Events

Please go to The English Channel for current information on these and other events.

Open House - September 30, 2005 - 3-4pm

The Department of English will host an Open House for alumni, Friday, September 30 in 9030 Haley Center.

Plan to stop by to meet members of the Advisory Council as well as faculty and students in the English Department.

Tailgate Party - October 1, 2005

The College of Liberal Arts will host a tailgate party, Saturday, before the Auburn - South Carolina game. Live music and free food will be provided.

Meet 2 hours before the game in the Dean’s Club parking lot on the corner of Duncan and Samford next to the Telfair Peet Theater.

For more information, contact Wendy Bonner at 334-844-1483.

Symposium Series 2005-2006

The English Symposium Series offers faculty, students, alum, and members of the community the chance to meet and hear speakers known for their accomplishments in the arts and humanities. The events are free and open to everyone. Afterward, everyone has a chance to meet the guest speaker and enjoy refreshments.

September 19 - Jack Selzer - Kenneth Burke Scholar

Jack Selzer, Professor of English and Associate Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies at Penn State University, will discuss rhetorical criticism at the first English Symposium Series lecture.

Taking advantage of what he has learned from research on Kenneth Burke, Professor Selzer will first outline an approach to rhetorical criticism and then show how that approach can "open up" texts as various as a novel by John Dos Passos, an argument in the Wall Street Journal, a speech from the Civil Rights movement, and a visual argument about gender.

Professor Selzer will meet with faculty and students throughout the day. His lecture will be in Ralph Brown Draughon Library at 2 pm.

October 20 , 2005 - Thomas Lux - Poet

Thomas Lux will read from his poetry. Among his works are The Cradle Place, The Street of Clocks, and New and Selected Poems, 1975-1995.

For more information about Lux, please see the poets.org website.

The poetry reading will be at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at 3 pm.

March 9, 2006 - Janisse Ray - author, naturalist, activist

Janisse Ray's works include Ecology of a Cracker Childhood; Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land; and Wild Card Quilt:Taking a Chance on Home. She has won the American Book Award, the Southern Book Critics Circle Award, Southeastern Booksellers Association Award for Nonfiction, and the Southern Environmental Law Center Award.

For more information about Janisse Ray, visit the website of her publisher Chelsea Green.

April 18, 2006 - James Phelan - Scholar of Narrative Theory
Carl Benson Lecture on 20th Century Literature

James Phelan, Ohio State University, will present the Carl Benson Lecture on 20th Century Literature. His most recent work is Living to Tell About It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration.

For more information about James Phelan, visit the his website.

World Literature Lecture Series

On Monday, November 7, 2005, the World Literature program will sponsor a lecture by Sheldon Pollock, William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and South Asian Studies at Columbia University. He will meet with students and faculty throughout the day.

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Last updated September 8, 2005