The University of Maine - Department of English

Faculty - Steve Evans

Steven R. Evans
Associate Professor of English
Graduate Studies Coordinator
New Writing Series Coordinator
5752 Neville Hall, Room 313
Orono, Maine 04469-5752 U.S.A.
Office Telephone: (207) 581-3818
E-Mail: steven.evans@umit.maine.edu
Webpage

Office Hours

Mondays and Wednesdays 3:00-4:30pm and by appointment

Education

PhD, Brown University, 2000 BA, University of California, 1988

Research Interests

Contemporary poetry and poetics, critical theory, modernism, and the avant-garde.

Experience at the University of Maine

I joined the English Department faculty at the University of Maine as an assistant professor in 1999 and received tenure in 2005. I have coordinated the New Writing Series since 1999 and also served as coordinator for the undergraduate studies program in English from fall of 2004 to spring of 2006. I am currently Graduate Coordinator for the department.

Courses Taught

Graduate

ENG 529 Listen! American Poetry in the Age of the MP3

ENG 570 Critical Theory – A Science of the Singular? Roland Barthes and the Desire for Theory

ENG 570 Critical Theory – The German Tradition from Hegel to Adorno

ENG 580 Topics in Poetry and Poetics – Introduction to Poetics

ENG 580 Topics in Poetry and Poetics – The Poetics of the Phonotext: Timbre, Text, and Technology

ENG 649 Seminar in Modern and Postmodern American Poetry – After Patriarchal Poetry? Feminism, Gender, and the Avant-Garde in 20th-Century American Poetry

Undergraduate

ENG 481 Topics in Women’s Literature – Feminist and Avant-Garde Poetries of the 1970s

ENG 470 Topics in Literary Theory and Criticism – Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit & Its Readers

ENG 470 Topics in Literary Theory and Criticism: The Moment of Tel Quel