Tanya Olson, a lecturer in the Department of English here at UMBC, is one of the featured poets for November alongside Bomani Armah at Busboys and Poets in Washington, D.C. Olson will be reading...

The English Department would like to offer its congratulations to Ms. Teauna Harper, an aspiring dentist and student in one of our Introduction Creative Writing--Fiction courses this semester. She...

The Office of Undergraduate Education posts profiles and interviews about undergraduate student researchers on its myMajors page. Currently, we have only a few stellar English students...

Lia Purpura's launch of It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful takes place on October 6, 2015, at the Ivy Bookstore in Baltimore, MD, at 7:00 pm.  It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful harkens back to an...

University/MFA writers, including Braly award winning students Jackie Airhart and James Gallagher, will be reading their work from 3 to 5 PM on Sunday, September 27, 2015, at the Baltimore Book...

We want to offer congratulations to Deborah Rudacille, Professor of the Practice in the English Department here at UMBC. She will be honored by the Baltimore City Historical Society at their 15th...

We want to offer congratulations to Orianne Smith, an Associate Professor and Chair here in the English Department at UMBC. She recently won the biennial First Book Prize for Romantic Women...

We want to offer congratulations to Steph Ceraso, an Assistant Professor here in the English Department at UMBC. She recently received the 2015 Richard Ohmann Award for Outstanding Article, which...

We warm welcome to our new part-time faculty members this semester in the English Department, May Chung and Bruce Miller.  May F. Chung is a native North Carolinian and attended NC State for...

We want to offer a warm welcome to our new graduate assistants this year in the English Department, Philip Hiotis and Victoria Rudacille.  Philip Hiotis is a native Baltimorean who received his...