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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. The English Department is the home of the Shakespeare Association of America.
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FEATURED NEWS AND EVENTS
Congratulations to Chris Corbett, Professor of the Practice, for receiving the UMS Regents' Faculty Award for Mentoring.
Fall 2008 English Department Speakers Series
Jonathan Gil Harris, The George Washington University
Tuesday, September 23, 1-2:15PM, University Center 301
Professor Harris specializes in the literature and culture of Early Modern
England, particularly the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. He
is interested in early modern understandings of globalization and the
foreign, and how these have helped shape our knowledge and experiences of
bodies, disease, commerce, travel, religious difference, material culture,
and temporality. He is also the associate editor of Shakespeare Quarterly.
Andrew Porter, Trinity University
Wednesday, November 5, TBA
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.
English Department Colloquium
Fall schedule coming soon. |
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