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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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Michelle Boswell's Review Appears in The Wordsworth Circle

April 23, 2014 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Michelle Boswell, Ph.D. had her review of Daniel Brown's Poetry of Victorian Scientists: Style, Science and Nonsense appear in the Autumn 2013 (44.4) issue of The Wordsworth Circle.

Emily Mitchell Offered Fellowship

April 23, 2014 English

Congratulations, Emily!

F. Scott Fitzgerald Book Club with Jackson Bryer and Eleanor Heginbotham, Tuesday, April 29, 7:00 pm

April 23, 2014 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Join scholars Jackson R. Bryer and Eleanor Heginbotham from the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference.

MFA Student Kelsey Kerr's Work Forthcoming

April 23, 2014 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Kelsey has poems upcoming, among other news. Keep reading to learn more!

The Latest News from Howard Norman

April 23, 2014 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Howard Norman has been hard at work, read on to learn about his latest updates!

Professors Jessica Enoch and Jason Rudy Receive 2014 Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year Awards

April 22, 2014 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Congratulations to Jess Enoch and Jason Rudy on their Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year Awards!

Peter Mallios Selected as an Honored Instructor

April 22, 2014 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Congratulations to Peter Mallios, one of 10 recipients this spring from across campus selected as an Honored Instructor by students in the Transfer2Terp Learning Community (T2T).

Jonathan Auerbach to be Fulbright Senior Specialist at the University of Szeged in Hungary

April 22, 2014 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

In May and early June, Jonathan Auerbach will be a Fulbright Senior Specialist at the University of Szeged in Hungary.

The Life of a Poet: Edward Hirsch, Wednesday, April 23, 7:00 PM

April 17, 2014 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

The Life of a Poet: Edward Hirsch Wednesday, April 23, 7:00 PMLocation: Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital (921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE) 

MFA Alumna Laura Lauth Awarded Spring 2014 Orlando Poetry Prize

April 17, 2014 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies, Jimenez-Porter Writers' House

Congratulations to Laura Lauth, awarded the Spring 2014 Orlando Poetry Prize for her poem, “Mass Grave, Ukraine.”