April 25
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Professorial Faculty meeting, 3:00 p.m., HC 3104
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April 25
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Graduate Faculty meeting, immediately following the Professorial Faculty meeting, HC 3104
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April 26
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Meet Patricia Yaeger, 11:00-11:45 a.m., HC 9030D
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April 26
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Benson Lecture and Undergraduate Awards Ceremony, Patricia Yaeger,
"Ghosts and Shattered Bodies, or, What Does It Mean to Be Haunted
by Southern Fiction?" 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, 4:30 p.m., Pebble Hill
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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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Meet Patricia Yaeger
Patricia Yaeger, the 2001 Benson Lecturer, will be available to meet with
students and faculty on Thursday morning from 11:00 to 11:45 a.m. in HC9030D. Please drop in to say
"Hey," or to chat.
Professor Yaeger will deliver the Benson Lecture at the annual Undergraduate
Awards Ceremony, which begins at 3:00 p.m. in the Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center Auditorium on Thursday,
April 26, 2001. A reception for Professor Yaeger will follow the lecture.
Congratulations to Undergraduate Award Winners
Tim Dykstal, Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies, is pleased to announce
this year's undergraduate award winners:
Mary Matherly Durant Award
Winner: Sarah Moreman (03 ENGL)
James A. Kirkley Award
Co-winners: Frank Eastman (03 ENGL) and Jared Gullage (03 ENGL)
Mortar Board's Mildred Enloe Yates Award
Co-winners: Allison Stacker (04 ENGL) and Tara Tyson (04 ENGL)
The Ruth and Carolyn Faulk Scholarship
Winner: Keisha Oldacre (03 ENGL)
Congratulations are also due to recipients of this year's Undergraduate
Writing Awards.
Poetry
Winner: LeeAnne Gordon, "Antonio."
Honorable Mentions: Tara Tyson, Liberation," Jason MacLain, "Fundamentals"
Creative Prose
Winner: Tara Tyson, "Grace."
Honorable Mention: Amanda Hudson, "Peter Pan, Jesus and The Big Bad Wolf"
Academic Essay
Co-Winners: Troy Woollen, "Politics and Religion" and Patricia Cooper,
"Integrity is Going to Hell in a Hand Basket, and Cosmopolitan is Packing the
Sandwiches"
Poetry Prize Winner Announced
Jeremy M. Downes, Poetry Prize Coordinator, is happy to announce that the poem
"to Beginnings," by Kimberly Martz, a senior in English, has been selected as the winner of the new
Robert Hughes Mount Jr. Prize in Poetry, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets and the generosity
of Frances Mayes. The judge also selected a poem by Allie Stacker, a senior in English, and a second poem
by Kimberly Martz for Honorable Mention. Katherine Soniat (Alluvia, A Shared Life, and several
other books of poetry) was the judge for this year's contest. She praised Auburn's program for its
collective talent, and the top three entries in particular as "powerful poems." Please take the time
to congratulate our poets at the Benson Lecture on Thursday.
Leslie Wallace Wins Technical and Professional Communication Award
Leslie Wallace, a junior majoring in Marketing and minoring in
English (her course work is in technical and professional communication), received the annual technical and
professional communication award from the Society for Technical Communication, Birmingham Chapter. The
award, which goes to an outstanding junior or senior taking course work in technical and professional
communication at Auburn University, consists of a certificate and $500. The award was made at the April
STC-Birmingham chapter meeting, which was held on April 21, 2001 on the Auburn University campus.
Backscheider Wins Two Awards
Paula Backscheider has won the Faculty/Staff Outstanding Service Award.
This seventeen-year-old award is given by the Office of Multicultural Affairs; nominations and
supporting presentations are given by students.
Paula also won the 2001 Creative Research Award; Tim Dykstal prepared the winning
submission.
Golfers Vie for Tweed Jacket
The second annual "Dead Day Golf Outing" will be held on Thursday,
May 3, 2001 at Indian Pines Golf Club. Last year's outing was such a success that we've decided
to make it an annual affair. This year, however, will be the first in which departmental
golfers compete for the coveted "Tweed Jacket"--our sartorial equivalent to The Masters'
"Green Jacket," but much more hideous. To register, contact
Auburn faculty and graduate students gave a number of papers at the American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in New Orleans last week. Among them were Tim Dykstal,
"The Regimen of Recovery: Melancholy and the Habit of Identity"; Matt Binney, "Habermas Informs
Shaftesbury"; and Paula Backscheider was on the roundtable on "Women Poets and the
Current State of Eighteenth-Century Poetry."
Tim also led a session entitled "Private Regiments, Public Riturals." Elizabeth
Russell, who will receive her Ph.D. this May, gave "Huron Women and English Sensibility in Frances
Brooke's The History of Emily Montague. Recent Ph.D. Dan Ennis led one of the
liveliest sessions, which included a performance and commentary on A Bickerstaff's Burying.
Kelly Gerald presented a paper titled "Double Vision: The Construction of
Ironic Distance in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction and in Her Early Work as a Cartoonist"
at the American Culture/Popular Culture Association conference held in
Philadelphia, April 12-14, 2001.
James Goldstein received an award from the Auburn University
chapter of the Golden Key National Honor Society "for excellence in teaching and significant
contribution to the field of medieval literature." At the same ceremony, he received the
2000-2001 Medallion of Excellence " in recognition of distinguished work in the field of
medieval literature."
Two members of our department were program participants at the 64th
Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL) hosted by the University of Tennessee in Knoxville,
April 5-7, 2001. Graduate Teaching Assistant and Ph.D. student Lea Neuhauser presented
"Empowerment through Humor in Gay Speech/Slang." Associate Professor Tom Nunnally's
offering was "Is Slang a Work for Lexicographers?" Guiyong Duan, a Ph.D. student in
Curriculum and Teaching, was also on the program, presenting "Classification of English Determiners
and Their Implications in Teaching Chinese ES/FL Students."
Charlie Rose read a short story, "Mr. Hardcastle," at the Ninth
Annual Fairhope Conference of the Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers. His review
of Judy Troy's novel, From the Black Hills, appeared in the Winter 2001 issues of
Southern Humanities Review.
If you would like to include an item in the
"Professional Notes" section of The English Channel, please submit your note
to George Crandell.
