University of New England

Anouar Majid
Chair/Professor
(207) 602-2614
amajid@une.edu

 

Ph.D., Syracuse University

Anouar Majid reads, writes, and teaches in the areas of global literatures and cultures, postcolonial theory and studies, and intellectual history in general. He is the author of  A Call for Heresy:  Why Dissent is Vital to Islam and America (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), Freedom and Orthodoxy: Islam and Difference in the Post-Andalusian Age (Stanford University Press, 2004), Unveiling Traditions: Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World (Duke University Press, 2000), and the novel Si Yussef (Quartet, 1992; Interlink, 2005). His articles have appeared in the journals Cultural Critique, Signs and in the Chronicle Review. He is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Tingis, a Moroccan-American magazine of ideas and culture.  Profile

Matthew Anderson
Associate Professor
(207) 602-2726
manderson@une.edu 

Ph.D., Yale University

Matthew Anderson teaches courses in cultural studies, law and literature, world literature, and literary theory. Research interests include Modernism, lyric poetry, and the relationship between philosophy and literature, particularly as it pertains to an understanding of the relationship between jurisprudence and literary discourse. Spotlight.

Cathrine O. Frank
Assistant Professor
(207) 602-2709
cfrank@une.edu

 

Ph.D., George Washington University

Cathrine Frank teaches courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century English literature, law and literature, and composition. She is currently revising a manuscript on Victorian and Edwardian novels in which the last will and testament serves as a vehicle for codifying and transmitting culture. Professor Frank’s work has appeared in European Romantic Review and English Literature in Transition, and she has contributed to a collection of essays on children’s literature and utopia.

Joseph Mahoney
Associate Professor
(207) 602-2226
mahoney@une.edu
 

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

Joseph W. Mahoney studied under Stanley Weintraub, a leading scholar of Late Victorian and Early Modern British writers such as Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw, and Joseph Conrad. Besides his passion for teaching humanities and literature courses, Mahoney occupied several important administrative positions throughout his 33-year tenure at St. Francis/UNE, including acting dean for the health sciences and Humanities Department chair. In addition to his experience teaching English, Irish, and Continental literatures, Professor Mahoney offers courses on literature and law, play production, script-writing, and the use of detective fiction to master critical thinking. Professor Mahoney teaches major core courses and has led educational tours in Ireland.

Susan McHugh
Assistant Professor
(207) 602-2615
smchugh@une.edu

 

Ph.D., Purdue University

Susan McHugh teaches composition, narrative, and cultural and textual theory courses. In her research as well as teaching, she is interested in using theory to connect literary studies with other disciplinary interests, including visual culture and anthrozoology (studies of human-animal interaction). She has published articles in such journals as Camera Obscura and Critical Inquiry. She is the author of Dog (2004), a literary and cultural history of humankind's best and perhaps oldest friend.  Presently she is working on another book that explores how animals have shaped visual narratives through the twentieth century. Website.
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Jennifer Tuttle
Dorothy M. Healy Chair
Associate Professor
(207) 221-4443
jtuttle@une.edu

 

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Jennifer Tuttle teaches courses in literature and health, women's studies, U.S. literatures, and the American West. Her published work on these and other topics has appeared in numerous journals and edited collections, and she has recently released a scholarly edition of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's novel The Crux. She is Coeditor of Legacy:  A Journal of American Women Writers.

As the Dorothy M. Healy Chair, Professor Tuttle is the faculty director of the Maine Women Writers Collection, housed at UNE's Abplanalp Library on the Westbrook College Campus. She also co-directs UNE's Women's Studies Program.

Lisa DiFranza
Adjunct
ldifranza@mail.une.edu

M.A., Andover Newton Theological School

Lisa is a theater director and teacher. She is an Affiliate Artist at  Portland Stage Company, where she has served as Associate Director and Literary Manager, and directed shows on the mainstage and in festivals  of new work. She has served on the faculty of The Juilliard School in New York for five years, and worked at Ensemble Studio Theater, numerous off-off Broadway theaters, and The Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. Lisa has an ongoing partnership with the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, where she leads collaborative workshops with playwrights and playwrighting. Locally, Lisa’s work has included directing numerous productions at area theaters, serving as founding director of the Arts Academy at Portland Arts and Technology High School, and as Artistic Director of The Children's Theater of Maine for seven years. With an M.A. in Theology and the Arts, Lisa is fascinated by the rich terrain where performance and religion meet, conflict and intermingle. She serves as an adjunct faculty member at Andover Newton Theological School and Bangor Theological Seminary, and was recently elected as a director of the Society of the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture, in New York.

George M. Young
Instructor
(207) 676-3104
gyoung1@mail.une.edu

Ph.D., Yale University

Before coming to UNE, George Young taught Russian language and literature from 1965 to 1978 at Grinnell and Dartmouth Colleges. He is the author of a collection of poems, a study of the life and work of the nineteenth century Russian religious philosopher Nikolai Fedorov, and a book on the early twentieth century American artist Charles H. Woodbury. He wrote the article on Fedorov for the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and many of his poems, translations, essays, and reviews have appeared in periodicals and anthologies. Since 1979 he and his wife have owned and operated a fine arts auction business specializing in nineteenth and early twentieth century American and European paintings.

Paula Harrington
Adjunct
pharrington@mail.une.edu

Ph. D., University of California, Davis

Ingrid Strange
Adjunct
istrange@mail.une.edu

M.A., Suffolk University

Prior to teaching composition at UNE, Ingrid Strange taught introduction to literature and composition at Suffolk University in Boston from 1999-2004.  Since 1996, she has been the Publication Coordinator of The Eugene O’Neill Review, which annually publishes articles, reviews and news concerning the life, times and work of Eugene O’Neill and his contemporaries.  Professor Strange also coordinated and helped to publish a manuscript titled Scheherazade’s Sisters: Trickster Heroines and Their Stories in World Literature, written by Professor Marilyn Jurich in 1998.

Olga Skorapa
Adjunct
oskorapa@mail.une.edu

Ph. D., Georgia State University

Olga Skorapa has taught at Georgia State University, North Carolina State University, Miami University, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and other educational institutions. Her main research interests have been in popular culture and comics as radical political discourse. Other interests include feminist praxis, semiotics, and radical educational theory. She lectures publicly about feminism, vegetarianism, and applied ethics. An active Unitarian Universalist, she sings trisectionally in the choir at First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church in Kennebunk. She is working on a vegetarian cookbook about her experiences as a hippie restaurateur in a cooperative restaurant in Albuquerque in the seventies.

Joshua R. Pahigian
Adjunct
jpahigian@mail.une.edu

M.F.A., Emerson College

Josh Pahigian is the author of six books, including the recently released 101 Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out.  Josh also writes for ESPN.com’s Sports Travel page, authoring the popular Travel Ten column. In addition to teaching Composition at UNE, Josh is the faculty advisor for UNE’s student newspaper, The Nor’easter News.  He and his wife Heather live in Buxton with their two golden-labs, Maddie and Cooper.