Newsworthy: Dr. John Marsh to Present English Department Lecture
Dr. John Marsh will present "'Thinking/Of the Freezing Poor': The Suburban Counter-Pastoral in William Carlos Williams's Early Poetry." The lecture will be Thursday, March 1, at 2 p.m. in Haley Center 2352.
Walter Benn Michaels to Visit
Walter Benn Michaels will present his lecture,
" Model Minorities and Silent Majorities: The Meaning of Ethnic Identity in Modern American Literature,” Thursday afternoon at 4:00 p.m. in Haley Center 1203. At 10:00 a.m. on Friday he will be in the History Department library (Thach 317) for an informal discussion with faculty and graduate students.
Katharyn Privett's Article to be Published
Dr. Katharyn Privett's article, "Sacred Cyborgs and 21st Century Goddesses," will be published in the 7.4 edition of Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture. Privett's work traces the future of feminism through cyborg and goddess symbology and investigates the medium of popular culture as its most evident and immediate vessel.
Trudier Harris Scheduled for the English Symposium Series
Trudier Harris will present the Benson Memorial Lecture titled "Seeping into the Twentieth Century: Fear of Slavery in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata." The lecture will be held March 15, at 3 p.m. in Ballroom B of the Auburn University Dixon Conference Center.
Trudier Harris taught at the College of William and Mary for six years before joining the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has lectured and published widely in her specialty areas of African-American literature and folklore. In addition to lecturing throughout the United States, she has lectured in Jamaica, Canada, France, Germany, Poland, Spain, Italy, England, and Northern Ireland.
The Ohio State University (Columbus) presented her with its first annual Award of Distinction for the College of Humanities in 1994. Dr. Harris has published articles and book reviews in such journals as Callaloo, Black American Literature Forum, Studies in American Fiction, and The Southern Humanities Review. Her authored books include From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature (1982), Exorcising Blackness: Historical and Literary Lynching and Burning Rituals (1984), Black Women in the Fiction of James Baldwin (1985, for which she won the 1987 College Language Association Creative Scholarship Award ), Fiction and Folklore: The Novels of Toni Morrison (1991), The Power of the Porch: The Storyteller's Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan (1996), Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature (2001), and South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature (2002). She co-edited three volumes of the Dictionary of Literary Biography series on African American writers and edited three additional volumes. She edited New Essays on Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain (1996) for Cambridge University Press and co-edited The Oxford Companion to African American Literature (1997), Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition (1998), and The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology (1998).
During 1996-97, she was a resident fellow at the National Humanities Center. In 2000, she was presented with the William C. Friday/Class of 1986 Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her memoir, Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South, appeared from Beacon Press in 2003. In 2005, she won the UNC System Board of Governors' Award for Excellence in Teaching. Also in 2005, she received the John Hurt Fisher Award of the South Atlantic Assocation of Departments of English (SAADE) for the outstanding contributions she has made to the field of English scholarship throughout her career.
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Calendar for 2006-07 Academic Year
Here is information about Departmental events for academic year 2006-07.
- March 1-2 - Walter Benn Michael's visit sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa
- March 10 - Graduate Student Colloquium
- March 15 - Trudier Harris (English Symposium Series)
- March 21 - Toni Bowers, "What's the Difference?: Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies," Auditorium of Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, 3 p.m.
- April 20 - Department Awards Ceremony (3:00 p.m.)
Here are dates for departmental faculty meetings.
Faculty Meetings
- April 18
- April 25
Here are the important dates for the spring 2007 semester.
- March 26-31 - Spring Break
- April 30 - Last Class Day
- May 10 - Commencement
For more information on these events and more, visit the Department's Calendar page.
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Last updated February 28, 2007