Lots to celebrate in this installment of the weekly bulletin! If you have good news to share with the wider departmental community, please do not hesitate to be in touch. And if you’re free Friday afternoon, do drop by (scroll down for details). Sarah Penney Named Outstanding Graduating Senior Sarah Penney will be recognized as […]
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Transformer Tales in the New Yorker The issue of the New Yorker that appeared online yesterday and will be on newsstands on April 19 includes a “letter from Maine” (in the tradition of E.B. White) by Alice Gregory that centers on the partnership of Penobscot Nation member Carol Dana and the linguist Frank Siebert. As […]
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Welcome to the hundredth installment of This Week in English! The first bulletin circulated back on September 5, 2017, and apart from a hiatus in the first months of the pandemic we’ve been at it ever since. If you enjoy these glimpses into the life of the Department, please consider contributing an update from your […]
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Congratulations to Ryan Dippre Ryan Dippre was one of seventeen faculty members across the UMaine campus whose promotion and tenure was approved by the Board of Trustees on March 22. Dippre, who directs our nationally recognized first-year composition program, has published a monograph and an edited volume on lifespan writing and also studies writing program […]
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This week we enjoy a well-deserved breather with tomorrow’s “reading day” and a “mini-break” on Wednesday. Happily, the weather seems to be cooperating, too. We’re also heading into “advising season,” so please plan to reach out to your faculty advisor to talk about summer and fall offerings. Katie Swacha Publishes Article on Social Justice Research […]
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Staging Other’s Lives Newly hired assistant professor of Theatre and English Rosalie Purvis invites students and colleagues to join a workshop and conversation with artist-scholar Caitlin Kane about the process of creating documentary theatre with and about diverse queer communities. What: “Staging Others’ Lives: The Politics of Queer Documentary Theater” When: Wednesday, March 17th, at […]
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English Department Drop-By on Friday The English Department hosts virtual drop-bys most Friday afternoons to talk informally about matters of mutual interest and to compare notes on the week that was. A friendly mix of majors, minors, graduate students, professors, and alumni—plus partners, kids, and pets—have joined the conversation from one week to the next […]
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Langston Hughes Project Tonight Steve Evans will be leading a discussion with Ron McCurdy about Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz this evening starting at 7:30pm via Zoom (request link here). Come learn about Langston Hughes’s 1961 masterpiece and McCurdy’s long engagement with, visionary interpretation of, and lively improvisation around it. The poem is, […]
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English Department Facebook Group Inspired by the number of alumni who have joined our informal Friday gatherings, and noting that many of them learned of the meetings via a particular Facebook group, we decided to create a new group for the Department as a whole and were pleased to welcome nearly a hundred members in […]
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This week’s bulletin is thick with opportunities to connect, converse, and keep learning. Scroll down for the link to this Friday’s informal “drop-by,” which offers a chance to compare impressions, pose questions, and share recommendations with other members of the extended community of the English Department. Scholar Speaks about Culture and Ecosystems of Care on […]
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