Cheer on the poets at the Homecoming Big Prize Poetry Slam--great free food and door prizes and fantastic poetry performances! PAHB ground floor atrium, Friday 10/12, 6:30-8:30 PM.

Come out and support our student readers at the Baltimore Book Festival on Sunday 9/30 at 3:00 pm. Nadine Benavides and Abigail Moore will be reading at the University Writers Reading, sponsored...

Keegan Cook Finberg to Read at Baltimore Book Festival Keegan Cook Finberg, Assistant Professor of English, will be reading her poetry this weekend as part of the Baltimore Book Festival. She...

On September 19, 2018 we’ll be hosting The Black Ladies Brunch Collective, a group of Maryland-based poets whose mission it is to “promote and inspire the voices of Black women,” and on February...

Saira Khan (English '09), currently the director of social media for The New Yorker, will be the recipient of an outstanding young UMBC alumna award on October 4.  Ms. Khan’s journalism - on...

If you plan to pursue a Masters Degree when you graduate, you should take advantage of the English Department’s BA-MA program. You start your MA while you are finishing your BA by enrolling in...

A word that Professor of the Practice Christopher Corbett invented was a clue on the March 9, 2018 episode of Jeopardy. The word was autotonsorialist--one who cuts his own hair or looks as if he...

The English Department is home to a productive, award-winning faculty whose members pursue both research and creative activity across the many diverse fields of English today. In celebrating that...

The English Department is home to a productive, award-winning faculty whose members pursue both research and creative activity across the many diverse fields of English today. In celebrating that...

This summer, the English Department will be offering students a number of courses to help expand their educational horizons, whether meeting a general education requirement, studying the nuances...