Newsworthy: Welcome new Doctoral Students!

Please welcome 7 new PhD students to the English Department. New English Department faculty will be featured in next week's edition.

 

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September 8 - First EGO meeting of Fall semester - HC 8009

The first meeting of the English Graduate Organization is tomorrow -- September 8 -- at 5 pm in HC 8009. All graduate students are encouraged to attend.  

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September 11 - Quilts of Gee's Bend Opening at Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art

The Quilts of Gee's Bend exhibit opens September 11 at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. The faculty involved in the Quilts of Gee's Bend in Context research project hope you will consider taking a class to the museum and incorporating a lesson on the quilts in your classes in the fall.

Please visit the research project's website to learn about the exhibit and particularly visit the page on "Teaching the Quilts." There you will find bibliography of texts that may tie into your courses in the fall, history and geography, links, and images of the quilts. If you have any questions about the site or any feedback please contact Alicia Carroll.

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September 14 - CLA Reception at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts

The annual College of Liberal Arts reception at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts will be September 14 from 5 to 7 pm. The event is held in appreciation of all the hard work the CLA faculty and staff are doing for their individual departments, the College, and indeed, the entire University. It is also an opportunity to get together with friends and meet new colleagues. Refreshments will be provided.

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September 19 - English Symposium Series - Jack Selzer - 2 pm in the RBD Library Auditorium

Jack Selzer, Professor of English and Associate Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies at Penn State University, will discuss rhetorical criticism at the first English Symposium Series lecture of the 2005-2006 academic year at 2 pm in the RBD Library auditorium.

Taking advantage of what he has learned from research on Kenneth Burke, professor Selzer will first outline an approach to rhetorical criticism and then show how that approach can "open up" texts as various as a novel by John Dos Passos, an argument in the Wall Street Journal, a speech from the Civil Rights movement, and a visual argument about gender.

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October 12 - "Not Just Desserts" series presents Sally O'Driscoll

"Word on the Street:  18th-Century Pamphlets and the Language of Gender," a talk by Sally O'Driscoll of Fairfield University will be given as part of the "Not Just Desserts" series at noon, October 12, in the library auditorium.  The visit is sponsored by the Center for Diversity and Race Relations, the RBD Library, Women's Studies, the Stevens Fund, and the Gay and Lesbian Caucus.

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October 15 - Call for Graduate Student Essay Submissions

Blackwell Publisher's new online journal and reference resource, Literature Compass, invites submissions for the graduate essay prize. Prizes will be awarded to essays in each of nine literature sections. Each section winner will receive $200 of free Blackwell books and have their article published on Literature Compass. The deadline for submissions is October 15. For details about the contest and the kinds of essays they are seeking, visit their website.

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Publication Announcement - Isabella Wai

Isabella Wai's analysis of Richard Wilbur's poem "Walking to Sleep" has been accepted by The Explicator for a forthcoming issue.

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Publication Announcement - Ahsan Chowdhury

Ahsan Chowdhury's essay "A Fearful Blazing Star: Signs of the Exclusion Crisis in Robert Knox's 'An Historical Relation of Ceylon (1681)' " is forthcoming in Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture 1660-1700 vol. 29 issue 2, Fall 2005.

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Donations for Katrina Relief - HC 8009

A gray plastic container has been placed in Haley 8009 to receive any donations of goods you might be able to give for Hurricane Katrina relief. The items will be taken to Parkway Baptist Church, which is sending trucks to some of the affected areas. The church has already successfully delivered supplies to Petal, Miss., and Sims, Ala. A truck is scheduled to travel this week (probably Friday) to Bayou LaBatrie, La., an especially hard-hit area with a very large poor population.

Some of the items needed include:

• Water: Individual bottles or larger containers; any sort of water-sterilizing apparatus.
• Non-perishable food items: Baby formula, baby food, powdered milk, powdered gatorade, canned goods with self-opening lids (tinned meats, soups, vienna's, fruit), dried beans, and bleach (plain, no additives, for sterilizing water).
• Paper/plastic goods: Diapers, toilet tissue, paper towels, paper plates, plastic silverware.
• Hygiene and toiletry items: Toothpaste and toothbrushes, shampoo, soap, etc.
• Clothes: Boxed and separated men's, women's, and children's clothes; new underwear.
• Miscellaneous: Lighters, flashlights, can openers, batteries, matches, bedding and linens, towels, cooking utensils, gas cans (Big Need), hand trucks, and ice chests.

 

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Donations for Katrina Relief - Graduate School Council

In response to the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Southeast, the Graduate Student Council is working in conjunction with the Lee County Red Cross to collect donations for victims. If you are interested in making a donation through the Graduate School Council (cash or check made out to the American Red Cross), please contact GSC Representatives Eva Shoop or Saiward Pharr.

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