- Newsworthy: English Research Colloquium
- Parking/Traffic Notice for Research Colloquium - March 18
- Professorial Faculty Meeting - March 15
- "Disability Issues: at Work and in College" Conference - March 16, 17
- English Hour: Language Self-Instruction in Cyberspace - March 20
- Tenured Faculty Meeting - March 22
- Deadline to Enter The Nation Essay Contest - March 31
- April in Auburn Meeting - April 8
- Books for Africa Drive Update
Newsworthy: English Research Colloquium
The second annual intra-departmental English Research Colloquium will be Saturday, March 18 beginning at 10:30 am in HC 3106 with coffee and breakfast snacks.
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.This year's colloquium will feature eight panels and 33 presentations.
The colloquium schedule is as follows:
Coffee and breakfast snacks, 10:30-10:50 am, HC 3106
Panel 1: Self-Identity and Anthropology, Gender, and Religion
HC 3104, 10:50 am to 12 pm, panel moderator: Pam Horn
- Kellye Corcoran, PhD candidate, Dandies in the Opium Den: Dorian Gray as a Fin De Siecle Prototype
- Angela Farmer, PhD candidate, Masculinity, Masochism, and Monstrosity
- Patrick Morrow, Professor, Fiction and Anthropology"
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Mary Ann Rygiel, PhD candidate, Borders in Browning's “An Epistle of Karshish”
Panel 2: Colonial American Literature and Culture
HC 3182, 10:50 am to 12 pm, panel moderator: Barrett Gaines
- Antonia Bowden, MA candidate, Stitching individuality through conformity: Reading samplers from the Sarah Stivours Embroidery School
- Amie Fletcher, PhD candidate, William Bartram: The “Progressive” Traveler
- Jennifer Reid, MA candidate, “Assailed by the torments of thirst”: Quaker Metaphors in Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly
- Jessica Sims, MA candidate, A World Apart: The Confrontation of the Permanent and the Temporary in Mary Rowlandson's The Sovereignty and Goodness of God
- Hilary Wyss, Associate Professor, Samson Occom's Wife: Gender and Native Literacy in Colonial New England
Lunch, 12-1 pm, HC 3110
Panel 3: Drama – Historical Background, Genre, Costuming, and Film Issues
HC 3104, 1-2:10 pm, panel moderator: Barrett Gaines
- Robin E. Bates, Instructor, Percys and Northern Rebellion: Shakespeare's Henry IV Parts 1 and 2
- George Crandell, Professor, Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, and the Birth of Tragedy
- Jeri Peters, MA candidate, Objects of Desire and Derision: Orientalism and the Costumes of M. Butterfly
- Amanda Wood, MA candidate, Teens' Exposure to Shakespeare: Creating Meaning and Significance with Romeo + Juliet and Ten Things I Hate About You
Panel 4: Eighteenth Century British and American Literary Topics
HC 3182, 1-2:10 pm, panel moderator: Amie Fletcher
- Natasha N. Jones, MTPC candidate, Between the Lines: Representations of Women's Agency in Colonial Newspapers
- Adrea McDonnell, PhD candidate, Letitia Pilkington and the Art of the Memoir
- Saiward Pharr, MA candidate, Hands's Own Tamar: Sources, Coding, and Psychology
- Vicki Vitelli, PhD candidate, “Innocent in Their Application”: Eighteenth Century Reproductive Autonomy
Break, 2:10-2:20 pm, HC 3106
Panel 5: Twentieth Century Voices Speaking in Various Ways from Various Places
HC 3104, 2:20-3:30 pm, panel moderator: Sarah Godwin
- Leslie Allison, Senior English major, “The Bloody Monitor”: Ned Kelly and the Creation of a National Identity
- Stephanie Bogle, MA candidate, The Crisis of Masculinity in Martin Amis's Work
- Brian East, PhD candidate, Reading Hunger Responsibly: When Postcolonial Voices Reach American Audiences
- Heather Finch, MA candidate, After the Storm: The Representation of African-Americans, Hurricane Katrina, and the Quilts of Gees Bend
Panel 6: Writing Instruction in Engineering, Technical Communication Theory, and Language Acquisition
HC 3182, 2:20-3:30 pm, panel moderator: Abby Whigham
- Jennifer Browning, Brigitte Demasi, Kimberly Shumack, MTPC candidates, Writing in Two Lab Sections in Electrical Engineering
- Barrett Gaines, MTPC candidate, Intertextual Connections to Edward Tufte's The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
- Robin Sabino, Associate Professor, Operationalizing Word Frequency
Break, 3:30-3:40 pm, HC 3106
Panel 7: Twentieth Century Voices Speaking in Various Ways from Various Places
HC 3104, 3:40-4:50 pm, panel moderator: Abby Whigham
- Ted Hendricks, Instructor, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Modernist Pioneer
- Min Hu, PhD candidate, Life and Death – On the Crow Image in Ted Hughes's Crow and Chinese Literature
- Katharyn M. Privett, Instructor, On Their Knees: The Rise of the Amaternal in Twentieth Century Literature
- Matthew Thiele, PhD candidate, A Poet in Search of a Form: May Swenson's ‘Feel Me'
Panel 8: Twentieth Century Voices Speaking in Various Ways from Various Places
HC 3182, 3:40-4:50 pm, panel moderator: Sarah Godwin
- Angela Farmer, PhD candidate, Going Public in the Humanities
- Michael F. Smith, Instructor, The Future of Fiction
- James Truman, Instructor, Both Sides of the Spectrum: Politics, Truth, and Academic Freedom
- Frank Walters, Associate Professor, Issues in Law and Rhetoric
The second English Research Colloquium is co-sponsored by the English Department and the Center for Diversity and Race Relations.
March 18 - Parking/Traffic Notice for Research Colloquium
Department members who plan to attend the English Research Colloquium on Saturday, March 18 should be aware that the roads surrounding Jordan-Hare Stadium will be closed on Saturday due to the A-Day spring football game.
Teresa Hawkins, the Haley Center Classroom Building Manager, says that the police will be informed to move barricades off Thach Avenue and Duncan Drive to allow people to park in the parking lot behind Petrie Hall and the Haley Center A-Zone lot.
Those attending the colloquium should tell the police officers they are here for an event in Haley Center. There will be additional parking in the parking lot adjacent to the Auburn University credit union (543 W. Magnolia Ave.).
Click here to view a map of Auburn's 2005 gameday parking.
March 15 - Professorial Faculty Meeting - 3 pm - HC 3104
A professorial faculty meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, March 15 at 3 pm in HC 3104.
March 16, 17 - "Disability Issues: at Work and in College" Conference
Tom Nunnally encourages attendance at the conference "Disability Issues: at Work and in College," March 16 and 17 at the Auburn University Hotel and Dixon Conference Center.
I am a member of the University Committee for Persons with Disabilities. Note that our committee is advisory on all disability issues, not just concerning students. In that capacity, I want to encourage you to attend at least one session of the very fine upcoming conference. With a 1997 government study finding that 1 in 5 Americans suffers at least one disability, learning about legal protection may be more important than we think.
Of more concern to many of us is the ethical and legal import of accommodating our students with disabilities, not just in the class room, but in cyberspace as well. Or perhaps you'd like to know what issues of evacuation should be in place at AU (Does Haley Center ring a (fire) bell?). Whatever your interest, the range of sessions featuring strong speakers should hold something for everyone.
To learn more, visit the Auburn's disabilities web site.
March 20 - English Hour: Language Self-Instruction in Cyberspace - 3 pm - HC 3104
The first English Hour of the semester will be Monday, March 20 at 3 pm in HC 3104, and it will feature a panel discussion led by Professor Robin Sabino about language self-instruction web pages.
In addition to Sabino, the panel will include Yazmin Ali, Political Science; Min Hu, Department of English; and Bradley Morgan, Distance Education.
The development of Auburn University's on-line self instructional language resources began with the construction of The Ecota Tsalagi Language Revitalization Website in the late 1990s. The website currently contains nearly 2,000 words organized into more than 250 semantic units.
These flexible and user-friendly utilities, which allow non-technical developers to input and manipulate content, are now being used to create conversational web sites for Mandarin and Arabic. The Mandarin site is being created by Min Hu. The Arabic website is being created by Yazmin Ali.
From the beginning, this project has been a collaborative effort between a programmer, a linguist, native speakers, and project supports which the Department of English, the College of Liberal Arts, the Office of the Vice President for Outreach, Distance Learning, the Office of the Vice President for Research and the Center for Diversity and Race Relations.
March 22 - Tenured Faculty Meeting - 3 pm - HC 3104
A tenured faculty meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, March 22 at 3 pm in HC 3104.
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.
April 8 - April in Auburn - 9 am to 2 pm - Haley Center
The Department and the Birmingham Chapter of the Society of Technical Communication (STC) will host the 7th annual April in Auburn meeting on April 8 from 9 am to 3:30 pm in Haley Center. An optional tour of the new Jule Collins Smith Art Museum at Auburn University is scheduled for 2:30 to 3:30 pm.
This year's meeting will focus on practical sessions for professionals and will feature presentations by several Department of English faculty members. The sessions include:
- New Industry Standards for Website Design, HC 3116, 9:40-10:30 am, presented by Jason Kneip, Librarian II, Archives and Special Collections, Auburn University-Montgomery and Michelle Sidler, Assistant Professor, Department of English
- Editing Workshop, HC 3104, 10:45 am to 12 pm, presented by Joyce Rothschild, Coordinator, Technical and Professional Communication Program, and Assistant Professor, Department of English
- Best Practices in Document Design, HC 3104, 1-1:50 pm, presented by Keith Gibson, Assistant Professor, Department of English
The meeting is held every April on Auburn's campus, giving students and STC members a chance to meet and interact while providing students with a network-friendly environment. Students also traditionally display their portfolios, allowing for valuable feedback from attending professionals.
The registration fee is $15 for STC members and $25 for non-STC members. There is no registration fee for students or presenters, but all attending must register. All proceeds go to the Donald H. Cunningham Scholarship fund.
Register for the program online at birminghamstc.org, and, if possible, please do so by Monday, April 3, so that we may order the appropriate number of lunches. Lunch and refreshments are provided courtesy of the Auburn University Department of English.
For additional information, please contact Joyce Rothschild.
Books for Africa Drive Update
The collection bin for Books for Africa has been moved from HC 8009 to the English Center in 3183. Also, another collection bin has been set up in the Plainsman office in Foy B-100.
Acceptable items for donation include textbooks with a copyright of 2000 or newer, literature regardless of copyright. Magazines, journals, and Auburn specific texts are not acceptable. Collection will continue through the end of the semester.
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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Last updated March 15, 2006