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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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UMD'S School of Music Appoints Andrea E. Brown as the New Marching Band Director

February 27, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Music

Meet the new director of the Mighty Sound of Maryland.
The Diamondback

OMER QUARTET'S MUSIC FOR FOOD CONCERT FIGHTS HUNGER WITH MUSIC

February 27, 2018 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College of Arts and Humanities, School of Music

The Omer Quartet raised more than $400 for the pantry by bringing Music for Food to UMD.
The Listening Post

ARRESTED, BANNED, EXILED: EGYPT'S DISSENTING VOICES

February 24, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities, Communication

With presidential elections due next month, dissent has all but disappeared in Sisi's Egypt.
Eater

"UGLY DELICIOUS" DELVES INTO THE COMPLICATED HISTORY OF AN AMERICAN STAPLE IN "FRIED CHICKEN"

February 23, 2018 American Studies, College of Arts and Humanities

Psyche Williams-Forson weighs in on the complex history of fried chicken.
The Boston Globe

IN THIS FICTIONAL TOWN, THE CONSEQUENCES OF A SCHOOL SHOOTING ARE ALL TOO REAL

February 20, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Jennifer Barclay’s “Ripe Frenzy” could be considered prescient if the event it describes wasn’t so depressingly routine.

For the Birds: Do We Choose Who We Love?

February 13, 2018 English

Emotions and science were closely linked in medieval literature.
Al Jazeera International

HOW DOES THE U.S. PERCEIVE EGYPT'S PRESIDENTIAL RACE?

February 11, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities, Communication

Sahar Khamis weighs in on U.S. perceptions of the Egyptian presidential race.

VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE PHOTOS!

February 10, 2018 Classics

Students who recently returned from the Classics Winterterm study abroad program in Italy have posted their entries in our photo contest!  Go to the album on the Classics Department Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a....
The Washington Informer

ARTISTS TAKE A LOOK AT SELF IN NEW EXHIBITION

February 07, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities

Viewers see connection between artist and surroundings.
The Washington Post

TDPS IN 2018 HELEN HAYES AWARD NOMINATIONS

February 05, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

UMD students, faculty and alumni recognized in Washington, DC theatre community.