Spring 2021 Internships Underway Twelve students will be applying skills learned through their English degrees to the workplace (and earning college credit!) by completing an internship and taking ENG 496. Students will be working on projects with organizations as varied as science writing on COVID, web development, and usability testing with the Louisiana Department of […]
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Deadline for Submissions to The Open Field Extended Taking into account the late start to the spring semester, student editors Lily Comeau-Waite and Nola Prevost have decided to extend the deadline for submission to this year’s edition of the undergraduate literary journal The Open Field until Friday, February 5. Submissions are welcome at openfield.umaine@gmail.com (more […]
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The ninetieth installment of the UMaine English Department bulletin finds us under bright skies in Orono as we commence, about a week later than we normally would, a spring semester like no other. We are offering 135 courses this semester— from first-year composition through advanced graduate seminars—and reaching more than two thousand students, including about […]
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The Open Field Invites Submissions The Open Field is a literary magazine devoted to publishing poetry, prose, mixed-genre writing, and visual art by the undergraduate community at the University of Maine. The editors are accepting submissions at openfield.umaine@gmail.com through January 31, 2021. Please see the attached flyer for further details. ENG 416 Service Learning Project […]
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As we head into the last week of classes, three events—one today and two on Thursday—brighten the literary landscape. We look forward to seeing you at some or all of them! Bria Lamonica: The Art of Breathing, Today at 5:30pm The Art of Breathing, a poetry reading by English Major and McGillicuddy Humanities Center Fellow […]
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Student Assistants Sought for “Coping with Covid” Project Katie Swacha is looking for two paid undergraduate student assistants to assist with her current research project, Coping with COVID. Students hired will help to maintain and update the study website, create new web content, and coordinate with community partners on recruitment and resource development related to […]
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As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, I would like to express our gratitude for your interest in and commitment to the English Department, and to wish for everyone an extra helping of fortitude as we face, individually and as a community, challenges unlike any we could have imagined a year ago. If you have news […]
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“You’ve got to be realistic, and you’ve got to understand that you don’t make the timeline, the virus makes the timeline.” — Anthony Fauci, March 26, 2020 Brother Can You Spare a Poem? The English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) conducted its second annual Haiku contest earlier this fall, selecting both a runner up and a […]
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“You’ve got to be realistic, and you’ve got to understand that you don’t make the timeline, the virus makes the timeline.” — Anthony Fauci, March 26, 2020 Greetings after a long silence, friends! We suspended the bulletin in mid-April in response to the increased volume of administrative email everyone was receiving, but have lately heard […]
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A good news only bulletin, with one shiver supplied by our most illustrious alum. Caleigh Charlebois Awarded Goldwater Scholarship Caleigh Charlebois, a junior in Zoology and Professional Writing, and an Honors student, has been awarded a Goldwater Scholarship. This $7,500 award is given to undergraduate sophomores or juniors with strong research experience who plan to […]
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