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English Dept. News & Events

Fall 2025

International Plain Language Day
October 13, 2025
11 A.M. - 1 P.M.
3rd Floor OMB Hallway outside the Bookstore

Participate virtually at uhd.edu/ipers

  • Learn about plain language principles and the Plain Writing Act of 2010.
  • Participate in our editing contest and receive cool prizes.
  • View posters that discuss the uses and benefits of plain language.

Contact Dr.  Natalia Matveeva at matveevan@uhd.edu for more information.

14th Annual UHD Halloween Horror Film Screening
October 16, 2025

UHD community enjoy outdoor screening of horror film on the main building north deckFilm starts at dark (around 7 P.M.) ends around 8:30 P.M.
Students begin to gather at 6 P.M.
North Deck (Robertson Auditorium if weather does not allow outdoor screening)

UHD’s 14th year of horror film programming for the public during Halloween season provides the third and final installment in a three-year commitment to classic U.S. slasher films with NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (dir. Wes Craven, 1984). Slashing apart the difference between waking life and dream worlds, NIGHTMARE is an original in the slasher subgenre in how it horrifically melts, mutates, and stretches the limits of what seems like ordinary reality. Ordinary spaces like a high school boiler room, a classroom, and the bedrooms and bathrooms in suburban middle-class homes become nightmarish spaces of danger. Freddy Krueger; the film’s once-human, undead monster whose very touch threatens to slice open our skin; also breaks new ground in American horror story telling. Selected to complete a program that began with 2023’s screening of HALLOWEEN (dir. John Carpenter, 1976) and continued with 2024’s screening of FRIDAY THE 13th (dir. Sean S. Cunningham), students in UHD’s film studies minor and concentration suggested this independent, atmospheric slasher as our very best choice.

UHD’s Annual Halloween Horror Film Screening transforms UHD’s North Deck into a lit-up site of artistic and cultural expression, community belonging, and public feelings. Please join UHD students, staff, faculty, alumni, and members of Houston’s vibrant film communities for this evening of socialization, networking, and thinking through fear and disgust under the waning crescent moon.