English Department News

            

May 24, 2000

          

Volume 2, No. 24


May 24

  

Professorial Faculty meeting, HC 3104, 3:10 p.m.

May 24

  

English Center Writing Lab: Mixed Menu, HC 3183, 8:00 p.m.

May 25

  

Promotion and Tenure Workshop, Broun Hall, Room 239, 2:30-4:30 p.m.

May 29

  

Memorial Day Holiday for students, staff, and faculty

May 31

  

Professorial Faculty meeting, HC 3104, 3:10 p.m.

May 31

  

Annual Reception for English Graduate Students, Pebble Hill, 4:30-7:00 p.m.

June 1

  

Dan Albergotti Poetry Reading, Pebble Hill, 5:00 p.m.

June 1

  

Classes end

June 2

  

Dead Day

June 3, 5-8

  

Final Exams

June 6

  

WebCT Workshop, HC 3116, 9:00-11:00 a.m.

June 10

  

Graduation


Shea Stuart Writes Best Graduate Student Paper

Congratulations to Shea Stuart, who has been chosen as this year's winner of the annual best graduate student paper award. Her paper, "Subversive Didacticism: The Breakdown and Re-evaluation of Patriarchy in Eliza Haywood's The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless," was written for Dr. Paula Backscheider's Major English Authors class (ENGL 0657) in the fall of 1999.
Congratulations also go to the other nominees: Shawn Knight, David Murdock, Sharyn Pulling, Shawna Thorp, and Leslie Whatley.
The winner was selected by a panel consisting of Drs. Bertolet, Wehrs, and Wyss, who judged the papers without knowledge of the authors' names or the courses for which the papers were written.
Shea will be officially recognized for her accomplishment at the graduate student reception on Wednesday, May 31, 2000 from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m. at Pebble Hill.

Albergotti to Give Poetry Reading

Dan Albergotti will read from his poetry at Pebble Hill on Thursday, June 1, 2000. In the fall, Dan will be entering the M.F.A. program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A reception will follow the reading.

Summer Quarter Sign Up for Computer Classrooms

Sign up for the computer classrooms this summer will be first come, first served. The schedules for HC 3116 and HC 3143 will be posted outside HC 8066 (Betsy Smith's office) as soon as teaching assignments are posted. We will work through conflicting schedules if necessary. Reminder: Members of the Department of English may reserve one class session per week for each section they teach. If times are available after the initial sign-up period (June 8 – the last day of finals), then additional times may be reserved.

WebCT Workshop

WebCT workshop: Tuesday, June 6, from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. in HC 3116. There will be hands-on activities using the material gathered at a recent workshop. This is an opportunity to explore some of the features together so that we can prepare course materials over the summer. We will have more WebCT workshops in the fall. WebCT is a course management interface that gives you a way to organize course materials across the web. The chat sesssions and forums are similar to AUStudy's IChat and forum. The quiz (includes a short answer option) and grading features are also interesting to work with.

English Channel Dries Up During Summer

This is the final issue of The English Channel for the Spring Quarter. Publication of the newsletter will resume in Fall Semester with the first issue appearing on August 30, 2000. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the Channel this year.
Even though The English Channel will not be published during the summer, you can still post questions and responses on The English Channel Forum. I especially encourage you (especially if you haven't tried the Forum) to join the conversation. Your responses to this week's Question of the Week should keep us all happily busy this summer!

Question of the Week

What do you recommend for summer reading? Please post your responses on The English Channel Forum. If you've forgotten your password, contact George Crandell.

Jack Jacobs presented a paper, "Phenomenology and Revolutionary Romanticism," at "The Visible and Invisible": World Phenomenology Institute Conference on Literature and Philosophy held at Harvard University on May 12, 2000.
Pat Morrow will be the project leader for a 2000-2001 Breeden Endowment for Faculty Enhancement. Lou Caton and Dwight St. John are also members of this grant team. The project aims to increase the awareness of Non-Western works in Great Books.
Pat Morrow will be a busy guy at the forthcoming SAMLA meeting in November. Pat is the co-author with Andrea McKinniss of a paper for the Hawthorne session about the relationship between The Scarlet Letter and The Piano. Andrea McKinniss will read the paper and, in another session, Pat will deliver a Post-Colonial paper called "Taffy-Haired Brumbies: The Two Families in Patrick White's 'Down at the Dump.'"
On May 20, 2000, Owen Elmore presented his paper "'Smoothing with his hand into legibility': Faulkner's Regenerative Telling" at the 4th Annual Storytelling Symposium at University College, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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