English Department News

            

October 10, 2001

          

Volume 4, No. 8

 
October 1-12 Submission of thesis rough draft for format check 
October 10 Faculty Meeting, 3:00, HC 3104
October 10 EGO Meeting, 5:00, HC 3184
October 10 Mid-Semester;  Last day to drop without penalty
October 12 Open Practicum, "Writing and Revising," 4:00-6:00, HC 3104
October 16 Auburn Chamber Music Society Concert, 8:00, Goodwin Music Hall 
October 17 ADA and Sexual Harassment Workshop, 3:00, HC 3104
October 22 Graduate Studies Committee, 1:00, HC 9030D
October 24 Faculty Meeting, 3:00, HC 3104
October 24-25 Haley Center Poetry Project
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
 

Readers Wanted for the Haley Center Poetry Project

All faculty and graduate students are hereby invited and urged to participate in the first public event of the Haley Center Poetry Project, which has been instituted this Fall as a festive occasion for poetry performance and to highlight the English department's programs and people. 

On October 24 and 25, for several hours each mid-day (specific hours TBA), Great Books students and English department undergraduates, graduate students and faculty will participate by giving brief (approx. 10 min) poetry readings in the Haley Center courtyard, under the white pavilion next to the bookstore. Comfortable seating has been arranged, and fine refreshments will be available for readers and listeners. English department course brochures will be available for distribution near the pavilion, and the bookstore has offered to create a display of poetry books for sale during the readings. 

Ground rules for this first event are few, except that poetry selections chosen should be published works. All varieties of distinguished poetry, from the medieval to the postmodern, are welcome in the Poetry Project. We need MANY readers and diverse contributions! Once we've got a list of participants, we'll arrange specific times for reading. 

Faculty and graduate students who are interested in participating as readers should contact Poetry Project coordinator Jim Ryan (HC 8970 / 844-9031 or ryanjae@auburn.edu) as soon as possible, but before Friday, October 12. 

We are especially interested in encouraging broad undergraduate participation in the Poetry Project. Please announce the Project to all of your upper division classes, and provide names and email contact information for those students who would like to participate. Those faculty who have outstanding Great Books students whom they wish to nominate as readers (with students' permission, of course), are urged to send along those names as well.

Auburn Chamber Music Society Concert

The Auburn Chamber Music Society invites you to the first concert of its 2001-02 season. It will be held on 16 October 2001 at 8 pm in the Goodwin Music Hall on the Auburn University campus. The concert will feature the Jess Trio performing Haydn's Trio in G Major "The Gypsy," Hummel's Trio Op. 12, and Brahms' Trio in C Major Op. 87.

Tickets are $15 apiece (or $40 the entire series of three concerts) and can be obtained in advance or at the door; students are admitted free. The two other concerts in the series will be held on 18 January and 12 March 2002, both at the Goodwin Music Hall, and both will begin at 8 pm. For more information, please contact Craig Bertolet.

Session on the Americans with Disabilities Act and on Sexual Harassment

Each year we arrange for a special session on the Americans with Disabilities Act and on sexual harassment to be given for the English Department. This year's session is scheduled for 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 17th in HC 3104. The presenters will be Kelly Haynes (Director, Program for Students with Disabilities) and Janet Saunders (Executive Director, Affirmative Action-Equal Opportunity Office). 

The session is mandatory for new faculty members, new GTAs, and department members who were not able to attend a previous session. Of course, others are also welcome to attend.


  • October 1-12 are the dates for submission of thesis rough draft for format check.
  • The practicum scheduled for Friday, October 12 from 4:00-6:00 in HC 3104, "Writing and Revising," is open to all graduate students. Topics for discussion will include getting started and "setting up" your topic, the key parts of your seminar papers, revising strategies, how to integrate sources and develop arguments, what "academic prose" is, and writing groups and buddies.



The English Club will be meeting at the Big Blue Bagel, Wednesday night, October 17th, at 6:30 p.m.


Bert Hitchcock won the prestigious Eugene Current-Garcia Award for Distinction in Literary Scholarship. Hitchcock formally received the award at the Alabama Writers Symposium and Literary Awards at Monroeville in May.

In their nomination letter, Allen Cronenberg and Jay Lamar of the Auburn University Center for the Arts & Humanities said, "Bert's scholarship is exceptional in its deep dedication to the literature of the state. Over the years, he not only has worked extensively in the history of Alabama letters, laboring to identify, locate, and acknowledge writers whose works either have been lost to us or are better known outside the state, but he has also ensured that contemporary writers are recognized, studied, and celebrated."

(From The Light, the ACETA newsletter, Summer 2001)


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