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March 17, 2004
Volume 6.26 		 

 

Hargis Professor Constance Relihan
Constance RelihanHargis Professor of English Constance Relihan has taught English at Auburn University for 14 years and has served on the Graduate Studies Committee for 6 years. She specializes in 16th- and 17th-century prose fiction, Shakespeare, and early modern literature. Relihan was appointed Associate Hargis Professor in 2001 and appointed a full Hargis Professorship in 2003.

The Hargis Professorship was named for Estes H. Hargis, who earned an honorary Doctor of Science from Auburn in 1965. Hargis had established the professorship in 1964 to help "produce distinguished graduates in the field covered by the Professorship." In line with this goal, Hargis Professors receive a reduced classroom load to afford them more time to help graduate students in their research and more time to conduct research themselves. As Hargis Professor of English, Relihan works with PhD advisees and the ABD Colloquium in which she counsels and assists graduate students who are working on and finishing dissertations. Relihan also serves as the Coordinator of Great Books and as advisor to the English Graduate Organization.

Relihan, a former recipient of the Auburn University College of Liberal Arts Award for Teaching in the Humanities, edited the recently published text, Prose Fiction and Early Modern Sexualities in England, 1570-1640. She will teach English 7650, Early Modern Narrative Poetry, in the summer.

Essay by Marc Silverstein to Appear in American Drama
Marc Silverstein's essay "A De/'Centering Excercise': Vision and Its Discontents in Spalding Gray's Gray's Anatomy" has been accepted for the forthcoming issue of American Drama.

Penny Ingram Awarded NEH Summer Stipend and AU Grant for Research on Ned Kelly
Penny Ingram has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) summer stipend for her proposed research project on Ned Kelly. She has also received a grant from the Humanities Fund at Auburn for research travel support for the project.

Ned Kelly, since his execution in 1880, has been the subject of 12 stage plays, a famous series of paintings, 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.

With her fellowship, Ingram proposes to examine changing conceptions of Australian national identity from the 19th century to the present as articulated through these cultural representations of Kelly. This history illuminates significant aspects of Australia's ongoing engagement with its convict past and its relationship with the rest of the world, especially its colonial ties to England.

Chris Keirstead and Derrick Spradlin Participate in Conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association - St. Louis Missouri
Chris Keirstead and Derrick Spradlin delivered papers last leek at the 25th annual conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association in St. Louis, Missouri. The conference theme was "Cultural Imperialism and Competition: Travel, World's Fairs and Colonial/National Image."

Spradlin's paper, based on a chapter from his dissertation on travel writing and national identity during the Federalist period in the U.S., was entitled "John A. Pope's Tour and the Construction of the Nation," and Keirstead's paper, "In Search of the 'Great Human Family': Tourism, Privacy, and Community in Dickens's American Notes," focused on Dickens's attempts to merge the ideals of domesticity and internationalism in his travel writing.

Faculty Meeting - Today - 3:00 pm - 3104 Haley Center
There will be a faculty meeting today at 3:00 pm in 3104 Haley Center. The focus of the discussion will be the proposed changes to the department's Policies and Procedures document.

St. Patrick's Day Celebration - Today - 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm - Foy Ballroom
Come to the St. Patrick Celebration at Foy Ballroom this afternoon! Dan Szechi, from the History Department, will speak at 3:00 pm on "Who was St. Patrick?" A low tea will follow at 4:00.

At 5:00, there will be a performance by "Noisy Deirdre," a group habitually composed of the following: Thea Ryan and Ruth Crocker - fiddles; Craig Bertolet - recorder and pennywhistle; Jim Ryan - banjo; James Truman - mandolin; Jon Bolton, Tom O'Shea, Grant Pheloung - guitars; Constance Relihan and Renee Twombly - basses; Shawna Thorp - badron; Jeremy Downes, Wiebke Kuhn, and Claire Wilson - vocals. This group will perform a few instrumental pieces and a few Irish songs. The Auburn Celtic Dancers will follow this performance.

Great Flicks - Tonight - 7:30 pm - 1203 Haley Center
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir, 1975)
The first film from Peter Weir, arguably the best filmmaker ever to come out of Australia, is based on a novel by Joan Lindsay. It tells the story of a group of students who disappear in the Australian Outback in 1900—but has become famous less for its narrative than for the haunting, mysterious way in which the story is told.

View the Great Flicks Spring Schedule.

Welcome Auburn Parents to Classes on Friday, March 19
The Auburn Parents' Association will host Family Weekend on Friday, March 19 and Saturday, March 20. The Provost's Office requests that Auburn parents be allowed to attend classes with their students on Friday, March 19.

Applications for Breeden Faculty Enhancement Grants Due Friday, March 19
The Biggio Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning is pleased to announce that competitive grants for teaching enhancement projects will be available again this year from the Daniel F. Breeden Endowment for Faculty Enhancement. The Teaching Effectiveness Committee will review proposals; grants will be awarded through the Biggio Center. Awards will be made for up to $2,000 for one-year projects beginning in the summer or fall term, 2004.

Tenured/tenure-track faculty from all disciplines or faculty from the clinician title series with appointments continuing through the 2004-2005 academic year are eligible. Although graduate students or instructors may be hired to work on the projects, funds may not be used to support the writing of dissertations or theses. Funds may be used to enhance courses or programs, enrich the core curriculum, provide field experience or hands-on experience for students, pay for travel for research or presentations on teaching, purchase books, develop workshops, or underwrite almost any activity germane to teaching or the evaluation and assessment of teaching.

Applications for the Breeden grants are available online or directly from the Biggio Center, 4011 RBD Library. Completed applications must be received in this office by 4:45 p.m. on March 19, 2004. Applicants will be notified within four to five weeks, and funds will be available first day of summer term.

CLA PETL Workshop - Evaluating Your Teaching - Thursday, March 25 - 3:30 pm - 202 Thach Hall
The College of Liberal Arts (CLA) Promotion of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (PETL) will present a workshop on "Evaluating Your Teaching" on Thursday, March 25 from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm in 202 Thach Hall. The workshop will provide tips and suggestions for evaluating teaching as well as an overview of the different strategies for assessing specific aspects of teaching.

The coordinator of the workshop is Emily Myers (Social Work) and the workshop leaders are Isabelle Thompson (English) and Dave Shannon (Educational Foundations, Leadership, and Technology).

If you have any questions, please email Bill Buskist.

Spring Applications for CLA Funded Research Support Due Friday, April 2
Spring applications for research support funded by the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) are due Friday, April 2. This deadline is timed to coincide with the conclusion of the Competitive Research Grants process conducted by the Vice President for Research.

View details on the Humanities grant program.
View details on the CLA Summer Grant program.

Please note that the Humanities grant program and the CLA Summer Grant program are two separate programs, and winners are chosen by two separate committees. Eligible faculty may apply for both programs, but two distinct applications are required. In practice, most people file similar proposals for both programs, but it is important that the proposals be titled clearly to indicate the program to which you are applying.

If you have questions or would like any assistance with your proposal(s), please email Tony Carey.

AU Instructional Development Grant 2004 - 2005 Competition - Applications Due Friday, April 9
The purpose of the Instructional Development Grant - Incorporating Service Learning into the Curriculum is to encourage enhancement of teaching and community service through financial support of selected projects. Such projects should directly benefit the students, the community, and the faculty member. Instructional activities in any area can qualify for support.

Five grants of up to $1000 each for instructional development will be awarded. The application for the AU Instructional Development Grant is available online and the deadline for submitting the application is Friday, April 9, 2004. The grant period begins on Thursday, July 15, 2004 and ends on Thursday, May 12, 2005.

View more information about the AU Instructional Development Grant, or attend the Service Learning Instruction and Grant Writing Workshop on Friday, March 5 from 9:00 am to 10:30 am at the Auburn University Hotel and Dixon Conference Center.

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