Full-time Faculty
Susan McHugh teaches courses in writing, literary theory, and animal studies. She is the author of Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines (2011), a volume in the University of Minnesota Press's Posthumanities series, as well as Dog (2004), a volume in Reaktion Books' groundbreaking Animal series. With colleagues in the UK, she co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies (2014) and Literary Animals Look (2013), a special issue of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture. Additionally, she has published dozens of essays in edited... Read More
Ph.D. Yale University (Comparative Literature, 1999)Read More
Expertise
Law and the Humanities
French and American lyric poetry (19th and 20th century)
Michael Cripps
Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Composition, Director of Composition
Michael J. Cripps directs English Composition at the University of New England. He is Associate Editor for Across the Disciplines: A Journal of Language, Learning, and Academic Writing, an online, international peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles related to writing in disciplinary contexts. He serves on the editorial board for the WAC Clearinghouse, a venue internationally recognized as the leading resource for information related to the writing-across-the-curriculum movement. He is a member of the Northeast... Read More
Expertise
Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing in the Disciplines
Writing Program Administration
New Media Composition
Expertise
19th and 20th-century British literature
law and literature
Victorian studies
the novel
children's literature.
Anouar Majid
Ph.D.
Vice President for Global Affairs; Managing Director of UNE Morocco; Founding Director of the Center for Global Humanities, Founding Director of the Tangier Global Forum; Professor of English
Anouar Majid is Vice President for Global Affairs, founding director of the Center for Global Humanities (Maine, USA) and the Tangier Global Forum (Morocco), and founding chair of the Department of English, which he headed from 2000 to 2009. He conceived and established UNE's campus in Tangier and is the managing director of UNE's operations in Morocco. Majid has published widely on relations between Islam and the West. He is the author of Islam and America: Building a Future Without Prejudice (Rowman &... Read More
Sean Ramey was born in Lewiston, Maine. He graduated from Edward Little High School in Auburn, Maine. Sean received a BA from Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia and an MFA from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. A member of the Actor's Equity Association, Sean has performed at many of the fine regional theatres across the US. He now lives in Auburn once again with his lovely wife, Catherine, and their son, James.Read More
Expertise
Classical Drama
Comedia Del Arte
Contemporary American Theatre
Public Speaking
Jennifer Tuttle
Ph.D.
Dorothy M. Healy Professor of Literature and Health
Professor of English
Director, Maine Women Writers Collection
Co-founder and faculty, Women's and Gender Studies Program
Jennifer Tuttle teaches courses on literature and health studies, US Literature and cutlure, women's writing, and the US West. Holding an endowed chair in literature and health, she designs courses, pursues scholarship, and develops curricular and programming initiatives that integrate the health sciences and the humanities at UNE. As the Dorothy M. Healy Professor, she is also director of the Maine Women Writers Collection. Beyond UNE, she is coeditor of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers.
She... Read More
Expertise
Literature and Health
United States literature and culture
Women's literary history
Literatures of the US West
Charlotte Perkins Gilman studies
Women's detective fiction
literary recovery and archival studies
Adjunct
Nicole Chaison, M.A., teaches English Composition at UNE and also specializes in teaching Introduction to Literature, Oral Communications, and the Graphic Novel. A writer herself, Chaison has published a graphic novel, The Passion of the Hausfrau: Motherhood Illuminated (Random House/Villard), which has been described by the Utne Reader as "hilarious" and by Mothering Magazine as a "must-read." The book sprang out of Chaison's self-produced magazine, Hausfrau muthah-zine, which she's been producing since 2003. Chaison also wrote the James Beard-award nominated Spice (ReganBooks,... Read More
Expertise
Creative non-fiction
essay writing
oral communications
American literature
and graphic novels.
Retired high school teacher (Traip Academy in Kittery, ME: American literature, journalism, fiction writing); former public affairs writer for private industry and government agencies; recipient of several national awards for editorial excellence in the production of government publications; fiction has appeared in The Minnetonka Review, The Roanoke Review (winner of 2006 short fiction competition), The New England Review, The Gihon River Review and The Amoskeag Review. Early in his career, he was a reporter at the New Haven Register, an... Read More
Expertise
English language usage
journalism
technical writing
Fiction
At UNE, Jen teaches English Composition courses. She is particularly interested in the role of peer review as a tool to improve students' writing and reading skills. She has also teaches Writing Lab in the Student Academic Success Center, and as a professional tutor, she suppors students in their transition to college as well as in the development of their literacy skills. Jen is also the DigiSpace Coordinator. In this role, she oversees digital literacy consultants in their role to support students and faculty with... Read More
Expertise
Contemporary American Fiction and Short Stories
college composition
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, HaydenÕs Ferry Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, and California State Quarterly. She lives in Freeport, in a family house built in 1830, where she cultivates... Read More
Josh has been affiliated with UNE since joining the English Department as an adjunct instructor in 2004. He currently teaches the annual Center for Global Humanities Seminar Series and English Composition, and writes part-time for the Office of Communications.
Josh is also the author of several books, including popular baseball titles like The Ultimate Baseball Road Trip... Read More
Expertise
Writing
Writing Instruction
Script Writing
Content Editing
Copy Editing
Baseball Culture
George M. Young
Ph.D.
Adjunct in English and Languages; Fellow in Global Humanities
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,... Read More
Expertise
Russian literature
religion
and philosophy
Professional Staff
Administrative Assistant
CAS Administrative Mentor
Expertise
I am the administrative assistant for English
History & Philosophy
Core Connections
Liberal Studies