DEPARTMENT NEWS

Reminder: Honors Applications due Wednesday, May 15

Reminder: Applications due Wednesday, May 15 for a Fall 2024 start date Attention English Majors! The English Honors Program is now accepting applications for our 2024-2025 cohort.  What can...

Posted: May 8, 2024, 12:52 PM

2024 Braly Creative Writing Awards

Award for Fiction: “Poppy” by Lukas Pitkevits Lukas Pitkevits is a senior at UMBC, currently studying for a degree in Biological Sciences. Although he is pursuing a career in the STEM...

Posted: April 24, 2024, 7:53 PM

The English Honors Program is now accepting applications!

Attention English Majors! The English Honors Program is now accepting applications for our 2024-2025 cohort.  What can you do in the program? ● Write an original creative work of fiction,...

Posted: April 15, 2024, 9:40 PM

English Presenters at URCAD!

Wednesday, April 10, 2024: All Are Welcome!

Polina Kassir | Reading the Library: An Ethnography of Place in One Baltimore City Library | Lucille McCarthy 11:00 a.m. UC 312 Grace Morris | Family Abolition and Mythologized Motherhood in...

Posted: April 9, 2024, 6:41 PM

Alumni Spotlight: Mark Benham, ‘21

Our featured alumnus is Mark Benham, ‘21, a former English major now pursuing a career in archives and digital curation. Read more about his experience at UMBC and his journey to graduate school...

Posted: April 8, 2024, 11:26 PM