edu

From the Dresher Center:
State Senator Dr. Mary Washington (District 43, Baltimore City) will join Dr. Earl Brooks, the students of ENGL 300, and the greater UMBC community to discuss the intersection of rhetoric and social justice.

In 2010, Senator Washington made history when she became the first openly LGBTQ African-American elected official in Maryland – and only the second such state legislator in the country. In her seven-plus years in the House of Delegates since, she has distinguished herself as a leader fighting for affordable access to water, protecting families at risk of losing their homes to unfair tax sales and foreclosures, making sure Baltimore city schools get the fair and equitable funding they deserve and helping unaccompanied homeless youth get the services and support they need.

Senator Washington is currently a member of Women Legislators of Maryland and the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland and an Associate Member of the Latino Legislative Caucus. She is also a part-time faculty member at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and teaches public policy and sociology courses.


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Join us in the Dresher Center Wednesday Nov. 20 for "Currents: Humanities Work Now," where Corbin Jones will be discussing his current research. Corbin Jones, M.A. Candidate in the Text, Technologies, and Literature and the Dresher Center's Fall 2019 Graduate Student Research Fellow, will be delivering his talk, "ibn Batuta and the Fashioned Self Image." An abstract of the talk is copied below.

The event will begin at noon, following lunch served at 11:30 AM, in the Dresher Center Conference Room, PAHB 216.

ibn Batuta and the Fashioned Self Image

Corbin Jones, M.A. Candidate in the Text, Technologies, and Literatures Program; Fall 2019 Graduate Student Research Fellow

The 13th century Maghrebi judge and consummate scholar ibn Battuta can be known as witty, pious, cosmopolitan, and a bit egotistical through his travel writings, among them A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Traveling. Much of this image of the man comes from his own attempts to rhetorically define himself. The fascinating thing is that the self-image of the traveler is also fashioned by the people and things he encounters on his journey. As he seeks to display for his reader the breadth of his experience, what he truly represents is himself.

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Follow the link below to see dozens of professional photos of the 2019 Big Prize Poetry Slam! Congratulations again to the participants and winners!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/umbcalumni/albums/72157711464667692

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The session is on Sunday, November 3 at 12:00 PM at the Ivy Bookshop Stage, USM Columbus Center, 701 East Pratt St.

https://brilliantbaltimore.com/event/university-writers-program/

From the event website:
Baltimore is a city filled with remarkable universities and colleges, most of which include a vibrant creative writing program. We’re fortunate to have these hubs of creativity in our community. The University Writers’ Program, now in its fifth year, brings together student writers from a variety of area schools to share their work. The next generation of poets, fiction writers, and memoirists awaits you!

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This Friday, get engaged on campus through English department-related activities. Look over the list below and follow links for more information. We hope to see you there!
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This week, Lia Purpura will be joining an impressive lineup of authors at George Mason University's 21st annual Fall for the Book festival! See below for a press release from the festival with more info:

Fall for the Book returns for its 21st year with a star-studded lineup of headliners including essayist and novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, novelist Delia Owens, young adult novelist Rainbow Rowell, and true crime writer, David Grann. Featured writers are David Wallace-Wells presenting the Beck Environmental Lecture, Governor Terry McAuliffe, Senator Janet Howell, and more. The festival, which runs from October 10-12, 2019 will welcome a robust list of poets, historians, novelists, memoirists, children’s authors, YA writers and more at George Mason University’s Fairfax campus, and at locations around Northern Virginia. All festival events are free and open to the public.

Joining the lineup this year is Lia Purpura author of “All the Fierce Tethers”, who will be presenting on October 10, 3 pm, at Johnson Center, Meeting Room E.

The event, called “Life in Observation” focusing on writing about the complex relationships between one’s personal life and the natural environment.

About the author:
Lia Purpura is the author of eight collections of essays, poems, and translations. Her awards include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, NEA and Fulbright Fellowships and four Pushcard Prizes. On Looking (essays), was a Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poems and essays appear in the New Yorker, The New Republic, Orion, Emergence, and elsewhere. She lives in Baltimore, MD and is Writer in Residence at UMBC.


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