News – Language Literacy & Culture Doctoral Program

Dept. of Education Research Seminar Series

Kicks off @noon on Sept 3rd w/ Dr. Jennifer Mata-McMahon

September 3 | 12-1pm | University Center, 310 UMBC Department of Education Research Seminar Series “Spirituality: How we define it, defines us” Dr. Jennifer Mata-McMahon, Professor, UMBC Dept. of...

Posted: August 21, 2025, 4:11 PM

Build Your Research Toolkit: New Grad Student Workshops from AOK Library! Post

Designed to build practical skills you can apply right away

Reposting! Original post here Skills for Graduate Students is a new series of practical library workshops designed to support your research, writing, and organization. This fall,...

Posted: August 20, 2025, 4:53 PM

Q Methodology: Mapping Shared Viewpoints

Adrian Lundberg, Malmö University, Sweden

September 9, 2025 | 3:00-4:00pm | Public Policy Building 451 | UMBC Main Campus Campus Map In this talk, I introduce Q methodology as a flexible approach for studying people’s viewpoints....

Posted: August 20, 2025, 3:02 PM

Q Methodology: Mapping Shared Viewpoints

Research Methodology Talk

The Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) graduate program; Language, Literacy, and Culture (LLC) doctoral program; and the Center for Social Science Scholarship (CS3) present a...

Posted: August 20, 2025, 12:52 PM

Acting Associate Director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities for Fall 2025

María Célleri, Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies, will serve as our Acting Associate Director for the Fall 2025 semester. “I’m delighted to join the...

Posted: August 19, 2025, 8:26 PM

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Dresher Center Fall 2025 Fellows

This fall, two UMBC faculty members and a graduate student were awarded fellowships from the Dresher Center. Jiyoon Lee, Associate Professor in Education, will work on two chapters of her...

Posted: August 19, 2025, 4:34 PM

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Fall Faculty Writing Group

sign up by September 2nd

The writing group is an opportunity for faculty to be grouped with a few people from across disciplines at UMBC to network and hold each other accountable to writing during the academic year....

Posted: August 19, 2025, 2:11 PM

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Current Grant and Fellowship Opportunities

Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences (Fall 2025)

***reposted from CARAT*** Click here for current external funding opportunities for Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences, with deadlines in September through November 2025....

Posted: August 19, 2025, 10:16 AM

Exploring the Gadgets & Gizmos in Your AI Toolkit

Fall Symposium offered by the AOK Library

Exploring the Gadgets & Gizmos in Your AI Toolkit This free symposium will be held on Webex at noon on Wednesdays from October 1st through November 12th. See the attached flyer and visit the...

Posted: August 19, 2025, 10:13 AM

How to Prepare a Social Science/Humanities Literature Review

An AOK Library Workshop

***reposted from AOK Library*** September 22, 2025 | 12-1pm | AOK Library, Room 259 or Webex What are some of the best strategies and tips for writing a literature review? Whether you are...

Posted: August 19, 2025, 10:11 AM