As we head into the final week of classes, we have a lot of work on our collective hands, but also much to celebrate. For those readers who are on or around the Orono campus, please take special note of Wednesday’s opportunity to gather together to lessen the stress with good company and fun activities. […]
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Jansen Presents on the Gimmick in Professional Wrestling Today at Noon On Monday, November 18 at 12:00 pm in Dunn Hall 424 (and via Zoom; contact Haley Schneider for the Zoom meeting link), Brian Jansen will be giving a talk as part of the Department of Communication and Journalism’s 2024-2025 Colloquium Series. His talk, titled […]
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This week’s bulletin is here, a bit belatedly, to divert you from election eve jitters and to remind you that we’ll be here, taking words seriously, come what may. Let’s stay connected and committed to one another and to the truth-telling powers of the written word! Bicks Delivers Pre-Screening Talk on “Horror and the Power […]
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Adams Leads Student Trip to Fredericton This past weekend, Oct. 25-27, Assistant Professor Hollie Adams and Associate Professor Mark McLaughlin (of the History Department) took a group of fifteen students, including five graduate students from the English Department, on a field trip to Fredericton, New Brunswick. The students, some of whom are taking Adams’s ENG […]
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CLAS Awards This Afternoon This afternoon in Wells Commons, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will celebrate its annual award ceremony starting at 3:30pm and English will be well represented. Sarah Harlan-Haughey is the recipient of this year’s C. Wickham Skinner Humanities Award. Paige McHatten will be recognized as the CLAS Outstanding Graduating Senior and Mollie Glueck will receive the […]
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MA Student Symposium This Thursday Evening The English Graduate Student Association will host the annual spring symposium celebrating the creative and scholarly work of the department’s MA students this Thursday, April 18 from 5-8pm in the Writing Center (Neville 402). The full program can be consulted here. You can browse EGSA merch on Bonfire, featuring […]
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The Open Field Launch Party This Thursday The late-season Nor’easter that closed campus last Thursday cannot stop the blossoming of another edition of the annual undergraduate literary journal, The Open Field, which we will celebrate with a launch party this Thursday afternoon beginning at 4pm in the Writing Center. Refreshments will be served. For more […]
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Jonathan Barron to Co-Lead Poetry Roundtable on “the New Lyric” at Robert Frost Sesquicentennial in San Diego Scholars from across the world will gather in San Diego later this month to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of the poet Robert Frost. Professors Natalie Gerber and Jonathan Barron will lead a 3-day (March 22-23) […]
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A Glimpse into ENG 222: Reading Poems This Tuesday English MA student Michelle Hoeckel-Neal will lead a discussion of white supremacy culture in Ben Friedlander‘s section of ENG 222: Reading Poems. Her visit kicks off two weeks of focus on the visible and invisible work of whiteness in poetry. Last summer, Hoeckel-Neal and Friedlander joined […]
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English Major Kiera Campbell Named as Wiggins Humanities Fellow Kiera Campbell, a junior majoring in English from Buxton, Maine, was named the David ’64 and Alison ’71 Wiggin Humanities Fellow for her proposed research project “Getting To Know A Dead Man: The De-Deification of Brian (A Non-Case Study).” Kirsten Jacobson, associate professor in the Department […]
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