English Department News

            

January 26, 2000

          

Volume 2, No. 11


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," HC 3104, 4:00 p.m. Please note room change.

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 2

  

Gender Studies and Great Books Reading Group, 719 Burke Place, 7:00 p.m. Postponed.

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. This lecture has been cancelled. A new lecture has been added (see April 10 below).

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

  

English Hour, Roundtable Discussion on Teaching Nineteenth-Century Poetry in Great Books II, HC 3104, 4:00 p.m. Please note room change.

February 28-March 28

  

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

March 6

  

English Hour, Tim Dykstal, "Dissipation and the Economy of Sensibility," HC 3104, 4:00 p.m.

March 9

  

Last day of classes

March 10

  

Dead Day

March 11, 13-16

  

Final examinations

March 18

  

Graduation

April 10

  

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

April 24

  

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

May 5

  

Benson Lecture and Undergraduate Awards Ceremony, 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.


Take a Trip Down Under

Pat Morrow will be the featured speaker at the English Hour on Monday, January 31, 2000 beginning at 4:00 p.m. in HC 3104. Please note the change in location. Professor Morrow's topic will be "Being Black at the Bottom of the World in New Zealand and Australia."

Reasons to Hop on the Groupwise Bandwagon

If you use AubieEXpress, the library's interlibrary loan system that delivers articles to you quickly, you will need to move to Groupwise. The library sends articles in a pdf file that you read using the Adobe Acrobat Reader. You only have to select the attached file in your Groupwise account and the file will open automatically. Acrobat Reader is on all of the computers in the department. Pine distorts the file and makes it unreadable.
Groupwise also lets you access your email from anywhere that you have web access. The web address is gw5.duc.auburn.edu.
See Frances Collins for the form to request a Groupwise account. You will not lose email from your Pine account. It does take about a week of working with Groupwise to get used to its features--but it's worth it.

Sport Literature Association Calls for Papers

The members and supporters of the Sport Literature Association are invited to submit papers, poetry, or short fiction for its 17th annual conference, June 28-July 2, 2000 at Humboldt State University in beautiful Arcata, California. There are ten paper sessions and two poetry/fiction readings planned by Conference Director Richard Arlin (Dick) Stull.
Papers, proposals, and panel topics for the conference should be sent to the conference's Program Director: Professor Gregg Neikirk, Department of English, Westfield State College, Westfield, MA 01086.
For questions concerning the conference, please contact Dr. Richard Arlin (Dick) Stull.

Auburn Circle Welcomes Submissions

The Auburn Circle is now accepting poetry, fiction, non-fiction and art/photography submissions for the Winter 2000 issue. We are asking faculty and staff to please let their students know about the Circle, and that the deadline for submission is January 28, 2000. The Circle is an excellent opportunity for students to get their work published, and it looks good on a résumé.
We would also like to remind faculty and staff that we welcome their submissions as well. For any teachers who know of a student who would like to submit something, or those who would like to submit their own work, our office is in the Publications Suite, next to the Plainsman office in the Foy Student Union basement. Submissions can also be sent via email to Stephanie Wilson. If you need any information, please feel free to call Stephanie at 844-4122.


The sixth edition of How to Write for the World of Work (Ft. Worth: Harcourt Brace, 2000) was published on December 17, 1999. Co-authors are Thomas E. Pearsall (emeritus, University of Minnesota), Don Cunningham, and Betsy Smith.
Natasha Trethewey recently won the Jessica Nobel Maxwell Prize for her poem "Amateur Fighter," which appeared in the American Poetry Review. Another poem, "Limen," which originally appeared in New England Review, has been selected for publication in The Best American Poetry 2000. Trethewey has also been named Distinguished Young Alumna of the Year by the University of Massachusetts.

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.