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April 14, 2004
Volume 6.29 		 

 

Congratulations, Undergraduate Award Winners!
Each semester, the English Department gives scholarships and awards to students. More than $20,000 is being awarded by the department to undergraduate and graduate students this spring. Awards are given for academic excellence and also for achievements in writing. Undergraduate awards will be presented on Thursday, April 15 at 3:00 pm at the reception for the English Symposium and 2004 Carl Benson Lecture.

Please congratulate the following students who have been chosen by the Achievement Awards Committee of the Department of English to receive:

Academic Achievement Awards
James A. Kirkley Award ($1000): Justin Lowery, '03 English
Ruth and Carolyn Faulk Scholarship ($4000): Megan Pasley, '03 English
Department of English Undergraduate Scholarship ($3000): Anna Claire Stamps, '03 English
Mortar Board's Mildred Enloe Yates Award ($1500): Abby Whigham, '04 English
Department of English Senior Award ($1000): Tressa Cook, '04 English
Mary Matherly Durant Award ($1000): Brooke Bullman McIntosh, '04 English

Writing Awards
Academic Essay
Rebecca Leadingham, "Song of Edna Pontellier: Performed by the Seductive Sea"

Creative Fiction
Charles Enoch, "Ghosts"

Poetry
• Winner: Crystal Dean, "Ice Cream"
• Honorable Mention: Brian Woodham, Jr., "Widowed"

Sigma Tau Delta Invitees
Angela Baker Akosua Cook Jared Gullage Mary Mayberry Benjamin Stubblefield
Amber Berry Tressa Cook Gayle Gulledge F. Moon Milla Chappell
Matthew Bobo Jessica Dean Lesley Hamilton Megan Pasley William Trussell
Melissa Bridges Lori Dixon Raymond Keller Andrienne Reeves Jennifer Vester
Tiffany Burgess James Farquhar Jonnie Lane Laura Beth Rhodes Jane Walker
Rebekah Caldwell Meagan Francis Wellon Lee Robert Ring Margaret Warren
Holly Caradine Sarah Godwin Justin Lowery Erin Simon Dimitri Williams
Margaret Carter Nancy Grimes Molly Martin Anna Claire Stamps  

Book Scholarships for English majors who have attained the Dean's List in the College of Liberal Arts ($100 each)
FRESHMEN SOPHOMORES
Mary Bostick Maren Brown
Kathryn Chandler Parker Fowler
Henry Combest Virginia Fuller
Mary Hogan Brian Gillis
Fen Lin Julie Hinz
Sarah McMurtrie Graham Lock
Hailey Porter Joshua Lopez
Bonnie Shamp Emily McCann
Amy Walker Anna Straussberger
Caroline Wilkinson  


English Symposium Series & 2004 Benson Lecture - Thursday, April 15 - 3:00 pm - Jule Collins Smith Museum
Robyn WiegmanRobyn Wiegman, the Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies at Duke University will speak as part of the English Symposium Series and the 2004 Carl Benson Lecture on Thursday, April 15 at 3:00 pm at the Jule Collins Smith Museum. A reception will follow the lecture.

Wiegman earned her PhD from the University of Washington and has taught at Syracuse University, Indiana University, and the University of California, Irvine. Her presentation will be based on her recent Modern Language Quarterly publication, "On Being in Time with Feminism," which meditates on the transformations that academic institutionalization has generated for feminism as a political project and intellectual tradition. It considers the difficulties of sustaining a political intellectual life, explores questions of theory and experience, and considers the difference between disciplinary and interdisciplinary habits of thought.

View more information on Robyn Wiegman.

Instructor Awards and Reception - Thursday, April 15 - 3:00 pm - Jule Collins Smith Museum

James Ryan Awarded the 2003-04 "Early Career Teaching Excellence Award"
James RyanThe College of Liberal Arts' (CLA) Promotion of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (PETL) Committee has selected James Ryan to receive the "Early Career Teaching Excellence Award" for the 2003-04 academic year.

The award will be presented at the CLA PETL Awards Ceremony and Reception on Friday, April 30 at 3:30-5:00 pm in the Telfair Peet Theatre. Please congratulate Dr. Ryan on receiving this honor.


Michelle Sidler Presents Paper at Conference on College Composition and Communication
Michelle Sidler presented a paper titled "Making Science Matter: Teaching Biotechnology and Research-Praxis in Composition" at the national Conference on College Composition and Communication in San Antonio, Texas on March 26. Her presentation discussed the research pedagogy she has developed for English 1120.

Susan Hopkirk Presents Paper at Popular Culture Association Conference
Susan Hopkirk presented a paper titled "The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same: Sexual & Societal Restrictions in the Harlequin Romance" at the annual Popular Culture Association Conference in San Antonio, Texas on April 7-11.

Faculty Meeting - Today - 3:00 pm - 3104 Haley Center

April in Auburn STC Meeting - "Dealing with Change" - Saturday, April 17 - 9:00 am - 3110 Haley Center
This year's fourth annual April in Auburn meeting of the Society for Technical Communication (STC), Birmingham Chapter, will take place Saturday, April 17. Registration will begin at 9:00 am in 3110 Haley Center, and the meeting will conclude at 3:00 pm.

View the schedule.

Auburn Chamber Music Society Presents Los Angeles Piano Quartet - Sunday, April 18 - 2:30 pm - Goodwin Recital Hall
Los Angeles Piano QuartetThe Auburn Chamber Music Society will be presenting its third and last concert for the 2003-04 season on Sunday, April 18 at 2:30 pm in Goodwin Recital Hall. The featured ensemble will be the Los Angeles Piano Quartet, which will perform Ludwig von Beethoven's Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 16, Joachim Turina's Piano Quartet in A-minor, Op. 67, and Gabriel Faure's Piano Quartet in G-minor, Op. 45.

Tickets are available at the door for $20; student tickets are $5. For more information, please email Craig Bertolet of the Auburn Chamber Music Society.

Musical Drama - "A Table Before Me" - Monday, April 19 - 7:30 pm - Telfair Peet Theatre
The College of Liberal Arts—with support from the Center for Diversity and Race Relations, and the Women's Studies Program—asks that you join them in welcoming Claudia Stevens as she performs "A Table Before Me" for one night only in Telfair Peet Theatre on Monday, April 19 at 7:30 pm. The show is free; please encourage your students to attend.

"A Table Before Me" is a musical drama in one act created by Claudia Stevens who is at once pianist, singer, and actor. A performance tour de force, with Stevens playing a variety of characters, the piece conveys the terror and turmoil experienced by her mother's family during the Nazi takeover of Austria in 1938. The original script includes actual letters and documents (1938-41) released from the Austrian State Archives in 1997, including directives from the Gestapo to the family, charting the depredation of the "assets" of a typical family.

"A Table Before Me" has special significance in the present climate of anxiety over public safety and fear of "the enemy within." It is being presented widely to address and promote discussion of the potential violations of personal freedoms in pursuit of national security.

If you have any questions, please email Mary Kuntz or call her at 844-6363.

EGO Meeting - Wednesday, April 21 - 3:00 pm - Location TBA

Great Flicks - Wednesday, April 21 - 7:30 pm - 1203 Haley Center
Elizabeth (Kapur, 1998)
This is not a Shakespearean adaptation, but a film that attempts to convey what Shakespeare’s world was like—without the winking and in-jokes of Shakespeare in Love. Dealing primarily with the early years of Elizabeth’s rule, the tensions of being a female ruler in a patriarchal society, and the various political maneuvers and plots that surrounded her, the movie by Indian director Shekhar Kapur views its subject from a compelling, postcolonial distance.

View the Great Flicks Spring Schedule.

Noche Lírica Poetry Recital of Spanish-Language Poetry - Thursday, April 22 - 7:00 pm - Pebble Hill
The Foreign Language Department is having a Noche Lírica poetry recital of Spanish-language poetry at Pebble Hill on Thursday, April 22 at 7:00 pm. Everyone is invited! Even if you don't understand Spanish, you can appreciate the beauty of the spoken language.

For more information, please email Jana Gutierrez, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

Graduate Awards and Reception - Tuesday, May 4 - 4:30 - 7:00 pm - Pebble Hill
Faculty, staff, and graduate students along with their families are cordially invited to attend the department's annual reception in honor of its graduate students. Graduate student awards will be presented at the reception. Drinks and light fare will be provided and there will be on-site childcare.

Please RSVP to Craig Bertolet by any medium no later than Friday, April 23, and please specify how many will be in your party and whether you will be bringing children.

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Last updated April 14, 2004


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