Congratulations to Dr. Earl Brooks for receiving a Dresher Center Summer Fellowship for 2020! Brooks will use the fellowship to work on his book project, Black Sonorities: Rhetoric and Black...

Next week, Lindsay DiCuirci will be facilitating a conversation with faculty and staff about teaching online during the COVID-19 crisis. DiCuirci is the Humanities Teaching Lab director....

Chris Corbett, prolific journalist and Professor of the Practice in the English department for many years, has been awarded Emeritus faculty status by the university. Join us in congratulating...

This year the Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD) will be hosted online, and many English students will make presentations about their compelling research. Find all their...

Professor Kate McKinley discusses similarities between responses to the coronavirus pandemic and Boccaccio's accounts of the Black Plague on the international journalism forum, The Conversation. ...

UMBC News recently reported on the Dresher Center's Inclusion Imperative--a program focused on increasing diversity and inclusion in the humanities led by  Scott Casper, CAHSS Dean, and Jessica...

Are you looking for some motivation and guidance to process our unique and troubling times through writing? Author Suleika Jaouad recently initiated The Isolation Journals, which sends free...

UMBC students have been writing about their experiences during the coronavirus/COVID-19 crisis, and you can find three of their essays below from the Baltimore Sun and The Retriever, UMBC's...

See below for a positive message from UMBC English graduate Maxi Wardcantori ('19), who will be entering Rutgers University's Poetry MFA program. Congratulations to Maxi on this...

Seven UMBC writing tutors will be presenting at the 2020 Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association Conference, held this weekend at Towson University. Elaine MacDougall, director of the UMBC...