Newsworthy 2004 - 2005

The Newsworthy section of The English Channel, our weekly online newsletter, features an event or a faculty or student member of the English Department. We have selected 2004 - 2005 Newsworthy notes on faculty and students here for you to peruse.

Previous NewsworthY Features

April 27, 2005
Don Cunningham Retiring After 16 Years at Auburn University
Don Cunningham, Coordinator of Technical and Professional Communication, will retire in May after 16 years of teaching at Auburn University. One of the founding members and a Fellow of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, he began the organization's journal, The Technical Writing Teacher, and served as the editor of the journal for 11 years.

Cunningham participated in the development of technical writing programs at Morehouse State University, Texas Tech University, and Auburn. He is also a Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication and recipient of the STC Jay R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching Technical Communication.

After his retirement, Cunningham and his wife, Pat, will relocate to their new property in Cooper County, Missouri, which they have formally christened "Two Ponds." He looks forward to spending his time mowing the 9.5 acre property, gardening, or enjoying his hammock on the banks of the back pond, where two Canadian geese have taken residence.

Cunningham will, when the mood strikes him, conduct research and write about his great-great-great grandfather, Ira P. Nash, one of the earliest settlers in Missouri who is mentioned in most histories of the state, but whose life has never been fully documented. Cunningham will also continue to serve as a member of the Board of Trustees of Cottey College in Nevada, Missouri.

He will be missed!

March 23, 2005
Master's Student Kia Powell Experiments with Language in Creative Thesis
When Kia Powell chose to follow the thesis-option track for her Master's degree, she used the opportunity to experiment with language and challenge her own conception of what poetry is. The endeavor was successful, as Powell received approval for her creative thesis, "Shake Down the Stars: Poems," in December 2004.

Powell considers herself to be a gatherer; often she finds inspiration in conversations or music, finding interesting combinations of words or ideas that she uses in her poetry. Then, she says, it is just a matter of finding the precise language to enact whatever emotion is involved and to engage the reader, while still incorporating enough detail for the reader to follow along. The poems in "Shake Down the Stars" are divided into two categories: poems that deal with personal experience and poems that were more experimental, dealing with subjects that ranged from making fun of herself to poems that were strictly imaginative.

After graduation in May, Powell plans on attending the MFA program at University of North Carolina Greensboro.

March 16, 2005
A Celebration of Presence - Tribute to the Life and Work of Author Madison Jones
The Department and Auburn University's Center for the Arts & Humanities will sponsor a personal and scholarly tribute to the life and work of author Madison Jones on Sunday, March 20, at 2 pm at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. Jones, author of The Innocent, An Exile, A Cry of Absence, and Season of the Strangler, will read from his work at the event.

Jones received the T.S. Eliot Award for Creative Writing for his book Nashville 1864: The Dying of the Light (1997). His most recent novel, Herod's Wife, was published by the University of Alabama Press in 2003. Raised in Tennessee, he received degrees from Vanderbilt University and the University of Florida. Jones taught at Auburn University from 1956 until his retirement in 1987, serving as Professor of English and Alumni Writer-in-Residence. He has received the Harper Lee Award and the Michael Shaara Award for Civil War Fiction and is a member of the Alabama Academy of Distinguished Authors and the Fellowship of Southern Writers.

At the tribute, scholars Jan Nordby Gretlund, University of Southern Denmark; Jewel Spears Brooker, Eckerd College; and Judy Troy, AU Alumni Writer-in-Residence, will speak about Jones's work. A collection of essays edited by Nordby Gretlund and contributed to by Spears Brooker, Madison Jones' Garden of Innocence, will be released this month. The book demonstrates that Jones "has succeeded in finding his own voice and has created an emphatically moral world that transcends its Southern particulars."

March 9, 2005
Bert Hitchcock to Present Research at English Hour - "Well, Maybe Just This Once: Erskine Caldwell, Old Southwest Humor, and Funny Ha-Ha"
Bert Hitchcock, Hargis Professor of American Literature, will present an English Hour lecture titled "Well, Maybe Just This Once: Erskine Caldwell, Old Southwest Humor, and Funny Ha-Ha" on Monday, March 14, at 3:30 pm in 3104 Haley Center.

Hitchcock's lecture will be based on an essay to be published in Reading Erskine Caldwell: New Essays (McFarland and Company) later this year. Caldwell (1903-1987), best known for his Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre, was once a very well-known writer of/from the American South who garnered serious praise both from contemporary critics and later scholars. He is today, as the prospectus of Reading Erskine Caldwell: New Essays noted, "not [standardly] anthologized and...not treated regularly in critical essays in major journals in American literature and cultural studies." In an effort to investigate, if not elevate, Caldwell's literary stature, this new book aimed, it was said, "fully and provocatively to measure his work against established traditions of American literature." One of these traditions, actually long noted and regularly resulting in praise of Caldwell, is the literature of "Old Southwest humor," a kind of writing that directly and undoubtedly influenced Mark Twain and William Faulkner.

Because of Hitchcock's longstanding scholarly interest in this particular "tradition" of Southern writing, he was asked to address it for this new book. According to Hitchcock, he attempted to do that "fully and provocatively," and his findings "turned out to be something quite different from both what I anticipated and, I'm pretty sure, what the book's editor envisioned."

February 23, 2005
PhD Students Scott Nesbitt and Rhonda Powers Participate in Biggio Center Preparing Future Faculty Initiative
The Biggio Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning began the Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) initiative in Fall 2004. The goal of this initiative is to help future faculty members develop the skills needed to succeed in their endeavors. PFF Fellows participate in semester-long graduate credit-bearing seminar courses to develop their understanding of academic culture, behavioral expectations, and career possibilities so that they are prepared to join the academic workforce. These graduate students take part in the Multi-Campus Experience, an immersion program that allows them to visit other academic institutions in the Auburn area and to develop mentoring relationships with faculty at these partner institutions. The Biggio Center Professional Development Seminar Series also provides opportunities for PFF Fellows to learn from Auburn and partner institution faculty and staff lecturers.

Scott Nesbitt and Rhonda Powers, Department PhD students, are two of the thirteen PFF Fellows for 2004-2005. Nesbitt and Powers spend time meeting with other PFF Fellows to discuss various teaching issues, which give them a wider understanding of a teaching career at different colleges and universities. Nesbitt says, "The essential, nutshell message of the program is that one never knows exactly what kind of school where one may end up teaching, and it's good to get an understanding of the different expectations at different types of schools. This is also valuable considering many, if not most, of us will begin our teaching careers at schools smaller and/or less prestigious than the one from where we got our degree."

Powers also feels the program is valuable, saying "Perhaps the most exciting aspect of the program, to me, is that it is interdisciplinary. It has been exciting to discuss teaching and scholarship with psychology, education and human development students. I have enjoyed the program immensely and highly recommend it to other graduate students."

February 9, 2005
Michael Smith Publishes Stories, Finds Importance in Novellas
Instructor Michael Smith received the Transatlantic Review Award for fiction in 2002 and has published stories in numerous literary reviews. "Dos Mujeres" will soon be published in Texas Review and "Anywhere" was published online in the summer edition of The Summerset Review. In the spring of 2003 he served a postdoctoral fellowship with the EUR-AM Center for International Education in Pontlevoy, France and taught expatriate literature of Paris in the 1920s and creative writing.

Smith recently agreed to work with Russell & Volkening Literary Agency to represent his novel and collection of short stories. Still Maben, Smith's first novel, is set in South Mississippi, a dice's toss away from the concrete of the casino-lined coast. The collection of short stories is a culmination of a series of sketches he worked on while teaching abroad in France in 2003 and the stories that survived his work at the Center for Writers at Southern Mississippi.

Smith is currently working on a novella that focuses on a married couple in Paris who have had their nine-year old daughter abducted. He enjoys writing short novels because "some of my favorite books are short novels, books like The Stranger, Good Morning Midnight, The Comfort of Strangers. It seems to be a form getting less and less attention in the contemporary market."

Smith likes to use short novels in his World Literature II classes because of "the tight focus on story and how the book limits itself to the important detail. I think a misconception, at least to the casual reader, is the shorter the novel, the less complex the narrative, but I don't think that's true at all. It seems like Notes from Underground would easily squash that notion."

Smith and his wife are expecting their first child in early February, so he's trying to get in as much creative time as possible between now and then, though anxiousness seems to fill most of his hours. He also enjoys practicing the guitar.

Note: Smith and his wife, Sabrea, welcomed Presley Sage Smith, 9 lbs., 22 inches, on February 10, 2005.

February 2, 2005
Keith Gibson to Discuss Computer Grading in English Hour Presentation
Keith Gibson, Assistant Professor of English, will discuss computer grading in his English Hour presentation on at 4:00 pm on Monday, February 7, in 3104 Haley Center. His talk will cover three software applications that evaluate student writing: Calibrated Peer Review, Criterion Online Essay Evaluation, and Intelligent Essay Assessor.

Gibson will address three facets of these programs:

How they work. He will provide a brief overview of their theoretical bases, dipping a bit into artificial intelligence theory to help explain how the programs make their judgments.

If they work. Gibson will spend a fair amount of the talk discussing the output of the programs. He has spoken with several university administrators who have employed this software and will report on a handful of studies that compare computer evaluations with human evaluations.

Why we should get behind them. The automation of essay evaluation has understandably raised some hackles among composition theorists, but Gibson will make a case for a place for these programs in a university education. He will further argue that we will be better off if we support a limited, specific use of this technology instead of opposing every part of it and eventually being ignored by those who will be making these kinds of decisions.

January 26, 2005
First-Year GTAs Work with Faculty Members as Research Assistants
First-year MA and MTPC Graduate Teaching Assistants participate in a co-teaching program to prepare them to teach ENGL 1100 and 1120. These GTAs work with an upper level PhD student or Department faculty member in the classroom and also serve as English Center consultants throughout their first year at Auburn. New GTAs are also given the opportunity to work with individual faculty members on projects in research and/or technology or to continue their work in the English Center instead.

GTAs assist faculty on these projects for an average of 4 hours per week for 14 weeks in the spring semester. The faculty member spends some time providing developmental training in the specifics of his or her research or technology project and acts as a mentor to the GTA.

This semester, 7 GTAs are working as faculty research assistants. These students, along with the faculty members and projects they are working on, are listed below:

Barrett Gains - Bert Hitchcock, Biographical Guide to Alabama Literature
Tahmina Khanam - Pat Morrow, Anthropology and Literature
Xiangrong Liu - Jeremy Downes, The Female Homer
Jared Hromadka - Jeremy Downes, Marketing Poetry Manuscripts
Saiward Pharr - Alicia Carroll, Bibliography on Ouida's The Waters of Eden
Jennifer Reid - Tom Nunnally, Language Use in Alabama
Amanda Wood - Constance Relihan, Scholarly Edition of a 1620 Collection

Xiangrong Liu is eager to apply what she has learned in her courses to her work as one of Jeremy Downes's research assistants. This opportunity allows her to "gain hands-on experience in editing a scholarly text and develop broad familiarity with little-known as well as canonical texts by women, ranging from about 2000 BCE to the present, from a variety of languages and cultures."

Saiward Pharr finds her work with Alicia Carroll to be very beneficial for her graduate education. Pharr says, "The foremost benefit that attracted me to the research assistantship is the chance to work side by side with a professor on an in-depth research program.  This is the best way I could imagine to thoroughly develop my research skills; as an undergrad I was very comfortable with research, but last semester I realized that I have a lot to learn about research for grad school.  Already Dr. Carroll has taught me several “tricks” to research and, more importantly, the methods of thinking I need for graduate level research."

December 8, 2004
Mary Waters Retiring after 30 Years in the English Department
Mary began her career at Auburn as a graduate student studying with Ward Allen, Bernard Breyer, Eugene Current-Garcia, Sara Hudson, Taylor Littleton, Charles Rose, Thomas Wright, and others. Her dissertation is entitled "W. S. Gilbert and the Discovery of a Satiric Method for the Victorian Stage."

She has taught freshman composition, world literature, and business writing classes--can you imagine how many students she has met!  She says: "If I have succeeded as a teacher, much of the credit should be given to those who have taught me."

Mary also serves as editorial associate for the Southern Humanities Review. She will continue to do this part-time. Mary looks forward to many more trips to New York to indulge her passion for ballet, and to some redecorating and organizing at home.

She will be missed!

December 1, 2004
Christopher Miller Applies MTPC Degree to Naval Career
Christopher Miller will graduate with his Master of Technical and Professional Communication (MTPC) degree this December. After graduation, he will return to his full-time role as a US naval officer.

A member of the United States Navy since he was 17, Miller was selected to attend Auburn after applying for a program to complete his bachelor's degree. Toward the end of his undergraduate career as an English major, he was offered the opportunity to stay to complete a master's degree. He chose the MTPC program because it was very similar to the type of work he was doing on submarines for his first nine years in the Navy as a Yeoman, having primary responsibilities for all administrative work on the ship.

The MTPC program did not let him down. Miller looks forward to applying the skills he has learned in the program to his new role as a surface warfare officer. Because many of the responsibilities of a Navy officer are administrative in nature, he will use his technical writing and editing skills as he creates instructions and writes evaluations. In particular, Miller feels that the organizational skills he has learned in the MTPC program will benefit him greatly. While many may not think that the concepts used in organizing text and visuals in documents can be applied to a military career, he argues that the basic concepts are universal.

Miller will return to full duty with the US Navy in January 2005. His next duty station is the USS ANZIO, a guided missile cruiser home-ported in Norfolk, Virginia. After retiring from the Navy in about eight years, he hopes to teach technical writing at a local college in Virginia.

November 17, 2004
PhD Student Katherine Perry Finds Rewards in Prison Arts Program
Katherine Perry, PhD student, first met Kyes Stevens, the Director of The Alabama Prison Arts & Education Project (APAEP), when they worked together on the Quilts of Gee's Bend in Context project through Women's Studies in the summer of 2003.  By the fall of 2003, Perry was a visiting poet in one of Stevens' writing classes at Tutwiler Prison in Wetumpka.  She was hooked after one visit.  When asked why she does it, especially considering how busy she is, she replies, “Because they need teachers, and I need them.  Those two hours every week reacquaint me with what life means.”  

She started teaching her own class in the spring of 2004, and she has taught poetry writing classes at both Tutwiler and Tutwiler Annex (both women's facilities).  The students range from 18 to 65 years old and come from all racial, social, and geographic backgrounds, and while some students have been writing poetry all of their lives, some are new to writing.  No matter what level of education, all the women in the writing classes treat each class day as a privilege, as a way to turn their lives around, and as a gift.  Perry says the students at Tutwiler are a dream.  They come to class prepared, they spend time and energy working on their assignments, and they are genuinely interested in learning. She finds working in the prison system some of the most rewarding work she has ever done because she can see improvement in the students' writing and self-esteem every week.  

APAEP is housed at Auburn University's Center for the Arts and Humanities. The program began approximately four years ago under the name The Alabama Prison Arts Initiative and is now funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Alabama States Council on the Arts, and the Auburn University Center for the Arts and Humanities. The project has been hosted in Tutwiler Prison for Women and Annex, Frank Lee Youth Center (minimum-security for all-aged males), two work release units, and L.I.F.E. Tech facility of Pardons and Paroles.  The program holds writing and drawing classes and is hoping to start including humanities classes in the spring. You can find information on the project online. If you are interested in becoming a teacher, contact Kyes Stevens.

November 10, 2004
Kathryn Pratt Receives Research Grant to Study Romantic Theatrical Rhetoric and Melancholia at British Library in London
At the end of December, Kathryn Pratt, Assistant Professor of English, will fly to London to finish the research for her book project, The Rhetoric of Melancholia and the British Theatrical Tradition, 1750-1850, working with the help of grants provided by the University Office of Research and the College of Liberal Arts.

In her book manuscript, Pratt explores how melancholia became associated with theatrical representation in the Romantic period.  Like the rest of the nation, Romantic writers felt acutely the political and economic uncertainties of the times.  These included the destruction of old certainties with the French Revolution and, in its bloody aftermath, the failure of revolutionary optimism and the hardships endured by literary professionals and others in a depressed economy.

Casting about for a way to recoup their losses, Romantic writers turned to the rhetoric of melancholia that had emerged out of the eighteenth-century theatrical tradition, including the works of theater managers Thomas Sheridan and John Walker.  In their wake, famous figures including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Edmund Burke reacted with alarm or delight to the excessive "sympathy" that spectacular new stagings of tragedy elicited from viewers.  The name they gave to this physicalized sympathy was "melancholia."  In fact, what writers  found compelling about melancholia was the way that its association of the physical with the intellectual arts of persuasion could lend power to literature as a place in which the human being resisted its experiential losses. When Romantic writers claimed this theatrical melancholia for the field of literature, they took from the evolving tragic tradition the rhetoric of physical loss and desire that came to distinguish Romantic literature both from the contained and pleasurable sadness of the previous era's language of sensibility and from the ephemeral nature of the bodily eloquence of the stage.

Pratt studies melancholia by attending to the literary and rhetorical theories of the period.  Literary critics who study psychoanalytic theory have incorporated the term "melancholia" into an ahistorical, post-Freudian methodology from which the Romantic historical "melancholia" needs to be recovered.  More attentive historical critics have explored the period's cross-pollinations of literary and theatrical culture, and others have addressed the history of Romantic rhetorical theory.  No critic before Pratt, however, has addressed the importance of Romantic melancholia as a central paradigm of human identity around which the humanistic disciplines began to construct themselves.

As well as finishing her book on Romantic melancholia, Pratt is working on an article about Walter Scott ad nineteenth-century New Orleans theater.  Looking at New Orleans theater culture between 1820 and 1830, Pratt reads Walter Scott's popularity in both French and English language theater as a complex instance of converted nationalism.  She argues that two iconic plays performed in New Orleans between 1820 and 1830 (Rob Roy and La Dame Blanche) reveal what a fierce battle was being waged between the waning but powerful French culture and burgeoning American audiences to define New Orleans as a European city whose identity was either uniquely French-American or properly British-American.  In this creolized city culture, the separatist sentiment that would eventually make Scott an infamous Civil War presence took ethnic and regional form on the New Orleans stage.

November 3, 2004
Chris Keirstead Combines Work in Travel Writing with 19th Century British Poetry and Dickens
The subject of travel has been on Chris Keirstead's mind a lot lately. His undergraduate course, Studies in Travel Writing, focuses on non-fiction prose travel writing from the 19th century to the present, and in the words of the syllabus, the class "explores the unique role travel writing has played in the formation of ideas about modern individual and cultural identity." He and his students are considering such questions as "who travels and why?  How does travel both define and disrupt national identity?  What is cosmopolitanism? Does travel writing tend to challenge or merely confirm stereotypes about gender, race, and culture?" Specializing in Victorian literature, Keirstead has combined his interest in travel writing with his work in 19th century British poetry and Charles Dickens.

Currently, Keirstead is working on a book, Victorian Poetry and the Encounter with Europe, which examines Victorian poets' struggle to articulate a cosmopolitan, broadly Anglo-European cultural and political identity in their work.  It includes chapters on Arthur Hugh Clough, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, William Morris, and Thomas Hardy. Keirstead is also continuing his work with Charles Dickens, having recently published an article in 19th Century Studies entitled "Going Postal: Mail and Mass Culture in Bleak House." 

Keirstead's recent English Hour presentation in many ways combines his interest in Dickens with some of the questions about Victorian travel writing and border-crossing that inform his book project.  "Great Expectorations:  Negotiating Public Space in Dickens's American Notes" gave a new look at Dickens's controversial 1842 tour of the US, arguing that much of the author's disappointment stems not from American democracy per se but from his failure to recreate the personal, almost domestic fellowship that he had imagined he had created with his American readers.  He came to the US in order to live out a kind of fanstasy of authorship and instead found himself drawn unaviodably to places of public access - trains, canal boats, steam boats.  Keirstead argues, however, that it is in precisely these locations that travel, in a broader sense, actually occurs—where the traveler's gaze is activated in complex ways that cross boundaries even as the traveler struggles to reassert them.

October 6, 2004
The Other Side of a PhD Student's Life - Kristen Miller
Besides staying busy as a PhD student and assistant to the Coordinator of the English Center, Kristen Miller occupies her time by playing pool. Her hobby began when she started playing socially with friends around the time she moved to Auburn. She then joined the Auburn APA 9-Ball League in January 2004.

Miller belongs to a seven member team in the Auburn APA 9-Ball League with teammates Eric Astor, Jonathan Day, Lemon Hansana, Joe Hardwick, and Benson Hopper. The team was ranked first at the end of the spring session, allowing them to compete in the June regional tournament. At that tournament, Miller and her team beat four other teams and qualified for the APA National Championships in Las Vegas. The Montgomery/Auburn APA sponsored their weeklong trip to the championships.

In Las Vegas, Miller and her team competed against teams from across the United States. While at the competition, Miller progressed from skill level 2 to 3, and she won both of the matches she participated in, making her the only undefeated member of her team. The team placed 17th out of 264 teams.

Back in Auburn, Miller and her team finished the summer session ranking first as well and, three weeks into the fall session, are still ranked among the top teams within the league.

Miller says that she has improved a lot since returning from her Las Vegas trip. She placed second in an individual tournament on September 27 th to qualify for the National Singles Championships in Las Vegas in April 2005. She aims to reach a skill level of 4 by January and to become the first female in the Auburn APA league to be ranked at a skill level of 7 out of 9.

Miller enjoys playing pool because “I can definitely tell that I am improving and because I see how much more there is to learn.” Also, she is able to connect her studies as an English PhD student to her love for the game. She says, “While I've been learning about English as it pertains to language and literature for some time now, I've only just begun to scratch the surface of English as it pertains to pool.”

September 29, 2004
Penelope Ingram Continues Ned Kelly Research
Penelope Ingram, assistant professor of English, is currently working on a project that examines the various representations of the Irish/Australian outlaw Ned Kelly. Her project, entitled "Ned Kelly and the Postcolonial Imaginary: Irish convicts, Republican outlaws, and Australian identity from 1820 to the present," examines changing conceptions of Australian national identity from the 19th century to the present as articulated through cultural representations of Kelly. She is also interested in examining the Kelly myth in a broader colonial context, particularly the bearing that Anglo/Irish relations and convict transportation had, and continues to have, on the identity of the postcolonial nation state.

Since his execution in 1880, Ned Kelly has been the subject of 12 stage plays, numerous ballads and poems, 30 books, and 10 films, including what is thought to be the first feature film ever made, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906). Although a bushranger, outlaw, and murderer, Kelly is a hero to many Australians.

In the last decade or so, Kelly has experienced another resurgence. In 1991, the author Robert Drewe revisited the Kelly myth in his novel Our Sunshine, a psychological portrait of Kelly as a man driven to a desperate fate. In 2000, larger than life representations of armored Kellys graced the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics. In 2001, Peter Carey won the Booker Prize for his depiction of Kelly in his novel True History of the Kelly Gang. A film, Ned Kelly, based on Drewe's book starring Heath Ledger was released in the US in 2004, and a 1970 film, Ned Kelly, starring Mick Jagger was re-released earlier this year.

In the summer of 2004, Ingram received an NEH stipend to travel to Australia to visit the numerous Kelly archives, which are scattered in libraries, museums, public record offices, and government agencies in Victoria and around Australia. During this time, her main focus was to write a chapter on the paintings of Kelly done by artist Sidney Nolan in the 1940s, which are held in various museums and art galleries around Australia . These brightly colored, naif representations of Kelly have helped to shape our view of the outlaw. Apart from one portrait of Kelly, the rest of the series depict him on horseback in the outback in his armor.

What Ingram finds curious about this image and its enduring legacy is that Kelly and the other three members of his gang only wore their armor once, for their last battle with police. However, it is the image of the armor that has become interchangeable with Ned himself. Her chapter on Nolan examines Nolan's legacy and the way his paintings have contributed to a prevailing view of Kelly as persecuted hero, rather than blood-thirsty criminal.

September 8, 2004
Isabelle Thompson Appointed Faculty Fellow Associate Director of Biggio Center
Isabelle Thompson, professor and Coordinator of the English Center, has been appointed a Faculty Fellow Associate Director of the Biggio Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning at Auburn University. Thompson will serve a 3 year term in this position.

Two other Auburn University faculty members, Bill Buskist, psychology professor, and Don Mulvaney, animal sciences professor, will also serve as Faculty Fellow Associate Directors.

As a Faculty Fellow Associate Director, Thompson will focus her work on assessment for the Biggio Center, encouraging communication across the disciplines, and beginning a book club for Auburn University faculty and graduate students. This fall, the book club will discuss Ernest L. Boyer's Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate. For more information about the book club, please contact the Biggio Center.

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