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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We are all bundling up for what may be the coldest days on record in the Bangor area this weekend. Meanwhile, there are still events to catch and people to help. Please read on for details. STORIED has its first open mic night of the semester on Saturday. The event will be at 5 PM in the […]
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Neville is alive again after the Winter Break—though some instructors taught classes online over the months of December and January. Interns in ENG and WGS are reaching out into the community to get their projects in place, classes are digging into the subject matter after a snowy first week, and we are all gearing up for […]
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Neville is buzzing as we move toward our last week of class for the semester. In classes, students prepare presentations, papers, and exams. Outside class, 101 portfolios and paperwork stream into the English office, instructors haul in treats and snacks for their last classes, and we all turn our minds towards that last week of […]
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Here’s wishing all and sundry a very happy Thanksgiving; we hope you travel safely if you are, and enjoy time with friends and loved ones. There’s not much happening outside the classroom at this time of the semester, but lots happening in classes as presentations, papers, and exams are prepared. Nevertheless, here’s a little news for our community: […]
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Please don’t forget to vote next Tuesday! We have a supplemental Week in English this week, needed because so many things are happening starting today and through next week. Please read on! THE NEW WRITING SERIES Features fiction writer Giada Scodellaro, today, reading from her acclaimed book Some of Them Will Carry Me. This event is free and […]
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Happy Halloween! Here are some events and announcements for our community as we turn away from bright fall towards darkling November. Please don’t forget to vote next Tuesday! Alumnus Ryan Stovall to read from new book: English graduate, former Green Beret, two-time Purple Heart awardee, and adventurer Ryan Stovall has published a book of poetry, […]
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English Department Recognition Ceremony Today at 4pm Come help us celebrate this year’s student accomplishments at a Recognition Ceremony to be held in the Writing Center (fourth floor of Neville Hall) this afternoon, May 2, starting at 4pm. RSVPs for this relaxed, low-key event are encouraged but not required. In addition to inducting students into […]
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Guest Lecturers in Life Writing Seminar Led by Caroline Bicks Students in Caroline Bicks’s ENG 402 course on Life Writing had two guest visitors this week: Jim Smith, Professor of Irish Culture and Literature at Boston College, Zoomed in to talk about his work with the advocacy group Justice for Magdalenes Research. He and his […]
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Open Field Launch Party Thursday at 5pm The Open Field is the student-edited undergraduate literary journal at UMaine. This Thursday, fiction editor Paige McHatten and poetry editor Megan Ashe invite you to celebrate the 2022 issue by attending a reading by contributors in the IMRC Fernald APPE Space (Stewart Commons 104) starting at 5pm. Copies […]
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