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 Got no deeds to do? Then, join us at the first English Hour of the Fall Quarter. Marc Silverstein will present "With
Greedy, Ravenous Eyes: Viewpoint as Vanishing Point in Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney." Please join us on Monday, October 18th in the
Eagle's Nest North, beginning at 4:00 p.m.
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The English Club's annual "Southern Gothic Dinner" is back! What dinner?
A potluck (bring a dish to share, or, if you can't cook, just bring yourself), on Thursday, October 21st, from 5:30
to 8:00 p.m. at Tim Dykstal's house, 778 Cary Drive.What "Southern"? Delicacies, as in catfish, hush puppies, maybe some fried green tomatoes.What "Gothic"? Well, it's close to Halloween. The Southern Gothic dinner is an opportunity
to welcome new and returning English undergraduate majors, introduce our new professorial faculty, and kick-off
the year's activities for Sigma Tau Delta (the English honorary society) and the English Club.It's also a chance to share and share alike some of the best in home cooking.
A representative from the Lee County Literary Coalition will be on hand to receive a donation
raised during last year's English Club Reading Marathon.Everyone is invited, but please let Tim Dystal know if you plan to
attend and the dish you wish to share. For directions to Tim's house, click HERE.
New graduate students and Instructors as well as veterans with new information can still help update
the department's web directory. Simply click on the blue text: SURVEY
and you're almost done. Please respond by October 15th.If you have any questions, please contact Betsy
Smith or Wiebke Kuhn.
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At the 7th Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, held in Miami from October 7-10, 1999, Patsy Fowler
presented "Uncontrollable Desire: The Pleasure Myth as the Prostitute's Motivation in Fanny Hill." At the same conference,
Jodi Wyett delivered "Of Innocence and Experience: Fame, Fortune, and Women's Intellectual Labor in
Frances Brooke's The Excursion."
Kelly Gerald presented a paper,
"The Transmogrification of Flannery O'Connor" at the Bath Millennium Film Conference (June 30-July 2) at the University
of Bath, U.K. Kelly's travel was funded by a Graduate Travel Award from the Auburn University
Graduate School.
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