Department of English

Capacity Audience for Inaugural King Chair Lecture by Patricia Wen Provost Jeff Hecker, President Susan Hunter, and King Chair Caroline Bicks welcomed a capacity audience to Wells Conference Center on Friday for Patricia Wen’s talk on “Getting It Right: Investigative Journalism in a ‘Post-Truth’ Age.” Among the English faculty and students to pose questions to the editor of the […]

First off, let’s take a moment to observe Patriots’ Day by reading this poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson. That solemn task accomplished, we’re off into the eventful twelfth week of the semester… Accepted Student Day and Open House On Friday, April 13, English majors Eric Arnold, Kimberly Crowley, Anna Kulinski, and Melissa Pawley generously helped me welcome about a dozen students, […]

Dylan Dryer Presents on Wednesday The Faculty Research and Scholarship Presentation Series, which is organized by Assistant Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Elizabeth Neiman, continues its spring 2018 season with a lecture by Associate Professor of Composition Studies Dylan Dryer this Wednesday at 4pm in the Writing Center. Dryer’s topic is “The Present Futures of Writing Studies in Departments of […]

Laura Cowan Receives Steve Gould Award This Morning Associate Professor and former department chair Laura Cowan has been honored with this year’s Steve Gould Award. The annual award is presented to members of the UMaine community who have, by their conduct, demonstrated superior qualities of unselfishness and compassion in the course of serving UMaine and its ideals. It […]

Accepted Student Days This week’s bulletin arrives a day later than usual because I spent Monday morning meeting with accepted students and their family members and friends from Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine in the first of two “accepted student days” planned for this spring. Two current English Majors, Christopher King and Olivia Welch, were on […]

Mark Your Calendars for an Artful Week We’re back from a too-brief break to an eventful week of verbal and visual art brought to campus by the English Department in partnership with the Honors College, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, the King Chair, and the Franco-American Center. Details below, but so that you can mark your calendars, here’s the rundown (links are to Facebook event pages): The Happening Series features […]

UMaine at CCCCs Convention in Kansas City This Week: Updated As I mentioned in last week’s bulletin, the annual meeting of the College Composition and Communication Conference (CCCC) takes place March 14 -17 in Kansas City. The robust roster of UMaine participants includes Abigail Adent, Joanna Crouse, Ryan Dippre, Dylan Dryer, Kelly Hartwell, Nicholas Sanders, and Elizabeth Zavodny. At […]

Student Advisory Group Today at 3pm Professor Elizabeth Neiman and I will be holding a preliminary meeting with English majors and minors who have expressed an interest in serving on a Student Advisory Group today at 3pm. All students with an interest in English are invited to attend. We’ll meet over light refreshments in the Wicks Room (Neville 304). We […]

Professor Richard Brucher Pre-Performance Lecture on Friday The McGillicuddy Humanities Center invites you to join English Professor Richard Brucher at 6pm this Friday, March 2nd at the Bodwell Lounge (3rd floor Collins Center) to hear an insightful pre-performance lecture on Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. The lecture […]

Alex Terrell Wins PEN America Award for “Black Dog” Master’s candidate Alex Terrell has been awarded a 2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers for her short story “Black Dog,” first published in Black Warrior Review in the fall/winter of 2017. The award, which carries a cash prize of $2000, was judged by Lesley Nneka Arimah, Jodi Angel, […]