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...
Posted: September 4, 2019 8:40 AM
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...
Posted: August 12, 2019 1:15 PM
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...
Posted: August 5, 2019 11:26 AM
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...
Posted: July 2, 2019 5:00 PM
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...
Posted: June 28, 2019 12:37 PM
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! ...
Posted: June 18, 2019 2:14 PM
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...
Posted: June 17, 2019 11:18 AM
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:...
Posted: May 31, 2019 12:51 PM
Check out English faculty Deborah Rudacille's article in CityLab about Baltimore after steel, featuring gorgeous photographs from J.M. Giordano....
Posted: May 18, 2019 1:32 PM
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...
Posted: May 16, 2019 2:44 PM