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<Title>Tomorrow: Celebrate Four English Faculty at the Dresher Center/CAHSS Book Publication Celebration</Title>
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    <p>Join us Wednesday afternoon to celebrate four English faculty and other CAHSS colleagues for their recently published books! The Dresher Center is hosting a CAHSS Book Celebration May 6 from 4:30-6:00 PM in PAHB 216. Light refreshments will be served. </p>
    <p>Congratulations to all for this monumental achievement!</p>
    <p>English faculty:</p>
    <p><em>Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public </em>(Columbia University Press)<br>By<strong> Keegan Cook Finberg</strong><br>Assistant Professor, English</p>
    <p><em>Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Life Writing, and the Victorian Nomad </em>(Routledge Press)<br>By<strong> Jean Fernandez</strong><br>Professor, English</p>
    <p><em>Romanticism Bewitched: Witchcraft, Revolution and the Female Demonic<br></em>(Cambridge University Press)<br>By<strong> Orianne Smith</strong><br>Professor, English<br><br><em>Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of U.S. Empire </em>(University of Minnesota Press)<br>By<strong> Sharon Tran</strong><br>Assistant Professor, English</p>
    
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    <strong>Dresher Center/CAHSS Book</strong> Celebration</h3>
    <h4>Celebrating Humanities Books from 2025-2026</h4>
    <p><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/dreshercenter/events?mode=upcoming" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Wednesday, May 6, 2026</a> · 4:30 - 6 PM</p>
    <p><strong>In-Person</strong> · <a href="https://maps.google.com/?t=k&amp;z=18&amp;q=Performing%20Arts%20%26%20Humanities%20Building@39.2552564,-76.7152096" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Performing Arts &amp; Humanities Building : 216</a></p>
    
    <h5><strong>List of Faculty books:<br><br></strong></h5>
    <p><em>Let Us Alone: The Origins of Baltimore's Police State </em>(University of Illinois Press)<em><br></em>By<strong> Michael Casiano</strong><br>Assistant Professor, American Studies<br><br><em>Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public </em>(Columbia University Press)<br>By<strong> Keegan Cook Finberg</strong><br>Assistant Professor, English<br><br><em>Double Feature </em>(Saint Lucy Books)<br>By<strong> Mark Alice Durant</strong><br>Professor, Visual Arts</p>
    <p><em>Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Life Writing, and the Victorian Nomad </em>(Routledge Press)<br>By<strong> Jean Fernandez</strong><br>Professor, English</p>
    <p><em>Rebuilding New Orleans: Immigrant Laborers and Street Food Vendors in the Post-Katrina Era </em>(University of North Carolina Press)<br>By<strong> Sarah Fouts</strong><br>Associate Professor, American Studies<br><strong><br></strong><em>Empathy Machines: This American Life, Podcasting and the Public Radio Structure of Feeling </em>(Bloomsbury Publishing)<br>By<strong> Jason Loviglio</strong><br>Professor, Media and Communication Studies<br><br><em>Across Canons: Language, Latin American Immigrant Literature, and the Making of Latinx Narratives</em> (University of Arizona Press)<br>By<strong> Thania Muñoz</strong><br>Associate Professor, Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication<em><br></em></p>
    <p><em>Auteur-Publishers: Small Press Practices as Avant-Garde Writing </em>(Edinburgh University Press)<br>By<strong> Craig Saper</strong><br>Professor, Language, Literacy, and Culture<em><br><br>Amos Badertscher Images and Stories </em>(Phaidon)<br>Edited by<strong> Beth Saunders</strong><br>Associate Director and Curator of Special Collections, Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery<br><br><em>Romanticism Bewitched: Witchcraft, Revolution and the Female Demonic<br></em>(Cambridge University Press)<br>By<strong> Orianne Smith</strong><br>Professor, English<br><br><em>Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of U.S. Empire </em>(University of Minnesota Press)<br>By<strong> Sharon Tran</strong><br>Assistant Professor, English</p>
    <p><strong><em>Light refreshments will be served</em></strong><strong></strong></p>
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