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Graduation Ceremony Spring 2015

Nine wonderful LLC students are now doctors!

Our sincere congratulations to a wonderful group of students who received their diplomas in today's Graduation Ceremony. It is a very special occasion for all the people (family, friends,...

Posted: May 20, 2015, 7:00 PM

Congratulations to our LLC's May Graduates

Graduation Ceremony 2015

Please join us in congratulating the following Language, Literacy and Culture students who will be receiving their Ph.D. diplomas during the graduation and hooding ceremony on Wednesday, May 20th,...

Posted: May 19, 2015, 3:43 PM

The LLC is on Facebook!

We invite the LLC community (especially to those who have active profiles on Facebook) to Like our page. http://www.facebook.com/llcumbc Similarly to what are are doing in the LLC Website,...

Posted: May 7, 2015, 9:44 PM

Part-time job opportunity for Graduate Students

Copy editor for 2015-2016 academic year

Job description   Dr. Denis Provencher, editor-in-chief of Contemporary French Civilization (published by Liverpool University Press), seeks a UMBC graduate student to fill a part-time position...

Posted: May 2, 2015, 4:50 PM

Course offer for Fall '15: LLC 672 Bilingualism

Instructor: Dr. Sarah Shin

LLC 672 Bilingualism This course deals with the ways in which people use two or more languages in everyday life, and begins with an overview of a broad range of social and political issues that...

Posted: April 30, 2015, 4:22 PM

Romy Hübler will receive Graduate Student of the Year Award

10th GSA Annual Awards Ceremony

The Language, Literacy and Culture community congratulates Romy Hübler for being selected as GSA's Graduate Student of the Year. Romy will receive the Jessica Soto-Perez award during the 10th...

Posted: April 27, 2015, 3:19 PM

Electracy: Gregory L. Ulmer's Textshop Experiments

Co-edited publication by Dr. Craig Saper

LLC Professor Craig Saper, with contributions to the manuscript preparation and index from LLC doctoral students Felix Burgos and Kevin Wisniewski, has co-edited and introduced a new book on...

Posted: April 26, 2015, 8:52 PM

Contributions from LLC members to academia

News about publications and conference presentations

One of the important activities of academic life is to actively participate in spaces where research is shared, discussed, and disseminated. These practices are represented in publications,...

Posted: April 9, 2015, 5:24 PM

LLC present in UMBC Presidential Faculty & Staff Awards

Congratulations to our faculty and alumni

The UMBC Presidential Awards  go to selected faculty and staff who have enormously contributed with their work and ideas to the university. We want to congratulate LLC Steering Committee...

Posted: March 24, 2015, 6:16 PM

Alum News: Corine Toomer (Cohort 9)

Corine Toomer, cohort 9, is overjoyed  to share with the LLC community the 3/20/15 arrival of her grand daughter, Avery Corine Harris. Her daughter, Davianne and son-in-law, Brandon live in...

Posted: March 23, 2015, 11:43 PM