Faculty Member Michele Osherow received a Kauffman Entrepreneurial Grant to collaborate with UMBC’s Theatre Department and Imaging Research Center on a production of Shakespeare’s Pericles to be presented on campus this spring.
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Creative Writing faculty member Mike Fallon will be reading at the Baltimore Book Fair along with other MAC Fellowship winners in poetry at the Creative Cafe at Mount Vernon Place on September 25. The event runs from 5-7 and Mike be reading about 6:30.
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Associate Professor and Chair Jessica Berman was awarded a short-term fellowship at the Newberry Library. In June, she also gave a keynote address, "'You Then:' Three Guineas, The Spanish Civil War and the Challenge of Total War," at the International Conference on Virginia Woolf in New York.
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Faculty member Michele Osherow's work in Shakespeare Studies, including her works as the "resident dramaturg" at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC, is profiled in the summer edition of UMBC Magazine.
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Congratulations to Ryan Bloom, whose translation of Camus's Notebooks is one of five finalists for this year's Excellency in Translation Award from The French-American Foundation and The Florence Gould Foundation. Jurors for the award include: Linda Asher, Tom Bishop, Antoine Compagnon, Linda Coverdale, Richard Howard and Lily Tuck.
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Communication & Technology faculty member Helen Burgess' DVD-rom Biofutures: Owning Body Parts and Information, coauthored with Rob Mitchell and Phillip Thurtle, has received a positive review in Nature, one of the most prestigious journals in the sciences.
Read the full review here.
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Seth Sawyer, creative writing instructor, has published an opinion essay for the Baltimore Sun that voices his affection for Baltimore’s quirks, regardless of public perceptions. The column, “Viewpoint: Baltimore Doesn’t Need Me to Defend It,” ran Thursday, March 5.
Read the essay here.
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Creative writing faculty members Mike Fallon and Nicole Pekarske have received Individual Artist Fellowship Awards in Poetry from the Maryland State Arts Council.
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Faculty member Michele Osherow has produced a podcast on her production of The Winter's Tale currently playing at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Play the Podcast
A full description of the 2008-2009 Folger Theater Season is available here.
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Faculty member Christopher Corbett speaks on UMBC's YouTube channel about his book, Orphans Preferred.
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Faculty member Michael Fallon was a guest on the Maryland Public Television program "Direct Connection with Jeff Salkin." He joined a roundtable discussion Monday, January 19, 2009 regarding the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allen Poe.
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Creative writing faculty member Sally Shivnan has made the list of "Notable Travel Writing in 2008" in the new Best American Travel Writing (2008) anthology.
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