DEPARTMENT NEWS

Seats are still available for an exciting new 200-level English course in Fall 2021: Baltimore Poetry and Politics. Taught by Prof. Finberg, this course will cover poetry and other writing genres...

Congratulations to the winners of this year's English Department Student Awards! Read the full list of winners below. Join us next Friday, May 14 at 1:30 PM for a celebration of these...

Now accepting applications for the English Honors program! Visit https://englishhonorsprogram.umbc.edu/ for application and program details. Questions? Contact Dr. DiCuirci at dicuirci@umbc.edu....

UMBC English professor Keegan Finberg will be talking with poet DaMaris B. Hill after she reads from her poetry collection A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing. Click here to join the online...

The UMBC Sound Studies Faculty Working Group will hold its 2021 Spring Symposium on Friday, April 30th. Presentations include a Roundtable Discussion on Jazz, Music Education, and Langston Hughes...

The UMBC Library Gallery is currently hosting "End of the Road," a virtual exhibition featuring images by photographer Brea Souders and poetry by UMBC Writer-in-Residence and English professor Lia...

Poet and English faculty member Tanya Olson was recently interviewed by writer Rob McLennan for his "12 or 20" series. Follow the link below to read about Olson's writing process, kindred poets,...

Check out the recently released 2020 edition of Bartleby, UMBC's creative arts journal--offered here in digital form! This edition of Bartleby includes more than 100 pages of poetry, fiction,...

We are proud to announce the 2021 Braly Award winners: Harley Nguyen (poetry), Ivan "Blue" Perez (fiction), and Clair Volkening (nonfiction). Congratulations on this well-deserved creative...

The English department is proud to announce that Corbin Jones, M.A. '20, has been admitted to Cornell University's doctoral program with full funding, beginning in fall 2021. Congratulations,...