Caroline Bicks on Maine Calling Radio Program Tuesday On Tuesday, October 15, Maine Calling with Jennifer Rooks will host an on-air conversation about “essential books” live from eleven to noon and rebroadcast at 8pm. A little bird tells us that our own Caroline Bicks will be on the program along with Kenneth C. Davis, whose […]
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Mo Drammeh on Panel about Thrillers on Tuesday Evening This Tuesday evening four thriller writers at all stages of their careers will discuss the genre, the types of suspense that excite them most, and the lasting impacts of the books and stories of Stephen King. Featuring Steph Cha (author of Your House Will Pay and […]
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Dryer Presents at CMJ Colloquium Today at Noon Today at noon at the CMJ colloquia series in Dunn Hall 424, Dylan Dryer will be giving a short talk about the often-occluded practices of journal editing and of preparing manuscripts for potential review. Dryer will offer an alternative to conventional wisdom about the literature review and […]
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Amber Hathaway Rescheduled Talk This Wednesday Local author Amber Hathaway’s talk on Grizzly was due to take place during the first week of classes and has been rescheduled for Wednesday September 25th at noon in the Lown Room Memorial Union. As Elizabeth Neiman says: Grizzly, an anthology of fiction and other artistic work by femme […]
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Welcome Back, Everyone As we enter the third week of the new academic year, the English Department is offering more than 130 class sections to approximately 2,250 students in subjects ranging from college composition to graduate seminars in Shakespearean-era poetry and prose, Restoration and 18th-Century British literature, and Canadian literature. Subsequent bulletins will offer glimpses […]
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Submissions Invited for English Writing Awards Submission guidelines for the annual competitions for excellence in writing essays, fiction, poetry, and plays at both the undergraduate and the graduate level can be found in the image below. The deadline is two Fridays from now, on April 5th. Queer Romance Author Cat Sebastian on Campus Tuesday Queer […]
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Caroline Bicks Book on Stephen King Announced Just before the spring break, David Ebershoff, Vice-President and Editor in Chief at Hogarth Press, made the following announcement on Instagram: For the past year Caroline Bicks, the Stephen E. King Chair in Literature at the University of Maine, has been reading her way through the master of […]
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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 New Core Requirement Class This semester marks the first offering of ENG 215: Theories and Practices of Writing, a new core course for the English major. We started the term exploring how the teaching of writing in academic spaces has changed over the last 150 years and how certain practices and beliefs […]
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A Glimpse into Three English Classes This spring, Jonathan Barron is teaching a section of ENG 381: Themes in Literature devoted to the topic of “poetry and myth.” He writes in with this welcome update: For the week of February 5th, the class on myth and American poetry will read Melvin Tolson’s “Rendezvous with America,” […]
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