- Newsworthy: Heather Hicks Earns Defoe Assistantship
- Marvyn Petrucci - New Publication
- Paula Backscheider to Appear on Discovery Channel
- Faculty Meeting - Today - 3:00 pm - 3195 Haley Center
- Great Flicks - Tonight - 7:30 pm - 1203 Haley Center
- Presentation by Virgil Starks Rescheduled - Thursday, September 25 - 4:00 pm - 2352 Haley Center
- ABD Colloquium Prospectus Workshop - Friday, September 26 - 4:00 pm - Olde Auburn Ale House
- Applications for Humanities Grants Due Friday, October 24
- New Directions
- Gender Studies/Great Books Reading Group
- The Auburn Circle - Submissions Deadline - Tomorrow
Heather Hicks Earns Defoe Assistantship
The Defoe Assistantship was created
by Dean Rebekah Pindzola in recognition of Eminent Scholar Dr. Paula
Backscheider’s work as a mentor to graduate students and as part of
the University’s goal of increasing the number and quality of graduate
students. Many highly qualified graduate students applied for the
Defoe
Assistantship, which was awarded to Heather Hicks.
Hicks, a PhD candidate, is currently helping edit an upcoming book by Dr. Backscheider on eighteenth-century women’s poetry. Hicks’ work mainly consists of editing chapter notes, editing individual chapter texts, and formatting the text for publishing. She has also begun work as the editorial assistant for the Blackwell’s Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, a work that Dr. Backscheider is co-editing with Professor Catherine Ingrassia. In addition to her editing responsibilities, Hicks has taken two PhotoShop seminars and will be creating cd-roms for use in Dr. Backscheider’s classes.
Hicks says that she has already learned a great deal during her time as the Defoe Assistant, and she finds the position very rewarding.
Marvyn Petrucci -
New Publication
English Instructor Marvyn Petrucci has had a poem accepted by Typo Magazine, an online poetry journal, which will be publishing its next issue soon.
Paula Backscheider to Appear on Discovery Channel
English Professor Paula Backscheider will be featured as the academic expert on the Discovery Channel program, "Robinson Crusoe: The True Story," on Sunday, October 5 at 9:00 pm. The program will also air on Channel 4 in the U.K. and be repeated periodically as part of this series on classic books and others (others are Sherlock Holmes and Moby Dick). Backscheider was also the expert consultant for the film.
Faculty Meeting Today - 3:00 pm - 3195 Haley
Center
Today's faculty meeting will
center on assessment results and "piggyback" courses.
Great Flicks - Tonight - 7:30 pm - 1203 Haley Center
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
Classic Marx Brothers romp
satirizing politics and war. To be shown with a relevant cartoon and
newsreel.
See the fall
schedule for the Great Flicks series.
Presentation by Virgil Starks Rescheduled - Thursday, September 25 - 4:00 pm - 2352 Haley Center
Because of a conflict with the Women's Studies Group reception, the presentation by Virgil Starks - Associate Athletic Director for Student Services - has been rescheduled.
The presentation will now take place on Thursday, September 25 at 4:00 pm in 2352 Haley Center.
Please email Frank Walters if you have any questions.
ABD Colloquium Prospectus Workshop - Friday, September 26 - 4:00 pm - Olde Auburn Ale House
The members of the ABD Colloquium invite you to a Prospectus Workshop & Happy Hour on Friday, September 26 at 4:00 pm at The Olde Auburn Ale House.
Jon Bolton, Margaret Kouidis, and Jeremy Downes will answer questions about writing dissertation prospectuses.
Want to skip the prospectus talk and just come to socialize? Feel free to join us at 5:00 pm.
All English Department members and friends are welcome!
Applications
for Humanities Grants Due Friday, October 24
Fall semester applications for Humanities Grants for research
and conference travel will be due on Friday, October 24. The proposals
should be turned in to Tony Carey, Associate Dean, 2046 Haley Center,
College of Liberal Arts.
Find
descriptions of the program and guidelines for proposals. Please
email Tony Carey or call him
at 844-2182 if you have questions or need help with your proposal.
This year's retreat offered faculty an opportunity to foster a sense of community and to engage in dialogue about how we can best serve our students.
View photos taken at Saturday's retreat.
Gender Studies/Great Books Reading Group
The gender studies/great books reading group will be meeting about once a month throughout the academic year. This group is open to everyone within - and beyond - the University community.
The group discussions are informal, refreshments are served, and decisions about what to read are made by consensus. Typically, the group reads works of fiction, autobiography, and history, as well as critical and theoretical essays.
At the first meeting this academic year, the reading group will discuss the novel Mr. Dalloway by Robin Lippincott (a work recommended by the novelist Sena Jeter Naslund on her visit to Auburn in April). The meeting on Mr. Dalloway is Tuesday, September 30 at 7:00 pm, at the home of Joyce Rothschild, 719 Burke Place.
Please email
Joyce Rothschild for more information or to receive notice of upcoming
meetings.
The Auburn Circle - Submissions Deadline - Tomorrow
The University's general interest magazine, The Auburn Circle, will be accepting submissions for the fall 2003 issue until Thursday, September 25. The fall issue will be available on Thursday, November 13.
The Circle invites all students, faculty, alumni, and Auburn University supporters to submit their fiction and non-fiction work, poetry, artwork, and other visual media.
For more information about the Circle, visit the Circle's web site or email the Circle staff.
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 Kelly Messerschmidt or Betsy Smith or put the information in their 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.