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The English Department is a vibrant center for teaching, learning, and research, offering courses on literature, communication, writing, rhetoric, journalism, creative writing, and digital media. The Master of Arts in Texts, Technologies, and Literature provides an opportunity for advanced students to further their understanding of literature and a broad array of other texts, including digital, academic, and those that function in everyday use, in relation to both historical and contemporary culture.
The English Department takes great pride in our combination of award-winning research and deep commitment to students and teaching. Our faculty are among the most productive researchers at UMBC and have interests in a wide range of specialties in literature, writing, communication, and technology. UMBC’s outstanding English faculty past and present includes winners of the Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo fellowships, as well as recipients of the American Book Award, the American Studies Network Prize, the James N. Britten Award for Inquiry in the Language Arts, the James Thurber Prize for Comic Fiction, the Society for Professional Journalists’ Award for commentary, the City and Regional Magazine Award for column writing, and Baltimore Magazine‘s Best of the Web award.
Recent Submissions
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Attending the School of Pain: Disabled Children in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
(2023-01-01)This thesis is concerned with looking at several common character archetypes of disabled children in mid-nineteenth-century American fiction, exploring an intersection between childhood and disability studies that previously ... -
Working With Faculty Partners to Change Conceptions of Writing Beyond University Walls
(Clemson University, 2023)This article argues that writing across the curriculum (WAC) programs are well-positioned to change not only faculty (and student) conceptions around writing within the university, but also to collaborate with disciplinary ... -
BBC at 100: a Trusted International News Source, but it is Important to Remember Whose Values it Reflects
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Louise Blakeney Williams, Modernism and the Ideology of History and Paul Sheehan Modernism and Humanism
(University Of Chicago Press, 2004-11) -
Tango, Gendered Embodiment, and Acousmatic Listening in Argentina
(Stanford University, 2021)This essay considers the modernist cultural production of tango within the contexts of broadcast radio and popular print in the 1920s and 1930s, when both tango and radio were reaching their heyday. Because of its deep ... -
Making "Digital Cruikshank": A Special Collections Collaboration
(2023-04-21)In Fall 2022, students in Lindsay DiCuirci's combined undergraduate and graduate English seminar participated in a semester-long collaboration with UMBC Special Collections. This course was supported by a Hrabowski Innovation ... -
"It's About Damn Time": Lizzo and the Rhetoric of Body Positivity
(2022-01-01)Through rhetorical analysis, I argue that popular culture sensation Lizzo emulatesrestorative literacy practices for fat, Black women to navigate harmful cultural norms manifested as anti-blackness, misogynoir, and fatphobia ... -
Reimagining the Open Letter: A Genre Study
(2022-01-01)In this paper, I discuss the generic typifications of the open letter. The absence of a genre study of the open letter is a gap I attempt to close in current literature regarding epistolary writing. Through this examination, ... -
Digital Cruikshank: Etching & Sketching in Nineteenth-Century England
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Project-Based Teaching in Special Collections: Building Digital Cruikshank
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Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination by Kenyon Gradert (review)
(MIT Press, 2022-03-01)hough every civil rights advance of previous decades was not reversed, many were. National recognition of a revived states’ rights doctrine, manifest in “separate but equal,” would assure policies of white supremacy for ... -
Shakespeare and Fletcher’s Henry VIII: What ‘Reformation’?
(2021-07-18)Shakespeare never used the words ‘Protestant’ or ‘Catholic’ in his plays, even when the main action centers around religious conflict, as in Henry VIII. Most of the polarizing diction of denominational or internecine ... -
Mother Siege
(The Offing, 2019-09-18) -
DO NOT RISE BY BETH BACHMANN
(The Rumpus, 2016-02-12) -
Myself and Strangers: Fragments and Thresholds in Sahar Muradi's [ G A T E S ]
(University of Southern Indiana, 2017) -
Dancing in September
(Sixth Finch, 2018) -
Keegan Cook Finberg, excerpts from The Thought of Preservation
(X-Peri, 2019-07-09)
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