The Open Field Launch Party This Thursday The late-season Nor’easter that closed campus last Thursday cannot stop the blossoming of another edition of the annual undergraduate literary journal, The Open Field, which we will celebrate with a launch party this Thursday afternoon beginning at 4pm in the Writing Center. Refreshments will be served. For more […]
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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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This Week in English December 11, 2023 Buchanan Alumni House Open to Students During Finals Week Kathy Hill is the House Manager at Buchanan Alumni House and she wrote this morning with this invitation to students who are preparing for finals this week: Each semester, we close Buchanan to events during finals week and open […]
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This Week in English December 4, 2023 The last week of classes got underway this morning with fresh snow underfoot and flocking the trees. It’s portfolio submission time for the 800 or so students taking ENG 101 this fall, and for the rest of us it’s the sprint to finals week, with poem recitations, project […]
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This Week in English November 20, 2023 Morgan Talty Presents Online Tomorrow at 6pm The Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine is hosting a virtual evening of reading and conversation with Morgan Talty on Tuesday, November 21st from 6–7:30. Talty’s breakout story collection Night of the Living Rez has won widespread critical acclaim, becoming […]
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This Week in English November 13, 2023 MA Student and Former McGillicuddy Fellow Abigail Roberts Presents Today While she was a McGillicuddy Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellow current MA student Abigail Roberts wrote an Honors Thesis under the supervision of Sarah Harlan-Haughey titled Otherworldly Ethics: Trouthe and the Fairy Mistress in the Lays of Lanval, Graelent, […]
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This Week in English November 6, 2023 Rosalie Purvis Presents in WGS@Work Series on Thursday The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program is set to present the latest installment of their WGS@Work series on November 9 from 4:00 – 5:30 PM at the IMRC. This entry is titled “Now that Separateness is Unassailable” and will […]
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Hi, I’m Morgan, a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation in Maine and an assistant professor of English here at the University of Maine. I teach Creative Writing, Native American Literature, and contemporary courses in fiction. As a teacher, I love talking “shop” about books: how they work, how they succeed, how they fail, and […]
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Hello writers and scholars! I am starting my third year as Assistant Professor of Theatre and English here at the University of Maine. This means that I get to teach, research and create within my two areas of passion: performance and literature. Within our English department, I have taught LGBTQ American Dramatic Literature and Queer […]
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Mid-February is here with a vengeance, yet we all keep sniffing spring in the air. In the English Department, lots happening! Please read on for an update: Our First New Writing Series event of the semester takes place next Thursday at 4:30PM in the FERNALD APPE SPACE, 104 STEWART COMMONS. Katy Kelleher, author of The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on […]
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