- Newsworthy: Bert Hitchcock to Receive Humanities Award
- Welcome Back
- Calendar for 2006-07 Academic Year
- Dr. Murray Pittock to Present Lecture "Scottish Identity"
- Job Placement Meeting
- Hague to Direct Staged Reading of Speak Truth to Power
- Phi Kappa Phi Forum Receives Awards
- Bolden's Poems Accepted for Publication
- Congratulations, Summer Graduates
- The department welcomes William Sterling Ingram-May
Newsworthy: Bert Hitchcock to Receive Humanities Award
The Alabama Humanities Foundation has announced that Bert Hitchcock, Hargis Professor of American Literature, will receive the 2006 Humanities Award for his outstanding dedication and contribution to the humanities.
The Humanities Foundation honors Professor Hitchcock for helping to shape the legacy of American and Southern literature through his contributions as an author, teacher, and scholar. He is the author of Richard Malcolm Johnston in Twayne's United States Authors Series, and his contributions on American writers appear in numerous reference books, including the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Reference Guide to American Literature, and Contemporary Fiction Writers of the South. Professor Hitchcock's deep commitment to bringing the humanities to the people of Alabama is evidenced by his longtime service to many humanities organizations in Alabama such as: The Alabama State Council on the Arts, Alabama Historical Association, Alabama Department of Archives and History, Alabama Center for Literary Arts, The Alabama Writer's Form, and the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, a regional organization of which he will be president next year. Professor Hitchcock teaches humanities classes at Auburn University, specializing in 19th century literature, and he holds degrees from Oregon University and Duke University.
Welcome Back
Welcome back! As we begin the 2006-2007 academic year the English Department boasts a teaching faculty of 148: 39 professorial faculty, 46 instructors, and 63 GTAs. The next few issues of the English Channel will introduce the new members of our faculty and feature photos from two events that got the new year underway - the lunch-reception in the English office on August 15 and the department picnic this last Saturday at Chewacla Park.
Calendar for 2006-07 Academic Year
Here are the important dates for the fall 2006 and spring 2007 semesters.
- Mid-semester, October 6
- Thanksgiving Break, November 20-25
- Last Class Day, December 6
- Commencement, December 15
- Lead-Teacher/Co-Teacher Workshop, January 5
- First Day of Class, January 8
- Spring Break, March 26-31
- Last Class Day, April 30
- Commencement, May 10
Here is information about Departmental events for academic year 2006-07.
- Haley Center Poetry Project, TBA
- English Symposium Series, Gregory Orr (October 26-27); Robert Clem (November 6); and Trudier Harris (March 15)
- Professor Melvyn News - "Trends in Criticism as Revealed by Thirty Years of Reviewing," October 17
- William Bartram Symposium, October 27-28
- Walter Benn Michael's visit sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa, March 1-2
- World Literature Lectures (TBA)
- Graduate Student Colloquium, March 10
- Department Awards Ceremony (April 2007)
Here are dates for departmental faculty meetings.
Faculty Meetings
- September 6
- September 13
- September 27
- October 4 (ADA Workshop)
- October 25
- November 8
- January 31
- February 7
- February 14
- April 4
- April 18
For more information on these events and more, visit the Department's Calendar page.
Dr. Murray Pittock to Present Lecture "Scottish Identity"
The History and English Departments,
and the College of Liberal Arts and the Office of the Provost are delighted
to announce they will be sponsoring a public lecture entitled, “Scottish
Identity,” by Dr Murray Pittock, Professor of Scottish and Romantic
Literature at the University of Manchester in England.
Professor Pittock was British
Academy Chatterton Lecturer in Poetry in 2002, and his topic, “Robert
Burns and British Poetry,” now forms part of a project on Robert Burns
and Global Culture for 2009, the 250th anniversary of the poet's death.
His many publications in Scottish and Irish Studies include
most recently a research edition of James Hogg's The Jacobite Relics
of Scotland in two volumes (2002-3), A New History of Scotland
(2003), Scottish Nationality (2001), and Celtic Identity and the British
Image (1999).
The lecture be on Thursday 31 August and will take place in the Foy Union building, room 203, from 4:00 till 6:00. All are welcome!
Job Placement Meeting
Margaret Kouidis will be conducting a job placement meeting on Tuesday, August 29, in HC 8009 at 4 PM. This meeting will cover guidelines for the job search and the department's job placement services. The meeting is open to instructors and graduate students.
Hague to Direct Staged Reading of Speak Truth to Power
The Theater Department's Daydrie Hague is directing a staged reading of Speak Truth to Power by Ariel Dorfman this October at the Telfair Peet Theater. The play is based on Kerry Kennedy Cuomo's book profiling human rights defenders from around the world. A number of faculty members from Auburn and Tuskegee have agreed to participate in the project. However, they still need one man and one woman to complete the ensemble. If interested please contact Daydrie.
Phi Kappa Phi Forum Receives Awards
The Phi Kappa Phi Forum recently received three 2006 Apex awards for publication excellence and one Magnum Opus Silver award for issues published in 2005.
The APEX awards of excellence were for a Two-Page Spread in the article "I Still Don't Quite Get It: Computer Games and New Realities" from the Computer Games issue (Summer 2005), won by Laura Kloberg; for Best Series of Articles for the Human Brain issue (Winter/Spring 2005); and for general excellence, Print 4-Color Publication, for the entire year's issues (which included in addition to the one mentioned above the College Athletics issue, Fall 2005). The Magnum Opus Silver Award also was for Best Series of Articles for the Human Brain issue.
In addition to these awards, the Forum has won seven APEX awards and one Magnum Opus award during the past five years.
Bolden's Poems Accepted for Publication
Emma Bolden recently had poems accepted for publication in VERSE (Volume 23), MARGIE: The American Journal of Poetry (Volume 5, Autumn 2006), the Spoon River Poetry Review, and Poet Lore.
Congratulations, Summer Graduates
The Department of English had seventeen graduates for the summer commencement exercises held on August 7, 2006. Two graduates received their Ph.D., four received their M. A., one received her MTPC, and ten received their B. A.
Doctor of Philosophy
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Ahsan Habib Chowdhury, “The Fabulous Nabob: Miscegenations of Empire and Vocation in Eighteenth-Century British Literature,” directed by Paula R. Backscheider
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Katharyn M. Privett, “Insurrection in Red Ink: The Literary Murder of a 20th Century Goddess,” directed by Jonathan Bolton
Master of Arts (Thesis)
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James Daniel Hasty, “What Do Y'all Think?: A Study of Language Attitudes in the South,” directed by Thomas Nunnally
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Amanda Leigh Wood, “Anti-Catholic Polemic in Jacobean Print Culture: Contextualizing Westward for Smelts (1620),” directed by Constance C. Relihan
Master of Arts (Non-Thesis)
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Stephen Dennis Rygiel
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Abby Elizabeth Whigham
Master of Technical and Professional Communication
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Tahmina Khanam
Bachelor of Arts
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Sara Christine Campbell
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Emily Claire Dent
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Victoria Leigh Hannum
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Patrice Elaine Massey
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Emily Elizabeth Mayer
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Lisa Carole Mazzone
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Anjulie Latasha Stanford
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Laura Elizabeth Strickland
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Paula Jeanne Stubblefield
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Lee S. Warshaw
Congratulations, The Baby Has Arrived
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Congratulations to Penny Ingram and Cedrick May on the birth of a son, William Sterling Ingram-May, August 16th. 7 lbs. 8 oz.
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