English Department News
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March 7, 2001
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Volume 3, No. 21
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March 9
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Deadline for Merriwether Fellowship nominations
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March 12
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Great Books Committee meeting, 3:00 p.m., HC 9030D
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March 12
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English Hour, Christian Gregory, "Captivity as Farce: Patty Hearst and the Proletariat of Fear," 4:00 p.m., HC 3104
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March 21
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Book Author Reception: postponed--new date to be announced
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March 26-April 1
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Spring Break
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March 30
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Deadline for Bradley Award for Graduate Achievement in the Humanities
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April 2
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Graduate Studies Committee meeting, 2:30 p.m., HC 9030D
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April 9
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Great Books Committee meeting, 3:00 p.m., HC 9030D
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April 9
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Littleton-Franklin Lectures, Lynn Margulis, Auburn University Hotel and
Conference Center, 4:00 p.m.
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April 16
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Graduate Studies Committee meeting, 2:30 p.m., HC 9030D
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April 23
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Great Books Committee meeting, 3:00 p.m., HC 9030D
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April 26
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Benson Lecture and Undergraduate Awards Ceremony, Patricia Yaeger,
3:00 p.m., Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center Auditorium
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April 30
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Graduate Studies Committee meeting, 2:30 p.m., HC 9030D
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May 2
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Classes end
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May 2
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Graduate Student Reception, Pebble Hill, 4:00 p.m.
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May 3
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Reading Day
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May 4-5, 7-9
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Final Exams
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May 12
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Graduation
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May 22
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Classes begin for Summer Term
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Captivity as Farce: Patty Hearst and the Proletariat of Fear
Christian Gregory will be the featured speaker at an English Hour
presentation on Monday, March 12, 2001 at 4:00 p.m. in HC 3104. His topic will be
"Captivity as Farce: Patty Hearst and the Proletariat of Fear."
In his presentation, Christian will address some aspects of Americans' continuing
fascination with Patty Hearst. Her media career--media heiress, kidnap
victim, urban guerilla, media pariah, George Bush republican, camp icon--has
been used as a kind of philosopher's stone with which to decipher
contemporary American culture. The current academic reception of Hearst's
captivity, however, flattens out much of the complex dossier out of which
Hearst's meaning has been fashioned. In this context, Christian will be re-reading
Hearst's captivity in the context of both the last excesses of the American
New Left and the emergence of neo-liberal civic culture, embodied by Ronald
Reagan, who oversaw the pursuit of Hearst's captors from the California
governor's mansion in 1974.
Nominate Deserving Graduate Students
Graduate Faculty members are encouraged to nominate students for the
Merriwether Fellowship, a $4,000 award given to three doctoral students each year. Our department
has been very successful in this competition; Kelly Gerald, Jenn Kroll, and Sue Churchill are
among recent recipients. Thus, if you are the major professor of a doctoral student who will be
writing a dissertation in 2001-2002, please consider nominating your student. If you would like to nominate
someone, please give Dave Haney the name as soon
as possible, and no later than Friday, March 9, 2001. Please explain briefly why you thnk this student
should be nominated.
Please also consider nominating a graduate student for the Bradley
Award for Graduate Achievement in the Humanities ($500). These nominations are made by individual faculty
members. Send a nominating letter and a "brief vita" by March 30, 2001 to Associate Dean Tony Carey, College
of Liberal Arts, 2046 Haley Center.
International Poet to read from Verses from the Himalayas
International poet Adwiti Subba will read from her poetry and
sign copies of her newest collection, Verses from the Himalayas, at the Olde
Auburn Ale House, on Sunday, March 18, 2001 at 4:00 p.m. Hors d'oeuvres will be served and there will be a
cash bar.
Whitman String Quartet to Perform in Auburn
On Tuesday, April 3, 2001, the Auburn Chamber Music Society will be sponsoring its third in a series of three concerts this year.
The Whitman String Quartet will be on hand to perform three works: Mozart's String Quartet in G Major, K 387;
Prokofiev's String Quartet in B Minor, Opus 50 #1; and Brahms' String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 51 #1. The performance starts at
8:00 p.m. and will be held in the Goodwin Recital Hall. Tickets are $15 each and can be obtained at the door.
The concert is free to all university students. No strings attached--except those affixed to the instruments.
For more information, visit the quartet's website.
Question of the Week
How can we help students improve their learning effectiveness? Please respond to this week's question in The Forum. If you have forgotten your password, please
contact George
Crandell.
If you would like to include an item in the
"Professional Notes" section of The English Channel, please submit your note
to George Crandell.
If you would like to include an item in the
"Personal Notes" section of The English Channel, please submit your note
to George Crandell.
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