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Michael Olmert, (born 1940) is a professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park and a writer. He was born and raised in Washington D.C. His specialty is British Literature. He has a Ph.D. from Maryland in medieval English literature.
In Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies, Michael Olmert takes us into the eighteenth-century backyards of colonial America. He explores the many small outbuildings that can still be found at obscure rural farmsteads throughout the Tidewater and greater mid-Atlantic, in towns like Williamsburg and Annapolis, and at elite plantations such as Mount ...
Olmert holds an MA and PhD in English literature and for the last 31 years has been teaching at the University of Maryland, where he lectures on Medieval Studies, Shakespeare, 17th and 18th Century Studies, and Modern British Drama.
Michael Olmert. Writer: Walking with Prehistoric Beasts. Born in Washington, D.C. and holds degrees in English Literature from Georgetown University (M.A.) and the University of Maryland (Ph.D). Teaches Shakespeare, Medieval Studies, 18th Century Studies, and Contemporary British Drama at the University of Maryland.
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Michael Olmert is a professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park and a writer. His specialty is British Literature. He has a Ph.D. from Maryland in medieval English literature.
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Jun 1, 1996 · We've been taught that history is the story of great events and important people -- but is it? In Milton's Teeth and Ovid's Umbrella , Michael Olmert shows how the most ordinary artifacts of everyday life can also be important sources of information.
On Oct. 1, 2017, Michael Olmert was on the Talkback panel after Harold Pinter's two one-act plays, The Lover and The Collection, at The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington. Olmert was also asked by Yale University Press to vet the publication of Alberto Manguel's latest book, Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions..
