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Welcome to the University of Maryland Department of English
The Department of English is the largest department in the College of Arts and Humanities and made up of a diverse community of faculty, staff, and students. The Department enrolls approximately 750 undergraduates in a newly designed major and over 200 students in its nationally ranked graduate programs. The Freshman and Professional Writing Programs educate students across the University in fundamental and advanced practices of argument and analysis. The Writing Center supports the enhancement of student writing across campus through its tutorial service and workshops.
The Department's internationally recognized faculty conduct research across the domains of literary, textual, cultural, linguistic, and rhetorical studies, as well as producing prize-winning poetry, fiction, and non-fiction prose. While maintaining its historic strengths in British Renaissance literature and early American literature, the Department also offers excellence in creative writing; African-American and African Diasporic literature; digital studies; rhetoric; gender and sexuality; and postcolonial studies. The Department has also recently become the home of a selective PhD program in Comparative Literature, investigating texts from a global perspective. Located in the suburbs of Washington, DC, approximately half an hour's drive from downtown Baltimore and the state capital in Annapolis, the University of Maryland Department of English is well positioned to take advantage of the intellectual, cultural, and political resources of the Washington-Baltimore region. We hope that you enjoy perusing this web site and learning about the intellectual life of the Department. |
