DEPARTMENT NEWS

English faculty Michele Osherow presented at the University of Edinburgh conference "Esther Inglis in Contexts and Culture" in October. The conference commemorated the writer and artist Esther...

Congratulations to English faculty Lindsay DiCuirci on being awarded a Spring 2025 fellowship from UMBC's Dresher Center for the Humanities! She will use the fellowship to continue work on her...

Our newest English Department Alumni Spotlight features alumna Jordan Neal '19. Read a message from Jordan below about her graduate education and current job as a Program Analyst at the National...

Megan McIntosh, ‘23, is a former English literature major who is currently a Library Desk Associate at Frederick Community College and pursuing a Master of Library and Information Science at the...

Alumni liaison Kate McKinley shares this news: Congratulations to Halima Jama!  Halima, an English major and MEMS minor, has just been admitted to a special Folger Institute undergraduate...

On December 2, English faculty member Elaine MacDougall will be speaking on a roundtable about storytelling in work, research, and practice. She will discuss the significance of storytelling in...

Translating Humanities-Related Skills to the Workplace The first Humanities Retrievers Workshop for the semester is happening today! Dr. Earl Brooks, Assistant Professor of English and...

English faculty members Tanya Olson, Brian Dunnigan, and Elaine MacDougall received a Spring 2024 Hrabowski Innovation Fund Implementation and Research Grant. Their project, “Balancing Innovation...

Jessica Berman, Professor of English, recently delivered a keynote lecture at an international conference on transnational modernist women's writing in Estonia. Read a message from Berman about...

Harley Nguyen (’21) is a former English major who is now pursuing his Master’s degree in English Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. When I entered UMBC, I knew I was...