English

Hone your writing skills while deepening your appreciation of literature. Through discussion and close personal attention, you’ll develop analytical, critical reasoning, and communication skills highly sought after by employers in many fields. These skills will also provide you with an excellent foundation for graduate study.

Degree Offered: B.A.
Offered on the Augusta and Bangor campuses


Assistant Professor of English

Ellen Taylor

Office:

124 Jewett Hall

Phone:

621-3014

Fax:

621-3293

Office Hours:

T 1:00-4:00

W 4:00-7:00

E-mail:

ellent@maine.edu

Personal Site:

http://faculty.uma.edu/etaylor/

Associate Professor of English, Dr. Ellen M. Taylor received her doctorate in the Language, Literacy, and Culture program at Harvard University, focusing on narrative development. She completed her BA in English at Tulane University, and her MA in poetry from the University of New Hampshire.

Her classes at UMA include Creative Writing, which focuses on the short story, poetry, and memoir; Poetry: Cross-Cultural Forms and Themes; Poetry of the Holocaust; as well as Women’s Studies. Her research interests include human rights issues, poetry of witness and verse of marginalized voices. She frequently works with students on directed studies for individual writing projects. Her courses are a combination of lecture, discussion, and writing exercises. All are writing intensive.

Moon Pie Press recently published Floating, a book of Dr. Taylor’s poetry (read more here). Dr. Taylor previously had  two chapbooks of her poetry published: Humming to Snails by Moon Pie Press, and Letters from the Third World by Sheltering Pines Press. She has work forth coming in the North American Review and The Puckerbrush Review, and has published widely in literary journals across the country.

When not teaching, she can be found horseback riding, gardening, hiking, or involved in some project related to old house restoration with her husband. Dr. Taylor will spend her Spring 2009 sabbatical in Nicaragua, studying Latin American culture and literature.

Poetry Publications

Humming to Snails: Moon Pie Press, 2004
Letters from the Third World: Sheltering Pines Press, 2005

Poetry published in the following journals:

American Conservatory of Letters
Animus
Connecticut River Review
Frost Notes
Newburyport Poetry Journal
North American Review
Off the Coast
Passages North
Puckerbrush
RePorts
Sojourner
Wolf Moon Journal

Articles published:

Christian Science Monitor
New Hampshire Seacoast Sunday
Portsmouth Magazine

Teaching Materials

Writing as a Process: A text for the Alianza Cultural Uruguay/Estados Unidos. 1987

Educational Background

B.A., Tulane University, 1982
M.A., University of New Hampshire, 1985
D.Ed., Harvard University, 1997