Clinton Spaulding

Title: Adjunct Lecturer in Honors

Bio: I attended the University of Maine, Orono as an undergraduate and received a BA in English with a Creative Writing Concentration while working as President of the Maine Peace Action Committee for two years. After serving in the U.S. Navy, I returned to Orono for graduate work and earned an MA in English focusing on Poetics and successfully defended my creative thesis titled “A Lamentation in Blue and White”. My work has been published in issues of The Stolen Island Review, Werewolf Glue, the MPAC newsletter, Crosscut, the Accompanist and was featured at the bi-annual &Now Conference at SUNY Buffalo where my collaborative, multimedia project, “Furrows in a Ploughed Field”, was presented. Currently, I am a PhD candidate in Communication. My dissertation combines my research interests of Media Ecology, Critical Pedagogy, and Radio.

Through the writing classes I teach, I strive to set students up with ever important writing skills for their careers as well as offering an opportunity for my students to learn valuable skills for their everyday lives. Primarily, critical thinking skills. I stress the importance of critical thinking in the classroom and encourage my students to truly engage with their language and the language of argument where and when they encounter it. Everywhere, every day.