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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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Michael Olmert Publishes Article

April 04, 2017 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Michael Olmert's article, "Treating the Enslaved," to do with the culture, medicine, and architecture of slave infirmaries on large plantations in the southern colonies in the 18th Century, was published in the Colonial Williamsburg magazine.

Howard Norman Releases New Novel

April 04, 2017 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Howard Norman's new novel My Darling Detective was published on March 28.

Oliver Brearey Updates

April 04, 2017 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

On 11 February, Oliver Brearey presented a paper titled "Employment Writing and Knowledge Mobilization" at Camp Rhetoric 2017

Jonathan Rick Delivers Workshops

April 04, 2017 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Jonathan Rick delivered a pair on workshops — on everything you wanted to know about LinkedIn but were too embarrassed to ask — to Georgetown University's School of Continuing Studies. Read more here.  

Matthew Kirschenbaum to give Lecture at Case Western

April 04, 2017 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

In April Matthew Kirschenbaum will give the 2017 Edward S. and Melinda Melton Sadar Lecture in Writing in the Disciplines at Case Western Reserve University.

Stephen Rojcewicz Publications

April 04, 2017 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Stephen Rojcewicz has published “James Joyce’s Dedalus: Transformations of Ovid, Vergil and Plato” in Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature 32: 67-79, 2017. http://journals.fcla.edu/delos.

Emily Mitchell Translation and Publication

April 04, 2017 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Two stories from Emily Mitchell's collection Viral -- "My Daughter and her Spider" and "Smile Report" -- were translated into Japanese

Radford Skudrna Recent Publications

April 04, 2017 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

MFA graduate and current English lecturer, Radford Skudrna is pleased to announce that two of his poems have recently been accepted for publication.

News from PWP

April 04, 2017 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

News from PWP! Continuing reading to learn more.

News from Leigh Ryan

April 04, 2017 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Leigh Ryan, our former Writing Center Director, chaired a panel on undergraduate research entitled “Playing with Topics and Tools: Undergraduate Research as Intellectual Maker Space”