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Professor David Wyatt Appointed to Professor Emeritus
June 28, 2022Congratulatiions Professor Wyatt on the Appointment!
Joyce Kornblatt's New Novel Given Starred Review in Publisher's Weekly
June 23, 2022Mother Tongue is forthcoming in September 2022 from Publerati Press.
Public Books Publishes Piece of Jason Rudy’s Gordon Syron Biography
June 21, 2022"Gordon Syron and the Art of Invasion" focuses on the major Indigenous Australian painter.
Sangeeta Ray Named Vambery Distinguished Professor
June 21, 2022Vambery Distinguished Professorship for AY2022-23.
Congratulations to our Recently Promoted Faculty
June 15, 2022The Department of English is pleased to announce the following faculty promotions.
UMD English Listed in Top 10 Public R1 Universities Graduating the Most English Majors
June 15, 2022Recent workforce analysis focused on the public R1 universities graduating the most english majors in the United States.
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Interactive Museum Strives to Boost the Love of Words
June 10, 2022The Planet Word Museum in Washington, D.C., which aims to bring language to life, recently opened a new exhibit focused on wordplay.
Peter Grybauskas's Named a Finalist for 2022 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award
June 10, 2022A Sense of Tales Untold has been named a finalist for the 2022 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award
Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes’ Story Collection Unfurls A Family’s Shadows, Myths
June 09, 2022‘Are We Ever Our Own’ is a multigenerational history of the fictional Armando Castell family told mostly through women narrators.
Alum Daniel Powell ('01) Explores Childhood in Fo(u)nd Memories
June 07, 2022The stories explore childhood and growing up; family, both real and surrogate; memory; love; loss; and the uniquely human intersection of art, science, history, innovation, and imagination.