The English Department is home to a productive, award-winning faculty who pursue research and creative activity across the many diverse sub-fields of English Studies today. Listed below are faculty news updates throughout the years:
Fall 2024 Updates
Ryan Bloom
- Bloom has received the 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship for translation to work on the first complete edition of the French-Algerian author Albert Camus’s notebooks, journals, and other works. Read more on UMBC News here.
Earl Brooks
- In June, Brooks was interviewed by WBALTV about his recent book, On Rhetoric and Black Music (Wayne State University Press 2024). Watch the video here.
Margie Burns
- In August, Burns published a new book titled Jane Austen, Abolitionist: The Loaded History of the Phrase “Pride and Prejudice” (McFarland 2024).
- Burns also contributed an essay to the new collection Retelling Jane Austen: Essays on Recent Adaptations and Derivative Works (McFarland 2024). Her chapter explores Soniah Kamal’s novel Unmarriageable: Pride and Prejudice in Pakistan (Ballantine 2019).
Raphael Falco
- The Dylan Review 6.1 (Spring/Summer 2024), an open access journal, was released live online in August. Falco is an Executive Editor of the Dylan Review and writes a column, The Dylanista, for each issue. His column in this issue is titled “The Diegetic Fallacy.“
Tanya Olson, Brian Dunnigan, and Elaine MacDougall
- Olson, Dunnigan, and MacDougall have been awarded a Spring 2024 Hrabowski Innovation Fund Implementation and Research Grant. Their project, “Balancing Innovation and Ethics: Incorporating LLMs into First-Year Writing Instruction,” will introduce Writing and Rhetoric Division (WARD) instructors and students to foundational knowledge about generative AI and large language models (LLMs), develop assignments and policies for integrating LLMs into first-year composition (ENGL 100), and promote AI literacy among WARD faculty and UMBC students.
Emily Yoon
- Yoon was awarded a 2024 Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Institute for Citizens & Scholars. The Career Enhancement Fellowship, funded by the Mellon Foundation and administered by Citizens & Scholars, seeks to increase the presence of outstanding junior faculty committed to campus diversity and innovative research in the humanities and humanistic social sciences.