Congratulations to Ryan Dippre Ryan Dippre was one of seventeen faculty members across the UMaine campus whose promotion and tenure was approved by the Board of Trustees on March 22. Dippre, who directs our nationally recognized first-year composition program, has published a monograph and an edited volume on lifespan writing and also studies writing program […]
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This week we enjoy a well-deserved breather with tomorrow’s “reading day” and a “mini-break” on Wednesday. Happily, the weather seems to be cooperating, too. We’re also heading into “advising season,” so please plan to reach out to your faculty advisor to talk about summer and fall offerings. Katie Swacha Publishes Article on Social Justice Research […]
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Staging Other’s Lives Newly hired assistant professor of Theatre and English Rosalie Purvis invites students and colleagues to join a workshop and conversation with artist-scholar Caitlin Kane about the process of creating documentary theatre with and about diverse queer communities. What: “Staging Others’ Lives: The Politics of Queer Documentary Theater” When: Wednesday, March 17th, at […]
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English Department Drop-By on Friday The English Department hosts virtual drop-bys most Friday afternoons to talk informally about matters of mutual interest and to compare notes on the week that was. A friendly mix of majors, minors, graduate students, professors, and alumni—plus partners, kids, and pets—have joined the conversation from one week to the next […]
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Langston Hughes Project Tonight Steve Evans will be leading a discussion with Ron McCurdy about Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz this evening starting at 7:30pm via Zoom (request link here). Come learn about Langston Hughes’s 1961 masterpiece and McCurdy’s long engagement with, visionary interpretation of, and lively improvisation around it. The poem is, […]
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English Department Facebook Group Inspired by the number of alumni who have joined our informal Friday gatherings, and noting that many of them learned of the meetings via a particular Facebook group, we decided to create a new group for the Department as a whole and were pleased to welcome nearly a hundred members in […]
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This week’s bulletin is thick with opportunities to connect, converse, and keep learning. Scroll down for the link to this Friday’s informal “drop-by,” which offers a chance to compare impressions, pose questions, and share recommendations with other members of the extended community of the English Department. Scholar Speaks about Culture and Ecosystems of Care on […]
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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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