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Plot twist— Michelle Corpora ’03 took a nonlinear path to becoming NYT bestselling author
It was around five o’clock on a Wednesday in May, and Michelle Jabès Corpora ’03, English and theatre, was on her sofa watching her favorite British murder mystery on TV. It had been a long shot...
Posted: June 1, 2026, 8:39 AM
Bartleby is more than golden—50+ years with UMBC’s creative arts journal
Quinn shows his poem published in the 1979 – 1980 Bartleby edition. (Catalina Dansberger Duque/UMBC) “Bartleby NEEDS YOU!” This was the handwritten call to arms in 1979, for writers and poets...
Posted: May 21, 2026, 5:07 PM
Maia Turman Cooke ’26—English and political science double major, McNair Scholar, and Choice Program workforce and education advocate
With support from faculty, staff, and her peers, Maia Turman Cooke ’26, English and political science, not only thrived in her double major but also challenged herself by joining the McNair...
Posted: May 17, 2026, 9:53 PM
UMBC opens a new chapter with inaugural BookFest
Appropriately, chapter one of UMBC’s inaugural BookFest began at AOK Library Plaza. Hundreds of students gathered at the BookMarkIt to try letterpress printing, stitch pamphlets, create and swap...
Posted: May 15, 2026, 2:10 PM
Can anything be read as poetry? Keegan Cook Finberg, English, is opening students’ eyes to the poetic world
Keegan Cook Finberg, an assistant professor of English, started graduate school at UC Santa Cruz during the financial crisis of 2008, in a moment of extreme recession. “Privatization and austerity...
Posted: March 12, 2026, 4:26 PM
The chase and thrill of researching erotic worlds
A couple of years ago, Jessica Floyd was enjoying delicious olive flatbreads in Opio, France, a village on the French Riviera, thanks to the hospitality of Judith Legman, who owned the olive grove...
Posted: December 15, 2025, 4:29 PM
Who is AI for? Eric Stokan receives USM professorship to address barriers and promote AI equity for students and faculty
For tech-savvy individuals like Eric Stokan, artificial intelligence, programming languages, and open-source software are powerful tools that can turn once-impossible ideas into reality....
Posted: October 9, 2025, 5:19 PM
Who is AI for? Eric Stokan receives USM professorship to address barriers and promote AI equity for students and faculty
For tech-savvy individuals like Eric Stokan, artificial intelligence, programming languages, and open-source software are powerful tools that can turn once-impossible ideas into reality....
Posted: October 9, 2025, 5:19 PM
Hrabowski Fund for Innovation awardees continue to drive new approaches to teaching and learning
A cross-disciplinary incubator rooted in theatrical storytelling. Artificial intelligence and machine learning ethics education that blends ethical inquiry with hands-on technical exploration....
Posted: October 7, 2025, 3:51 PM
Jane Austen as an abolitionist? Margie Burns unpacks the loaded history of the phrase “pride and prejudice”
Figuring out what to get someone for their birthday can be both fun and daunting, especially when it’s their 250th birthday. On December 16, 1775, Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire,...
Posted: August 7, 2025, 12:57 PM
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