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Mário de Sá-Carneiro, A Cosmopolitan Modernist

Although he committed suicide at the age of twenty-five, Mário de Sá-Carneiro left behind a rich corpus of texts that is inventive, playful, even daring. The first collection in English to be dedicated to his work, this volume brings together scholars from Portugal, Brazil and the USA to reassess Sá-Carneiro’s contribution to Portuguese and European Modernism(s).

You Were That White Bird: Poems

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by Shelley Girdner
Bauhan (May 10, 2016)

Shelley Girdner’s first full-length poetry collection looks at the lifespan of a relationship–from the beginning of love until its end, and how different it can look with time and distance. Her poems combine birds and biblical imagery with modern relationships.

Alumna Tells History of NH Activism in Rye

Lisa Moll, an alumna of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program, has turned her UNH research paper into a book, "Rye’s Battle of the Century: Saving the New Hampshire Seacoast from Olympic Oil." Moll tells the story of the 1973 effort by Aristotle Onassis’ oil company to build a refinery using the Isles of Shoals as a docking station for tankers. The residents of Rye, N.H., learning of the massive affects to the natural beauty of both shoreline and shoals, and fearing the environmental consequences of a spill, successfully fought to defeat the initiative.

Ellen Fitzpatrick Receives 2017 Lindberg Award

Ellen Fitzpatrick, professor of history, has been selected as the 2017 recipient of the Lindberg Award, given annually to the outstanding teacher-scholar in the College of Liberal Arts.

Professor Fitzpatrick was appointed to the UNH faculty in 1997 as associate professor after serving eight years on the faculty of Harvard. She previously taught at MIT and Wellesley. She earned her Ph.D. at Brandeis.