Congratulations to M.F.A. student Tega Oghenechovwen, who was awarded the Elizabeth George Foundation Grant earlier this spring! The grant will support him after graduation as he continues researching and writing his upcoming collection of short stories. Read more: english.umd.edu/news/tega-og...

Please join us this Wednesday, May 7, at 6 pm in Ulrich Recital Hall for a Writers Here and Now event featuring our graduating MFA students! This event is free and open to the public.

Distinguished University Professor of English @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social has emerged as a leading voice on AI. Read our Q&A to learn more about how AI is transforming the way we communicate, educate and govern: english.umd.edu/news/how-matthew-kirschenbaum-sees-ais-impact

English Professor Amanda Bailey argues that Shakespeare's plays help us confront today's urgent debates about race, gender and power—not by offering easy answers, but by asking hard questions. Read more in our Q&A: english.umd.edu/news/why-we-still-read-shakespeare

Please join us next Wednesday, April 30 to hear Professor Cecilia Shelton speak about her book in progress! This talk discusses a case study analysis from Shelton's forthcoming manuscript, "Act Like You Know: Black Feminist Methodology in Technical and Professional Communication."

Join UMD English at Maryland Day this Saturday, April 26 at Tawes Plaza! We're hosting an abundance of fun literary-themed activities this year, including a banned book giveaway, word blocks, friendship bracelets and temporary tattoos. See the full schedule: english.umd.edu/events/umd-e...

Coming up tomorrow! Please join the Creative Writing MFA Program and the Center for Literary and Comparative Studies for "The Lyric Essay as Poetic Praxis," a craft talk by Camonghne Felix.

Join us tomorrow for a Vambery Lecture featuring Mauro Resmini! Titled "Affect of the Frontier: Resentment in the Postwar Hollywood Western," the lecture will interrogate cinema to trace the genealogy of one of the most ubiquitous affects in our contemporary socio-political landscapes: resentment.

Coming up this Wednesday: a Writers Here and Now event featuring alumni! Join us for a book launch, taking place at 4:30 p.m. in 2115 Tawes Hall, and a reading, at 6 p.m. in Ulrich Recital Hall. This event is free and open to the public.

Join us on Thursday, April 10, for an invited talk by Robin D. G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nahs Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA, titled “‘Freedom is a Place’: On War, Displacement, and Genocide in the 21st Century.” english.umd.edu/events/robin...

This Friday, a Local Americanists Works-in-Progress event featuring Professor Jennifer James (George Washington University), who will discuss her paper "Swamp Fever: W.E.B. Du Bois, Afro-optimism, Abolitionist Ecology and the Black Commons." More info: english.umd.edu/events/local...

Rescheduled from February! Please join us this Thursday for "Blackout in Gaza," a talk by Professor Nadia Yaqub of UNC Chapel Hill. This talk is co-sponsored by @wgss-umd.bsky.social, Persian Studies and Arabic Studies. More info: english.umd.edu/events/blackout-gaza

Please join us on Zoom this Wednesday, March 26, for "Apocalyptic Ecologies: Medieval Literature at the End of the World" by Professor Shannon Gayk of the University of Indiana. More info: english.umd.edu/events/marsh...

AI? Ecology? Poetics? Black joy? Sign. me. up. Join us this week as we welcome the renowned artist and technologist Curry Hackett to AADHum, for a campus workshop + the second event in our ongoing series at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social Hyattsville!

George Pelecanos's advice to new and aspiring writers: read voraciously and live a full life! Read more takeaways from the UMD alum, an acclaimed crime novelist and co-producer of “The Wire” and other HBO series, who visited UMD yesterday! today.umd.edu/renowned-cri... @umdenglish.bsky.social

Announcing the 2025 DC Queer Studies Symposium 🌈🎓 LAG: Labor, Aesthetics, Geopolitics, invites scholars @asliz.bsky.social, Kwame Edwin Otu, Lucina Ramberg, Cole Rizki, and Tara Asgar on April 3-4 to focus in on geopolitics in queer studies. Learn more and RSVP at go.umd.edu/DCQS2025 #academicsky

Today is UMD Giving Day! The Department of English has four great funds to support this year:

Coming up next Friday: the 18th annual GEO Conference! The conference will be held in person in Tawes Hall from 9 am to 6 pm. More info: english.umd.edu/events/geo-c... 📷: The Processional, Romare Bearden (1983). Courtesy of The Driskell Center, University of Maryland.

Please join us next Thursday at 5 pm for a lecture by Professor Ulka Anjaria of Brandeis University titled "Language as Violence or Possibility: Caste and Gender in the Writings of Urmila Pawar." This event is part of the Bebe Koch Petrou Lecture Series. More info: english.umd.edu/events/langu...

Join us for a Writers Here and Now event featuring Karen Solie and LaToya Watkins next Wednesday, February 26! The reading will take place at 6 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. More info: english.umd.edu/events/writers-here-and-now-karen-solie-latoya-watkins

John Ernest, the Judge Hugh Morris Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Delaware, will deliver the Stringer lecture next Tuesday! More info: english.umd.edu/events/john-ernest-art-impossible-african-american-and-american-literary-studies-threatening-times

Banned Book Madness 2025 has begun! Visit our Instagram Stories @umdenglish and vote for your favorite banned books. More info: english.umd.edu/banned-book-madness-2025

An interdisciplinary creative writing workshop co-taught by English Lecturer Edward Daschle is immersing students in the world of quantum energy and steampunk science fiction. today.umd.edu/quantum-steampunk-creative-writing-course-explores-the-science-of-science-fiction

Made possible by a 2024 Teaching Innovation Grant, NarraSpace at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities is a new immersive storytelling lab redefining scholarship with VR, spatial audio, gaming and more. english.umd.edu/news/step-na...

Happy first day of classes! We're ready to kick off a great spring semester! 📚

Congratulations to English Ph.D. student Lisa Osei, who was selected to receive the Edward Guiliano Global Fellowship by the Modern Language Association! Osei's project is titled “Sankofa’s Cosmic Adansikro: Mapping out Afrofuturist Worlds through Interactive Web Game Design.”

Congratulations to English Ph.D. students Alice Bi and Oluwafunmilola Fadairo and creative writing M.F.A. student Somto Ihezue, who are among the recipients of the Fall 2024 UMD Arts for All ArtsAMP Graduate Student Research Grants and Collaborative Student MicroGrants! arts.umd.edu/articles/fal...

The National Endowment for the Arts recently interviewed poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, associate professor of English and director of the M.F.A program in creative writing, about the use of AI and technology in their work. www.arts.gov/stories/blog...

Please join us in person or virtually for an exciting student conference on Friday, December 6! The conference features keynote speaker Prof. Jennifer Greeson (UVA) and undergraduate student research. More info & RSVP: english.umd.edu/events/rites-discovery-science-law-and-literature-1492-1992

The Disability Resource and Technology Hub has launched! Housed in the Department of English and funded by a Teaching Innovation Grant, the Hub provides tools and support specifically for writing-intensive courses. english.umd.edu/news/anti-ab...

Save the date for our next Local Americanists works-in-progress virtual event on Friday, December 6! Professor Emeritus David Wyatt will share and discuss a chapter from his forthcoming book from LSU Press. More info & RSVP: english.umd.edu/events/local...

A beautiful remembrance of Elizabeth Arnold, professor of English and acclaimed poet, written by Professor Joshua Weiner for the Poetry Foundation. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/162...

Here's a recent opinion piece by Distinguished University Professor of English @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social on artificial intelligence and ed-tech, published in @chronicle.com. www.chronicle.com/article/ai-m...

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