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School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

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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The Diamondback

UMD Community Members Brace for Impacts of Trump Orders on LGBTQ+ Community

March 07, 2025 College of Arts and Humanities

ARHU Dean Stephanie Shonekan quoted in The Diamondback.
The Diamondback

Actress, UMD Alum Poorna Jagannathan Discusses New Show ‘Deli Boys’

March 05, 2025 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

University of Maryland alum, actor Poorna Jagannathan, discussed her chaotic character, Lucky Auntie, in Hulu’s new series Deli Boys.

The Art of Feminist Thought

March 04, 2025 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Exploring art and activism through the lens of feminist theory in a course from UMD’s Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Dialogue for Reproductive Justice through Art, Play and Pupusas!

March 04, 2025 Communication

New research by communication professor Carina Zelaya aims to improve sexual and reproductive health communication among Latinx families.
Maryland Today

9 Terp Women Who Shaped History

March 04, 2025 Communication, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Get to know TV trailblazers, sports heroes, scientists—even an astronaut.
Maryland Today

Rediscovering the Big Screen

March 03, 2025 Center for Literary and Comparative Studies, Cinema and Media Studies, English, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Five-day festival brings restored cinematic gems to UMD.
The Diamondback

Renowned Linguist Discusses Recent Trends in Human Dialect, Language at UMD Talk

March 03, 2025 Maryland Language Science Center

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The New Yorker

An 1887 Opera by a Black Composer Finally Surfaces

February 24, 2025 School of Music, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Edmond Dédé’s “Morgiane” shows how diversity initiatives can promote works of real cultural value.
DC Theater Arts

‘for colored girls…’ at UMD Shares Struggles and Speaks Truth

February 23, 2025 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

University of Maryland's production brings to life Ntozake Shange's choreopoem about African American women in a way that is both modern and timeless.
Maryland Today

Tracing the Contours of Race in Sculpture

February 21, 2025 Art History and Archaeology

UMD alumna curates landmark Smithsonian exhibition.