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. The English Department is the home of the Shakespeare Association of America.

FEATURED NEWS AND EVENTS

A Celebration of Creative Writing and Art

April 24, 4:00 p.m. in the Library Gallery

A unique collaboration between UMBC student authors and artists will take place Thursday April 24 at 7 PM in the Library Gallery. The authors, including the 2008 winners of the English Department's Malcolm C. Braly Awards and the Bartleby Awards, will read their poetry, fiction, and essays alongside visual interpretations of their work by graphic design students, who will speak briefly about the genesis of their artwork. The event will also celebrate the release of the new 2008 issue of Bartleby, UMBC's creative arts journal. Reception to follow. Join Friends of the Library & Gallery, Bartleby, and the departments of English and Visual Arts for this explosion of interdisciplinary creativity!

Congratulations to Chris Corbett, Professor of the Practice, for receiving the UMS Regents' Faculty Award for Mentoring.

Spring 2008 English Department Speakers Series

Thursday, May 1 at 4:00 p.m. in the Library Gallery.

Elaine Hadley, "A Body of Opinion: Middlemarch, Gladstone and Victorian Liberalism" Elaine Hadley is an associate professor at the University of Chicago. Professor Hadley teaches and writes about nineteenth-century British culture, and has in recent years been particularly interested in thinking about popular culture broadly defined (theater, journalism, cheap fiction) and political culture, especially liberalism as a social formation. She has just completed the manuscript for her second book, entitled Living Liberalism, which addresses Victorian political culture through political theory, theories of embodiment and the material practices of citizenship. Her first book, Melodramatic Tactics: Theatricalized Dissent in the English Marketplace, 1800-1885, was published by Stanford University Press in 1995.

English Department Colloquium

April 30, noon, in FA440

Michele Osherow, Clinical Assistant Professor of English, "Radical Thoughts at Sedar: Readings of Exodus"

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