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UMBC's English Department is a vibrant center for teaching, learning, and research with two major tracks: the Literature Track, for the broad range and diverse traditions of literature written in English, and the Communication and Technology Track, for written and spoken communication and the new information technologies. The English minors feature literature, creative writing, journalism, and professional writing.
UMBC's outstanding English faculty includes winners of the Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Fulbright fellowships, as well as recipients of the American Studies Network Prize, the James Thurber Prize for Comic Fiction, the James N. Britton Award for Inquiry in the English Language Arts, and Baltimore Magazine's Best of the Web award.
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FEATURED NEWS AND EVENTS
Fall 2008 English Department Speakers Series
Andrew Porter, Trinity University
Wednesday, November 5, 4pm in UC310
Professor Porter is the author of The Theory of Light and Matter (2008), which won the Flannery O'Connor Award in Short Fiction. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the 2004 W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts, a James Michener-Copernicus Fellowship, a Helene Wurlitzer Fellowship, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship, the Glenna Luschei Award and a Pushcart Prize. In addition, he has published stories in various anthologies and journals, including One Story, Epoch, The Ontario Review, The Threepenny Review, The Antioch Review, Story Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology, among others. We welcome back our former colleague, who previously taught at UMBC. Visit his website here.
Faculty Colloquium Speakers
Julie Donovan
"Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) and the Politics of Style"
October 29,
12pm-1pm
Fine Arts 440 Helen Burgess
"How to Read an Electric Poem"
November 12,
12pm-1pm
Fine Arts 440
Korenman Lecture
The Gender and Women's Studies Program presents the 2nd Annual
Korenman Lecture, co-sponsored by the English Department:
Nancy Armstrong, Professor of English, Duke University
"Gender Must Be Defended"
Monday, November 17th, 4:30 pm, AOK Library, 7th Floor
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