DEPARTMENT NEWS

Alumni Spotlight: Breia Lassiter, 2018

Our featured alumna is Breia Lassiter, 2018, a former English major who is now a lawyer working for the Dinsmore & Shohl law firm in Cincinnati, Ohio. Read more about her experience at UMBC...

Posted: October 19, 2023, 5:46 PM

Congratulations to Ryan Bloom!

Ryan Bloom's work hailed by the London Review of Books

Please join us in congratulating Ryan Bloom for his work translating Albert Camus's journals in Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a New World, published by the University of...

Posted: October 19, 2023, 2:29 PM

Alumni Spotlight: Marissa Bullis, 2018

Our featured alumna is Marissa Bullis, 2018, a former English major who is now completing a postgraduate degree in Enlightenment, Romantic, and Victorian Literature at the University of...

Posted: September 8, 2023, 1:01 AM

Celebrating Our Graduating Class of 2023!

Please join us in celebrating our graduating class of 2023, recent alumni achievements, and this year's departmental awards winners! Oliver Santos Outstanding Contribution to English...

Posted: May 25, 2023, 1:35 AM

Reminder: English Honors Program Applications

Due by Monday, May 15 at 5:00 p.m

Interested in applying to the English Honors Program for Fall 2023? Applications are due to Dr. DiCuirci (dicuirci@umbc.ed) by Monday, May 15 at 5:00 p.m. Remember, confirmation and a brief...

Posted: May 8, 2023, 10:29 PM

Recent Alumnus Publication

Ari Page, '22

Alumnus Ari Page has recently published an article in the journal Transformative Works and Cultures. He worked on this article while in the Master of Arts in Texts, Technologies, and Literature...

Posted: April 13, 2023, 1:09 PM

Reminder: Honors Information Session!

Thursday, April 13th, at noon on Webex

Attention Juniors and Seniors! Are you interested in developing a project of your own design? Are you eager to work more closely with a faculty member in English? Are you driven to challenge...

Posted: April 10, 2023, 3:18 PM

Braly Award Winners!

Stuart Holton and Kainoa Sittman

Stuart Holton, winner of the 2023 Malcolm Braly Award for Fiction for "Shrimp Time": Stuart Holton (he/they) is a junior political science major with an extended minor in creative writing. He...

Posted: April 4, 2023, 4:42 AM

Field trip in Sally Shivnan's Spring 23 Writing Course!

"Writing in the Land of Harriet Tubman's Childhood"

Since the field of Ecocriticism extends to experiential learning and pedagogies of place, the English Department's Environment and Pedagogy Initiative has funded a number of course-related...

Posted: March 12, 2023, 9:37 PM