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Craft Your Teaching Philosophy Statement

October 14, 2019 Writing Center, English

Graduate School offers help writing a teaching philosophy statement

The Diamondback

UMD poetry professor showcases work in latest of faculty book launch series

October 10, 2019 English

Michael Collier discusses his new book of poetry.

Emily Mitchell awarded an Arcan Semester Research Award (ASRA), Spring 2020

October 10, 2019 Center for Literary and Comparative Studies, English

The English Department is delighted to announce that Emily Mitchell has been selected for an Arcan Semester Research Award (ASRA) for Spring 2020. 

Short Documentary Film “Deserted” Screening by PWP instructors, Eric Thiel and Martha Thomas

October 09, 2019 Writing Center, English

The film "Deserted" exposes the sparse and unhealthy food choices in an economically disadvantaged Baltimore City neighborhood and the lifelong consequences this has on its residents. 

Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Merle Collins Appointed Director of UMD Latin American Studies Center

October 07, 2019 English, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center

Esteemed scholar will expand center’s learning and outreach efforts.

Alexandra Calloway's class produced stories for NASA magazine

October 04, 2019 Writing Center, English

ENGL 393Q students helped write stories for the NASA Goddard Tech Transfer Magazine

Strategies for Providing Timely Feedback on Student Writing

September 27, 2019 English

Professional Writing policy calls for faculty to return students’ major writing projects with feedback within two weeks of submission, and no later than before the next major assignment is due.

New Yorker

Rion Amilcar Scott on Haircutting and Intimacy

September 20, 2019 English

The New Yorker profiles Professor Rion Scott and his fictional town of Cross River, Maryland.

WYPR Morning Edition

Remembering Stanley Plumly, Former MD Poet Laureate

September 18, 2019 English

Memorial Service at UMD on September 21

April Fuller published in Folger Library's blog "The Collation"

September 13, 2019 Center for Literary and Comparative Studies, English

April Fuller and Laurel Bassett's "Got Gout? Eighteenth-Century Global 'Remedies' in Mary Kettilby’s Receipt Book" has bee published by the Folger Library's The Collation.