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Marylhurst Department Chair Receives National Recognition
For Release: April 16, 2007Dr. Margaret M. Roland, Chair of the English Literature & Writing Department at Marylhurst University, has been selected from a national applicant pool to attend one of 27 summer study opportunities supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Endowment is a federal agency that supports seminars and institutes at colleges and universities each summer so that teachers can work in collaboration and study with experts in humanities disciplines.
Dr. Roland will participate in a seminar entitled The Reformation of the Book: 1450-1700. The five-week program will be held in Antwerp, Belgium, and in Oxford and London, England, and it will be directed by John N. King and James K. Bracken.
The 15 teachers selected to participate in the program each receive a stipend to cover their travel, study and living expenses. Topics for the 27 seminars and institutes offered for college and university teachers this summer include American Indian Studies, Anglo-Irish Studies, Early Christianity, English Prose Studies, Religious Diversity, and the Scottish Enlightenment. The approximately 400+ teachers who participate in these studies will teach more than 30,000 American students the following year.
Margaret (Meg) Roland teaches medieval and Renaissance literature at Marylhurst University. She is engaged in a study that explores the relationship between literature and maps in the late 15th century when our current representation of north at the top of maps first came into use in Europe. Her research this summer will focus on William Caxton’s 1481 and 1491 editions of the encyclopedic Myrrour of the Worlde which contains the first printed maps in England as well as the first printed illustrations. Later this year, Dr. Roland will be a Huntington Library fellow in San Marion, Calif.
Marylhurst is located 10 minutes south of Portland on Highway 43. Marylhurst University, #1 in the Pacific Northwest for small class size according to U.S. News & World Report, offers professional certificates and degrees for undergraduate and graduate studies. The Department of English Literature & Writing offers a B.A. in English Literature & Writing with tracks in rhetoric and teaching, literature and creative writing. For more information, go to www.marylhurst.edu/english/.