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June 1, 2020
Racial Injustice and Community Support
A message from Amanda Bailey, Professor and Chair of the University of Maryland's Department of English.
May 22, 2020
UMD English Senior Spotlights
Get to know some of our graduating English students, including their job and intern experiences, favorite classes, skills learned and more.
May 20, 2020
Orrin Wang Wins 2020 Distinguished Scholar Award
Professor Orrin Wang is the 2020 recipient of the Keats Shelley Association of America's Distinguished Scholar Award. 
May 6, 2020
UMD English's Priya Hay-Chatterjee Wins the Loving Award
English Senior Priya Hay-Chatterjee has won the Loving Award, named in honor of Mildred and Richard Loving for their bravery and perseverance in invalidating miscegenation laws via the landmark Supreme Court decision in Loving vs. Virginia.
May 4, 2020
Alice Bi Presents Virtually at 2020 Culture Mapping Symposium
For the past month UMD English has been following stories of student and faculty resilience in the age of COVID-19. A standout story of flexibility and triumph came from UMD student Alice Bi, a sophomore double-majoring in English (Literary & Cultural Studies track) and International Relations.
April 3, 2020
English Department Coronavirus Update
To prioritize the health and safety of our community, the University of Maryland moves to an online environment March 30 through the end of the semester.
April 3, 2020
Mallios Selected for Long Teaching Fellowship
Peter Mallios was selected as the AY 20-21 Long Teaching Fellow.
March 24, 2020
Enoch receives 2020 Book Award
The Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition announced its bestowal of the Winifred Bryan Horner Book Award to Jessica Enoch for her volume Domestic Occupations: Spatial Rhetorics and Women's Work.
March 20, 2020
Wible's Pedagogy Research Featured in Cs
Wible's article, "Using Design Thinking to Teach Creative Problem Solving in Writing Courses," builds on a residency at Stanford University's Teaching and Learning Studio Faculty Workshop and a CLCS "Beyond the Classroom" grant. 
March 9, 2020
Congratulations to Dawn M. Sisas Memorial Scholarship Winner Emily Kasprzyk
The English Department is pleased to present the latest Dawn M. Sisas Scholarship to first-year English student Emily Kasprzyk. The Sisas Scholarship goes to an outstanding first-year English major who attended Southern High School in Anne Arundel County.

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Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies
Professor Sangeeta Ray
2016
  • The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies brings together the most wide-ranging and up-to-date scholarship ever assembled on the colonial, postcolonial and neo-colonial condition, covering the period from 1492 to the present.
  • Comprises nearly 400 authoritative yet accessible entries on canonical writers, key texts, genres, literary debates, colonized regions, and related terminology
  • Explores examples from Columbus to China; writers from Las Casas to Gayatri Spivak; and topics of emerging significance, such as environmentalism, electronic mass media, and the
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