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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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In Memoriam, Laura Slavin

January 16, 2015 English

The Department mourns the loss of alumna Laura Slavin.

Scott Moses and Peter Grybauskas Win Elevate Fellows Grants

January 13, 2015 English

Scott Moses and Peter Grybauskas have won Elevate Fellows grants from the Teaching and Learning Transformation Center (TLTC) for course redesign. 

PEN/Faulkner's February Reading, Monday, Feb. 9th, 7:30 PM

January 07, 2015 English

The Imaginary Real: Weaving Fact into Fiction. An evening with Ruth Ozeki and Claire Vaye Watkins at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

UMD at MLA

January 07, 2015 English

When the Modern Language Association convenes in Vancouver from 8-11 January 2015, those presenting current research include many faculty members and graduate students from English

Carivision Community Theatre Holds Caribbean Christmas Event

January 05, 2015 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

On Sunday, December 14, members of Carivision Community Theatre held "A Caribbean Christmas: Memory in Performance Drama, Dance and Music Celebrating Caribbean Stories of the Season."

Foxworth Creative Enterprise Grants Announced

January 05, 2015 English

Congratulations to the recipients of the second round of Foxworth Creative Enterprise Initiative grants! Recipients from the Department are professors Merle Collins and Scott Wible, along with Ph.D. candidates Heather Lindenman and Justin Lohr.

Foxworth Creative Enterprise Grants Announced

December 19, 2014 College of Arts and Humanities, English, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Grants will fund courses to embolden communities through arts and humanities.

A Reading Group for the African Diaspora

December 16, 2014 English

This fall, the English Undergraduate Association launched a new student group – the African Diaspora Reading Group, ADRG.

Alumna Lena Stypeck Starts a Writing Center at the Vivien T. Thomas Medical Arts Academy in Baltimore

December 15, 2014 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Lena Stypeck, who graduated from the University with a BA in English in 2014, has started a writing center at the Vivien T. Thomas Medical Arts Academy in Baltimore.

Sigma Tau Delta's Students for Students awarded Project Grant

December 09, 2014 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

The English Department would like to congratulate the University of Maryland’s Chi Tau chapter of Sigma Tau Delta for its 2014 Project Grant Award, recognizing its traveling tutoring program, Students for Students.