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School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Spanish and Portuguese

Bad Bunny as Scholarly Subject?

UMD course explores Puerto Rico’s soundscape of protest and poetics.

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October 02, 2025 Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Roshan Institute to Establish Persian Digital Library

Supported by $1.8M private gift, project will be first of its kind.
September 18, 2025 Art History and Archaeology

Message From Met's Social Media Manager: Museums Are for Everyone

Alum uses digital platforms to spotlight overlooked voices.
September 08, 2025 English

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram on ‘Writing with Machines’

The poet and professor discusses computational poetics, the history of machine-made texts and their vision for UMD’s new Studio for Literary Technology.
September 08, 2025 Communication, Linguistics

UMD Researchers Will Use AI to Help Boost HPV Vaccine Confidence

New $2.8M NIH grant funds interdisciplinary chatbot project with UMB.
June 20, 2025 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Music

A New Spin on an Enduring Protest Album

ARHU dean’s new book examines messages of Fela Kuti.
May 21, 2025 Art History and Archaeology

A Future in Conservation

At UMD, graduating senior Lylah Messinger restored a 2,500-year-old Etruscan vase. Now she’s headed to graduate school in London.

May 20, 2025 Communication

From Fan to Force in Sports Media

Graduating senior Connor Perkins leverages creativity, drive and a love of sports to carve his path in digital content creation.

May 05, 2025 College of Arts and Humanities, English

How Matthew Kirschenbaum Sees AI’s Impact

The Distinguished University Professor of English is a leading voice on how AI is transforming the way we communicate, educate and govern.
April 26, 2025 Communication

Battling Misinformation in a Post-Pandemic World

Assistant Professor Becca Beets on the challenges of communicating about science.
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ARHU In The News

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver October 02, 2025

Netanyahu: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

An article, co-written by Ilai Saltzman, director of the Gildenhorn Institute, was recently featured on the HBO program.
The Independent September 11, 2025

Meet the Americans who love 'Downton Abbey'

Research Professor of History Julie Taddeo talks to The Independent.
Against the Grain August 29, 2025

"Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen"

Professor Neda Atanasoski, chair of the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, discusses her new co-edited book with KPFA's "Against the Grain."

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2018 State of the College Address

September 24, 2018 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Remarks by Dean Thornton Dill to students, faculty and staff at the college’s annual convocation.

UMD Receives Funding to Produce Yearlong Kurt Weill Festival

September 24, 2018 School of Music

Students and audiences will experience the composer’s complex musical range.

Five Things You Didn’t Know About Jim Henson’s Time as a Terp

September 24, 2018

On muppet maker’s birthday, take a seat—and a pic.
The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Stress of Being a Minority Faculty Member

September 23, 2018 Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

An author examines the ways in which elite colleges can be toxic to the minority faculty members they hire, and what might be done to improve the situation.
Maryland Today

A New Round for Applause

September 19, 2018 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Student-designed furniture rounds out café renovation.
Maryland Today

Dressed in Time

September 18, 2018 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Spike Lee turns to MFA grad to costume his casts.
The Diamondback

"Moving Visuals" at the Driskell Center is Shocking and Enlightening

September 16, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities, David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora

The "Moving Visuals" exhibit deals with issues of blackness, power and identity through bizarre videos and nude performance.

Arts and Humanities Faculty Named 2018 Distinguished University Professors

September 13, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities, Philosophy, School of Music

Peter Carruthers and Chris Gekker receive the university’s highest academic honor for faculty.
Aeon

Slavery-Entangled Philosophy

September 12, 2018 History

John Locke took part in administering the slave-owning colonies. Does that make him, and liberalism itself, hypocritical?

2018-19 New Faculty Appointments

September 11, 2018 American Studies, Art History and Archaeology, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, History, Japanese, Persian, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music

The College of Arts and Humanities welcomes the new faculty cohort to UMD.