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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Deadline to Contribute to Spire on Thursday Second year MA student Cora Sadler is Editor-in-Chief of Spire: The Maine Journal of Conservation and Sustainability. She writes to remind everyone that the deadline for consideration of submissions is this Thursday, February 1. Here’s the pitch: Looking for artwork reflecting on humanity’s intricate and embedded relationship with […]
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Welcome Back Did you know that the English Department is host to several informal spaces in Neville Hall where majors, minors, and Master’s students are welcome to read, talk, do group work, or just hang out between classes? The booklined Ulrich Wicks Reading Room is in the English Department and has comfy couches as well […]
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English Majors Volunteer for Admissions Open House Nicole LeBlanc, Finlee LeBouef, and Gabriella Shetreet sacrificed the better part of a warm sunny late-October morning to the good cause of welcoming prospective students with an interest in English to the University of Maine on Saturday, October 28. All three are current students in ENG 271: Act […]
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Morgan Talty Visits Writers of Maine Morgan Talty visited Jody Crouse’s ENG 244: Writers of Maine class last week to discuss his acclaimed collection of stories Night of the Living Rez. Professor Crouse offers this account of the visit: Talty talked with students about how these are, in fact, Maine stories, how he gets ideas […]
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Swacha and Payne Talk about Lake Associations Today at 3pm On Monday, October 16 from 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM, Katie Swacha and Elizabeth Payne will present on the topic of ‘Productive Disagreement’ at the Lake: The Role of Deliberation in Lake Associations as part of the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions ongoing series of […]
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