English Department News

            

March 21, 2001

          

Volume 3, No. 23


March 21

  

Bookfair, 11:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Eagle's Nest South

March 21

  

Department meeting (Proration), 3:00 p.m., HC 1203

March 21

  

Professorial Faculty meeting (Proration), immediately following the Department meeting, HC 1203

March 26-April 1

  

Spring Break

March 30

  

Deadline for Bradley Award for Graduate Achievement in the Humanities

April 2

  

Graduate Studies Committee meeting, 2:30 p.m., HC 9030D

April 5

  

Corrie Claiborne, Women's Studies Program Speaker, "Quiet Brown Buddha(s): Black Women, Intellectuals, Silence and American Culture," noon (bring your lunch), Foy 208

April 9

  

Great Books Committee meeting, 3:00 p.m., HC 9030D

April 9

  

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

April 11

  

Book Author Reception, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m., Pebble Hill

April 16

  

Graduate Studies Committee meeting, 2:30 p.m., HC 9030D

April 16

  

English Hour, 4:00 p.m. HC 3104

April 23

  

Great Books Committee meeting, 3:00 p.m., HC 9030D

April 23

  

English Hour, 4:00 p.m. HC 3104

April 26

  

Benson Lecture and Undergraduate Awards Ceremony, Patricia Yaeger, 3:00 p.m., Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center Auditorium

April 30

  

Graduate Studies Committee meeting, 2:30 p.m., HC 9030D

May 2

  

Classes end

May 2

  

Graduate Student Reception, Pebble Hill, 4:00 p.m.

May 3

  

Reading Day

May 4-5, 7-9

  

Final Exams

May 12

  

Graduation

May 22

  

Classes begin for Summer Term


English Department, Allyn & Bacon/Longman Sponsor Bookfair

Take a look at some great books while enjoying pizza and desserts at the English Department / Allyn & Bacon/Longman Bookfair. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, March 21, 2001 from 11:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the Eagle's Nest South. Everyone from the English Department is invited.

Rhetoric, Composition, and Technical Writing Specialists Flying Mile High

Auburn’s English Department was well represented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication last week (March 14-17) in Denver, Colorado. Those who attended were Jennifer Riley Campbell, Pierre Cyr, Margaret Hundleby, Michelle Sidler, Ann Marie Mann Simpkins, Betsy Smith. and Frank Walters.
Margaret Hundleby chaired a panel at the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing conference and participated in the Consortium for Assessing Engineering Communication. Additionally, Jennifer Riley Campbell co-coordinated and presented at a special interest group session on Film in Writing. Ann Marie Mann Simpkins was one of five panelists invited to speak by the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition.
The following is a list of presenters and presentation titles: Pierre Cyr, "Attack Me with Your Love: Soliciting Community Through Eros"; Michelle Sidler, "'Capitalizing' the Classroom: Where Writing, Communities, and the Market Meet"; Ann Marie Mann Simpkins, "Why History Matters: What the Texts of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Publishers Are Teaching Us About Rhetoric and Revisionist History"; and Frank Walters "Disruption and Possibility: What Do We Want in a Writing Community?"
Last, but not least, Isabelle Thompson was honored by the National Council of Teachers of English for the Best Article Reporting Historical Research or Textual Studies in Technical and Scientific Communication (Betsy Smith received the award for Isabelle).
Isabelle's article is titled "Women and Feminism in Technical Communication: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Journal Articles Published in 1989 Through 1997" and was published in the Journal of Business and Technical Communication (April 1999).

English Channel Takes Spring Break

The English Channel will resume publication following spring break on Wednesday, April 4, 2001.

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