English Department News

            

October 17, 2001

          

Volume 4, No. 9

 
October 17 ADA and Sexual Harassment Workshop, 3:00, HC 3104
October 22 Graduate Studies Committee, 1:00, HC 9030D
October 22 English Hour, 4:00, HC 3104
October 24 Faculty Meeting, 3:00, HC 3104
October 24-25 Haley Center Poetry Project
October 29 Publishing Workshop
October 29-30 M.A. Comprehensive Exams
November 2 Open Practicum: Theory, 4:00, HC 3104
November 3 New Directions 01: Mapping the Future of English, 8:30-1:00
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
 

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 4:00 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).

English Hours
On October 22, from 4:00-5:00 in HC 3104, Dr. David Pascoe, former chairperson and current member of the AU Institutional Review Board, will explain the ins and outs of using human subjects for research purposes at Auburn University.  All research involving the use of human subjects, including masters, dissertation, and unfunded faculty research, must comply with a variety of federal and University regulations.

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 (from 10:00 until 2:00), Great Books students and English department undergraduate 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 crete a display of poetry books for sale during the readings.

EGO Publishing Workshop 
EGO is sponsoring a Publishing Workshop on Monday, October 29 at 4:00 in HC 3104.  Dr. Backscheider will be the featured speaker.  Topics to be covered will include, among others, identifying a publishable paper from your seminar paper, identifying a publishable idea, developing & revising with attention to making the paper more publishable, and where and how to submit.

WebCT Support Workshop

Dr. Alison Morrison-Sheltar, Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching at Georgia Southern will be on campus Monday, October 29, to present both a hands-on workshop for WebCT support personnel and an interactive seminar for the general faculty.

The morning workshop will be held from 9:00-11:45 a.m. in Tichenor Hall.  Seating is limited and registration is required.  To reserve a place, see the OIT Training Opportunities page at www.auburn.edu/oit/training.  The entire faculty is invited to attend the afternoon seminar, which is being sponsored jointly by the Office of Information Technology and the College of Architecture, Design and Construction.

Dr. Morrison-Sheltar will present an interactive program about the pedagogical advantages of using WebCT to enhance instructional experiences and will share some of her several years of experience in using and supporting WebCT.  It will be held in the technology-enhanced multimedia auditorium in Dudley Commons B6 at 3:00 p.m. on October 29, and is to be the first in a series of IT Awareness Events to be coordinated by OIT in partnership with AU colleges, schools, and departments. 

REMINDER:  EGO is sponsoring a Publishing Workshop on Monday, October 29 at 4:00 in HC 3104.  Dr. Backscheider will be the featured speaker. 



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


  • Deep Bisla's essay on authorship, the right to privacy, and mystery fiction has been accepted for publication in the journal Boundary 2.  Entitled "The Return of the Author: Privacy, Publication, the Mystery Novel, and 'The Moonstone'," the article is scheduled to appear in the Spring 2002 edition.
  • The Richard and Mimi Farina Website has reprinted Pat Morrow's 1972 interview with Mimi Baez Farina from Popular Music and Society.  The interview has some currency with the recent publication of Positively Main Street, a book about Bob Dylan, Richard Farina, Joan Baez, and Mimi Baez Farina.
  • Auburn English department alum Jake York ('94) has new poems forthcoming in the South Dakota Review (Fall 2001), The Texas Review (Fall 2001), Flyway (Fall 2001), and The Southern Review (tentatively scheduled for Spring 2002), as well as an article tentatively scheduled to appear in the Fall issue of Walt Whitman Quarterly Review.

    In addition, Jake and co-editor Jason Sanford (Auburn English '94) have launched an on-line journal of contemporary southern literature at www.storySouth.com, and are soliciting submissions.


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