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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.
November 08, 2023 English, College of Arts and Humanities

UMD English Launches New Stanley Plumly Lecture Series in Creative Writing

The series honors the late Distinguished University Professor and state Poet Laureate.
October 25, 2023 English

New Faculty Spotlight: Rebecca N. Liu

Read our Q&A with our new assistant professor of English.
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.
Maryland Today January 30, 2024

A Peek Inside … English Professor Christina Walter’s Office

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

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New Digital Storytelling and Poetics Minor to Prepare Students to Create and Interpret Online Texts

April 03, 2023 English, College of Arts and Humanities

Students will learn to ‘approach writing for the web with intentionality and imagination.’

In Trouble: Alum Elaine Schleiffer Releases a Horror Anthology on Reproductive Rights

March 15, 2023 English

“A vivid examination of power and self-determination.”

English Students, Faculty Bring Humanities Beyond the University

March 10, 2023 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies, College of Arts and Humanities

The Center for Literary and Comparative Studies Awards in the Public Humanities seek to imagine “new forms of scholarship and creativity and teaching.”

UMD English at AWP 2023

March 08, 2023 English

UMD English faculty, students and alumni represented at AWP in Seattle from March 9–11, 2023
The Atlantic

Prepare for the Textpocalypse

March 08, 2023 English, College of Arts and Humanities

Professor of English Matthew Kirschenbaum on generative AI in The Atlantic.

Lindsay Bernal Announces the Publication of New Poems and an Interview

February 28, 2023 English

"I read poetry to learn more about the world, to be moved, to be surprised, to remember."

Alum Zein El-Amine's short story collection "Is This How You Eat a Watermelon?" Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Fiction

February 28, 2023 English

Is This How You Eat a Watermelon? invites readers into a world where love, war, and trauma collide with the desire to consume life—or be consumed by it.

Mark Fitgerald’s New Creative and Critical Publications in “Two Thirds North”

February 28, 2023 English

Mark Fitgerald's new poems and review essay.
MFA Writers Podcast

MFA Student Edward Daschle Featured in the MFA Writers Podcast

February 27, 2023 English

Edward Daschle talks about finding a writing community, a welcoming environment to write both realism and fantasy, and inclusive workshops.

News from Aysha Jawed

February 23, 2023 English

Aysha Jawed shares an exciting announcement and news of five recent publications.