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Seven English Majors Win 2022 Jiménez-Porter Literary Prize

April 07, 2022 English

Congratulations to our English majors and minors for being awarded.

Washington Post

Alum Reginald Dwayne Betts’s first-of-its kind Freedom Library now sits in the National Building Museum

March 17, 2022 English, College of Arts and Humanities

‘Freedom Libraries’ aim to transform prisons, 500 books at a time

New Publication and Keynote Address from Professor Brian Richardson

March 15, 2022 English

The article appears in the current issue of Conradiana.

Washington Post

How Speculating Doomsday Scenarios Can Provide Paradoxical Comfort

March 10, 2022 English, College of Arts and Humanities

English Professor Matthew Kirschenbaum wrote about the dark Cold War genre, war games, and how speculating doomsday scenarios can provide paradoxical comfort in The Washington Post.

Body Literature

Body Literature Interviews Professor Joshua Weiner on Translating "Flight in Metamorphosis"

March 02, 2022 English

Poet and translator Joshua Weiner's translations of Nobel-prize-winning German poet Nelly Sachs (1891–1970) published as Flight and Metamorphosis.

The Diamondback

UMD Students and Faculty Say They Want ‘Academic Freedom,’ Not Book Bans

February 28, 2022 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

First-year English graduate student Shannon Neal interviewed by the Diamondback.

Maryland Today

Prisoners, Patients and Performers

February 24, 2022 English

UMD professor’s new book imagines lives of 19th-century women confined in Paris hospital.

Joshua Weiner, Translations and New Works Published

February 18, 2022 English

Read the newly translated release of Flight and Metamorphosis.

Elizabeth Arnold's Poem to be Featured in the Kenyon Review

February 18, 2022 English

Elegy will appear in May 2022.

Updates from Emeritus Professor Robert Kolker

February 18, 2022 English

Emeritus Professor Robert Kolker New book from Rutgers University Press