Undergraduate Literary Journal Open for Submissions The Open Field is the student-edited undergraduate literary journal sponsored by the English Department and devoted to publishing poetry, prose, mixed-genre writing, and visual art by the undergraduates of all majors and disciplines at the University of Maine. This year’s editors include English majors Sydney Kraft and Finlee LeBouef, […]
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Jansen Presents on the Gimmick in Professional Wrestling Today at Noon On Monday, November 18 at 12:00 pm in Dunn Hall 424 (and via Zoom; contact Haley Schneider for the Zoom meeting link), Brian Jansen will be giving a talk as part of the Department of Communication and Journalism’s 2024-2025 Colloquium Series. His talk, titled […]
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New Writing Series Hosts Dawn Lundy Martin on Thursday The New Writing Series continues this Thursday, November 14, with a reading by poet, essayist, anthologist, and activist Dawn Lundy Martin, who will be introduced by Jennifer Moxley. The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the IMRC Fernald APPE […]
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This week’s bulletin is here, a bit belatedly, to divert you from election eve jitters and to remind you that we’ll be here, taking words seriously, come what may. Let’s stay connected and committed to one another and to the truth-telling powers of the written word! Bicks Delivers Pre-Screening Talk on “Horror and the Power […]
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Adams Leads Student Trip to Fredericton This past weekend, Oct. 25-27, Assistant Professor Hollie Adams and Associate Professor Mark McLaughlin (of the History Department) took a group of fifteen students, including five graduate students from the English Department, on a field trip to Fredericton, New Brunswick. The students, some of whom are taking Adams’s ENG […]
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Caroline Bicks on Maine Calling Radio Program Tuesday On Tuesday, October 15, Maine Calling with Jennifer Rooks will host an on-air conversation about “essential books” live from eleven to noon and rebroadcast at 8pm. A little bird tells us that our own Caroline Bicks will be on the program along with Kenneth C. Davis, whose […]
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Mo Drammeh on Panel about Thrillers on Tuesday Evening This Tuesday evening four thriller writers at all stages of their careers will discuss the genre, the types of suspense that excite them most, and the lasting impacts of the books and stories of Stephen King. Featuring Steph Cha (author of Your House Will Pay and […]
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Dryer Presents at CMJ Colloquium Today at Noon Today at noon at the CMJ colloquia series in Dunn Hall 424, Dylan Dryer will be giving a short talk about the often-occluded practices of journal editing and of preparing manuscripts for potential review. Dryer will offer an alternative to conventional wisdom about the literature review and […]
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Amber Hathaway Rescheduled Talk This Wednesday Local author Amber Hathaway’s talk on Grizzly was due to take place during the first week of classes and has been rescheduled for Wednesday September 25th at noon in the Lown Room Memorial Union. As Elizabeth Neiman says: Grizzly, an anthology of fiction and other artistic work by femme […]
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Welcome Back, Everyone As we enter the third week of the new academic year, the English Department is offering more than 130 class sections to approximately 2,250 students in subjects ranging from college composition to graduate seminars in Shakespearean-era poetry and prose, Restoration and 18th-Century British literature, and Canadian literature. Subsequent bulletins will offer glimpses […]
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