King Chair Hosts American Shakespeare Center Members this Week This Tuesday through Thursday, two members of the American Shakespeare Center—Director of Education Sarah Enloe and actor Cordell Cole—will be on campus to facilitate a number of workshops in the community. If anyone would like to meet with them informally for coffee or a meal to […]
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Spring 2020 Advising and Enrollment Enrollment opened this morning for graduate students and advanced seniors and continues through open enrollment on December 2, 2019. Students are encouraged to consult the course description pamphlet available through the department website, which in many cases offers greater detail about classes than is available on MaineStreet. A special advising […]
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I’d like to begin today’s Bulletin with a note of gratitude to English major Katherine Reardon, who sacrificed the better part of a beautiful Saturday morning to meeting with prospective students and their parents at the Open House that took place over the weekend. Reardon’s nuanced account of her experiences as a first year student, […]
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Indigenous Peoples Day As Maine celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day for the first time, it makes sense to revisit the Memorandum of Understanding signed in May 2018 by representatives of the Penobscot Nation and the University of Maine, and to take note of the new signs on campus that recognize the region’s thousands of years of […]
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Poets Featured in New Writing Series This Thursday Afternoon The New Writing Series continues its twentieth-anniversary season with a poetry reading by Sara Nicholson and Sarah Green this Thursday, October 10, at 4:30 in the Allen and Sally Fernald APPE Space (Stewart Commons 104). Jennifer Moxley will host. For more information, check out the NWS […]
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English Majors Loveless and Penney Named Humanities Fellows Earlier today the McGillicuddy Humanities Center announced its new cohort of Undergraduate Fellows, which includes English majors Noah Loveless and Sarah Penney. Here’s a snipped from the announcement: Noah Loveless, Sarah Penney and Matthew Ryckman are the 2019–2020 Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellows at […]
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Ryan Dippre to Keynote at USM on Friday Ryan Dippre, director of College Composition here at UMaine, will deliver the keynote address on Friday at the University of Southern Maine’s “Writing Across the Curriculum” event (noon to 3pm in Lee Auditorium, Room 133 Wishcamper), which is part of their “Title III Event Series Workshops.” The […]
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First Open House a Success I’m pleased to report that the Open House hosted by the English Department last Thursday afternoon was well-attended and warmly-received. Undergraduate and graduate students met with professors in their offices and over refreshments—donut holes! candy corn! apples and apple cider!— in the Wicks Reading Room and the Writing Center (where […]
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English Department Open House This Thursday Afternoon To celebrate the beginning of the new academic year, the English Department will host an open house for current and prospective students on Thursday afternoon from 3pm to 4:30pm. There will be light refreshments starting at 2pm in the Wicks Reading Room (adjacent to the department office in […]
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Many thanks to all of you who found time on Friday to fill the Hill Auditorium with warmth and appreciation as we recognized some of the many accomplishments of students, staff, and faculty at our year-end ceremony. If you were unable to attend but would like a copy of the program, stop by Neville 304 […]
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