Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center

The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced the recipients of the 2018–2019 Academic Year Research and Creative Activities Fellowships. The McGillicuddy Humanities Center is proud to help provide funding for the following fellowships, developed to enhance and increase undergraduate student involvement in faculty-mentored research. Each fellowship provides a $1,100 award for the student to […]

All University of Maine System students are welcome to submit their poems to the annual Terry Plunkett Poetry Contest. The festival takes place on Friday, April 5, 2019, where winners will be invited to read their work. The first place winner will receive $100; second place, $75; and third place, $50. Each student may submit […]

Director Margo Lukens and a group of intrepid UMaine students are off to Cuba. Follow their adventures here.

Every year we take a break from the winter chill to celebrate the humanities with the Bangor community. In collaboration with area businesses, museums, and public spaces, as well as local collectives and experts, we host a day of diverse and fun events. Since 2013, the Center has sponsored Bangor Humanities Day, formally Downtown Bangor Public Humanities Day, sometimes organizing […]

The McGillicuddy Humanities Center is thrilled to announce that Jordan Gardner of Farmingdale, ME, is this year’s recipient of the Global Perspective for Humanities Exploration Fund. This anthropology major will travel to Puntarenas, Costa Rica, to study Spanish and live with a local family. Best of luck on your immersive experience, Jordan! The Global Perspectives for Humanities Explorations […]

We are happy to announce the selection of the inaugural cohort of Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellows, and to solicit applications for the next cohort of fellows, to begin in spring 2019. The McGillicuddy Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellows program offers junior and senior humanities students the support needed to concentrate on their […]

Of the 29 newly hired faculty, 11 are humanities faculty. Giles Timms is an animator and artist. Giles has created animated music videos for Death Cab for Cutie, Flyleaf, Kady Z, and Barnaby Saints and designed animated titles and scenes for the indie films Silicone Soul, Lucky, Sunset Stories and Let Go. Giles’ animated films […]

Starting July 1, 2018 Professor Margo Lukens began a two-year term as the fifth director of the McGillidcuddy Humanities Center. Professor Lukens’s professional experience, research interests, and community projects are manifold. For English she teaches colonial to 19th-century Anglo-American and a variety of Native American literatures. She does extensive work with Native American and First Nations […]