Department of English

Departmental Writing Awards Open for Submission Each year the English Department recognizes excellence in the genres of poetry, fiction, playwriting, and essay writing through the Grady, Grenfell, Hamlet, and Turner prizes. This year’s deadline for submission is April 22. Guidelines are available here (and attached) and queries can be sent to the Director of Creative […]

As we return from spring break with six weeks remaining in the academic year, advising for the fall term gets underway in earnest. English majors are encouraged to reach out to their academic advisors to schedule an appointment. The CLAS Advising and Academic Services Center is also available to help. English minors do not have […]

We’re Hiring The English Department is currently searching for an administrative specialist to assist with a wide variety of administrative and clerical duties during the academic year. The full position description, along with application instructions, can be found here. As many readers of the bulletin will already know, Ellen Manzo retired from the position early […]

Poet Charles Bernstein to Visit Grad Seminar  On Tuesday evening the 2019 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry winner Charles Bernstein will pay a virtual visit to the graduate seminar on “phonotextuality” being offered this spring by Steve Evans. Bernstein recently retired from the position of Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at […]

This Week in English | February 14-20, 2022 Caroline Bicks Imagines Common App Essays by Shakespearean Characters  In her latest piece for the humor site McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Caroline Bicks imagines what Shakespeare characters would write for their Common App essays. You’ll be smiling from Juliet Capulet’s response to this prompt onward: The lessons we […]

New Cohort of McGillicuddy Undergraduate Research Fellows Named In January, 2022, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center (MHC) welcomed four new undergraduate research fellows for the next two semesters: Benjamin Allen, April Messier, Tom Pinette and Sheralynn Robbins. This new cohort will join existing fellows Luke Miller, Sabrina Paetow, Stephanie Tillotson, and Heather Webb, who are finalizing […]

Sarah Harlan-Haughey Publishes New Article on Chaucer Sarah Harlan-Haughey’s article “The Dragon of Love: Chaucer’s Jason and the Cycle of Consumption in the Legend of Good Women” appears in the new issue of The Chaucer Review (vol. 57 no. 1, 2022, pp. 101-128). She comments: I wrote this during and after the last graduate seminar […]

Creative Writing Club Meetings and Readings in Spring Storied is the long-standing undergraduate creative writing group organized by UMaine English students. This semester they plan to hold meetings on Tuesday evenings at 6pm in the Writer’s Block (NV 302) and readings on the first Saturday of every month, also in the Block. Students are encouraged […]