English Department News

            

January 12, 2000

          

Volume 2, No. 9


January 17

  

Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday

January 19

  

Professorial Faculty meeting, HC 3104, 3:10 p.m.

January 24

  

Littleton-Franklin Lectures, Roger Penrose, Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center, 4:00 p.m.

January 24-28

  

Spring Quarter Advising open for Seniors, Graduate Students, and Priority Students (Honors, Disabilities, Co-Op, Athletes)

January 24-February 18

  

Spring Quarter Advising open for UNLA Freshmen opens in the Dean's Office (Note: Advising for freshmen with declared majors occurs in departments February 14-18)

January 28-30

  

Spring Quarter Registration open for Seniors and Graduate Students only

January 31

  

English Hour, Pat Morrow, "Being Black at the Bottom of the World in New Zealand and Australia," Eagle's Nest North, 4:00 p.m.

January 31-February 3

  

Spring quarter Registration open for Seniors, Graduate Students, and Priority Students (Honors, Disabilities, Co-Op, Athletes)

January 31-February 4

  

Spring quarter Advising open for Juniors

February 4-10

  

Spring quarter Registration open for Juniors

February 7

  

Littleton-Franklin Lectures, Margaret Wertheim, Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center, 4:00 p.m.

February 7-11

  

Spring quarter Advising open for Sophomores

February 8

  

Mid-quarter

February 11-17

  

Spring quarter Registration open for Sophomores

February 14

  

Littleton-Franklin Lectures, Richard Leakey, Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center, 4:00 p.m.

February 14-18

  

Spring quarter Advising for Freshmen opens in the departments. Freshmen with declared majors should meet with faculty advisor. (Advising for UNLA freshmen in the Dean's Office opened from January 24-February 18).

February 18-27

  

Spring quarter Registration open for Freshmen

February 28-March 28

  

Spring Quarter Late Registration/Schedule Adjustment period: All students may register during this period.

March 9

  

Last day of classes

March 10

  

Dead Day

March 11, 13-16

  

Final examinations

March 18

  

Graduation

April 24

  

Littleton-Franklin Lectures, Helen Thomas, Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center, 4:00 p.m.

May 5

  

Benson Lecture, Susan D. Gubar, 213 Foy Union, 3:00 p.m.

May 18

  

Littleton-Franklin Lectures, William Phillips, Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center, 4:00 p.m.


Susan D. Gubar to Deliver Benson Lecture

The Benson Lectures Committee is pleased to announce that Susan D. Gubar, Distinguished Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Indiana University, will deliver the 2000 Benson Lecture at our annual undergraduate award ceremony.   With Sandra M. Gilbert, Gubar is the celebrated author of The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the 19th-Century Literary Imagination.  Gubar and Gilbert also collaborated on the Norton Anthology of Literature of Women (revised second edition, 1996) No Man’s Land: The Place of the Women Writer in the Twentieth Century: The War of the Words (1988), Sexchanges (1989), and Letters From the Front (1994). Her most recent collection of essays, Critical Condition: Feminist Studies at the Turn of the Century, was published by Columbia University Press in December 1999.
The Benson Lecture is scheduled for 3:00 p.m. on Friday, May 5, 2000 in 213 Foy Union.

Department Upgrades Workstations

The computers in the workrooms have been updated to provide faster access to the Internet (the web and email) and newer versions of word processing and other software.
One workstation is state-of-the-art with a zip drive, scanner, and laser printer. Microsoft Office 2000 (Word), WordPerfect Office 2000, Photoshop (graphics), Adobe Acrobat (creates and edits pdf files), and Dreamweaver (web development) are installed on the computer. The department web developer (Wiebke Kuhn), scanner and zip drive users, and those needing Photoshop or Adobe Acrobat have priority use of the computer. Please use other computers for checking email and web research. If you are unfamiliar with how to use the scanner or the software, please check with Wiebke Kuhn.

Congratulations to Fall 1999 Graduates

Please congratulate the following graduates. Brian McAllister (directed by Margaret Kouidis) and Grant Pheloung (directed by Miriam Clark) were awarded Ph.D. degrees.
The following students received B.A. degrees: Janna Lanette Benefield, Molanda Amelia Brown (magna cum laude), Joseph Wesley Cook, Jr., Ryan Ress Dye, Amy Abbott Gudgen, Sarah Margaret Hamilton, Jeremy Landon Hawsey, Robin Elizabeth Jones, Jon Patrick Leak, Jamie Lynn Lipsey (magna cum laude), Danon Joel Lucas, Julianna Mobley (magna cum laude), Michael Paul Pickering, and Alicia Rebecca Williams.

Opportunity for Self-Promotion

If you would like to submit material for inclusion in the English Department's alumni newsletter, Auburn English, I am now collecting entries for "Faculty News" and "Graduate Student News." These columns will feature entries similar to the "Professional Notes" published in The English Channel. Here's your chance for self-promotion!   I'm looking forward to hearing from everyone--graduate students, instructors, and professorial faculty members. Our readers do enjoy hearing about what you are doing.
Typical entries include information about the following: publications, conferences papers, conference panels, honors, awards, forthcoming publications, workshops, readings, administrative posts, etc.
Please submit entries to George Crandell by February 4, 2000.

Editor/Proofreader Wanted

Professor Murray Adams of the Department of Sociology needs someone to edit and proofread a textbook manuscript. The work will last through April and will pay. For more information and to discuss payment, contact Professor Adams at 844-2826.


Barbara Brumbaugh's article, "Temples Defaced and Altars in the Dust: Edwardian and Elizabethan Church Reform and Sidney's 'Now Was Our Heav'nly Vault Deprived of the Light,'" has been accepted for publication in Spenser Studies. Barbara was also recognized as an "Outstanding Professor" for Fall of 1999 by the Auburn Panhellenic Council.
George Crandell's "Peeping Tom: Voyeurism, Taboo, and Truth in the World of Tennessee Williams's Short Fiction" was published in the Fall 1999 issue of The Southern Quarterly. Another article, "Arthur Miller's Unheard Plea for Jewish Refugees: 'Hitler's Quarry'" appears in the Winter 2000 issue of ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews. Miller's "Hitler's Quarry," which first appeared in The Jewish Survey but is not listed in any bibliography of Miller's works, is also reprinted here.
Another unknown Miller article, "After Kefauver--What? A Noted Dramatist Looks at the Big Crime Show and Points a Way to Cleaning Up the Mess," will be reprinted in Resources for American Literary Study in the Spring 2000 special issue on American Drama. It will appear with Crandell's introduction to the piece, "'Trial by Public Opinion': Arthur Miller Reviews 'The New York Crime Show.'"

If you would like to include an item in the "Personal Notes" section of The English Channel, please submit your note to George Crandell.
Please submit items and direct all questions or comments about The English Channel, to George Crandell, who currently maintains this site.
To include an item in The English Channel, submit text items by Tuesday at 11:40 a.m. for publication the following Wednesday. Graphic images are due by the preceding Friday at 11:40 a.m. Submit items by using my email link or by putting a note or disk in my mailbox (disks will be returned). If you submit an image on disk, please make sure that it can be edited to fit and be read clearly on the page. Items over fifty words in length should be submitted on disk or sent by email. Please check your submission for accuracy and completion--all calendar items and meeting announcements must include the date, time, and location of the event. Please omit all unusual formatting.