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Bangor Daily News and Portland Press Herald feature 50th anniversary of UNE's Deborah Morton Awards

The Bangor Daily News on Sept. 20, 2011 and the Portland Press Herald on Sept. 21st featured UNE's 2011 Deborah Morton Convocation and Awards Ceremony. The awards, which are Maine’s oldest recognizing women’s achievements, turned 50 with a ceremony Tuesday morning, honoring this year's award recipients, Kaye Flanagan, Lynn Kraemer Goldfarb, Gail Kelly and Donna M. Loring, as well as the previous 185 awardees.

The Bangor Daily News included a story and photos from the ceremony, while the Press Herald featured a slideshow of the event.

Posted on: 09/21/2011

Alicia W. Peters speaks on human trafficking to Maine Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

Alicia W. Peters, Ph.D., assistant professor of anthropology in the Department of Sociology, spoke before the Maine Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights as part of a briefing on the issue of human trafficking in Maine.

The briefing, held on April 2nd at the University of Southern Maine, was convened to gain the perspectives of law enforcement, prosecutors, advocates, and academics on the scope of human trafficking in Maine and recommended solutions. Dr. Peters spoke about findings from her research on the implementation of U.S. anti-trafficking law and policy.

Posted on: 4/04/2012

Jennifer Tuttle presents two papers at the Modern Language Convention

Jennifer Tuttle, Dorothy M. Healy Professor of Literature and Associate Professor of English, delivered two papers at the recent Modern Language Convention held Jan. 5-8, 2012, in Seattle, WA.  The first presentation, “Illness and Assimilation in Emma Wolf’s California,” was offered as part of a panel on Jewish American Literature and the Pacific Rim and analyzed how novelist Wolf invoked medical tourism to argue for Jews' cultural assimilation.  Tuttle's other talk, "Nervous Bodies and Unsettled Borders:  Transgressive Citizenship in Edith Eaton’s West,” focused on the first self-identified Chinese American writer, who used medical themes to contest exclusionary policies toward the Chinese in California.  This second paper was delivered on a panel about transgression in literatures of the American West.  These presentations are part of Tuttle's book manuscript focusing on California women writers' uses of medical theory and rhetoric at the turn of the last century.

Posted on: 1/17/2012

Cathleen Miller to discuss UNE's Maine Women Writers Collection in Boston Nov. 12th

Cathleen Miller, curator of the UNE Maine Women Writers Collection, will be giving a talk titled "Redefining Collecting, Reconceiving Writing" at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair this Saturday, November 12th at 4:30 pm. 

This talk will provide a history and overview of the Maine Women Writers Collection, and explore the challenges of collecting as the very modes of writing and reading are changing dramatically.

Posted on: 11/10/2011

Jennifer Tuttle gives presentation at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

Jennifer Tuttle, Ph.D., associate professor, Dorothy M. Healy Chair in Literature and Health, gave a presentation on October 18th, 2011, at The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.  Her presentation, entitled "‘I can feel the poetry coming’: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and California," focused on her use of the Schlesinger Library’s collections for her current book project, and resulted from her being awarded a Research Support Grant by the Radcliffe Institute. 

Posted on: 10/25/2011

Students Amber Reitan, Megan Bagdon, and Caitlin Tetreau present papers at women's studies meeting

Three UNE students presented papers at a combined scholarly meeting of the Maine Women's Studies Consortium,  the New England Women's Studies Association and the Maine Women Writers Collection. Amber Reitan '12, Megan Bagdon '12, and Caitlin Tetreau '13 presented papers based on original historical research.

Reitan (a medical biology major) spoke on women's roles in 19th-century etiquette manuals; Bagdon (a medical biology major/history minor) discussed identity and etiquette in the 19th-century novel The Lamplighter; and Tetreau (history/secondary education) presented her research on the WWII letters of flight evacuation nurse Ruth Banfield Lowderback. The panel was chaired by Elizabeth De Wolfe, Ph.D., professor and chair, Department of History. The conference was organized by the Maine Women Writers Collection and held at UNE's Portland campus. Photo: (l-r) Bagdon, Reitan, De Wolfe and Tetreau.

Posted on: 4/17/2012