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Trethewey Awarded Prestigious Bunting Fellowship Natasha Trethewey, en route to a Pulitzer Prize for poetry, has been
awarded a Bunting Fellowship from the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. "The
Institute is a multidisciplinary research center for women scholars, scientists, artists and writers,
and is one of the major centers for advanced study in the United States. Fellowship programs are designed to support
women of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment who wish to pursue independent work
in academic and professional fields and in the creative arts." During her year in Cambridge at Harvard, Natasha will be
researching and writing poetry, completing Bellocq's Ophelia, and beginning a new volume of
poetry. Bunting Fellowships (in the amount of $33,000) are awarded on the basis of "the quality and significance
of the proposed project, the applicant's record of accomplishment, and the potential importance of the
fellowship at this stage in the applicant's career." Congratulations to Natasha!
Two Undergraduate English Majors Awarded Research FellowshipsSteve Giles and Eleanor Inge, junior English majors, have each won
one of ten full Undergraduate Research Fellowships for 2000-2001. Eleanor will be working on a critical
biography of our very own Natasha Trethewey. Steve will be applying Jungian psychological theory to
Norse mythology.
Congratulations to Winter Quarter Graduates!Please congratulate and extend best wishes to these students who graduated
at the end of Winter Quarter: Christopher Bryant Copeland (cum laude), Karen Shea Miller, Tina Marie
Morse, Megan Hunt Pourciau, Jennifer Kathleen Tolleson, Elizabeth A. Topping, and Wendy René Worthy.You'll also want to congratulate Catherine Johanna Hitchcock, who
earned the Master of Education degree.
National Graduate and Professional Student Awareness WeekThis week (April 2-8) is National Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation
Week. This was officially declared in Alabama by Governor Don Siegelman upon request from Auburn's
Graduate Student Council (GSC).Please join the GSC in celebrating this event and appreciating those graduate
students (especially your GTA's and GRA's) with whom you are closely associated by giving them a
well-deserved THANKS!Below are the events that have been planned for the week by Auburn's Graduate
Student Council. Contact Kim Pruett if you have any
questions.
Open Forum: English Channel Discussion Board DebutsThe English Channel Forum, a web-based discussion board, is now open
to all teachers and staff in the English Department. Ursula Sandefur and I, who developed the
site, hope that you will respond to posted comments, start discussions on your own, ask questions, and provide answers
to questions. As you participate, you'll be contributing to an archive of helpful information and ideas
for beginning and experienced teachers. We hope that your teaching will be enhanced as a result.
We also hope that you'll be encouraged to talk with others (even in person) about teaching ideas
prompted by the Forum. So that you may speak freely about teaching ideas and practices, the Forum is not open
to undergraduate students (GTA's will have access) or to the general public (an access code is required).When you go to the Forum site, by clicking on the "Forum" button at
the top of The English Channel, use your access code to enter the Forum or to view a selection
of course syllabi on line (another feature of the Forum site). The Forum homepage
also includes links to helpful websites for teachers, e.g., the final exam schedule.For those of you who may not be familair with how a bulletin board forum works,
the Forum includes a special help section with an alphabetical listing of topics. Perhaps the best way to learn
how to use the Fourm is to try it. We hope you'll like it.Ursula and I thank everyone who participated in the testing of The English Channel
Forum during its initial development. We will, of course, continue to modify the Forum to meet
the changing needs of the department. In the meantime, if you have questions or comments about
the Forum, please direct them to George
Crandell.Question of the WeekWith each publication of The English Channel, I'll be selecting a
"Question of the Week" to feature in The English Channel Forum. Of course, I ask that you please
send me your suggestions, by the usual deadline for the publication of
the newsletter. This week's question: "How do you get students to see that critical writing can be as
creative as short story writing?" Please respond to the question in the Forum. If you have a
suggestion for "Question of the Week," please send it to George
Crandell.Hoepfner Award Winners AnnouncedThe editors of the Southern Humanities Review are pleased to announce the
recipients of the journal's Hoepfner Awards for 1999. They are Dan Albergotti for the poem "The
Osprey and the Late Afternoon," R. M. Kinder for the story "A
Near-Perfect Gift," and Alan Boye for the essay "Kit Fox Drums and the Wild Dogs of
Fonda."The Hoepfner Awards were established to honor a colorful scholar of the Auburn
English Department in residence here from 1941 until his death in 1966. His brother
donated Hoepfner's library to the university, and you may come across books inscribed
with his name.
Bertolet to Untangle Web ProblemsAre the strands of your webpage becoming untangled? Or, are you spinning
your wheels but not spinning your website? Craig Bertolet will be serving during Spring term
as web consultant for the English Department faculty in order to share the knowledge
gained from the Faculty Development Consortium's mini-sabbatical program which he attended in
September and which helped to produce The English Channel that you are now reading.
Craig will be in his office (HC 8068) for webmatters mornings from nine
until noon.Chester String Quartet to PerformThe Chester String Quartet will be performing quartets by Verdi, Schubert,
and Harbison on Tuesday, April 11, 2000 at 8:00 p.m. in Goodwin Hall. For
more information, check out the Auburn Chamber Music Society
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Jim McKelly has been recognized by the Auburn University Panhellenic
Council as an outstanding professor for Winter Quarter 2000. This is the second such award Jim has received in the
last three years. In addition, Jim has been nominated and selected as a Faculty Honoree for Camp War Eagle
2000, a university-wide award honoring outstanding faculty members for excellence in teaching.
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George Crandell.
Please submit items and direct all questions or comments about The English Channel, to
George Crandell,
who currently maintains this site.
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