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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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Oct. 8: Meeting on Ancient Religious Sites and Macro-Scale Trends in Artistic Iconography of Early Modern Northern Europe

October 01, 2013 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

2 PM in the Michelle Smith Collaboratory in the Department of Art History & Sociology (Art/Sociology 4213). 

Oct. 7: Brown-Bag on Asian American Women Playwrights

October 01, 2013 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

12:00 pm - 1:30 PM in Francis Scott Key Hall Room 2120.

Oct.3: Immigration in Film Series: First Person Plural

October 01, 2013 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM in Francis Scott Key Hall Room 0106

Oct. 8: Dr. Lázaro Lima on “Losing Sonia Sotomayor: An “American” Life After Multiculturalism”

October 01, 2013 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

5 PM - 7 PM in 1208 Knight Hall

Foxworth Creative Enterprise Initiative

September 27, 2013 English

 English alumna funds new initiative addressing social issues affecting underrepresented communities.

Oct. 4: Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies: Steven Herb, "Storyteller without Words: The Graphic World of Lynd Ward"

September 26, 2013 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

3:30 to 5:00 PM in the Woodrow Wilson Room (LJ-113), in the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress.

Summer 2013 Bywords is Now Available

September 26, 2013 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

See the latest departmental news here: https://www.english.umd.edu/news-events/bywords/summer-2013

Writers Speak To Student Hopefuls, Launch Lecture Series' 40Th Year

September 26, 2013 College of Arts and Humanities, English, Jimenez-Porter Writers' House

The Creative Writing Program and the Jiménez-Porter Writers’ House co-produced the 40th "Writers Here & Now" lecture series.

Oct. 12: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers Study Group at Gettysburg College

September 25, 2013 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Primary reading for the meeting: Loreta Velazquez, THE WOMAN IN BATTLE.

Oct. 18: "Desert Desires: Landscape as Liminal Space in Bollywood Set and Song" with Shalini Ayyagari

September 24, 2013 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

4:00 PM at the School of Music, Leah Smith Lecture Hall, Clarice Smith Center room 2200.