Washington Independent Review of Books Reviews Shivnan On September 14, 2016, the Washington Independent Review of Books published Dorothy Reno's stunning review of Senior Lecturer Sally Shivnan's Piranhas & Quicksand & Love--what Reno describes as "[a]n outstanding collection of tales about the pitfalls and rewards of human connection." In this review, Reno encourages readers to "[r]ead this book to savor its beautiful language, to drink in its gentle defiance. Piranhas & Quicksand & Love calls readers to ride the waves of a sea besieged by predatory behavior and natural disaster. To sail on, nevertheless, toward love." Her review reveals what we, at the English Department, have always known: that Sally Shivnan is a wonderful talent with a resonant image of the world. To read the entire review, look at http://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/piranhas-quicksand-love-stories.

Shivnan's collection of stories is scheduled to launch Thursday, September 15, at 7:00 PM at the Ivy Bookshop, located at 6080 Falls Road in Baltimore, MD. She will also be reading from her work on Saturday at the English Department's Open House. Please join us for these exciting events.
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Biographical Statement: Sally Shivnan’s fiction and essays have appeared in The Georgia Review, Antioch Review, Glimmer Train, Rosebud, and other journals as well as in anthologies including The Best American Travel Writing and Travelers’ Tales Best Travel Writing. Her travel essays have been featured in The Washington Post, Miami Herald, Nature Conservancy Magazine, Washingtonian, Saturday Evening Post, baltimore.org, and many other publications and websites. She broadcasts her bi-weekly “Prose and Poetry” radio program for blind listeners via the Radio Reading Network of Maryland, available for streaming. She was the winner of the 2011 Travel Classics International Travel Writers Contest and a Maryland State Arts Council grant, among other awards.
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Corbett, who has followed the trials closely, writes, "Freddie Gray died in an encounter with the Baltimore Police Department that remains unexplained and unexplainable. Now that all charges against the six police officers involved were dropped on Wednesday, it may remain so forever." His full article can be accessed at http://fortune.com/2016/07/30/freddie-gray-murder-baltimore and is an excellent read--part of our continued commitment to bridging the gap between English and today's constantly evolving world.   ]]> Professor of the Practice, Christopher Corbett, has published an article with Reuters entitled, "In a City of Unsolved Murders, Freddie Gray's is Now One More," in response to the recent trials of... http://fortune.com/2016/07/30/freddie-gray-murder-baltimore/ https://my3.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/61259/guest@my.umbc.edu/03e969f9a08e2bbf3fdade74801c6a0a/api/pixel English https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/english https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/404/215b64d69046dea9cf81553763cecc92/xsmall.png?1558019391 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/404/215b64d69046dea9cf81553763cecc92/original.jpeg?1558019391 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/404/215b64d69046dea9cf81553763cecc92/xxlarge.png?1558019391 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/404/215b64d69046dea9cf81553763cecc92/xlarge.png?1558019391 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/404/215b64d69046dea9cf81553763cecc92/large.png?1558019391 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/404/215b64d69046dea9cf81553763cecc92/medium.png?1558019391 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/404/215b64d69046dea9cf81553763cecc92/small.png?1558019391 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/404/215b64d69046dea9cf81553763cecc92/xsmall.png?1558019391 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/404/215b64d69046dea9cf81553763cecc92/xxsmall.png?1558019391 English https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/061/259/a9513794976ae2fdfc0aaf398dd5b08e/xxlarge.jpg?1469977229 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/061/259/a9513794976ae2fdfc0aaf398dd5b08e/xlarge.jpg?1469977229 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/061/259/a9513794976ae2fdfc0aaf398dd5b08e/large.jpg?1469977229 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/061/259/a9513794976ae2fdfc0aaf398dd5b08e/medium.jpg?1469977229 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/061/259/a9513794976ae2fdfc0aaf398dd5b08e/small.jpg?1469977229 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/061/259/a9513794976ae2fdfc0aaf398dd5b08e/xsmall.jpg?1469977229 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/061/259/a9513794976ae2fdfc0aaf398dd5b08e/xxsmall.jpg?1469977229 1 0 true Sun, 31 Jul 2016 11:06:24 -0400 Sun, 31 Jul 2016 11:06:39 -0400 Exciting Summer 2016 English Courses
March 21st marked the opening of registration for summer courses here at UMBC and the English Department has a number of exciting offerings for your consideration. This is a great opportunity to fulfill a general education requirement, to take an elective, or to explore your interests in the wonderful world of the word, so take a look at the options below, and we look forward to seeing you in May or July for an electrifying summer session. Please see the attached flyer for more information.

ENGL 100: Composition
  • Tu/Th from 1:00 PM-4:10 PM with Carol Fitzpatrick (5/31-7/8)
  • Tu/Th from 9:00 AM-12:10 PM with Mitzi Mabe (7/11-8/19)
ENGL 190: The World of Language I
  • Tu/Th from 1:00 PM-4:10 PM with Thomas Field (5/31-7/8)
ENGL 271: Introduction to Creative Writing--Fiction*
  • Tu/Th from 1:00 PM-4:10 PM with Sally Shivnan (7/11-8/19)*
ENGL 272: Introduction to Creative Writing--Scriptwriting
  • Tu/Th from 6:00 PM-9:10 PM with John Carillo (5/31-7/8)
ENGL 348: Literature and Culture
  • Tu/Th from 6:00 PM-9:10 PM with Jeanine Hurley (5/31-7/8)
ENGL 393: Technical Communication
  • M/W from 6:00 PM-9:10 PM with Timothy Nelson (5/31-7/8)
  • Tu/Th from 1:00 PM-4:10 PM with Elaine MacDougall (7/11-8/19)
Classes labeled with an asterisk meet online on Thursdays.

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At 3:00 PM on Saturday, April 16th, she will be reading some of her work alongside other noted writers as part of The Loch Raven Review showcase. Then, at 4:00 PM, she will be co-hosting the New Mercury readings, including Mary Valle and Mia Loving. Please come out and support these events and any of the number of amazing offerings (see the attached program) that CityLit has put together this year, as we work together to nurture the culture of literature in the city. ]]> The time has arrived once again for the CityLit Festival (scheduled from April 15th through the 16th) and our own Professor of the Practice, Deborah Rudacille, will participating in two exciting... 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Student work is shared through oral presentations, posters, artistic exhibits and performances, and film, and we are so proud to have our students participate again this year. Congratulations to the following students and their faculty mentors; we look forward to hearing your presentations and celebrating your exciting new work.

Poster Presentations

"Storyboarding the Creative Process: An Interdisciplinary Look into the Collaborative Production of Bartleby"
Student(s): Daniela Mujica-Martorell, Alison Kreckmann, and Lindsay Glang
Mentor(s): Ms. Sally Shivnan and Ms. Guenet Abraham
UC Ballroom, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

"Increasing Students' Writing Skills through Research-Based Practices"
Student(s): Cindy Arevalo
Mentor(s): Dr. Cheryl North
UC Ballroom, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM 

"Improving Argumentative Writing in Co-taught Tenth-Grade English"
Student(s): Lynne Deckel
Mentor(s): Dr. Cheryl North
UC Ballroom, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM

"Improving Literature Analysis Skills in a Grade 11 English Classroom"

Student(s): Caitlin Dea
Mentor(s): Dr. Cheryl North  
UC Ballroom, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM 

"Improving Students' Abilities to Summarize and Speak Publicly"
Student(s): Sierra Reeb
Mentor(s): Dr. Cheryl North  
UC Ballroom, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM 

Oral Presentations

"Cracked Messiah: Parody and Parable in Kurt Vonnegut's Troutean Novels"
Student(s): Sarah Spicer
Mentor(s): Dr. Piotr Gwiazda
UC 312, 1:15 PM

"Mill Girls in Nineteenth-Century Print:
Student(s): Brittney Kramer, Elizabeth Chen, and Alexa Abee
Mentor(s): Dr. Lindsay DiCuirci  
UC 312, 1:30 PM 

"Nuture Their Growth: Non-Traditional Women Students at UMBC"
Student(s): Imani Spence
Mentor(s): Ms. Deborah Rudacille  
UC 312, 1:45 PM 

"Negative Modernism: Djuna Barnes, Theodor Adorno, and the Problem of Nightwood"
Student(s): Archie Slade
Mentor(s): Dr. Jessica Berman  
UC 312, 2:00 PM 

"By Ear: Hearing Poems into Being"
Student(s): Emily Grace
Mentor(s): Ms. Lia Purpura  
UC 312, 2:15 PM 

"Seamus Heaney's Strange Fruit, Billie Holiday, and the Bog People"
Student(s): Jackie Airhart
Mentor(s): Mr. Michael Fallon  
UC 312, 3:00 PM

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  • Abdul Ali, poetry
  • Chris Kojzar, visual art
  • Michael Fallon, poetry
  • Ailish Hopper, poetry
  • Jean McGarry, fiction
  • Paul Rucker, cello
  • curated by Amanda Fiore

Michael Fallon has taught creative writing, literature, and composition at UMBC since 1985. Fallon has edited the literary magazines Puerto del Sol (1980-81) and the Maryland Poetry Review (1984-91) of which he was founding editor. Poems have appeared in the American Scholar, the Antietam Review, Sin Fronteras, the Oyez Review, and many other literary magazines, CDs, anthologies, and broadcasts on WYPR’s The Signal and other public radio programs. Essays, reviews, and articles have appeared in the Maryland English Journal, Lite Magazine, the Loch Raven Review, and other magazines. He is the author of three collections of poetry: A History of the Color Black, published by Dolphin-Moon Press in 1991; Since You Have No Body, winner of the Plan B Press Poetry Chapbook Competition and published in 2011; and The Great Before and After, published by BrickHouse Books in 2011. His book of poems, House of Forgotten Names, was accepted by Salmon Press or Ireland and will be published in 2017.

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Lia Purpura’s new collection of poems, It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful (Penguin/Viking), was published in October 2015. She is the author of three previous collections of poems (King Baby,Stone Sky Lifting, and The Brighter the Veil); three collections of essays (Rough Likeness, On Looking, and Increase), and one collection of translations (Poems of Grzegorz Musial: Berliner Tagebuch and Taste of Ash). A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (for On Looking), she has is the Writer-in-Residence at UMBC and has also been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, a Fulbright Foundation Fellowship (Translation, Warsaw, Poland), three Pushcart Prizes, a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, and multiple residencies and fellowships at the MacDowell Colony.

Tanya Olson lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, and is a lecturer in English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Her first book, Boyishly, was published by YesYes Books in 2013 and was awarded a 2014 American Book Award. She has also won the Discovery/Boston Review prize and was named a Lambda Emerging Writers Fellow by the Lambda Literary Foundation. Her poem "54 Prince" was included in The Best American Poetry 2015.
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During her time here at UMBC, Bradtke graduated summa cum laude in Asian Studies, History, and English with a minor in Chinese. She will continue to use these skills in her role with ASPI as she "assists in coordinating ASPI's operations and events, while providing program and research support for the Institute's projects." Congratulations again to Molly for this notable achievement and for showing the world the types of accomplishments that an English education at UMBC can bring. To read more about Bradtke, please visit the ASPI website at: http://asiasociety.org/policy-institute/molly-bradtke. ]]> The English Department would like to offer congratulations to Molly Bradtke, '14, for being named a program associate with the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI). 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The event, sponsored by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and Design, Cultures, and Creative (DCC) program at the University of Maryland, College Park, encouraged students to consider critically the sounds that we experience in our daily encounters. Recently, this project was highlighted by UMBC News in an extended story outlining the dining event and conversation of sonic research in which Dr. Ceraso is a valuable part. 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