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
Submission Guidelines
- Any current UMA student may submit work written for an upper-level (200+) literature, film studies, theory, linguistics, or creative writing course to the conference. Email Lisa Botshon (botshon@maine.edu).
- The author's last name and page number should appear on the proposal and each page of the project.
- Presentation of submission cannot exceed 15 minutes when read aloud.
- For poets, 3-5 short poems equals one submission.
- Essayists should submit only 1 essay.
- Storywriters should submit only 1 story.
- The deadline for submission is March 16, 2012 by 12:00 noon.
Selection and notification: Proposals will be read and selected by the ENG 499 Senior Seminar. All students will be contacted the week of April 2, 2012, or sooner.
Submitting your Abstract
Please send an email with the following information to: botshon@maine.edu.
- Your name
- Phone number
- The type of submission (Critical or Research Paper, Poetry, Fiction or Non-fiction)
- The Abstract or Paper
- When on Monday, April 16, you will most likely be available to present your work, if selected? (Morning [9-12] or Afternoon [1-3])
