Guest Speaker: Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Guest Speaker: Mark Hyman
Mark Hyman, author of the book Until It Hurts: America's Obsession with Youth Sports and How It Harms Our Kids – to be published by Beacon Press in April – will speak at UMBC on April 22 (Wednesday) at noon.
Hyman is a veteran sports writer who covers the business of sports for BusinessWeek magazine. He is also the author of Confessions of a Baseball Purist, with ESPN baseball broadcaster Jon Miller. Hyman’s writing about sports and American popular culture has appeared in publications ranging from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times to Sports Illustrated, TV Guide, Best Life and Child Magazine. He is also heard on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” commenting on sports.
Hyman has worked for several of America’s largest daily newspapers as a sports writer – including The Baltimore Sun, The Baltimore News American, The Dallas Times Herald, The Philadelphia Bulletin and The Norfolk Ledger-Star. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Maryland School of Law.
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Guest Speaker: Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Guest Speaker: Novelist Elise Levine
Location: 4:00 pm in AOK Library 7th Floor
A presentation of the English Department and the Dresher Center for the Humanities.
The author of the story collection Driving Men Mad and the novel Requests and Dedications, Levine was named by Margaret Atwood as one of Canada’s most important emerging women writers. Reviewers have called her “a cutting-edge literary sensation” and “a sensitive, cagey dominatrix of literary form and human psychology.” She is the recipient of a (Canadian) National Magazine Award for fiction as well as numerous awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council.
Levine will also hold a master class with a small group of students at 12 noon—students interested in this opportunity should contact Sally Shivnan (shivnan@umbc.edu).
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Faculty Colloquium Series: Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Faculty Speaker: Carole Stewart
Title: "Civil Religion, Revolutionary Hiatus and Public Space"
Location: 12pm in Fine Arts 440
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Guest Speaker: Thursday, March 26, 2009
Guest Speaker: Christophe Casamassima
Location: 6:00pm in FA 440
Author of two books of poems, The Proteus (Moria Books) and Joys: A Catalogue of Disappointments (BlazeVOX), as well as editor at Baltimore-based publishing house Furniture Press, Christophe Casamassima will give a talk on writing and publishing. All are welcome.
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Department Speakers' Series: Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Guest Speaker: Novelist Michael Kimball
Title: Reading from "Dear Everybody"
Location: 4:00pm in Commons 331
Michael Kimball's third novel, Dear Everybody, was recently published in the US, UK, and Canada. His first two novels are The Way the Family Got Away (2000) and How Much of Us There Was (2005), both of which have been translated (or are being translated) into many languages. He is also responsible for the art project--Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a postcard)--and the documentary film, I Will Smash You. Michael lives in Baltimore.
Of Dear Everybody, the LA Times says: "There is a whole life contained in this slim novel, a life as funny and warm and sad and heartbreaking as any other, rendered with honest complexity and freshness by Kimball's sharp writing." Following the reading, Kimball will answer questions and sign books, and light refreshments will be served. For more info, go to http://www.michael-kimball.com.
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Department Speakers' Series: Tuesday, February 10
, 2009
Guest Speaker: Sandy Baldwin, West Virginia University
Title: "Logging in and getting off: login, labor, and literature at the interface of the digital subject"
Location: 2:30pm in UC 310
Sandy Baldwin's work imagines the future of literary studies in a digital age. As coordinator of the Center for Literary Computing at West Virginia University, he facilitates interdisciplinary research projects in the poetics of new media and the media ecology of literary institutions, using web-technologies, multimedia, hypertext, audio/video, and virtual environments. Sandy's scholarly work explores media technologies as rhetorical and aesthetic objects, asking how media structure our thought and experience. His particular focus is on continuities and borrowings between literary theory and theories of digital multimedia. Current research areas include: net art as a literary genre, avant-garde writing as a precursor of multimedia, the narrativity of computer games, and the cultural implications of nanotechnology.
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2nd Annual Korenman Lecture: Monday, November 17, 2008
Speaker: Nancy Armstrong, Professor of English, Duke University
Title: "Gender Must Be Defended"
Location: 4:30 pm, AOK Library
Presented by the Gender and Women's Studies Program and co-sponsored by the English Department and the Dresher Center for the Humanities.
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Faculty Colloquium Series: Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Speaker: Julie Donovan
Title: "Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) and the Politics of Style"
Location: 12:00pm in Fine Arts 440
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