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UMD Launches Global Culture and Thought Major

New program emphasizes international cultures and languages to prepare graduates for an increasingly globalized world.

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Vladimir Paperny Visits UMD as 2025 Maya Brin Resident

Vladimir Paperny sparks dialogue in weeklong residency with the UMD community.

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Register for Winter term online classes

Gain ground and earn UMD credits through this convenient 3-week session. January 2-22nd. Courses offered include CINE, GERS, HEBR and SPAN

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Maryland-in-Aix: A New Chapter for Global Learning in French at UMD

Beginning Fall 2026, EA and the French department within SLLC will open a new chapter with Maryland-in-Aix.

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Berlin Scholar Visits UMD to Explore Relationships in the Performing Arts

Assistant Professor Jenny Schrödl joined German studies and TDPS for a weeklong residency exploring how relationships are portrayed in the performing arts.

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Welcome to the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures in the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, College Park.

We invite you to learn more about our languages and programs, our undergraduate and graduate degrees and our special programs like the Language House Living-Learning Program, the Language Partner Program, the Persian Flagship Program, Project GO and the Summer Language Institutes.

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The School is a transdisciplinary teaching and research unit. Our students, faculty, and staff investigate and engage with the linguistic, cultural, cinematic, and literary worlds of speakers of ArabicChinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, JapaneseKorean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish, as well as Cinema and Media Studies.


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The School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures offers three Ph.D. programs, four M.A. programs and an advanced graduate certificate in Second Language Acquisition. Our students pursue successful careers in academia, the government, secondary education and the private sector.

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El Paraíso incendiado. La Almohada de arena. Versos del maquis

Critical introduction to poetry of exile and political resistance after the Spanish Civil War.

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Author/Lead: José María Naharro-Calderón
Non-ARHU Contributor(s): Celso Amieva
Dates:

Edited poetry collection by Celso Amieva, featuring an extensive scholarly introductory essay that contextualizes the poet’s work within exile literature, anti-Franco resistance, and historical memory.

El Rapto de Europa

Critical edition of Max Aub’s resistance play with scholarly introduction, notes, and archival materials.

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Author/Lead: José María Naharro-Calderón
Non-ARHU Contributor(s): Max Aub
Dates:

A critical scholarly edition of Max Aub’s play El Rapto de Europa, including a substantial academic introduction, annotated text, endnotes, and historical photographs addressing exile, resistance, and European cultural crisis.

Ética celestial y otros relatos entreverados

Introductory critical essay on contemporary Spanish short fiction and ethical narrative.

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Author/Lead: José María Naharro-Calderón
Non-ARHU Contributor(s): Juan José Gómez OrdoñoJosé María Naharro-Calderón
Dates:

This volume includes a scholarly introductory essay analyzing Juan José Gómez Ordoño’s short stories, focusing on ethics, narrative form, and historical reflection in contemporary Spanish literature.

Land Acknowledgement

Every community owes its existence and strength to the generations before them, around the world, who contributed their hopes, dreams, and energy into making the history that led to this moment.

Truth and acknowledgement are critical in building mutual respect and connections across all barriers of heritage and difference.

So, we acknowledge the truth that is often buried: We are on the ancestral lands of the Piscataway People, who are the ancestral stewards of this sacred land. It is their historical responsibility to advocate for the four-legged, the winged, those that crawl and those that swim. They remind us that clean air and pristine waterways are essential to all life.

This Land Acknowledgement is a vocal reminder for each of us as two-leggeds to ensure our physical environment is in better condition than what we inherited, for the health and prosperity of future generations.

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