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    Scott Trudell Wins the 2020 Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature

    Trudell's monograph has been chosen as the recipient of the 2020 Bainton Prize for Literature by the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference.
    October 06, 2020 English

    English Alum Kian Kelley-Chung ’19 and Influential Author Victor LaValle Talk Storytelling

    The conversation is part of a year-long Antiracism Series sponsored by the Center for Literary and Comparative Studies.

    September 28, 2020 English

    GerShun Avilez Featured in the Center for the Study of Southern Culture

    Avilez's featured essay draws connections between Douglas T. Ward's Day of Absence and Black Lives Matter activism.

    September 11, 2020 English

    Long Fellowship Supports Launch of New Journal

    English department students use fiction, design and more to explore the role of neurodiversity in art and literature.
    August 31, 2020 English

    UMD English Wins 6 Innovation Grants

    Congratulations to the recipients of the Teaching Innovation Grants.
    July 11, 2020 English

    How the Familiar Words of a Cliche Can Grant Comfort to the Grieving

    Rion Amilcar Scott on PBS NewsHour.
    June 24, 2020 English

    A Happy Ending For 3 Terp Authors

    Alums simultaneously have New York Times bestsellers with young adult books.
    April 22, 2020 English

    Quarantine in Seventeen

    Haiku contest looks for quick—but poetic—insights on life at home.
    January 10, 2020 English

    A Life of Sentences

    An armed carjacking at age 16 sent Reginald Dwayne Betts ’09 to prison—and started his remarkable path to the worlds of literature and law.
    June 18, 2019 English

    Carnegie Medal Goes to First Writer of Color in Its 83-year History

    Dominican-American Elizabeth Acevedo wins prestigious children’s award for "The Poet X," while Jackie Morris takes illustration prize for "The Lost Words."
    New York Times October 20, 2020

    Kamala Harris, Mass Incarceration and Me

    English alum Dwayne Betts reflects on the complex vision of Harris' VP candidacy in the New York Times.
    PBS NewsHour July 11, 2020

    How the Familiar Words of a Cliche Can Grant Comfort to the Grieving

    Rion Amilcar Scott on PBS NewsHour.

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    Kamala Harris, Mass Incarceration and Me

    October 20, 2020 English

    English alum Dwayne Betts reflects on the complex vision of Harris' VP candidacy in the New York Times.

    Scott Trudell Wins the 2020 Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature

    October 19, 2020 English

    Trudell's monograph has been chosen as the recipient of the 2020 Bainton Prize for Literature by the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference.

    Arts and Humanities Colloquium: Marisa Parham Discusses "Purpose, Frivolity, Futures: What, Really, is inclusion?"

    October 12, 2020 College of Arts and Humanities, English

    ARHU professor's talk is part of a new series centering racism, equity and justice.

    English Alum Grace Aneiza Ali Publishes Book on the Women of the Guyanese Diaspora

    October 07, 2020 English

    Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora is Open Access.

    English Alum Kian Kelley-Chung ’19 and Influential Author Victor LaValle Talk Storytelling

    October 06, 2020 English

    The conversation is part of a year-long Antiracism Series sponsored by the Center for Literary and Comparative Studies.

    Two ARHU Alumnae Granted ACLS Postdoc Fellowships

    September 29, 2020 American Studies, English

    American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellows spend one year at leading humanities research universities.

    GerShun Avilez Featured in the Center for the Study of Southern Culture

    September 28, 2020 English

    Avilez's featured essay draws connections between Douglas T. Ward's Day of Absence and Black Lives Matter activism.

    MFA Alum Named 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award Winner

    September 24, 2020 English

    Fiction writer and University of Maryland 2019 MFA graduate Temim Fruchter is a 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award winner.

    Welcoming English's New Faculty and Students

    September 15, 2020 English

    We are glad to greet the new academic year with additions to our community.

    Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes wins the 10th annual BOA Short Fiction Prize

    September 14, 2020 English

    Professor Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes is the winner of the tenth annual BOA Short Fiction Prize for her collection Are We Ever Our Own.