Lewiston native Adam Barr, a Los Angeles-based, Emmy Award-winning television writer and executive producer of “Will & Grace,” will moderate a public discussion on how television can adapt to changing attitudes and social concerns from 5:30–7 p.m. Feb. 28 at the Orono High School library. Made possible through the University of Maine/Orono High School Humanities […]
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Editor’s note: Story updated Feb. 14. Writing to keep Hollywood relevant will be the focus of a lecture by Emmy Award-winning television writer and producer Adam Barr on March 1 at the University of Maine. Barr, a Lewiston, Maine native, will give a talk, “Made for TV: Writing to Keep Hollywood Relevant,” as part of […]
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The #MeToo movement will be the focus of an Oct. 30 lecture at the University of Maine by professor Leigh Gilmore. Gilmore’s free public talk, “Graphic Witness: Testimony, Confession, and the #MeToo Movement” at 4:30 p.m. in Minsky Recital Hall is part of the Stephen E. King Chair Lecture Series. Gilmore is the Distinguished Visiting […]
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Investigative journalism in a “post-truth” age will be the focus of a lecture by the editor of the Boston Globe Spotlight Team on April 20 at the University of Maine. Patricia Wen, who leads the nation’s oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative unit, will speak on “Getting It Right: Investigative Journalism in a ‘Post-Truth’ Age” as […]
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Director Marcia Douglas and a cast of 25 University of Maine students will bring a fresh and inventive production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” to the Hauck Auditorium stage, beginning Nov. 10. The UMaine production of William Shakespeare’s classic comedy will run for seven performances; 7:30 p.m. Nov. 10–11 and 17–18; 2 p.m. Nov. 12 […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported Shakespeare scholar Caroline Bicks has been named to fill the University of Maine’s new Stephen E. King Chair in Literature. Bicks will leave her job at Boston College, where she has been an English professor since 2002, to take on the new UMaine post in September. Bicks grew up in […]
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A Shakespeare scholar whose public talks focus on the Bard in popular culture has been selected to hold the inaugural Stephen E. King Chair in Literature at the University of Maine. Caroline Bicks is an associate professor of English at Boston College, where she has been teaching since 2002. She will leave Boston College to […]
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The Associated Press reported that the University of Maine is now accepting applications to fill the five-year Stephen E. King Chair in Literature. Partially endowed by the Harold Alfond Foundation, the appointment will begin in August, according to the AP. The university’s decision to honor one of its most famous graduates comes as the author […]
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The Associated Press, Reuters, Bangor Daily News, Maine Public Broadcasting Network and Portland Press Herald reported an endowed chaired professorship in literature named in honor of best-selling author and University of Maine alumnus Stephen King will be established at the University of Maine with the help of a $1 million award from the Harold Alfond […]
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An endowed chaired professorship in literature named in honor of best-selling author and University of Maine alumnus Stephen King will be established at his alma mater with the help of a $1 million award from the Harold Alfond Foundation. The Stephen E. King Chair in Literature will support a faculty position in the Department of […]
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