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College of Arts and Humanities, English

Dylan Lewis Named to Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography

The prestigious fellowship is a capstone graduate career achievement for the English doctoral candidate.
April 15, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities, English

English Professor Elizabeth Arnold Dies at 65

Arnold was a poet of national and international acclaim and a beloved teacher and colleague.
March 12, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities, English

Professor Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Hoa Nguyen ’91 Receive Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists

They’re among four poets internationally to receive the award.
February 29, 2024 American Studies, English, Maryland Language Science Center

Three ARHU Faculty Win Do Good Innovator Awards

Perla M. Guerrero, Peter Mallios and Shevaun Lewis are among 57 staff and faculty from across campus who received the award.

February 13, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities, English

M Pease ’22 Appointed to Maryland Commission on LGBTQIA+ Affairs

Pease is an alum of the Maryland General Assembly Program in the Department of English.
February 05, 2024 English

Ali Clingan ’25 Awarded 2023–24 Jack Godfrey Memorial Scholarship

Clingan is the fourth English major to win the scholarship since it was established in 2014.
December 01, 2023 English, College of Arts and Humanities

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram to Read From 'Negative Money'

The poet will share some of their computational poetry Dec. 6.
November 29, 2023 African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities, English

$1.4M Mellon Foundation Grant Expands Black Digital Humanities at UMD

Initiative fosters broad range of scholarly, creative and experimental work at all levels–undergrad to faculty.
November 08, 2023 English, College of Arts and Humanities

UMD English Launches New Stanley Plumly Lecture Series in Creative Writing

The series honors the late Distinguished University Professor and state Poet Laureate.
October 25, 2023 English

New Faculty Spotlight: Rebecca N. Liu

Read our Q&A with our new assistant professor of English.
The New Yorker March 25, 2024

“Bitter Water Opera" in Briefly Noted Book Reviews

Alum Nicolette Polek MFA '19's new novel is featured in The New Yorker.
Education Week February 07, 2024

‘Why Doesn’t Everybody Want to Do This?': A New Teacher’s Midyear Reflection

Alum Saxon Brown '23 discusses being an English teacher in Education Week.
Maryland Today January 30, 2024

A Peek Inside … English Professor Christina Walter’s Office

With collection of optical toys, seeing isn’t always believing.

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Vincent Carretta Publication and News Updates

May 16, 2016 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Vin Carretta's entry on “Francis Barber” appears in Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Franklin W.

Chris Philpot Publication and News Updates

May 16, 2016 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Chris Philpot has poems ("I'm Not Crying You're Crying" and "Genre Fiction") in issue 29 of Columbia Poetry Review.

Lyra Hilliard Presents at Conference

May 16, 2016 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

In April, Lyra Hilliard presented at the Online Learning Consortium's Innovate Conference in New Orleans.

Laura Neal Named a "Writer of Promise"

May 16, 2016 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

MFA Student Laura Neal named as a 'writer of promise' and receives a James Tate Scholarship to attend the Juniper Summer Writing Institute.

Cameron Mozafari Conference Presentations

May 16, 2016 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Cameron Mozafari co-led a half-day workshop titled "Corpus-Based Approaches to Writing" at the 2016 Conference on College Composition and Communication.

Sharon Rosenblatt, BA 2010, Offers Advice to Graduating Seniors

May 13, 2016 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Read more in her article, "Coders Need Not Apply: Why Technology Needs English Majors"

Graduate Student Dissertation and Essay Prizes

May 12, 2016 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Katie Stanutz, Natalie Phillips Hoffmann, Justine De Camillis, and Kirk Greenwood awarded Dissertation and Essay Prizes.

Graduate Student Departmental Summer and Research Awards

May 12, 2016 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

DeLisa Hawkes, Tim Bruno, Tamar Leroy, Susie Compston, Danielle Griffin, and Ruth Osorio have been awarded Departmental Summer and Research Awards.

Comparative Literature Graduate Student Awards

May 12, 2016 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Comparative Literature students Nathan Tillman, Ines Rivera, Chen Edrei, Abbas Jamshidi, and Nataliya Pratsovyta have been awarded graduate student awards. 

Creative Writing Graduate Student Awards

May 12, 2016 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Anne Price and Rachel Waugh are this year's winners of the creative writing thesis awards.