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Earl Brooks explores how Black musicians shape political and social discourse in debut book ‘On Rhetoric and Black Music’
On the surface, it may appear that there isn’t much of a connection between rapper Kendrick Lamar and abolitionist Harriet Tubman. But in his debut book, UMBC Assistant Professor of English and...
Posted: January 24, 2025, 3:03 PM
Renaissance woman: Khadijah Ali-Coleman ’95 lends her varied voice to the Maryland humanities
Early mentorship at UMBC, layered with her continued education and formative life experiences, has shaped Ali-Coleman’s voice and purpose. From her transformative years at UMBC—where she wrangled...
Posted: November 27, 2024, 9:53 AM
Infrastructure of support after Key Bridge collapse
In 1987, Paul Flinton, then a 23-year-old senior studying at UMBC, decided to make a short documentary focused on the tollbooth workers on the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The six-minute...
Posted: June 13, 2024, 1:40 PM
Meet a Retriever—Michelle Jabes Corpora ‘03, young adult author and editor
MeetMichelle Jabes Corpora’03, English and theatre. Michelle is the author of nine novels, an editor for commercial fiction, and an avid student of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. She came to UMBC as a...
Posted: June 5, 2024, 11:57 AM
A Journey of Growth
International travel offers ample opportunities to stretch yourself—one minute you may be the expert and the next, completely clueless about how something works. Retrievers currently in the...
Posted: May 29, 2024, 2:32 PM
A Journey of Growth
International travel offers ample opportunities to stretch yourself—one minute you may be the expert and the next, completely clueless about how something works. Retrievers currently in the...
Posted: May 29, 2024, 2:32 PM
Office Hours with President Sheares Ashby and URCAD student artist
During her office hours, President Valerie Sheares Ashby makes it a point to meet weekly with students and hear about their UMBC experiences and their aspirations for life after UMBC. Today, Jenna...
Posted: May 21, 2024, 2:32 PM
How 19th-century Spiritualists ‘canceled’ the idea of hell to address social and political concerns
Written by Lindsay DiCuirci, associate professor of English at UMBC. Between Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio, drivers pass a billboard on Interstate 71 that has achieved some internet fame....
Posted: May 8, 2024, 12:11 PM
Ryan Bloom, English, receives 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship for translation
Ryan Bloom, senior lecturer in English, has received the 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship for translation to work on the first complete edition of the French-Algerian author Albert Camus’s notebooks,...
Posted: May 7, 2024, 9:33 AM
Mellon Foundation grants CAHSS $750K to establish Global Asias Initiative
Kimberly Moffitt, dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Socials Sciences, and co-pi Tamara Bhalla, associate professor of American studies and director of the Asian American studies minor,...
Posted: April 3, 2024, 11:06 AM
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