English Department News

            

September 26, 2001

          

Volume 4, No. 6

 
September 26 Undergraduate Studies Committee, 2:00, HC 9030D
September 28 Last day to apply for foreign language exam; last day to submit approved draft of doctoral dissertation
October 1-12 Submission of thesis rough draft for format check 
October 3 Faculty Meeting, 3:00, HC 3104
October 4 Foreign language exams
October 8 Graduate Studies Committee, 1:00, HC 9030D
October 10 Mid-Semester;  Last day to drop without penalty
October 17 ADA and Sexual Harassment Workshop; 3:00, HC 3104
October 22 Graduate Studies Committee, 1:00, HC 9030D
October 29-30 M.A. Comprehensive Exams
November 5 Graduate Studies Committee, 1:00, HC 9030D
November 17-25 Thanksgiving Holidays
November 26 Graduate Studies Committee, 1:00, HC 9030D
December 3 Graduate Studies Committee, 1:00, HC 9030D
December 7   Classes End
December 8-9  

Study/Reading Days
December 10 Graduate Studies Committee, 1:00, HC 9030D
December 12 Liberal Arts Staff Retreat
December 10-14  

Final Exams
December 15  

Graduation

 Graduate School Calendar
December 20 - January 2 University Closed for Holidays University Calendar
 


Picnic Pictures


Twenty-Fifth Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature

August Wilson, distinguished African American playwright, will be the keynote speaker for this year's symposium, which is titled "Writing Race Across the Atlantic World: 1492-1763."  The symposium, September 27-29, 2001, is designed to "cover the origins of contemporary notions of race in the oceanic interculture of the Atlantic world in the early modern period." For more information, visit the University of Alabama website.


  • If you are planning on taking the foreign language exam, the last day to register is September 28. The exams will be administered on October 4.
  • September 28 is also the last day for acceptance of approved doctoral dissertation drafts.
  • October 1-12 are the dates for submission of thesis rough draft for format check.





  • Peter Huggins' new collection of poems, Blue Angels, has been published by River City Publishing.
  • Tom Argiro's article, "'As Though We Were Related': Faulkner's Black-Italian Chiasmus," has been accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of MELUS (The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.).
  • Leslie Worthington presented her paper "Whose Net is it Anyway? Allusion and Meaning in Eudora Welty's 'The Wide Net'" at the New Voices 2001, National Graduate Conference in English Studies in Atlanta, GA on September 21, 2001.
  • The Best American Essays (2001) just arrived, edited this year by Kathleen Norris and Robert Atwan. Listed under the category of "Notable Essays of 2000" is Southern Humanities Review's Susan Feldman, "On Writing a Screenplay" (Spring 2000) and Sara Levine, "The Self on the Shelf" (Summer 2000).



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