DEPARTMENT NEWS

Time to SLAM BIG and WIN BIG!   It's the 7th Annual BIG PRIZE POETRY SLAM at UMBC's 2019 HOMECOMING! $200 Grand 1st Place Prize. Prizes for 2nd and 3rd Place.   FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 6:00-8:00 pm...

Dr. Margie Burns, English department part-time faculty, published a co-edited collection earlier this year with Universitas Press titled The Female Precariat: Gender and Contingency in the...

The Philadelphia Inquirer recently published a wonderful review of Joan of Arc in the English Imagination, 1429-1829 by Gail Orgelfinger, English senior lecturer emerita. The book was published...

Last month, Dr. Jody Shipka received the Computers and Composition Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field. This award recognizes exemplary scholarship and professional...

This summer, Michele Osherow has served as resident dramaturg for the Folger Theatre, part of the public programming division of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.. She has...

Come out TONIGHT to Loyalty Books in DC for a reading, Q&A, and signing with poets (and UMBC English faculty) Tanya Olson and Keegan Finberg in celebration of their recently released books! ...

English Honors student Anna Hartman has been selected for a 2019 Undergraduate Research Award. Her project, "Rhetoric of Uprising: Press Discourse of Maryland Race Uprisings from 1845-2015,” is a...

English faculty member Dr. Keegan Cook Finberg has published a new chapbook of poems titled The Thought of Preservation with Ursus Americanus Press. The publisher describes the book below:...

Check out English faculty Deborah Rudacille's article in CityLab about Baltimore after steel, featuring gorgeous photographs from J.M. Giordano....

English Faculty Dr. Tanya Olson has published a new book of poems titled Stay. Stay was released on May 15, 2019 by YesYes Books. Learn more at the publisher's website. Stay is a broad...