- Newsworthy: Graduating Senior English Major, Brooke Bullman McIntosh
- Article by Thomas Argiro Featured in MELUS
- Job Search Strategies Presentation by Alumna Alise Chabaud
- Great Flicks - Tonight - 7:30 pm - 1203 Haley Center
- Call for Graduate Student Papers - Proposal Deadline: Wednesday, November 26
- CLA to Offer IT Workshops in January 2004 - Proposal Deadline: Tuesday, December 2
- English Department End-of-Term Party - Thursday, December 11
- Lead Teacher & Co-teacher Workshop on Teaching ENGL 1120 - Monday, January 12, 2004
- Allahudin Orphanage Receives Charitable Contributions From English Department Members
Graduating Senior English Major, Brooke
Bullman McIntosh
During her time at AU, graduating senior Brooke Bullman
McIntosh has actively pursued English and Technical and Professional
Communication
(TPC) both in the Department and in the workplace. McIntosh, who
was last year’s Editor in Chief of The Auburn Circle, was honored
with an Academic Award from the Society for Technical Communication
in 2002. She has interned with the Department of Communications and
Marketing in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering and has had two
summer contracts with NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville,
Alabama.
McIntosh spent her first three semesters at AU as an art major before changing her major to English/TPC. Her art background, combined with her proficiency in TPC, has allowed her to double as a graphic designer. She believes the skills she has learned in TPC are practical, versatile, and valuable to employers. McIntosh’s first post-graduation job will be as a writer and graphic designer for UDA Technologies, a software company in Auburn that creates and sells construction management software.
Article by Thomas Argiro Featured in MELUS
Thomas Argiro's article, "'As Though We Were Kin': Faulkner's
Black-Italian Chiasmus," has just come out in the Fall 2003 edition
of MELUS.
Job Search Strategies Presentation by Alumna Alise Chabaud
Alise Chabaud (MTPC, 2003) recently discussed job search strategies
during her presentation on Thursday, November 13. Chabaud is a Performance
Support
Designer in the Education Division of TSYS in Columbus, Georgia.
Great Flicks - Tonight
- 7:30 pm - 1203 Haley Center
Apu Sansar (World of Apu) (Satyajit Ray, 1959)
This is probably the best
known Indian film. The following passage is the IMDB's description
of the plot: "Apu
is a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer. An
old
college friend
talks him into
a visit up-country to a village wedding. This changes his life, for
when the bridegroom turns out to be mad, Apu's friend asks him to
become the husband!"
See the fall schedule for the Great Flicks series.
Call for Graduate Student Papers - Proposal
Deadline: Wednesday, November 26
Texas Tech University, located in Lubbock, Texas, is hosting
the 2004 Graduate English Society Conference on Friday, February 20 and
Saturday,
February
21,
2004. The
theme of the conference will be "Building Bridges, Constructing Meaning:
Shaping Future Directions of English Studies."
The proposal deadline is Wednesday, November 26, 2003, and the conference proceedings deadline is Sunday, February 1, 2004. For more information, visit the conference website.
CLA to Offer IT Workshops in January 2004
- Proposal Deadline: Tuesday, December 2
The College of Liberal Arts (CLA) will offer workshops
between Wednesday, January 7 and Monday, January 12, 2004 on WebCT, Advanced
PowerPoint, and CLA Video Conference Equipment. Proposals (described
below) to attend one or more of the workshops are due
by Tuesday, December 2 and can be emailed
to Bryan
Taylor or Wiebke
Kuhn. Participants
will receive a modest stipend of $250 for their completed participation.
If you are interested in attending either the WebCT or Advanced PowerPoint workshop (or both), please submit a short proposal outlining the kind of project you are planning, when you want to use the project, and the amount of experience you currently have with WebCT and/or PowerPoint.
If you are interested in attending the Introduction to the CLA Video Conference Equipment workshop, please write up a short scenario describing how you think you could use video conferencing.
English Department End-of-Term Party -
Thursday, December 11
After the success of last year's end-of-term party, the Department
has made preliminary arrangements for this year's party to be at Pebble
Hill on Thursday, December 11, beginning at 6:00 pm.
Lead Teacher & Co-teacher Workshop on Teaching ENGL 1120 - Monday, January 12, 2004
Allahudin Orphanage Receives Charitable
Contributions From English Department Members
Robin Bates' brother's National Guard unit, which is currently
serving in Afghanistan, has been sponsoring the Allahudin orphanage
in
Kabul. It is home to boys and girls ages two to twelve.
In October, Robin Bates collected clothing, toys, and other contributions for the orphanage from members of the English Department. According to her brother, the contributions have been distributed at the orphanage, and both his National Guard Unit and the Allahudin orphanage send the Department their thanks.
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