Newsworthy: Welcome New Instructors!

Please welcome 12 new Instructors to the English Department. Kevin Roozen, our new assistant professor, will be featured in next week's edition.

 

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Newsworthy: September 19 - English Symposium Series - Jack Selzer - 2 pm - 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 Monday, September 19 at 2 pm in the RBD Library auditorium. Refreshments will be served.

Selzer's talk, “What Can You Do with Rhetoric? Rhetorical Analysis in Criticism and the Classroom,” takes advantage of what he has learned from research on Kenneth Burke. He 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.

Professor Selzer will meet with faculty and students from 10 to 11:30 am Tuesday in the English Center.

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TONIGHT - College of Liberal Arts Reception - 5 to 7 pm - JCSM

College of Liberal Arts reception tonight --  Wednesday, September 14 from 5 to 7 pm -- at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts.

All members of the College are invited.

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September 20 - Submit to the Fall Issue of the Auburn Circle

The Auburn Circle, Auburn University's literary and general interest magazine, is seeking poetry, prose, art, and photography for its Fall 2005 issue. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, September 20.

For more information on how to submit entries to the Circle, call 844-4122, log on to the magazine's web site, send an email with your questions, or stop by the Circle office located in the basement of Foy Union.

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September 26 - English Club: Applying for Graduate School in English - 3 pm - HC 3104

The English Club and Sigma Tau Delta will host a faculty panel discussion and question and answer session on applying to graduate school (MA, MFA, MTPC, or PhD) in English. The discussion will be Monday, September 26 at 3 pm in Haley 3104.

English Department faculty members Penny Ingram, Keith Gibson, Hilary Wyss, and Cedrick May will be on hand to talk about the application process, choosing graduate programs, taking the GRE, acquiring letters of recommendation, and much more.

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September 27 - Lecture - “From the African Loom to the American Quilt” - 4 pm - JCSM

Dr. Gladys-Marie Fry, one of the nation's leading authorities on African American textiles, is giving a free lecture at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art on September 27 at 4 pm. A reception and book signing of Stitched from the Soul will follow the lecture in the museum café and rotunda.

Dr. Fry developed two groundbreaking exhibitions on African American quilting -- Man Made: African-American Men and Quilting Traditions and Stitched From the Soul: Slave Quilts from the Ante-Bellum South. Trained as a folklorist, Dr. Fry is the author of several books and articles and is Professor Emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.

The lecture is sponsored by The AU Center for Arts and Humanities and Alabama Center for the Book, the English Department, Auburn Hillel, and Gee's Bend in Context with AU Women's Studies.

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September 28 - Department Faculty Meeting - 3 pm - HC 3104

A Department faculty meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, September 28 at 3 pm in 3104 Haley Center. The topic of the meeting will be assessment.

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September 30 - Open House for Alumni - 3 pm - 9030 HC

The Department of English will host an Open House for alumni, Friday, September 30 in 9030 Haley Center. Plan to stop by to meet members of the Advisory Council as well as faculty and students in the English Department.

For more information on the Advisory Council, see the updated Alumni News.

Please send an email to the students you keep in touch with asking them to Send A Note. Or, email Betsy Smith their email addresses and she will contact them for you.

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October 1 - Tailgate Party

The College of Liberal Arts will host a tailgate party, Saturday, October 1 before the Auburn-South Carolina game. Live music and free food will be provided.

The event will start 2 hours before the game in the Dean's Club parking lot on the corner of Duncan and Samford next to the Telfair Peet Theater. For more information, contact Wendy Bonner at 844-1483.

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October 3 - English Hour - "God and the Classroom: Teaching Religious Texts in the Heart of Dixie" - 3:30 pm - HC 3104

Phillip Beard and James Truman will be running a panel discussion on engaging with theological and religious matters in the classroom, particularly in the World Literature classroom.

The discussion will be from 3 to 5 pm in Haley 3104. Any member of the Department interested in participating should contact Phillip Beard or James Truman.

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October 4, 5 - Haley Center Poetry Project 2005 - 10 am to 2 pm - Haley Center Courtyard

All students, faculty, staff, and other friends of poetry are cordially invited to participate in the Haley Center Poetry Project for Fall 2005, sponsored by the Department of English, Sigma Tau Delta, the English Club, and the AU Bookstore.

This semester, readings are scheduled for October 4 and 5, from 10 am to 2 pm each day. There will be opportunities for as many as 50 readers to take part in this public outdoor event, which will be held in the Haley Center courtyard (outside the AU Bookstore). As always, refreshments will be served.

The format will be similar to previous Poetry Projects; each reader will be allotted about 10 minutes to read the poetry of her or his choice. Readers are welcome to read poetry from any time period and/or language, famous or obscure, old or new, original or shamelessly imitative.

If you'd like to be a reader in the Haley Center Poetry Project, please indicate your interest by calling Jim Ryan at 844-9092, by email to Jim Ryan or Chris Forhan, or by signing the lists posted outside HC 9092.

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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 RBD 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 - Charlie Rose

Charlie Rose was recently interviewed by Carolyn Hutcheson on Troy State Public Radio, concerning his memoir In the Midst of Life: A Hospice Volunteer's Story. The Alabama State Council on the Arts has selected him to contribute to the Southern Artistry web site, where he will have an online writing portfolio.

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Donations for Katrina Relief

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. Or, you can make a donation through the Graduate School Council (cash or check made out to the American Red Cross), by contatcing GSC Representatives Eva Shoop or Saiward Pharr.

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