English Department News

        

March 20, 2002

          

Volume 4, No. 25

 

 
March 20 Faculty Meeting, 3:00, HC 3104
March 22 SOFTBALL GAME, 5:00, Field 2: Animal Dairy Science
March 23-31 Spring Break!
April 2 Annual Provost Promotion and Tenure Workshop, 3:00, Location TBA
April 5 SOFTBALL GAME, 5:00, Field 1: Biology
April 8 Graduate Studies Committee Meeting, 9:00, SHR Conference Room
April 8 Great Books Committee - 3:00
April 8-12 Zora Neale Hurston Week
April 9 Film: Tell About the South, 7:00 p.m., HC 1203
April 10 Faculty Meeting, 3:00, HC 3104
April 10 Film: Zora is My Name, 7:00 p.m., HC 1203
April 12 SOFTBALL GAME, 5:00, Field 1: Industrial Engineering
April 17 Faculty Meeting, 3:00, HC 3104
April 18 Benson Lecture - Debra Moddelmog, 3:00, AUHDCC
April 19 SOFTBALL GAME, 5:00, Field 7: Fisheries
April 20 Society for Technical Communication Meeting
April 22 Graduate Studies Committee Meeting, 9:00, SHR Conference Room
April 22 Great Books Committee - 3:00
April 26 SOFTBALL GAME, 5:00, Field 6: Economics
April 30   Classes End
May 1 Graduate Student Reception, 4:00-6:00, Pebble Hill
May 1-2  

Study/Reading Days
May 3-4, 6-8  

Final Exams

 Graduate School Calendar
May 6 Graduate Studies Committee Meeting, 9:00, SHR Conference Room
May 11  

Graduation

 University Calendar
May 20 Classes Begin for Summer Term and Summer Session I
 


HAVE A FANTASTIC SPRING BREAK!!

Zora Neale Hurston Week April 8-12

For the upcoming Their Eyes Were Watching God week of activities, the Great Books Program is sponsoring a writing contest for students in participating classes. Students are asked to submit a one page (double spaced and typed) response to the prompt: Describe or define Hurston’s interpretation of love in Their Eyes Were Watching God. Submissions are due on April 12, and the prize of a $25 Books-a-Million gift certificate will be awarded at a later date.

Also, on April 9 and 10, two films will be shown in HC 1203 at 7:00 p.m.: Tell About the South, a historical survey of the literary South in the early 20th Century, and Zora is My Name, starring Ruby Dee.







Earth Day

Celebrate Earth Day with the English Club.  On the afternoon of April 22, the English Club will plant a tree and perhaps read some earthy poetry at the Forest Ecology Preserve in Auburn.  Watch The English Channel for further details.

Fiction Reading

Get creative and get ready for the first Fiction Reading sponsored by the English Club.  The reading will be April 11th from 2:00-5:00 p.m. at the Big Blue Bagel.  Polish your best story and watch for further details.  Each reading should last 10-15 minutes.

Contests, Competitions, Awards . . .

You can find the hard-copy announcements of contests, competitions, and awards on the bulletin board outside the English Department office, 9030 Haley Center. 


Send your undergraduate news items to Brooke Bullman, the Undergraduate Student Editor for The English Channel, at bullmbe@auburn.edu.


  • Scott Simkins is presenting a paper as part of a panel at "John Steinbeck's Americas: A Centennial Conference" to be held at Hofstra Cultural Center, Hofstra U.,  in Hempstead, N.Y. (on Long Island), March 20-24. The panel will focus on re-interpretations of Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent, and his paper is titled "Recognizing and Recalibrating American Mythology or Holding on to the Talisman."
  • Joe Walker's essay, "Criminality and (Self) Discipline: The Case of Paul Auster," will appear in issue 48.2 of Modern Fiction Studies.

    Also, his essay, "Cunnilingus and Psychoanalysis Have Brought Us To This: Livia and the Logic of False Hoods in the First Season of The Sopranos," will appear in "This Thing Of Ours: Investigating The Sopranos," which will be published in September by Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press.

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