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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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Bob Levine's Recent Publications

March 01, 2019 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Bob Levine recently published “Reimagining 1820-1865” in Timelines of American Literature (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019) and the “Afterword” to A Question of Time: American Literature from Colonial Encounter to Contemporary Fiction (Cambridge UP, 2019).

Justin Thompson at Dickens Universe

March 01, 2019 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

PhD candidate Justin Thompson will serve as one of two "Cruise Directors" at the 2019 Dickens Universe at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Danuta Hinc Recent Essay

March 01, 2019 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Danuta Hinc's controversial essay (trending on Twitter for a week), "Nazis and the layers of shame," was published by Popula. 

Matt Kirschenbaum Updates

March 01, 2019 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Matthew Kirschenbaum is speaking at Earthly Impressions: Book, Text, and Archive in the Anthropocene at the University of Washington in early March, as well as at the ACLA conference at Georgetown.

Recent Publications from Jeffrey Griswold

March 01, 2019 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Jeffrey Griswold’s essay “The False Florimell and Nonhuman Consent” was published in the winter 2019 issue of The Spenser Review.

Mark Fitzgerald's Upcoming Publications

March 01, 2019 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Mark Fitzgerald's second book of poetry, Downburst, will be published by Cinnamon Press in April.

Chelsea Bock: Upcoming Presentation and Publication

March 01, 2019 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Chelsea Bock will present "'Maybe': Using Creative Non-Fiction to Illuminate Fertility Rhetoric" at the CCCC in Pittsburgh in March.

Lyra Hilliard Recent Publication

March 01, 2019 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Lyra Hilliard recently published an article (co-authored with Mary K. Stewart) in The Internet and Higher Education.

Kelly Cresap: Featured Storyteller

March 01, 2019 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Kelly Cresap was a featured storyteller on February 13 at the Grapevine series at Takoma Busboys and Poets. 

Oliver Gaycken to Give Talk

March 01, 2019 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Oliver Gaycken will be giving a talk in the National Library of Medicine's lecture series.