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August 20, 2003
Volume 6.1		  

New Professorial Faculty - Keith Gibson, Cedrick May, Chris Forhan
The Department extends a warm welcome to its newest faculty members. We appreciate the knowledge and skills they bring with them as well as the diversity of their academic specializations.

Keith Gibson earned his PhD from Penn State University in 2003. He focused on the connections between rhetorical theory and scientific discourse. He is currently researching how science influences public policy. Gibson joins the MTPC faculty. Read more link to faculty directory.

Cedrick May earned his PhD from Penn State University in 2003 and specializes in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century African American literature, poetry, and evangelical literature. His work was recently published in The African American Review. Read more link to faculty directory.

Chris Forhan earned his MFA from the University of Virginia and his MA from the University of New Hampshire. Forhan specializes in poetry and his work has received prizes and been published in several literary magazines and anthologies. Read more link to faculty directory.

MTPC Faculty Meeting - Friday, August 22
MTPC faculty will meet in the Eagle's Nest South - Friday, August 22 - 12:30 - 2:30.

MTPC Faculty/Student Meeting - Friday, August 22
MTPC faculty and students will meet in 3104 Haley Center - Friday, August 22 - 3:00 - 4:30. The year's activities will be planned and refreshments will be provided.

Department Picnic - Saturday, August 23
Department members, their families, and guests are invited to a picnic at Chewacla State Park hosted by George and Carolyn Crandell - Saturday, August 23 - 4:00 - dusk. The upper pavilion is reserved, see map.

Directions - From the AU Library, go south on College. Go over the interstate and take the next left on to Shell Toomer Parkway. Continue on until you see the park's entrance.

Great Flicks - Wednesday, August 27 at 7:30 pm in 1203 Haley Center
LE MEPRIS [Contempt] (Godard, 1963)
The story of the breakup of a marriage is set against the filming of a new version of The Odyssey in this French New Wave film (some adult content, including Bardot nude).

See the fall schedule for the Great Flicks series.

Great Books is Still Great Books.
Although forms have been filed to change the name of our core literature sequence, the forms have not yet received the final approval. ENGL 2200 and 2210 and their Honors counterparts are still "Great Books." Assuming that the change is approved, the course titles will change to "World Literature" (note the singular, not plural) in the fall of 2004.

Great Books Guidelines.
Program guidelines still encourage faculty to include two papers, a midterm, and a final exam in the course, and to construct a syllabus that represents a variety of chronological periods and a "balanced syllabus that represents the following kinds of texts: [1] works originally written in English; [2] works not originally written in English; [3] works by women; and [4] works by members of minority groups within Western culture or by members of non-Western cultures." Guidelines.

Please remember that our compliance with these general guidelines helps reduce pressure to create additional guidelines.

Great Books Resources.
Our collection of print resources for faculty teaching Great Books is housed in 8011 Haley Center. Our video collection is in the workroom in 9030 and some additional DVDs are in the English Center.

Job Placement Informational Meeting - Margaret Kouidis - Thursday, September 4
Margaret Kouidis will lead an informational meeting about the Department's job placement service on Thursday, September 4 from 4 - 5:00. Location TBA.

Placing a Book Manuscript - Paula Backscheider - Monday, September 8
Find out about the book manuscript placing process and what to do at each step on Monday, September 8 at 3:00 in 3104 Haley Center. Questions will be encouraged.

Among the topics to be discussed will be when, where, and how to submit, how long the process takes from query to book, what you can expect and do at each step, and if time allows, turning dissertations and very promising articles into books. For more information, contact Paula Backscheider.

First Symposium - Alumna Molly Smith - Thursday, September 11
Molly Smith, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Seton Hall University, graduated in 1989 from Auburn University with a PhD in English. Dr. Smith will present from her work on Early Modern Drama.

The symposium will be Thursday, September 11 at 3:30 in 2370 Haley Center.

MTPC Graduates
May 2003 graduates of the MTPC program are in their first post-graduation positions.

Alise Chabaud is an instructional technologies designer for TSYS in Columbus, GA. TSYS is one of the largest credit card processing companies in the world. Its international headquarters is in Columbus.

Heather Lord is in the PhD program in Management at Auburn University.

Nathan Meier, after completing a paid summer internship with Mirant Corporation in Atlanta, will begin work soon as a technical communicator in the Office of Research and Graduate Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He will join four other proposal writers and will be specializing in document design.

While waiting to participate in an Auburn University College of Human Sciences-sponsored trip to Italy, Amanda Ray is working for RayPress Corporation and is starting a web magazine titled Narrow Web Now, focusing on narrow web printing.

Summer Seminars Led by Don Cunningham
Don Cunningham, Professor of English and Coordinator of Technical and Professional Communication in the department, taught 4 seminars in July in which more than 200 engineers, city planners, geologists, managers for the Alabama Department of Transportation, managers and executives for Fortune 500 companies, and other professionals participated. The seminars, sponsored by the Alabama Technology Transfer Center and AU's Business and Engineering Continuing Education Division, were held in Huntsville (July 22), Birmingham (July 23), Montgomery (July 24), and Mobile (July 25).

 

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