English Major Molly Glueck Awarded CUGR Fellowship Second-year English Major Molly Glueck was awarded a Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) fellowship earlier this fall for research she’ll be conducting under the mentorship of Elizabeth Neiman. Here is how Glueck describes the project: “Black Annotation” is a method forged by Christina Sharpe in her search to […]
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As we head into a holiday week dedicated to the performative utterance of offering thanks, it feels timely to begin this week’s bulletin by thanking all of you who receive, read, and sometimes contribute to This Week in English. Whether you’re a first semester English major, an advanced undergraduate, a member of our faculty, a […]
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You’ll find a dozen items in this week’s “double issue” of the bulletin (making up for a skip last Monday). TL;DR, you think? Au contraire! Things to do, money to make (think: paid internships), publications to celebrate, covers to reveal, poems to read. And if you have an item for next time, send it our […]
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New Writing Series Hosts Fiction Writers on Thursday This Thursday the New Writing Series will feature Morgan Talty and Katie Lattari, two novelists with close ties to the department, the university, and the community. The event will be held live in the Fernald APPE Space (Stewart Commons 104) starting at 4:30pm on November 4, 2021. […]
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This week’s bulletin includes information about the department’s undergraduate literary journal, internship opportunities in the spring and beyond, an event commemorating a Quebecois poet’s legacy, an update from an emeritus professor, a glimpse into the first-year composition program, a preview of an upcoming fiction reading, and a link to the Maine Campus‘s coverage of a […]
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King Chair Hosts Susan Choi this Thursday and Friday On Thursday, October 21st, 5:30pm-6:30pm, National Book Award-winning novelist Susan Choi will be giving a talk and reading from her novel Trust Exercise as part of the Stephen E. King Chair Lecture Series. This event will take place in the Minsky Recital Hall (adjacent to the […]
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Stephen King Talks about Writing with English Majors International bestselling author and University of Maine alumnus Stephen King was on campus October 4th and 5th to speak with two groups of undergraduate English majors about writing and his career. The hour-long discussions, each with fifteen students, were organized by UMaine professor Caroline Bicks, who holds […]
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Remembering Playwright William Yellow Robe, Jr. A memorial event for playwright and long-time English department colleague William Yellow Robe Jr. will take place in the Cyrus Pavilion this Thursday, October 7, starting at 3:30pm. The event, organized by his friend and collaborator Margo Lukens, will be live, in-person (with mandatory masking), but a Zoom link […]
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As we enter the fifth week of classes, a soggy “family and friends” weekend has yielded to the crisp, dry, and cool conditions that make autumn so memorable in Orono. Below you’ll find information about upcoming events and opportunities, along with some glimpses into the teaching and scholarship underway in (and around) Neville Hall this […]
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New Writing Series Resumes on September 30 We were celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the New Writing Series when the pandemic forced it into hiatus following Laird Hunt’s reading on March 5, 2020. (Hunt’s new novel, Zorrie, was longlisted for a National Book Award last week.) On Thursday, September 30, the NWS resumes with an […]
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