- Newsworthy: English Hour Presentation by Miriam Clark on November 16
- Chantel Acevedo's Novel Finalist for Book Award
- Chris Forhan Receives Fellowship
- James Goldstein's Poem Published
- Matt Klauza to Present at Two Conferences in December
- Linda Holladay Completes Dissertation
- EGO Meeting Today
- Amy Qualls Announces Newest Addition to Her Family
- Calendar for 2006-07 Academic Year
Newsworthy: English Hour Presentation by Miriam Clark on November 16
To poet Theodore Roethke he was “Pa.” To singer Harry Chapin he was—literally—Grandpa. Harold Bloom addressed him as “Magister Ludi”—master of play—and Denis Donoghue dubbed him “Cher Maitre,” dear Master. Marianne Moore once wrote that his Philosophy of Literary Form “is my Bible.” Paul de Man penned a note telling him, “I have long admired your work.” Burke, who was eighty five at the time, responded that he would “cherish the chance to co-haggle now and then.” So who was Kenneth Burke? And how did his work, which extended over much of the twentieth century and across many academic fields, shape American poetry and criticism?
Miriam Clark will explore Kenneth Burke in her presentation "Attitude Dancing: Kenneth Burke and American Poetry" on November 16, 4 - 5 p.m. in Haley 2306.
Chantel Acevedo's Novel Finalist for Book Award
Chantel Acevedo's novel Love and Ghost Letters is a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award for fiction. The winners will be announced on December 3.
The Connecticut Book Awards, presented annually by the Connecticut Center for the Book, a program of Hartford Public Library, recognize and honor authors who represent the best writing, illustration, and design in, or about, the state in the previous calendar year.
Chris Forhan Receives Fellowship
Professor Chris Forhan has received a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry. He is one of 50 poets, out of 1400 applicants, selected this year. Chris has also had a piece posted as the weekly poem on Slate.
James Goldstein's Poem Published
James Goldstein has recently published "‘I will my proces hald': Making Sense of Scottish Lives and the Desire for History in Barbour, Wyntoun, and Blind Hary” in A Companion to Medieval Scottish Poetry, ed. Priscilla Bawcutt and Janet Hadley Williams (Boydell and Brewer, 2006).
Matt Klauza to Present at Two Conferences in December
In December, Matt Klauza, first year PhD student, will be presenting his work: "What a Damfool Says: Insights into Mark Twain's 'You've Been a Damfool Mary'" at The Mark Twain Circle of American Quadrennial Conference in New Orleans and "Using Mark Twain's Digital Manuscripts in Teaching Composition" at the MLA National Convention in Philadelphia.
Matt has done work on Therapeutic Laughter in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and on Teaching Mark Twain's Roughing It. He is a two-time Quarry Farm Scholar-in-Residence for the Center for Mark Twain Studies in Elmira, New York, and presented for the Center at their Teacher's Institute this past summer. Matt is currently interested in the intersections of humor and trauma in the late 19th century, and he continues to work on Twain's "Damfool" story.
Linda Holladay Completes Dissertation
Linda Holladay has completed her disseration and will be graduating in December. Her project was a retrospective study that considers the extent to which nature and nurture influence early first language acquisition in data sets that address rate of grammatical acquisition, acquisition of regional dialect features, and temperament. The subject population consisted of four multiple-birth, same-sex siblings born to a European-American, college-educated couple living in the South. Two of the siblings are monozygotic (identical DNA), and the other two are dyzygotic (at least 50% shared DNA).
Although the retrospective nature of the study limited the data available for analysis, results show that the monozygotic siblings are more similar to one another in both grammatical acquisition and regional forms than are the dyzygotic siblings. Acquisitional differences appear more pronounced at earlier ages, indicating that genetics may be more influential in earlier years.
EGO Meeting Today
The last EGO meeting for the semester will be today at 3 p.m. in HC 8009.
Amy Qualls Announces Newest Addition to Her Family
PhD candidate Amy Qualls, along with her husband Rodney Sutterfield and son Christopher, would like to announce the birth of Sophie Caitlin Sutterfield-Qualls, born on September 27. Amy and baby are healthy and happy. Amy has also accepted a faculty position at the University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville and is completing her dissertation on illegitimate motherhood in eighteenth-century America, directed by Dr. Hilary Wyss.
Calendar for 2006-07 Academic Year
Here is information about Departmental events for academic year 2006-07.
- November 16 - English Hour Presentation - Miriam Clark - "Attitude Dancing : Kenneth Burke and American Poetry"
- January 18, 2007 - World Literature Lecture: Aiola Irele, Professor of African Studies and French, Harvard University (afternoon- faculty seminar; evening- World Literature lecture)
- 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)
- April 20 - Department Awards Ceremony (3:00 PM)
Here are dates for departmental faculty meetings.
Faculty Meetings
- January 31
- February 7
- February 14
- April 4
- April 18
Here are the important dates for the fall 2006 and spring 2007 semesters.
- November 20-25 - Thanksgiving Break
- December 6 - Last Class Day
- December 15 - Commencement
- January 5 - Lead-Teacher/Co-Teacher Workshop
- January 8 - First Day of Class
- 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 November 15, 2006