English Department News

            

October 25, 2000

          

Volume 3, No. 9


October 25

  

Professorial Faculty meeting, 3:10 p.m., HC 3104

October 26

  

Southern Gothic Dinner, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Tim Dykstal's home

November 2

  

AAUP Forum: "Effective Teaching: What Is It? and How Can We Assess It?" 4:00 p.m., Tichenor 206

November 3

  

Great Books Committee meeting, 3:00 p.m., HC 9030D

November 6

  

Graduate Studies Committee meeting, 9:10 a.m., HC 9030D

November 7

  

Michael Montgomery, "Three Streams of Southern English," 7:00 p.m., Pebble Hill

November 14

  

Jan Gretlund, "Southern History, Biography, and Fiction: Is There a Difference?" 4:00 p.m., Pebble Hill

November 17

  

Great Books Committee meeting, 3:00 p.m., HC 9030D

November 20

  

Graduate Studies Committee meeting, 9:10 a.m., HC 9030D

November 22-24

  

Thanksgiving Holiday

December 4

  

Graduate Studies Committee meeting, 9:10 a.m., HC 9030D

December 7

  

Classes End

December 8

  

Dead Day

December 9, 11-14

  

Final Exams for Semester

December 16

 

Graduation

January 29, 2001

  

Littleton-Franklin Lectures, Elaine Pagels, Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center, 4:00 p.m.

March 5, 2001

  

Littleton-Franklin Lectures, E. O. Wilson, Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center, 4:00 p.m.

April 9, 2001

  

Littleton-Franklin Lectures, Lynn Margulis, Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center, 4:00 p.m.


Diane Boyd Wins Essay Prize

Diane E. Boyd has won the 2000 SAMLA Graduate Student Essay Prize for her paper "Professing Drudge: Charlotte Smith's Negotiation of A Mother Writer Author Function," presented last November at the annual convention in Atlanta. The prize carries a $250 cash award and publication in the Winter issue of South Atlantic Review.
Congratulations Diane!

Southern Gothic Dinner This Thursday

Remember the Southern Gothic Dinner! This Thursday, October 26th, is the date for the annual Southern Gothic Dinner, a potluck event. Please invite your students, and come yourself, to Tim Dykstal's house, 778 Cary Drive, from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
To see a map to Tim's house, click HERE.

Phi Beta Kappa Coming To Auburn

The Phi Beta Kappa Society has approved a new chapter at Auburn University, according to a report in The Chronicle of Higher Education. In the Chronicle's report, Linda Glaze explains the reason for Auburn's success: "The reason we achieved the chapter this time is our focus on the university's core curriculum and on the honors college." Our thanks go out to those who have helped make a Phi Beta Kappa chapter on the Auburn campus a reality.

Question of the Week

What projects or activities involving groups of students have worked especially well for you? Please respond to this week's question in The Forum. If you have forgotten your password, please contact George Crandell.


George Crandell's article, "'Trial by Public Opinion': Arthur Miller Reviews 'The New York Crime Show,'" appears in the current issue of Resources for American Literary Study. Published with the article is Arthur Miller's "After Kefauver--What? A Noted Dramatist Looks at the Big Crime Show and Points a Way to Cleaning Up the Mess," a work that has gone unnoticed by scholars and critics.
Don Cunningham will conduct a one-day workshop on "Technical Communication and You," October 25, 2000. This is the fourth workshop in the last year that he has conducted for engineers and engineering management of The Alabama Department of Transportation. The earlier workshops were conducted in Montgomery on February 29th, March 1st, and September 27th. Approximately 140 persons attended the first three workshops.
James Goldstein's forthcoming essay, "Why calle ye hym crist, sižen Iewes called hym Iesus?": The Disavowal of Jewish Identification in Piers Plowman B Text," has been selected as the electronic pre-print for the issue of Exemplaria in which it will appear in January. To view the electronic text, click HERE.
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