National Library Week April 15-18

Please join us in this celebration as we focus on cultural diversity at Auburn University. The week's activities, including guest speakers, door prizes and free pizza, are as follows:

April 15 - "Scan Your Horizons": The automated check-out stations are featured on Monday. Our goal is to have 100 patrons check out books at each station during the day. Is there a region of the world about which you know little or nothing? Find a book on that area and check it out!

April 16 - "The World in the Palm of Your Hand": Tuesday's emphasis is on new technologies in the library. Come see demonstrations of our Palm Pilots, IPACs, and wireless laptops.

April 17 - "Literature of the World": Cultural diversity in literature takes center stage on Wednesday when we present readings from various cultures. These readings will take place in the 2nd Floor lobby of the Library.

April 18 - Thursday presents a diversity of its own when we invite local authors to speak during the morning and afternoon hours. So far, our guest speakers are Dr. Stephen Gresham and Lt. Gen. Hal Moore. Then, at 5:00 pm, we will present the second annual Library 5K, aka "The Running of the Librarians." The entry fee is $10.00, and participants receive a T-shirt.

April 19 - "Feed Your Mind" @ Your Library. Free Pizza lunch and soft drinks on the Mell Street Patio.

For more information, call Jon Brasher at 4-1730.

UPC Coffeehouse (Open Mic)

Society for Technical Communication Workshop: Working Together

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. 

Undergraduate Awards Ceremony and Benson Lecture

Professor Moddelmog will examine contemporary versions of the Hollywood romantic comedy in her presentation, "Is Romantic Comedy Ever Gay?: Hollywood Film and Sexual Citizenship."  She will address the question of what happens to the genre when gay characters are portrayed in the lead roles. She will focus especially on structural differences between recent gay romantic comedies (e.g., "In and Out") and heterosexual romantic comedies (e.g., "Never Been Kissed" and "Bridget Jones's Diary") in regard to two moments: (1) the kiss, which indicates that the two lead characters are meant for each other, and (2) the marriage ceremony to which the kiss is symbolically or literally connected.

Students and faculty will also have an opportunity to meet informally with Professor Moddelmog early Thursday afternoon between 1:45 and 2:45 p.m. in HC 9030D.

Auburn is hosting a workshop for the Birmingham Chapter of the Society of Technical Communication on Saturday, April 20, 2002.  Academic fellowships and awards in technical and professional communication will be announced during lunch.  Click here for the workshop agenda.

This workshop is a great opportunity for students to learn more about the ‘real world’ of technical communication and meet technical communication professionals.  For more information contact Dr. Cunningham at cunnidh@auburn.edu. 

UPC Coffeehouse (Open Mic)

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. 


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Hilary Wyss has been awarded an ACLS/Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Junior Faculty for the calendar year 2003. The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a national organization that funds research in the humanities and social sciences. Wyss will be working on her second book, a study of Native American education in early America. Jim Ryan has been awarded a summer residential fellowship to participate in the annual Seminar in Christian Scholarship at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, from June 24 through July 26. During the research seminar, which is funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts and will focus this year on "American Literature and the Problem of Belief," he will be working on his current book project, "Inventing Catholicism: Literary History and the Contest for American Religion." Diane Boyd, Auburn graduate student from afar, presented her paper, "Configurations of Labor: Subsistence, Liberation, or Both?" at the 33rd annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies held April 3-7 in Colorado Springs. Others representing from Auburn at the conference were Dr. Dykstal, Matthew Binney, Elizabeth Latshaw, Shea Stuart, and Patsy Fowler.

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