English Department News

            

October 24, 2001

          

Volume 4, No. 10

 
October 24 Faculty Meeting, 3:00, HC 3104
October 24-25 Haley Center Poetry Project, 10:00-2:00
October 29 Publishing Workshop, 4:00, HC 3104
October 29-30 M.A. Comprehensive Exams
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
 

TODAY AND TOMORROW!   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, between 10:00 and 2:00, 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. 

Great Books Resources

Through the kindness of W.W. Norton, the Great Books Program has recently acquired the following materials: a video of the first eight cantos of Dante's Inferno (with John Gielgud as Virgil), a video of A Room of One's Own (with Eileen Atkins as V. Woolf), "Presenting Mr. Frederick Douglass: 'The Lesson of the Hour' " (from the Moyers Collection of videos), "Mythology: The Great Myths of Greece and Rome" (an interactive CD), and "Othello" (a CD including portions of 5 versions of the play, interactive tours of relevant locations, information on Shakespeare). 

Drop a note to Constance Relihan (relihco@auburn.edu) if you'd like to borrow any of these for classroom use. And please let us know if there are other materials the GB Program should try to acquire.

AU Comprehensive Plan

The draft of the department's AUCUPS (AU Comprehensive Plan) is available on the department website at www.auburn.edu/english/assessment, and will be discussed at today's faculty meeting.

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 among your seminar papers, 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-Shetlar, 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 9-11:45 a.m. in Tichenor Hall. Seating is limited and registration 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-Shetlar 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 p.m. on October 29, 2001, 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.



  • Graduate students who were unsuccessful in registering for their first-choice seminars are encouraged to submit waiting list forms through Friday, October 26. Completed forms should be placed in Jeremy Downes' mail box.
  • 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 Department is pleased to announce that Dr. Constance Relihan has been named Associate Hargis Professor of English Literature. As one of two Hargis Professors in the department (Bert Hitchcock is the Hargis Professor of American Literature), she will be expected to provide stimulation and guidance to graduate students. Her selection is an indication that she is also a person of distinguished scholarly accomplishment. Please congratulate Constance on this high honor.
  • Alicia Carroll's book, Dark Smiles: Race and Desire in George Eliot, is forthcoming from Ohio University Press in 2002. Also to appear in June 2002 is her essay, "Human Milk in the Modern World: Breastfeeding and the Cult of the Dairy in Adam Bede and Tess of the d'Urbervilles" in Women's Studies, a special issue on Eco-feminist Approaches to 18th and 19th-Century British Literature.

    Dr. Carroll extends her thanks to all the students and faculty who have supported her work on both of these projects over the past few years.
  • Edwin Mellen Press has granted a book contract to Pat Morrow for his work tentatively titled Academic Memoirs: Essays on the Journalistic Impulse of Literary Criticism.  The book is in production and is expected to be published in the Spring or early Summer of 2002.  The Memoirs includes essays on British literature, American Literature, popular culture, and South Pacific literature.  Dr. Morrow's concluding essay is on  his twenty-year battle with Multiple Sclerosis.


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