Department of English

CLAS Awards This Afternoon This afternoon in Wells Commons, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will celebrate its annual award ceremony starting at 3:30pm and English will be well represented. Sarah Harlan-Haughey is the recipient of this  year’s C. Wickham Skinner Humanities Award. Paige McHatten will be recognized as the CLAS Outstanding Graduating Senior and Mollie Glueck will receive the […]

MA Student Symposium This Thursday Evening  The English Graduate Student Association will host the annual spring symposium celebrating the creative and scholarly work of the department’s MA students this Thursday, April 18 from 5-8pm in the Writing Center (Neville 402). The full program can be consulted here. You can browse EGSA merch on Bonfire, featuring […]

Submissions Invited for English Writing Awards Submission guidelines for the annual competitions for excellence in writing essays, fiction, poetry, and plays at both the undergraduate and the graduate level can be found in the image below. The deadline is two Fridays from now, on April 5th. Queer Romance Author Cat Sebastian on Campus Tuesday Queer […]

Caroline Bicks Book on Stephen King Announced Just before the spring break, David Ebershoff, Vice-President and Editor in Chief at Hogarth Press, made the following announcement on Instagram: For the past year Caroline Bicks, the Stephen E. King Chair in Literature at the University of Maine, has been reading her way through the master of […]

Jonathan Barron to Co-Lead Poetry Roundtable on “the New Lyric” at Robert Frost Sesquicentennial in San Diego  Scholars from across the world will gather in San Diego later this month to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of the poet Robert Frost.  Professors Natalie Gerber and Jonathan Barron will lead a 3-day (March 22-23) […]

Jonathan Barron to Co-Lead Poetry Roundtable on “the New Lyric” at Robert Frost Sesquicentennial in San Diego  Scholars from across the world will gather in San Diego later this month to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of the poet Robert Frost.  Professors Natalie Gerber and Jonathan Barron will lead a 3-day (March 22-23) […]

A Glimpse into ENG 222: Reading Poems This Tuesday English MA student Michelle Hoeckel-Neal will lead a discussion of white supremacy culture in Ben Friedlander‘s section of ENG 222: Reading Poems. Her visit kicks off two weeks of focus on the visible and invisible work of whiteness in poetry. Last summer, Hoeckel-Neal and Friedlander joined […]

English Major Kiera Campbell Named as Wiggins Humanities Fellow  Kiera Campbell, a junior majoring in English from Buxton, Maine, was named the David ’64 and Alison ’71 Wiggin Humanities Fellow for her proposed research project “Getting To Know A Dead Man: The De-Deification of Brian (A Non-Case Study).” Kirsten Jacobson, associate professor in the Department […]