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A digital collage of an orange book co-authored by Kristina Gaddy with a headshot of the author on the right, and the words humanities books in the margins with an image of the United States in a circle

Author Kristina Gaddy ’09, collaborates with Rhiannon Giddens, Grammy Award-winning musician, on the history of Black American music

Mar 12, 2026 / 6 minutes of reading
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Can anything be read as poetry? Keegan Cook Finberg, English, is opening students’ eyes to the poetic world 

Mar 12, 2026 / 8 minutes of reading
A cartoon digital rendering of a man in an orange jumpsuit surrounded by autopsy equipment. Erin Hogan Cinema Franco

Laughing in the dark—UMBC’s Erin Hogan writes about Spain’s cinema after Franco

Dec 16, 2025 / 3 minutes of reading
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The chase and thrill of researching erotic worlds

Dec 15, 2025 / 5 minutes of reading
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Jane Austen as an abolitionist? Margie Burns unpacks the loaded history of the phrase “pride and prejudice”

Aug 7, 2025 / 4 minutes of reading
UMBC humanities speaker Tania Lizarazo

Nurturing peace through daily acts, collaborative research with Afro-Colombian women in Colombia’s Pacific Northwest

Aug 5, 2025 / 2 minutes of reading
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The evolution, existence, and extinction of butch culture

Aug 1, 2025 / 2 minutes of reading
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