Department of English

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, […]

New Writing Series: Spring 2018 Lineup Founded in the fall of 1999, the New Writing Series brings innovative literature to life on the University of Maine’s flagship campus. Events are held on Thursday afternoons at 4:30 in the Allen & Sally Fernald APPE Space (Stewart Commons 104) and are free and open to the public. Here’s a preview of […]

Laura Cowan Presents on Rebecca West This Thursday The Faculty Research and Scholarship Presentation Series, which is organized by Assistant Professor of English and WGS Elizabeth Neiman, kicks off its spring 2018 season with a lecture by Laura Cowan this Thursday at 4pm in the Writing Center. Professor Cowan will speak about “‘Fusions that Infuriate’: Rebecca West’s Subversive Use of Hybrid Genres.” […]

Welcome Back, Everyone We got off to a busy start last week, launching more than a hundred and fifteen classes with enrollments in excess of 2500 students (I hesitate to add that we also went through something like thirty thousand sheets of paper, despite an initiative to “go paperless” for the distribution of syllabi this […]

Greetings, everyone! The office has been bustling with energy all morning as we return from the longer-than-usual break and embark upon another semester of teaching. Ellen, Celeste, and I wish you well as the fun gets underway. I plan to resume the weekly bulletins next week (please send items for possible inclusion along by noon […]

End of Semester Celebration on Thursday Please plan on joining us for an end-of-semester party this Thursday, December 14, starting at 1pm in the Wicks Room. As in the past, the celebration will be a pot luck affair, so consider bringing something sweet, savory, seasonable, surprising. Everyone is welcome, including friends, family, and well-behaved pets. CLAS Student Emergency […]

First-Year Writing Program Earns National Certificate of Excellence We’re pleased to announce that the University of Maine’s College Composition program has won a 2017-2018 CCCC Writing Program Certificate of Excellence. The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) is a constituent organization within the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Our program is one of […]

Welcome to the twelfth installment of the English Department’s weekly bulletin. As we return from a welcome break we look ahead to two more weeks of instruction and then finals week. Please let us know how we can help as you head into the home stretch of the fall semester! Celebrating the Poetry of John […]