English Department News

            

February 2, 2000

          

Volume 2, No. 12


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 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. 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 21

  

Cultural Trivia Contest, Pebble Hill, 4:30 p.m.

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.


Labor Crisis: Past Due--Awaiting Delivery

The Gender Studies and Great Books Discussion Group would like interested people to know that the Auburn University Bookstore is still awaiting delivery of Ellen Douglas's Truth: Four Stories I Am Finally Old Enough To Tell. A new meeting date will be set as soon as the books arrive. If you wish to be notified--and are not already on the group's email list--please email Joyce Rothschild or leave a note in her mailbox.

Trivial Pursuit, Anyone?

It's not too late to participate in the cultural trivia contest sponsored by the English Club/Sigma Tau Delta.
The battle of wits (or is it nit-wits?) is scheduled for February 21, 2000 at Pebble Hill. Festivities begin at 4:30 p.m., with refreshments to be served.
If you are interested in fielding a team, or in being assigned to one, please contact Tim Dykstal, the faculty advisor to the English Club.

The Executive Board of the Society for Technical Communication has announced that the Jay R. Gould Outstanding Teaching Award for 2000 has been awarded to Don Cunningham. The award will be presented at the Honors Banquet during the 47th Annual STC Conference in Orlando on May 23, 2000.
Charlie Rose participated in the 1999 Sewanee Writers' Conference as a Tennessee Williams Scholar.
His review of New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1999 was published in the summer issue of Southern Humanities Review. His review of Kelly Cherry's collection of stories, The Society of Friends, has appeared in First Draft/The Journal of the Alabama Writers' Forum. He has reviews coming out in The Chattahoochee Review, First Draft/The Journal of the Alabama Writers' Forum, and Southern Humanities Review. His short story, "A New Roof," has been accepted by Alabama Literary Review.

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