Stephen E. King Chair Lecture: “Graphic Witness: Testimony, Confession, and the #MeToo Movement”

The University of Maine's Stephen E. King Chair Lecture Series presents Leigh Gilmore: "Graphic Witness: Testimony, Confession, and the #MeToo Movement." Leigh Gilmore is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives (Columbia UP 2017); The […]

Stephen E. King Chair Lecture: “Made for TV: Writing to Keep Hollywood Relevant”

Wells Conference Center University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States

Adam Barr is a writer and producer of film and television in Los Angeles. He was born and raised in Lewiston, Maine, where he attended Lewiston High School, then went on to study American History & Literature at Harvard University. For nearly 30 years, he has written for a number of shows, including The New Adventures […]

Stephen E. King Chair Lecture: “Hamlet’s Girlfriend Gets a Life”

Neville Hall

Lisa Klein, author of the young adult novel Ophelia, discusses her reinterpretation of Hamlet as a tale told from Ophelia's point of view. Klein will talk about the process of transforming the heroine from Shakespeare's stage to her page, and now to the screen in the forthcoming major motion picture based on her novel and starring Daisy […]