- Newsworthy: Penny Ingram, Chris Keirstead, Michelle Sidler Receive Tenure and Promotion
- Professorial Faculty Meeting - February 1 - 3 pm
- RBD Library Hours Changed - February 3-5
- Deadline for Submitting Abstracts for EGO Research Colloquium - February 8
- Genetic Counselor to Speak about Genetics, Testing, and Counseling - February 9 - 3:30 pm
- Professorial Faculty Meeting - February 10
- MTPC Oral Exam - Diane Glanzer - February 10
- PETL Award Nomination Deadline - February 17
- Deadline to Submit Items for Spring Edition of The Auburn Circle - February 18
- MTPC Oral Exam - Will Brinkley - February 20
- Deadline for Submissions for Robert Hughes Mount, Jr. Poetry Prize - March 1
Newsworthy: Penny Ingram, Chris Keirstead, Michelle Sidler Receive Tenure and Promotion
Please join the Department in congratulating Chris Keirstead, Penny Ingram, and Michelle Sidler, who have been tenured and promoted to Associate Professor, effective Fall Semester, 2006.
Ingram received her PhD from the University of New South Wales, Australia. A specialist in feminist and postcolonial theory,
she received an NEH grant last summer for a recent book on the Australian outlaw Ned Kelly.
"The best thing about getting tenure is feeling the tremendous support of my colleagues and friends," Ingram said. "It's nice to know that one's work is appreciated and recognized."
Ingram's representative publications include:
- "Racializing Babylon: Settler Whiteness and the New Racism." New Literary History 32:1 (Winter 2001): 157-176.
- "From Goddess Spirituality to Irigaray's Angel: The Politics of the Divine." Feminist Review 66 (Autumn 2000):46-72.
- "'One Drifts Apart': To the Lighthouse as Art of Response." Philosophy and Literature (April 1999): 78-95.
- "Can the Settler Speak?: Appropriating Subaltern Silence in Janet Frame's The Carpathians," Cultural Critique 41 (Winter 1998/99): 79-107.
Keirstead received his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in 1999 and is a specialist in Victorian literature. His other research and teaching interests include travel writing and transatlantic studies.
"I was of course very happy to hear the news, and I want to thank the many good friends, colleagues, and students who have encouraged and supported me during my career at Auburn," Keirstead said. "I look forward to many happy and productive years here."
Keirstead's representative publications include:
- "Stranded at the Border: Browning, France, and the Challenge of Cosmopolitanism." Forthcoming in Victorian Poetry.
- “Tourism and the Knowable Community of Dickens's American Notes : In Search of the ‘Great Human Family.'” Forthcoming in Nineteenth-Century Prose.
- "Rossetti's 'A Last Confession' and Italian Nationalism." Worldwide Pre-Raphaelitism, ed. Thomas J. Tobin. New York: SUNY Press, 2004. 69-80.
- "Going Postal: Mail and Mass Culture in Bleak House." Nineteenth Century Studies 17 (2003): 91-106.
- "Where 'Byron Used to Ride': Locating the Victorian Travel Poet in Clough's Amours de Voyage and Dipsychus." Philological Quarterly 77 (1998): 377-395.
Sidler received her PhD in English from Purdue University with a specialization in rhetoric and composition. She teaches English Composition as well as graduate and undergraduate courses in technology and literacy.
"Tenure and promotion allow me the opportunity to really give back to the English Department and College of Liberal Arts," Sidler said. "I'm very pleased and excited to become a tenured member of the AU community, and I am grateful for the support and encouragement of my great colleagues!"
Sidler's primary areas of research interest are computer-mediated composition instruction, technology studies, and rhetorical theory. Her current research explores the cultural and rhetorical implications of the Human Genome Project. Sidler's representative publications include:
- “The Rhetoric of Cells: Guiding Molecular Biology in the Twenty-First Century.” Rhetoric Review 25 (2006) 58-75.
- “Claiming Research: Students as ‘Citizen-Experts' in WAC-Oriented Composition.” The WAC Journal 16 (2005): 49-60.
- “English Studies and Biotechnology: Applications Of Language Theory To Genetic Research.” Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science 75 (2004): 200-213. (Co-authored with Elizabeth Cater Childs and Jessica Lueders).
- “The Not-So-Distant Future: Composition Studies in the Culture of Biotechnology.” Computers and Composition 21 (2004): 129-145.
In addition to her tenure and promotion, next fall Sidler will be Coordinator of Composition.
February 1 - Professorial Faculty Meeting - 3 pm - HC 3104
A Professorial Faculty Meeting will be Wednesday, February 1 at 3 pm in HC 3104.
February 3-5 - RBD Library Hours Changed
Due to Sesquicentennial events, the RBD Library will close at 6 pm on Friday, February 3 and reopen at 1 pm on Sunday, February 5. The library will be closed all day on Saturday, February 4.
February 8 - Deadline for Submitting Abstracts for EGO Research Colloquium
Following last spring's very successful conference, the English Graduate Organization is once again soliciting abstracts in all English-related fields (Literature, Rhetoric, Professional and Technical Communication, Linguistics, Theory) for the second annual intra-departmental English research colloquium. The deadline for abstracts is Wednesday, February 8.
The goal of the colloquium is the same as last year: to promote active participation in the academic scholarship of our field in an informal, friendly atmosphere. We are interested in submissions from faculty, graduate students, and junior and senior English majors.
We invite research at all levels of completion, whether recently published or still in progress. Please let us know if you need any technical equipment.
Once we have received all submissions, we will organize panels and print out and distribute a schedule of panel times and locations. The colloquium is Saturday, March 18 in Haley Center.
To submit an abstract or ask questions, please contact a member of the EGO Colloquium Committee: Stephanie Bogle, Sarah Godwin, Jeri Peters, or Mary Ann Rygiel.
February 9 - Genetic Counselor to Speak about Genetics, Testing, and Counseling - 3:30 pm - HC 3343
Dawn McIlvried, a Genetic Counselor from the University of Alabama-Birmingham's Genetics Clinic, will offer a presentation about the field of genetic testing, including the role of communication and counseling in patient care.
The presentation will be February 9 at 3:30 pm in HC 3343.
February 10 - Professorial Faculty Meeting - 3 pm - HC 3104
A Professorial Faculty Meeting will be Friday, February 10 at 3 pm in HC 3104.
February 10 - MTPC Oral Exam - Diane Glanzer - 3 pm - Room TBA
MTPC student Diane Glanzer will present materials from her portfolio and coursework on Friday, February 10, at 3 pm (room TBA).
MTPC students fulfill their degree requirements by completing an oral exam and portfolio presentation. During the oral exam, students present many of the documents they have created in their MTPC classes and that appear in their portfolios. Students also incorporate information from their course readings and discussions into their presentations.
Members of the student's advisory committee conduct the oral exam. Department members and guests are invited to attend and ask questions.
February 17 - Deadline for Promoting Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award Nominations
The College of Liberal Arts Promoting Excellence in Teaching and Learning Committee is extending the deadline for nominations for the PETL teaching awards. The original deadline for those nominations, January 13, has passed with no nominees in several categories. The new deadline to submit nominations is February 17.
The following awards are up for nomination:
Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching
Multiple awardees each receive a plaque.
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Instructional Excellence
For part-time or affiliated teachers; multiple awardees each receive a plaque.
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Advising Award in the College of Liberal Arts
One award; winner receives $500 and a plaque.
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Members of the Teaching Academy
Your finest teachers who have been at Auburn for more than 10 years; multiple awardees each receive a plaque.
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Alumni Achievement in Humanities
Honor your top alumni with these two $500 scholarships in the recipient's name.
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Faculty Achievement in Humanities
For research or teaching; $500 award to the recipient.
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Bradley Award for Graduate Student Achievement in Humanities
Honors the College's top humanities graduate student with a $500 award.
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Bradley Award for Undergraduate Achievement in Humanities
Honors the College's top humanities undergrad with a $500 award.
The PETL Committee would like to continue to receive nominations in all of these areas. For more information on the awards and how to nominate someone, visit the PETL website.
February 18 - Deadline to Submit Items for Spring Edition of The Auburn Circle
The Auburn Circle, Auburn University's general interest magazine, is now accepting submissions of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, art, design, and photography for its spring issue.
The deadline for submissions is February 18.
Students, faculty, or alumni can submit work by email or in person in the Student Publications Suite in the basement of Foy Student Union.
You may submit art, design, and photography:
- as a hard copy or original art piece. The Auburn Circle staff will digitally photograph your work(s) for you.
- on a CD or other electronic storage device as a high resolution .JPEG, .TIF, .PSD, or .AI format image file. All images must have 300 dots per inch resolution or greater due to printing resolution. Any photo submission less than 300 dpi will not be used.
- as a slide or negative.
- as a photograph of the art or design.
You may submit literature:
- as an Adobe Acrobat Document (.PDF) or Microsoft Word Document (.DOC) file.
- as an original hard copy version.
For more information, please visit The Circle website.
February 20 - MTPC Oral Exam - Will Brinkley - 3:30 pm - HC 2306
MTPC student Will Brinkley will present materials from his portfolio and coursework on Monday, February 20, at 3:30 pm in HC 2306.
MTPC students fulfill their degree requirements by completing an oral exam and portfolio presentation. During the oral exam, students present many of the documents they have created in their MTPC classes and that appear in their portfolios. Students also incorporate information from their course readings and discussions into their presentations.
Members of the student's advisory committee conduct the oral exam. Department members and guests are invited to attend and ask questions.
March 1 - Deadline to Submit Poems for the Robert Hughes Mount, Jr. Poetry Prize
The Auburn University English Department is pleased to announce its annual Robert Hughes Mount, Jr., Poetry Prize, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, and endowed by Mrs. Frances Mayes, offering a $100 prize for the best poem submitted by an Auburn University student.
Graduate or undergraduate students may submit up to three poems to Jeremy Downes's mailbox in the English Department, 9030 Haley Center. The contest deadline is March 1. Instructors are encouraged to announce the contest in their classes.
Submission Guidelines:
• Cover sheet with contact information (no identification on poems)
• Three poems maximum
• No electronic submissions
The winner will be announced at the English Department's Spring Awards Ceremony on April 21. Questions about Auburn's contest should be directed to the Poetry Prize Coordinator, Jeremy M. Downes, at 844-9040, or by e-mail.
To include an item in The English Channel, submit text items by Tuesday at 4 pm for publication Wednesday. Submit items by email to Will Brinkley or put the information in his 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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