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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.
May 07, 2025 College of Arts and Humanities, English

Tega Oghenechovwen Awarded Elizabeth George Foundation Grant

The grant will support the creative writing M.F.A. student in finishing his upcoming collection of short stories.
May 05, 2025 College of Arts and Humanities, English

How Matthew Kirschenbaum Sees AI’s Impact

The Distinguished University Professor of English is a leading voice on how AI is transforming the way we communicate, educate and govern.
May 01, 2025 College of Arts and Humanities, English

UMD English Moves Up in U.S. News Graduate Program Ranking

The Department of English moved up from No. 32 to No. 26 among all graduate English programs and is No. 13 among public universities.
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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UMD Creative Writing at AWP 2024

February 06, 2024 English

Creative writing faculty and alumni will discuss and sign their works at AWP in Kansas City.

Ali Clingan ’25 Awarded 2023–24 Jack Godfrey Memorial Scholarship

February 05, 2024 English

Clingan is the fourth English major to win the scholarship since it was established in 2014.
Maryland Today

5 African American Works of Art Everyone Should Know

February 01, 2024 Arts for All, David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, English, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

From Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry to renowned modern dance, faculty experts share their picks.
Maryland Today

A Peek Inside … English Professor Christina Walter’s Office

January 30, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities, English

With collection of optical toys, seeing isn’t always believing.
Maryland Today

Jewish Folklore Goes Queer in Alum’s New Novel

January 24, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities, English

The mystical and mundane meet in story inspired by author’s Eastern European family matriarchs.
Public Seminar

Why the Study of History Belongs to the Public

January 22, 2024 English

English M.A. student Rose Botaish publishes article on social media in Public Seminar.

UMD English at MLA 2024

December 21, 2023 English

English faculty and graduate students will present recent research at the 139th Modern Language Association's Annual Convention in Philadelphia.
Poets & Writers

Poetry NFTs Are Having a Moment

December 15, 2023 English, College of Arts and Humanities

Poets & Writers features English Professor Lillian-Yvonne Bertram.

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram to Read From 'Negative Money'

December 01, 2023 English, College of Arts and Humanities

The poet will share some of their computational poetry Dec. 6.
Maryland Today

$1.4M Mellon Foundation Grant Expands Black Digital Humanities at UMD

November 29, 2023 African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities, English

Initiative fosters broad range of scholarly, creative and experimental work at all levels–undergrad to faculty.