Michael Curry, theatre department professor and recent France-Merrick Professor in Service Learning, is the winner of  the 2012 Maryland-DC Campus Compact Institutional Leadership Award. As the France-Merrick Professor in Service Learning, Curry oversaw the Office of Community-Based Learning, which included both programs and courses with community-based learning components. More about the institution can be found here.

Garrison Keillor read a poem by Goucher Professor of English Elizabeth Spires during his program “Writer’s Almanac” on National Public Radio on Saturday, October 20. To read the poem,  “In Heaven It Is Always Autumn,”  or hear the program, click here.

Associate Professor of English Juliette Wells has a chapter in the recently published ‘Uses of Austen: Jane’s Afterlives.’ Her section is titled ‘New Approaches to Austen and the Popular Reader.’

Palgrave Macmillan recently published ‘Black Bodies and the Black Church: A Blues Slant,’ a book by Professor Kelly Brown Douglas, chair of the department of religion.