University of New England

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

Ph.D., Yale University

Matthew Anderson teaches courses on law and literature, lyric poetry, and literary representations of trauma. His current research focuses on how questions of law and of justice are represented in literature. He is co-editing two forthcoming volumes, with Austin Sarat (Amherst College) and Cathrine Frank (UNE): Options for Teaching Literature and Law (MLA), and the Cambridge Introduction to Law and Humanities (Cambridge UP).

Steven Byrd
Assistant Professor
(207) 602-2579
sbyrd@une.edu

Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin

Steven Byrd teaches courses in Spanish, linguistics, and Latin American literature. His research focuses on Portuguese-speaking communities; his most recent published articles have focused on the Afro-Brazilian community of Calunga from Minas Gerais. He has traveled extensively throughout Latin America, and has recently taken UNE students to Cuernavaca, Mexico to study Spanish and Mexican culture. Website

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.

Julia M. Garrett
Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Julia Garrett teaches courses on early modern literature, drama, gender studies, cultural diversity, and composition.  She has studied the history of English witch trials and recently published an article in the journal Criticism integrating literary analysis with the sociology of deviance.  A rare-books research scholar, she recently completed a fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library.  Her current research examines how travel literature, early ethnographic writing, and Renaissance drama represent cultural  and religious difference. This primary research about the global imagination informs both her courses on early English literature and her writing seminar on globalization.   

Joseph Mahoney
Associate Professor Emeritus
(pending)
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. 

Anouar Majid
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  We Are All Moors:  Ending Centuries of Crusades Against Muslims and Other Minorities (University of Minnesota Press, 2009);  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 and op-eds have appeared in Cultural Critique, Signs, Chronicle Review, Washington Post, and other publications. He is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Tingis, a Moroccan-American magazine of ideas and culture. Majid is the founding chair of the Department of English, which he headed from 2000 to 2009.  Profile

Susan McHugh
Associate 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.  She is editor of a scholarly edition of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's novel The Crux (2002) and coeditor of The Selected Letters of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2009).  Her current project is a book about California women writers and medical discourse.  She is coeditor of Legacy:  A Journal of American Women Writers and president of the Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society.

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.

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Sean Ramey
Instructor
sramey1@une.edu
sramey1@mail.une.edu

M.F.A.,  Wayne State University

A native of Auburn, Maine, Sean Ramey has been a professional actor for over 20 years and continues to be an active member of the Actor’s Equity Association.  His particular areas of interest are the development of theatrical styles within the context of their respective cultures and the attitudes of societies toward their actors. He teaches Effective Public Speaking and Human Traditions.  Prior to his arrival at UNE, Sean taught Public Speaking and Interpersonal Communications at Central Maine Community College in Auburn, where he now with his wife, Catherine, and his son, James.   

Camille Kennedy Vande Berg
Instructor in French and Romance Laguages
cvandeberg@une.edu

Ph.D.,  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Camille Kennedy Vande Berg has lived for several years in France, Spain and Italy and has traveled widely in Canada, Western Europe and Latin America.  Before coming to UNE, Dr. Vande Berg taught French, Spanish, Italian and ESL at universities in Illinois, Michigan and Virginia as well as at institutions in France and Spain.  A member of several professional organizations for language teachers, she has published a dozen articles on foreign language pedagogy.  Dr. Vande Berg, a native of Chicago, now lives in Cape Elizabeth with her husband Michael Vande Berg, Vice President at the Council on International Educational Exchange, and their dog Aurelia, a golden retriever.

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.

Lisa Giles
Adjunct
lgiles@mail.une.edu

Ph.D., Brandeis University
M.F.A., Arizona State University

Lisa Giles teaches composition and creative writing courses, often with an emphasis on environmental topics.  She has also taught at Boston University, the University of Delaware, and the University of Southern Maine.  Her current research focuses on the poetics of gardens: literary history, aesthetics, ethics.  Her poems have appeared in the Black Fly Review, Puckerbrush Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, and California State Quarterly.  She lives in Freeport, in a family house built in 1830, where she cultivates a perennial barn garden.

Paula Harrington
Adjunct
pharrington@mail.une.edu

Ph. D., University of California, Davis

Paula Harrington teaches literature and composition, with a focus on American and World literatures.  She has also taught at Marrymount College of Fordham University and at the University of California, Davis.  Her current research and writing projects include the trope of the dog in American literature and the correspondence of Susy Clemems, Mark Twain's eldest daughter.  Before returning to academia for her doctorate, she worked for several years as a newspaper reporter and professional writer in the San Francisco Bay Area.  She is the author of Looking Ahead, a history of Guide Dogs for the Blind. 

Ingrid Strange
Adjunct --On Leave
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. IIn 2008, Ingrid was awarded the Debra J. Summers Memorial Award For Teaching Excellence.

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.

Rick Wormwood
Adjunct

M.F.A., Columbia University

Rick Wormwood is a writer and journalist born right here in Biddeford Pool and raised in nearby Sanford, Maine.  He teaches English Composition at UNE.  At Southern Maine Community College, he teaches English Composition, Public Speaking, and Introduction to Literature. Rick also teaches for SMCC at Long Creek, a juvenile detention facility in South Portland.  He is in the process of completing a near-epic pyramid scheme novel entitled Because U Deserve What Every Individual Should Enjoy Regularly, as well as a nonfiction book proposal about the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf, in Falmouth, Maine.  His fiction has appeared in Open City, and his poetry has appeared in Potato Eyes, Poetry Motel, and The Longneck Review.  Rick was also a book critic at the Commercial Appeal, the daily newspaper in Memphis, Tennessee, and he is currently a contributor to The Portland Phoenix, where he writes investigative pieces and a regular sports column called Balls, Pucks and Monster Trucks.  A musician, he can often be found playing venues in southern Maine with his showband, Rick Wormwood and the Rumbling Proletariat.  He lives in Portland.

Glenn Morazzini
Adjunct

M.F.A., Stonecoast Creative Writing Program

Before joining UNE Glenn Morazzini worked as a psychotherapist and presented numerous seminars on the relationship between the unconscious and language.  More recently he has been completing a manuscript of poetry. Some of Glenn's poems have won the 2007 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize.  He also received a Pushcart nomination and was a finalist in several national contests.

Jesse E. Miller
Adjunct

M.F.A., Goddard College

Prior to teaching Composition at UNE, Jesse Miller was a copy editor at The Record, in Troy, New York.  He has traveled extensively in the United States and Canada, and recently honeymooned in Granada, Spain.  He hopes to visit Dublin soon to celebrate his hero, James Joyce, on Bloomsday.  He is passionate about reading and real rock music, and though a native New Yorker, he is a devoted Boston Red Sox fan.  Jesse is working on a language novel that marries two themes: Cinderella and Noah.  He and his wife Shanna live in Portland with their Himalayan cat.