Faculty, Students to Present at International Conference
New Chaucer Society Congress, July 2020 in Durham, England
English faculty Dr. Kate McKinley and two English students, Corbin Jones and Joe Smith, will be presenting papers at the New Chaucer Society Congress in Durham, England in July 2020. The New Chaucer Society "provides a forum for teachers
and scholars of Geoffrey Chaucer and his age" and "organizes biennial international congresses of Chaucerians" to promote such study. Congratulations to Dr. McKinley, Corbin, and Joe!
Kate McKinley will be presenting a paper, "Refuge, Space, and Problems of Atemporality in
Pearl” on the panel "Time."
Corbin Jones (M.A. program) will be presenting a paper, "John
Mandeville, ibn Battuta, and the Marvelous in 14th Century Travel
Writing " on a Mandeville panel. Corbin has also received a fall 2019
Dresher Center graduate student fellowship for his thesis research on
the travels of ibn Battuta, a 14th century Moroccan judge.
Joe Smith (BA/MA program) will be presenting a paper, "Trauma, Wounding, and Voice in the Tale of Melibee" on a panel on disability.
You can also
support the English department by engaging through
our social media pages on Facebook and Twitter:
Each year, Banned Books Week aims at celebrating our freedom
to read and to engage with the wealth of information--some considered taboo or
transgressive--that diversifies our perspectives and prepares us for active
citizenship in an ever-evolving world. This year, Banned Books Week encourages
us to "Keep the Light On" by engaging with this material critically
but also by understanding the potential ramifications of censorship in our
society.
Come join Dr. Christopher Varlack (INDS and the Honors
College) and Jeremy Weiner (INDS) on October 9, 2019 from 11:30 AM to
1:00 PM for an exciting and informative discussion, free food,
trivia, games, and more as we work to ensure that we are not left in the
dark. The discussion portion of the event will begin promptly at 12:00
PM.
This event is co-sponsored by the Honors College; the
Individualized Study Program; the Department of English; the College of
Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; and the Albin O. Kuhn Library.
You can also
support the English department by engaging through
our social media pages on Facebook and Twitter:
Tanya Olson will be reading poetry, including selections from her 2019 book Stay, at the Central Library Creative Arts Center on Wednesday, September 25. The "Poetry & Conversation" event begins at 6:30 PM and also includes reading from two other area poets, Jona Colson and Edgar Kunz.
You can also
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Read New Essays from Earl Brooks and Keegan Cook Finberg
English faculty members Earl Brooks and Keegan Cook Finberg have recently published new essays. Follow the links below to read their work!
Earl Brooks published "Charles Mingus, Rotary Perception, and the 'Fables of Faubus'” on Sounding Out!: The Sound Studies Blog. Brooks writes, "'Fables,' as well as the album on which it appears, Mingus Ah Um,
invites questions about the sonics of racism in public and private
spheres. Racism oscillates between modes of silence and silencing
(unjust systemic processes, othering, isolation), subtle vibrations
(micro-aggressions), as well as piercing, cacophonous noise that is as
disorienting as it is terrifying. In many ways, this moment made audible
(and public) the noise of racism so often confined to the personal
encounters of African Americans with white institutions and Jim Crow
segregation."
Keegan Cook Finberg published a review of Juliana Spahr’s new book,
Du Bois’s Telegram: Literary Resistance and State Containment, "What Has Literature Ever Done for You?," in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
“Can we celebrate the potentiality of literary works — even activate them through scholarship — while also remaining attentive to larger structures and social formations that work to neutralize or redirect that potential?”
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Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:01:02 -0400
English Faculty Lia Purpura Reading at Enoch Pratt Library
September 26, 6:30 PM, Enoch Pratt Library, Baltimore
On Thursday September 26, UMBC English
faculty Lia Purpura will be reading at Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore, 6:30 PM. Come and hear selections from her new book, All the Fierce
Tethers!
Sarabande Books describes All the Fierce Tethers: “With
fierce intellectual and emotional vulnerability, these essays look hard
at both ruin and radiance, the violence of materialism, and the sacred
nature of sustained perception. Purpura has been a finalist for the
National Book Critics Circle Award, a Guggenheim Fellow, and four time
Pushcart Prize winner."
Purpura's other fall readings include appearances at the “Fall for the
Book Festival” at George Mason University (October 10, 3:00 PM, Johnson
Center third floor) and Visiting Writer at MICA (October 17).
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DEADLINE EXTENDED: Big Prize Poetry Slam
Big Prize Poetry Slam entry deadline EXTENDED to Friday 9/20!
You have a few more days to enter UMBC's annual BIG SLAM! By the end of this
FRIDAY 9/20, email a print and a video version of no more than 5 minutes of original
poetry to
HomecomingSlam@gmail.com. Entries will be judged on
Poetic Effects / Compelling Content / Performance, and all styles are welcome.
All UMBC students and Alumni are eligible. $200 Grand 1st Place Prize. Prizes for 2nd and 3rd Place!
The Slam happens October 11, 6:00-8:00 pm in the ground-floor Atrium of PAHB. The event is free! Refreshments will be served!
Questions? Contact us at
HomecomingSlam@gmail.com.
Via the Dresher Center, where you can RSVP for the event: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/dreshercenter/events/73475
A Beloved Reading of Toni Morrison
September 18, 12:00-1:30
AOK Library Rotunda
The Dresher Center for the Humanities at UMBC and the Department of English invite you to honor and remember the life of author and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison with a "read-in."
The first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature,
in 1993, Toni Morrison was the author of 11 novels as well as children’s
books and essay collections. Among them were celebrated works like Song
of Solomon, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in
1977, and Beloved, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. Toni Morrison died at the age of 88 on August 5, 2019.
You are invited to read a short selection from a Morrison work or just come to listen.
To volunteer as a reader, please contact Courtney C. Hobson, Dresher Center Coordinator, at chobson1@umbc.edu.
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Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:53:30 -0400
TODAY: TTL Graduate Student Reception at Noon
Graduate faculty and graduate students in the Texts,
Technologies, and Literature MA program are invited to a reception in
PAHB 428. Lunch will be served. Core faculty are also warmly invited.
Come and help us welcome the new cohort of graduate students into our community!
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Mon, 16 Sep 2019 08:20:12 -0400
Enter UMBC's BIG PRIZE POETRY SLAM and win BIG!
Time to SLAM BIG and WIN BIG!
It's the 7th Annual BIG PRIZE POETRY SLAM at UMBC's 2019 HOMECOMING!
$200 Grand 1st Place Prize. Prizes for 2nd and 3rd Place.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 6:00-8:00 pm in the ground-floor Atrium of PAHB. The event is free! Refreshments will be served!
TO AUDITION, submit a print and a video version of NO MORE
than 5 minutes of original poetry to HomecomingSlam@gmail.com by
September 17. Entries will be judged on their Poetic Effects / Compelling Content / Performance.
All UMBC students and Alumni are eligible.
Questions? Contact us at HomecomingSlam@gmail.com.
Sponsored by the UMBC Homecoming Committee, the Department of English, and Bartleby, UMBC’s creative arts journal.
You can also support the English department by engaging through our social media pages on Facebook and Twitter:
Dr. Margie Burns, English department part-time faculty, published a co-edited collection earlier this year with Universitas Press titled The Female Precariat: Gender and Contingency in the Professional Workforce. As the publisher's website states, "the purpose of this book is to explain the U.S. higher education
precariat and the digital precariat to the world at large, and to
document with overwhelming evidence that the precariat in higher
education and in the Internet economy disproportionately involves women."
Congratulations to Dr. Burns on this important and timely book!
You can also support the English department by engaging through our social media pages on Facebook and Twitter:
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