DEPARTMENT NEWS

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

Lecture: Landscape and Identity in Black Amazonia

Thursday, March 2 at 4 pm

Upcoming Lecture: Thursday, March 2 at 4 pm (Library Gallery) Professor Oscar de la Torre is a historian in Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He researches...

Posted: February 15, 2023, 10:46 AM

Digital Cruikshank launches this week!

Thur., Dec. 8th from 5-6 p.m. in the Albin O. Kuh Library

Digital Cruikshank launches this week! The students from Dr. DiCuirci's English 416/616 course invite you to a digital exhibition launch on Thursday, December 8 from 5:00-6:00 p.m. in the Albin O....

Posted: December 5, 2022, 11:48 AM

SAVE THE DATE! Digital Cruikshank Exhibition

Thursday, Dec. 8th, 5-6 p.m. Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

SAVE THE DATE! The students from Dr. DiCuirci's English 416/616 course invite you to a digital exhibition launch on Thursday, December 8 from 5:00-6:00 p.m. in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery....

Posted: November 21, 2022, 3:48 PM

Community Poetry Reading

Thur. Nov. 17, 4:30 - 6:00 7th Floor Albin K. Kuhn Library

This year's Community Read is Amanda Gorman's Call Us What We Carry (2021).  Theis event will take place on:  Thursday, November 17th  4:30 - 6 p.m. 7th Floor Albin K. Kuhn Library...

Posted: November 15, 2022, 11:06 AM