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Five Must-Read Summer Book Picks by Asian and Asian American Authors

AAPI Literature and Media Club Founder and President Julie Cha ’25 recommends top reads.
May 09, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities, English

Carey Cameron ’24 Plans Future in Media and Entertainment

The senior English major and creative writing minor has held multiple arts and culture roles in the D.C. region.
April 22, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities, English

Dylan Lewis Named to Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography

The prestigious fellowship is a capstone graduate career achievement for the English doctoral candidate.
April 15, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities, English

English Professor Elizabeth Arnold Dies at 65

Arnold was a poet of national and international acclaim and a beloved teacher and colleague.
March 12, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities, English

Professor Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Hoa Nguyen ’91 Receive Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists

They’re among four poets internationally to receive the award.
February 29, 2024 American Studies, English, Maryland Language Science Center

Three ARHU Faculty Win Do Good Innovator Awards

Perla M. Guerrero, Peter Mallios and Shevaun Lewis are among 57 staff and faculty from across campus who received the award.

February 13, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities, English

M Pease ’22 Appointed to Maryland Commission on LGBTQIA+ Affairs

Pease is an alum of the Maryland General Assembly Program in the Department of English.
February 05, 2024 English

Ali Clingan ’25 Awarded 2023–24 Jack Godfrey Memorial Scholarship

Clingan is the fourth English major to win the scholarship since it was established in 2014.
December 01, 2023 English, College of Arts and Humanities

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram to Read From 'Negative Money'

The poet will share some of their computational poetry Dec. 6.
November 29, 2023 African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities, English

$1.4M Mellon Foundation Grant Expands Black Digital Humanities at UMD

Initiative fosters broad range of scholarly, creative and experimental work at all levels–undergrad to faculty.
Poetry Society of America April 26, 2024

"Wave House" by Professor Elizabeth Arnold Wins Poetry Society of America William Carlos Williams Award

Arnold's book of poetry was one of two winners of the award.
The New Yorker March 25, 2024

“Bitter Water Opera" in Briefly Noted Book Reviews

Alum Nicolette Polek MFA '19's new novel is featured in The New Yorker.
Education Week February 07, 2024

‘Why Doesn’t Everybody Want to Do This?': A New Teacher’s Midyear Reflection

Alum Saxon Brown '23 discusses being an English teacher in Education Week.

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Randy Ontiveros Gives Lecture, Will Present at MLA Convention

December 09, 2015 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Randy Ontiveros gave a guest lecture on what role literature can play in engineering to students in the course “Engineering for Sustainability” (ENCE215).

Oliver Gaycken Gives Talk at Cambridge University, Among Other News

December 09, 2015 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

In September, Oliver Gaycken gave a talk, “Cinema’s Plasticity: The Embryological Series and Animation,” at the Reproduction on Film Conference, which was hosted by the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, at Cambridge University, UK.

MFA Alums Lindsay Fowler and Carlea Holl-Jensen Present at University of Central Missouri

December 09, 2015 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Carlea Holl-Jensen and Lindsay Fowler presented our paper, "Reading Weird: Teaching Experimental Fiction in the Creative Writing Classroom," at the University of Central Missouri's Creative Writing & Innovative Pedagogies Conference. 

Emily Tuttle: Connecting The Humanities With The Sciences

December 09, 2015 College of Arts and Humanities, College Park Scholars-Arts, English, Jimenez-Porter Writers' House, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Emily Tuttle '17 uses the sciences to fuel her enduring passion for writing.

Howard Noman Awarded CAPAA

December 02, 2015 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Professor Howard Norman has won a Creative and Performing Arts Award (CAPAA) to work on his new novel-in-progress, Thirteen Crowded Hours. We wait in anticipation!Join us in congratulating Howard!

Congratulations to the Following Recipients of Research and Scholarship Awards

December 02, 2015 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Congratulations to Ralph Bauer and Oliver Gaycken for winning semester RASAs from the Graduate School. Congratulations to Chanon Adsanatham and Jerry Passannante for winning summer RASAs.

PWP Lecturer Daniel Pendick Joins UM Center for Environmental Science

December 02, 2015 English

Daniel Pendick left his former position as executive editor of Harvard Men’s Health Watch to become the new science writer (one of three) at Maryland Sea Grant, which is part of the UM Center for Environmental Science.

Intro Journals Project Nominees

December 02, 2015 English

The MFA Program in Creative Writing is pleased to announce our nominees for AWP's Intro Journals Project (2016)

MLA Honors Washington for THE OTHER BLACKLIST

December 01, 2015 English

Washington wins honorable mention in the competition for the Association's William Sanders Scarborough Prize for an Outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American Literature
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Umd Dedicates New Frederick Douglass Statue

November 18, 2015 College of Arts and Humanities, English, History

A monumental day for the University of Maryland: the school dedicated its new Frederick Douglass Statue and Frederick Douglass Square on campus.