Congratulations, Gail!

Read the full review here: https://www.inquirer.com/arts/books/joan-of-arc-english-imagination-gail-orgelfinger-20190719.html

Congratulations Dr. Shipka!

Learn more about the award here: 

This summer, Michele Osherow has served as resident dramaturg for the Folger Theatre, part of the public programming division of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.. She has contributed to over thirty productions on the Folger stage, where she as also performed as an actor. The current Folger production of Shakespeare's early comedy Love's Labor's Lost is directed by Vivienne Benesch. The run was extended through June 16.

Follow the links below to see her dramaturg's notes for Love's Labor's Lost and some photos from the production! 

The event will run from 7:00-9:00 PM at Loyalty Books, 827 Upshur St NW, Washington, District of Columbia 20011. 

Congratulations, Anna!

English faculty member Dr. Keegan Cook Finberg has published a new chapbook of poems titled The Thought of Preservation with Ursus Americanus Press. The publisher describes the book below:

"What is the language of displacement? Where does it begin? Is it a language of forgetting? Is its action intentional? Keegan Cook Finberg’s The Act of Preservation uses the source language of neighborhood classifieds to uncover and disclose the sinister gentrification of one of Nashville, TN’s most historic neighborhoods. A kind of erasure to implicate erasure, Finberg opens the voice of white mobility to its ugliest intention, unmasking what is often written off as either simply innocuous or ignorant. The Thought of Preservation is inherently tragedy, its subject cannot be redeemed, the battle was lost. It does, however, provide a text of experience, of warning, of incipient siege."

Find out more and order the book at the publisher's website:

Congratulations to Dr. Smith! The department is grateful for your service and representation.

UMBC English Department faculty member Dr. Jessica Berman has been named the Lipitz Professor of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences for 2019-2020. This professorship is supported by an endowment created by Roger C. Lipitz and the Lipitz Family Foundation "to recognize and support innovative and distinguished teaching and research in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County."

As the Lipitz Professor, Dr. Berman will work on her current book project, Media Relations: Modernism and Global Radio. In this project, she studies global radio environments and the power of media to create complex transnational and often interlinguistic relationships. A truly global undertaking, Media Relations will connect voices, languages, literatures, and music from India to the Caribbean and from Argentina and Peru to Francophone West Africa. 

Dr. Berman is the author of four books, including Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics of Community and Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism, and twenty-two articles and chapters. She is also editor of the scholarly edition of Purdah and Polygamy by Iqbalunnisa Hussain, one of the first novels in English written by a Muslim woman, and of Wiley-Blackwell’s A Companion to Virginia Woolf.

Congratulations to Dr. Berman for this honor!