UDC Department of English

11/01/2025

Happy Halloween from the Folger! May your cauldrons overflow! 🎃

🎨 : "The Witches' Cave from Macbeth" by George Romney. Digital Image File
321 Folger Shakespeare Library.

11/01/2025

Happy Samhaim!

Happy from all of us at JSTOR! 🎃

Wishing you a day filled with curiosity, creativity, and maybe a bit of spooky fun.

Image: Lucky Halloween. 1917. Chromolithograph. Rhode Island School of Design.

11/01/2025

Happy Samhaim!

"Carry me." She leaves this trail through a shudder of the veil, and leaves, like amber where she stays, a gift for her perpetual gaze.

10/17/2025

Every day, professors at the University of the District of Columbia change lives — through their dedication, passion, and commitment to student success. 🎓
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10/17/2025

There are cases of important literary and historical works that survive in only one or two manuscripts. If they had suffered some accident, then our picture of the past might be altered in important…

10/17/2025

For the final days of Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month, scholar Carla Della Gatta looks at the growth of Latinx-inspired Shakespeare productions in the US beginning with "West Side Story" on Broadway in 1957. Read more at the link in our comments! 🔽

10/17/2025

Join us on October 24 for a special opportunity to hear directly from the recipients of the 2025 Pegasus Awards, a suite of literary prizes established by the Poetry Foundation!

After a toast to celebrate their honors, Rigoberto González, Amy Stolls, and Kazim Ali will read and discuss their work. 🥂

Register for this FREE event: https://bit.ly/4nzOo5i

10/07/2025

This Wednesday 7-9pm I'm hosting the Irish American Writers and Artists, Inc salon at Sláinte Oakland featuring Michael McNevin, Megan McLaughlin, and Deborah Crooks! Come on down and enjoy some of the finest artists in the SF Bay over the finest pint of Guinness. Also: they have Tayto crisps!

08/26/2025

The English Program is at the Firebird Rodeo right now!!!!!! Come to UDC's Theater of the Arts Plaza right now!!!!!

05/15/2025

A rare James Baldwin collection is now on display at Cornell University after an extensive collection was acquired by the university in 2023.

05/15/2025

, 27, of Jeffersonville, was found safe in a cabin near Lake Edison in the Sierra mountain range.

The resort's owner, Christopher Gutierrez, found Slaton after cleared the road for him to access and open his property for the summer, authorities said in press release.

Gutierrez told authorities that he kept his cabin unlocked in the rare event that someone would get stranded in the mountains and need to seek shelter.

His hunch appears to have paid off. Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Gutierrez said when he realized a woman was in the , he recognized Slaton from her persons report.

"She pops out, didn’t say a word, just ran up, and all she wanted was a hug. And it was, it was a pretty moment," said Gutierrez. "And that’s when I knew. That’s when I realized who this was."