- Newsworthy: CLA Censorship Symposium: Interdisciplinary Look at Censorship and Historical Moments
- Professorial Faculty Meeting - February 15
- Deadline for CLA Teaching Awards - February 17
- Deadline to Submit Items for Spring Edition of The Auburn Circle - February 18
- English Graduate Organization Meeting - February 22
- MTPC Oral Exam - Diane Glanzer - February 24
- Deadline for Submissions for Robert Hughes Mount, Jr. Poetry Prize - March 1
- MTPC Oral Exam - Will Brinkley - March 6
- English Symposium Series - Janisse Ray - March 9
- Deadline to Enter The Nation Essay Contest - March 31
Newsworthy: CLA Censorship Symposium: Interdisciplinary Look at Censorship and Historical Monuments
As part of the College of Liberal Art's symposium on censorship, Dr. Dell Upton and Natasha Trethewey will present different responses to the theme of representing history through historical monuments on Thursday, February 16 at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art.
Upton will present at 4 pm, followed by Trethewey at 4:45 pm. There will be a question and answer session at 5:15 pm and then a reception at 5:30 pm.
Upton will speak on “Memorials to the Second Civil War.” With the reopening of notorious murder cases, the anniversaries of famous events, and the recent deaths of key figures such as Rosa Parks, the civil
rights movement receives almost as much news coverage today as it did in the
1950s and 1960s. Yet the meaning of the struggle and the proper way to
acknowledge it is almost as contentious today as they were then. This talk
looks at some recent monuments and asks, in the light of contemporary racial
politics, what can and cannot be said?
Upton is David A. Harrison III Professor of Architectural History and
Anthropology at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 2002
after serving as professor of architectural history at the University of
California, Berkeley, for 20 years. His most recent book is Architecture in the United States (Oxford University Press, 1998), winner of
the Vernacular Architecture Forum's Abbott Lowell Cummings Award.
Following Upton will be Trethewey's poetry reading from Native Guard. The sequence forming the spine of Native Guard follows the Native Guard, one of the first black regiments mustered into service
in the Civil War. In Trethewey's hometown of Gulfport, Mississippi, a
plaque honors Confederate POWs, but there is no memorial to these
vanguard Union soldiers. Native Guard is both a pilgrimage and an
elegy to forgotten voices. Interwoven are poems honoring Trethewey's mother and recalling her fraught childhood—her parents' interracial marriage was still illegal in Mississippi in 1966.
Trethewey is an associate professor of English at Emory University in Atlanta and author of Domestic Work (Graywolf Press, 2000), Bellocq's Ophelia (Graywolf Press, 2002), and most recently Native Guard. She has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment of the Arts, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
During the academic year 2005-2006 Trethewey is the Lehman Brady Joint Chair and Professor of Documentary and American Studies at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
February 15 - Professorial Faculty Meeting - 3 pm - HC 3104
A professorial Faculty Meeting will be Wednesday, February 15 at 3 pm in HC 3104. The meeting is open for anyone in the Department to attend.
February 17 - Deadline for CLA Teaching Awards
The College of Liberal Arts Promoting Excellence in Teaching and Learning Committee is extending the deadline for nominations for the PETL teaching awards. The deadline to submit nominations is February 17.
The following awards are up for nomination:
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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 22 - EGO Meeting - 3 pm - HC 8009
The next meeting of the English Graduate Organization will be Wednesday, February 22 at 3 pm in HC 8009.
February 24 - MTPC Oral Exam - Diane Glanzer- 3 pm
MTPC student Diane Glanzer will present materials from her portfolio and coursework on Friday, February 24 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.
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.
March 6 - MTPC Oral Exam - Will Brinkley - 3:30 pm
MTPC student Will Brinkley will present materials from his portfolio and coursework on Monday, March 6, at 3:30 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.
March 9 - English Symposium Series - Janisse Ray - 3 pm - HC 2370
Writer, naturalist, and activist Janisse Ray will present “Community, Language, and a Life Waiting to Be Imagined” as part of the 2005-06 English Symposium Series. Ray's presentation will be Thursday, March 9 at 3 pm in the Gordon Bond Auditorium (Haley Center 2370).
Ray is the prize-wining author of three books of literary nonfiction— Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (1999), Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home (2003), and Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land (2005)—as well as a chapbook of poetry, Naming the Unseen. Among the periodicals in which she has published are Audubon, Natural History, and Sierra. Among the multiple anthologies in which her work appears is The Norton Book of Nature Writing.
A native of Georgia, Ray and her family now divide their home time between that state and Vermont. She travels extensively giving readings and lectures, speaking out against global industrial capitalism, and on behalf of the diversity of life, especially the beleaguered Southern landscape, and on how we can, through restoration, remake a world in which we can be fully human. Her writing has drawn intensive praise. Derrick Jenson calls Pinhook “a wonderful book, fierce and loving, defiant and joyful.” Ann Raver of The New York Times says that in Ray “the forests of the South find their Rachel Carson.”
March 31 - Deadline to Enter The Nation Essay Contest
The Nation, a national magazine, is sponsoring a student writing contest looking for original, thoughtful, provocative student voices to tell us what issue is of most concern to their generation. Entries (only one per student) will be accepted through March 31.
Essays should not exceed 800 words and should be original, unpublished work that demonstrates fresh, clear thinking and superior quality of expression and craftsmanship. The Nation will select five finalists and one winner, who will be awarded a $500 cash prize and a Nation subscription. The winning essay will be published in the magazine and featured on our website. The five finalists will be awarded $100 each and subscriptions, and their entries will be published online.
The
contest is open to students at American high schools and to undergraduates at American colleges and universities. A winner will be announced by May 31. Please send entries to studentprize@thenation.com or faxed to
(212) 982-9000. All e-mailed submissions will be acknowledged. Each entry must include author's name, address, phone number, e-mail address,
short biography, and school affiliation.
Please email questions to studentprize@thenation.com.
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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