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Storefront gallery windows displaying student comic and sequential art projects from a Graphic Storytelling course at Art:Works on Main in Winthrop. The installation includes hand-drawn narrative panels and illustrated scenes arranged across two large window displays.

Graphic Storytelling Class Unveils Collaborative Project

May 7, 2026
Come take a stroll in Winthrop and check out the collaborative final project from students in Graphic Storytelling, now on…
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Join Us for the Launch of Specter Moose Issue No. 4: A 60th Anniversary Celebration

April 16, 2026
Specter Moose Launch Party Friday, April 24, from 1 to 2 p.m., Katz Library, first floor (Augusta Campus) Come get…
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Join Us for the Plunkett Poetry Festival with Keynote Speaker Claudia Rankine

April 7, 2026
Mark your calendar! The 2026 Plunkett Poetry Festival is scheduled for Saturday, April 25, at the UMA Augusta campus. This…
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English Faculty Share Research at Lunch and Learn

March 11, 2026
UMA Lunch & Learn with English Department Faculty The UMA English Program recently hosted a Lunch and Learn at Katz…
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UMA professors present fresh perspectives on historic women writers

November 24, 2025
Professors of English Lisa Botshon and Ellen Taylor represented the University of Maine at Augusta at the Society for the…
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UMA Presents “Wham! Bang! Pow!: Work from UMA’s Graphic Storytellers”

December 7, 2023
Opening Reception Monday, Dec. 11, 2023 2 p.m. Danforth Art Gallery, UMA Augusta Campus Opening Monday, December 11 at 2…
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TagsArt, Danforth Gallery, English, Events, Interdisciplinary Studies
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Faculty Highlight | Ellen Taylor

November 16, 2023
Dr. Ellen M. Taylor shared her research on bridging personal and academic writing for first-year students at NCHEP in Atlanta,…
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Dr. Retzlaff presents at Regional ACIS Conference

October 19, 2023
Dr. Kay Retzlaff presented, “‘A Touch of Class’: The Field House as Microcosm,” at the New England/Mid-Atlantic Regional American Conference…
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Faculty Highlight | Brian Boyd, Recent Publications

October 13, 2023
In September caa reviews published a review by UMA Lecturer in English Brian Boyd of a Mina Loy retrospective at…
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Former UMA Professor Robert Klose Publishes New Novel

October 5, 2023
Retired UMA Professor of Biological Science Robert Klose takes on a hot-button issue in his third novel, Trigger Warning, published…
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21st Annual Plunkett Maine Poetry Festival

March 22, 2023
Featuring Keynote Poet Molly McCully Brown, Award Winning Poet and Essayist April 28, 2023 at 7:30 P.M. Bennett D. Katz Library,…
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Prof. of English Lisa Botshon to present at Wellesley College Symposium

March 2, 2023
UMA Professor of English Lisa Botshon has been invited to present a talk, “Mid-Century Maine Rustication Narratives and the Making…
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