This Week in English December 11, 2023 Buchanan Alumni House Open to Students During Finals Week Kathy Hill is the House Manager at Buchanan Alumni House and she wrote this morning with this invitation to students who are preparing for finals this week: Each semester, we close Buchanan to events during finals week and open […]
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This Week in English December 4, 2023 The last week of classes got underway this morning with fresh snow underfoot and flocking the trees. It’s portfolio submission time for the 800 or so students taking ENG 101 this fall, and for the rest of us it’s the sprint to finals week, with poem recitations, project […]
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This Week in English November 20, 2023 Morgan Talty Presents Online Tomorrow at 6pm The Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine is hosting a virtual evening of reading and conversation with Morgan Talty on Tuesday, November 21st from 6–7:30. Talty’s breakout story collection Night of the Living Rez has won widespread critical acclaim, becoming […]
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This Week in English November 13, 2023 MA Student and Former McGillicuddy Fellow Abigail Roberts Presents Today While she was a McGillicuddy Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellow current MA student Abigail Roberts wrote an Honors Thesis under the supervision of Sarah Harlan-Haughey titled Otherworldly Ethics: Trouthe and the Fairy Mistress in the Lays of Lanval, Graelent, […]
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This Week in English November 6, 2023 Rosalie Purvis Presents in WGS@Work Series on Thursday The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program is set to present the latest installment of their WGS@Work series on November 9 from 4:00 – 5:30 PM at the IMRC. This entry is titled “Now that Separateness is Unassailable” and will […]
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Hi, I’m Morgan, a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation in Maine and an assistant professor of English here at the University of Maine. I teach Creative Writing, Native American Literature, and contemporary courses in fiction. As a teacher, I love talking “shop” about books: how they work, how they succeed, how they fail, and […]
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Hello writers and scholars! I am starting my third year as Assistant Professor of Theatre and English here at the University of Maine. This means that I get to teach, research and create within my two areas of passion: performance and literature. Within our English department, I have taught LGBTQ American Dramatic Literature and Queer […]
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This will be the last bulletin I will send as Acting Chair of the Department–stay tuned for Dr. Steve Evans’ return to the post in the fall. I have been honored to serve in this capacity for the past year, but also look forward to returning to the classroom. We have had much to celebrate […]
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We are in the end stretch of the semester now, with defenses and presentations and awards ceremonies galore! Please read on to see all the talks and performances members of our community have prepared for us. Please do make an effort to make time to support your friends, peers, and colleagues. Read on for all […]
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April moves quickly! Much to report below: Please mark your calendars for the UPDATED time and place of the English Awards Ceremony: Tuesday, April 25⋅ 4:30 – 5:30pm at UMaine’s Foster Center for Student Innovation, 123 Long Rd We will celebrate our students’ achievements AND thank our retiring faculty members. We have good news from […]
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