Ellen Weinauer

Dean of Honors
Office: 100 Colvin Hall

BA, English (Honors), University of Wisconsin (1985)

MA, English, Indiana University (1987)

Ph.D. English (minor in Women’s Studies), Indiana University (1994)

Ellen Weinauer is the dean of the Honors College and professor of English at the University of Maine.  She grew up in Minnesota and received her undergraduate degree in English with Honors from the University of Wisconsin.  She completed her Ph.D. in English with a minor in Women’s Studies from Indiana University and has taught at Carleton College and at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM).  Having served as the dean of the USM Honors College from 2014 to 2021, she assumed the position of dean of the UMaine Honors College in August of 2021.  She has taught dozens of different courses at all levels (graduate and undergraduate) in her field of American literature and has published widely on such writers as Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe.