- Newsworthy: Upcoming Events for Fall 2004-05
- Frances Collins to be Recognized for 25 Years of Service
- Humanities Grants Awarded
- Penny Ingram Receives Summer Stipend and AU Grant for Research
- Cedric May Receives Grants for Travel and Research
- Betsy Smith Awarded EGO Faculty Appreciation Award
- Congratulations, Summer Academy Participants!
- Check Out the English Department Alumni Site!
- MTPC Oral Exam - Cindy Staudt - Today - 2:00 pm - 3130 Haley Center
- Pictures! 5th Annual Dead Day Golf Outing
- Pictures! Graduate Student Awards Reception
Upcoming Events for Fall 2004-05
Mark your calendars for the upcoming events planned for the
fall 2004-05 semester. View
the English Department's online calendar and future volumes of
the English Channel for faculty meetings,
English hours, EGO meetings, English Symposium series,
and
more.
Have a happy and safe summer!
| Event | Dateate | Time/Location |
| New Faculty Orientation |
August 2–6, 9–13 |
9:00, Wednesday, August 4 in 3106 Haley Center (first meeting day) |
| New Graduate Student Orientation | August 11–13, 16–17 |
9:00, Wednesday, August 11 in 3104 Haley Center (first meeting day) |
| Lead Teachers' Workshop | August 16 | 8:30–10:00 in 3104 Haley Center |
| World Literature Workshop | August 16 | 10:00–12:00 in 1203 Haley Center |
| Department Meeting and Reception (faculty, staff, students) | August 17 | 9:00 in 2370 Haley Center (Reception in 9030 Haley Center) |
| Second-year Masters GTA Workshop | August 17 | 1:00–3:00 in 3104 Haley Center |
| First Day of Classes | August 18 | |
| Department Picnic Hosted by George and Carolyn Crandell (all members of the department, alum, and their families are invited) | August 21 | 4:00–dusk at Chewacla State Park |
| Faculty Meeting - Provost Hanley | September 1 | 3:00 - 3195 Haley Center |
| New Directions '04 - Faculty Retreat | September 11 | 8:30–1:00 at Kiesel Park |
| James Buzard, MIT, 19th c. British novels, travel literature | September 23 | 3:00 at the Jule Collins Smith Museum |
| Barbara Mowat, AU alum, Director of Academic Programs, Folger Shakespeare Library | October 21 | 3:00 at the Jule Collins Smith Museum |
| End-of-Term Party and Pot Luck Dinner | December 9 | 6:00 at St. Dunstan's |
Frances Collins to be Recognized for 25 Years of Service
Frances Collins will be recognized for (her first) 25 years
of service to Auburn University at this year’s Employee Recognition
Program. The event will take place on Thursday, May 6, from 2:00–4:30
pm
at the Auburn University Hotel and Dixon Conference Center, Ballroom
A.
Please join the English Department in congratulating Collins for her outstanding achievement.
Humanities Grants Awarded
Congratulations to Chris Forhan, Jim McKelly, and Michelle Sidler
who have been selected to receive competitive Humanities Grants.
For Chris Forhan, the grant will help him continue working on his third book of poetry.
Jim McKelly will use the grant to travel to the homes of 15 American Poets who have identified Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass as an artistic precedent of particular significance, power, or inspiration to them as poets. He will produce a documentary film celebrating the anniversary of Whitman's great poem in the lives, work, and voices of living American poets.
Michelle Sidler will apply the grant to her work researching ways the human genome has been characterized as a book, language, and code by scientists, ethicists, and the press. Her work overviews current theories of genetics and molecular biology and analyzes them using interpretive methods from English studies, including rhetorical and literary theory. Eventually, this research will lead to pedagogical applications for English courses which explore issues related to biotechnology.
Penny Ingram Receives Summer Stipend and AU Grant for Research
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 grant, 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.
Cedric May Receives Grants for Travel and Research
Cedric May has been awarded an Auburn University Humanities
Development Grant, which he will use for travel support to archives
where he will be doing research for his book, Evangelism and Resistance
in the Black Transatlantic, 1760–1845. He has also been awarded
a Competitive Research Grant by the College of Liberal Arts that will
help support his research.
In addition to having been awarded the grants, May has also been invited by the Alabama Humanities Foundation to serve as a SUPER Scholar for the Summer Teacher Institute on the Harlem Renaissance and give a lecture on religious influences in Harlem Renaissance writing. He will deliver his lecture at the University of Alabama Huntsville on July 18.
Betsy Smith Awarded EGO Faculty Appreciation Award
The English Graduate Organization (EGO) Faculty Appreciation
Award recognizes the outstanding contributions and service of one graduate
faculty member
every academic
year. Graduate
students nominate faculty for the award based on their contributions
and service to graduate students.
Congratulations to Betsy Smith who has been selected by EGO to receive this year's Faculty Appreciation Award!
Congratulations, Summer Academy Participants!
Congratulations to Alex Dunlop, Kimberly McGhee,
and Tom Argiro who have been selected
to participate in Summer Academy 2003-04. Congratulations also to Stephanie
Gordon and Keith Gibson who have been selected to participate in Advanced
Summer Academy 2003-04.
We look forward to hearing about your projects in the fall!
Check Out the English Department Alumni Site!
The English Department has dedicated a section of its website
for alumni and friends.
View the English alumni website.
The department is sending letters to all of its alumni and would also like to send emails to alumni asking them to contribute information for the Alumni Notes page.
Please send an email to the students you keep in touch with asking them to visit the new site, and please encourage them to send a note. Or, email Betsy Smith their email addresses and she will contact them for you.
MTPC Oral Exam - Cindy Staudt - Wednesday,
May 5 - 2:00 pm - 3130 Haley Center
Master of Technical and Professional Communication (MTPC) students
complete the requirements for the MTPC with an oral exam and a portfolio.
During the oral exam, they present many of the projects they completed
while in the MTPC program and that appear in the portfolio. Students
incorporate into the oral exam presentation information from their
course readings and discussions.
Members of the student's committee conduct the oral exam. Members of the department and guests may ask questions.
Pictures! 5th Annual Dead Day Golf
Outing
This year's Battle for the Tweed—the 5th Annual Dead Day Golf Outing—was
held at Indian Pines Golf Club on Tuesday, May 4 in the morning. Golfers
and non-golfers alike enjoyed the event under perfect weather conditions.
View pictures from the golf outing.
Pictures! Graduate Student Awards
Reception
Graduate awards were presented at the department's reception on
Tuesday, May 4 from 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm at Pebble Hill. Faculty, staff,
graduate students, and their families enjoyed drinks and light fare
at the reception.
View pictures from the graduate student awards reception.
To include an item in The English Channel, submit text items by Tuesday at 11:40 am for publication Wednesday. Submit items by email to Betsy Smith or put the information in her mailbox. Please check your submission for accuracy and completion—all calendar items and meeting announcements must include the date, time, and location of the event.
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Last updated May 5, 2004