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Professional Writing Program Brings Real-World Clients into the Classroom

Business writing students create 19 articles through social media screening firm partnership.
February 23, 2026 College of Arts and Humanities, English

Professor Emerita Merle Collins Recovers Overlooked Life of Louise Little

Collins received the Barbara T. Christian Literary Award for “Ocean Stirrings.”
January 23, 2026 College of Arts and Humanities, English

11 English Students Selected for Competitive Penguin Random House Publishing Mentorship

UMD students secured more than half of the available spots in the program.
December 05, 2025 English

How Professor John Drabinski Wrote Three Books at Once

How Black vernacular culture, Baldwin and the Atlantic world shape his latest scholarship.
October 08, 2025 American Studies, Art, Arts for All, Communication, English, Linguistics, Maryland Language Science Center, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

The Art and Humanity of AI

From classrooms to research labs, the College of Arts and Humanities is shaping how we understand artificial intelligence and guiding its responsible future.
September 29, 2025 English

Nat McGartland Awarded 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize Honorable Mention

Nat McGartland was honorably mentioned for the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for American women book collectors.
September 22, 2025 English

Senior Spotlight: Madeline Arcaro

Madeline Arcaro was awarded for her short story by the Wilbur and Niso Smith Foundation.
September 17, 2025 English

Sarah Dammeyer Awarded Provost's Excellence Award for Professional Track Faculty

Embodying exemplary leadership, strategic thinking and passion for inclusive excellence, Senior Lecturer Sarah Dammeyer is a relentless advocate for fellow professional-track faculty, her own students and those across the university.
September 08, 2025 Arts for All, English

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram on ‘Writing with Machines’

The poet and professor discusses computational poetics, the history of machine-made texts and their vision for UMD’s new Studio for Literary Technology.
May 22, 2025 English

Senior Spotlight: Lauren Spencer

Lauren Spencer is an English major and rhetoric minor who will be an operations analyst for Morgan Stanley.
Maryland Today February 14, 2025

‘Quantum Steampunk’ Creative Writing Course Explores the Science of Science Fiction

Physics, English faculty combine futuristic themes with Victorian-era aesthetics.
Baltimore Sun December 08, 2024

Music Can Lift the Spirits of a Struggling Nation

Professor of English Jason Rudy pens a guest feature in the Baltimore Sun.
The National Endowment for the Arts December 04, 2024

NEA Tech Check: Poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

The associate professor of English speaks to the NEA about AI and technology in their practice.

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Professional Writing Program Brings Real-World Clients into the Classroom

April 02, 2026 English

Business writing students create 19 articles through social media screening firm partnership.
Maryland Today

Faculty Honored With Independent Scholarship, Research and Creativity Awards

March 10, 2026 Arts for All, Communication, English, History, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music

7 ARHU faculty receive funding for projects spanning AI, literature, music and more.

Professor Emerita Merle Collins Recovers Overlooked Life of Louise Little

February 23, 2026 College of Arts and Humanities, English

Collins received the Barbara T. Christian Literary Award for “Ocean Stirrings.”
Maryland Today

The Highs and Lows of the New ‘Wuthering Heights’

February 17, 2026 English

UMD English professor ‘broods’ on movie’s interpretation of classic tale of romance and revenge.

11 English Students Selected for Competitive Penguin Random House Publishing Mentorship

January 23, 2026 College of Arts and Humanities, English

UMD students secured more than half of the available spots in the program.

How Professor John Drabinski Wrote Three Books at Once

December 05, 2025 English

How Black vernacular culture, Baldwin and the Atlantic world shape his latest scholarship.

ARHU Students Honored at Fall 2025 Dean's Scholars Awards Ceremony

November 19, 2025 American Studies, Arabic, Art, Art History and Archaeology, Cinema and Media Studies, Classics, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, French, History, Persian, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Outstanding students joined faculty, staff, family and friends for a celebration recognizing their academic excellence.

Maryland Today

Book Club Opens New Worlds for Incarcerated Women

November 11, 2025 English

UMD English professor co-leads volunteer program set to add graduate students following bequest.
Maryland Today

9 Halloween Costumes Inspired by Terps

October 29, 2025 Communication, English, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Don a demon hunter outfit, blast off like an astronaut, raise your fists, SVP style, and more

ARHU 2025 Service Award Winners Announced

October 16, 2025 American Studies, Art History and Archaeology, College of Arts and Humanities, English, Linguistics, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Six exceptional members of the ARHU community received an annual service award.