News

Of Note: Karsonya Wise Whitehead '09

Op-ed in the Baltimore Sun

The Baltimore Sun op-ed by UMBC alum Karsonya Wise Whitehead (Ph.D, Language, Literacy & Culture - UMBC, 2009): "This is our first 100 days, too, and how we respond matters. If we want real...

Posted: February 2, 2017, 3:51 PM

Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Competition for Recent PhDs

Stipend: $67,500 per year, with health insurance coverage for the fellow, and up to $3,000 in professional development funds over the course of the fellowship Tenure: Two years; start date on...

Posted: February 2, 2017, 3:29 PM

African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities

AADHum Digital Incubator Series (Spring 2017)

The AADHum Initiative is pleased to announce the first sequence, Race, Space, and Place, which explores themes of African American labor, migration, and artistic expression, through a series of...

Posted: January 27, 2017, 11:16 AM

Fired up, Ready to go!

The Story of an Iconic Obama Campaign Chant

We want to share the video of a collaborative animation that appeared today in The Atlantic.  The Story of an Iconic Obama Campaign Chant, Animated Barack Obama’s “Fired up, ready to go” cheer...

Posted: January 19, 2017, 4:30 PM

GSA's Graduate Research Conference

Submission Deadline: January 30

The deadline to submit an abstract for GSA’s 39th Annual Graduate Research Conference is quickly approaching! The submission deadline is 5:00 pm on January 30, 2017. The theme for the 2017...

Posted: January 19, 2017, 9:31 AM

Unveiling the Power Within

by David Hoffman Twelve of us sit in a circle on plastic chairs in an unadorned room, speaking uncommon truths: This is the power I see in you. This is the insight you bring to the group. I...

Posted: January 16, 2017, 6:11 PM

CFP: Conference on Community Writing

Deadline: February 2

Our inaugural conference, which we hosted here in Boulder in October 2015, had over 350 attendees from 152 colleges and universities and 48 community organizations, representing 42 states and...

Posted: January 12, 2017, 9:31 AM

Congratulations to Tracy Irish

LLC December Graduate

Please join us in congratulating Tracy Irish who graduated last December 21st. Here is a picture of her with Dr. Anne Spence, Professor of the Practice, Department of Mechanical Engineering...

Posted: January 10, 2017, 6:26 PM

Of Note: Dr. Sara Cole Pitore

Book Release: Identity and Play in Interactive Digital Media

2017 begins with great news for our Language, Literacy, and Culture community. Dr. Sara Cole Pitore '13 has just published her book Identity and Play in Interactive Digital Media: Ergodic...

Posted: January 8, 2017, 12:41 PM