English Department News
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October 6, 1999
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Volume 2, No. 2
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October 6
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Rhetoric & Composition Discussion Group, HC 3222, 2:00 p.m.
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October 6
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Session on the Americans with Disabilities Act and on Sexual Harassment, Foy 208, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
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October 7
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A.A.U.P. Forum, Tichenor 206, 4:00 p.m.
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October 18
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English Hour: Marc Silverstein, "With Greedy, Ravenous Eyes:
Viewpoint as Vanishing Point in Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney, Eagle's Nest North, 4:00 p.m.
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October 22
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Harper Lee Award Nominations Due
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October 25
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Mid-Quarter
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October 25
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John Richetti, Foy 189, 3:00 p.m. |
October 30
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Toni Morrison, Alys Stephens Center (UAB), 8:00 p.m.
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November 15
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English Hour: Ann Marie Mann Simpkins, Eagle's Nest North, 4:00 p.m.
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November 22-26
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Thanksgiving Holiday
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December 2
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Classes End
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December 3
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Dead Day
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December 4-9
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Final Exams for Quarter
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December 11
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Graduation
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A.A.U.P. Sponsors Forum on Alabama's Proposed Lottery
 The Auburn Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (A.A.U.P.) will sponsor an
open forum on Alabama's proposed lottery on Thursday, October 7th at 4:00 p.m.
in Tichenor 206.
The panel will include faculty members as well as invited guests
from the Alabama Education Foundation Lottery office, the Governor's office,
and Samford Hall.
Panelists will make brief statements and then answer questions from the floor.
The forum is free and open to the public.
Update on Web Directory Update
If you are new to the English Department (e.g., a new graduate student, Instructor, or Assistant Professor), please help us update our Web Directory. It's easy! It's electronic. Simply click on the blue text: SURVEY
and you're almost done. Old-timers, if you have new information (e.g., a new web site), you should complete the survey too. We'd prefer
to have your responses by October 15th.
If you do not want certain information on the web, leave the appropriate
space blank. The only space that has to be filled is your email space.
If you do not want your email address activated in the directory, mark
the appropriate box. If you give us your web address, we assume that you
want an active link.
We would also like to remind all faculty that we are about to update
biographical information. Please start thinking about your bio, so
that you can give it to us on disk as soon as possible.
If you have any questions, please contact Betsy
Smith or Wiebke Kuhn.
Webpage Workshop Offered
Robin Sabino (English) and Ron Lewis (Geology & Geography) are offering
a workshop to help colleagues activate or edit their Auburn University homepages. For more information,
see their website.
Auburn Circle Editor Invites Submissions
As many of you know, Auburn University's student-run literary magazine,
the Auburn Circle, is not very well-known by Auburn University students. My goal as editor is to let as many students
and faculty members as possible know that the Circle welcomes their submissions.
To achieve this goal,
I'm asking for your help. Please tell all of your students about the Circle, and encourage them to submit their work.
We desperately need submissions for the Fall issue, which we hope to publish November 15th. Right now, the deadline for submission is
October 11th.
Again, I ask you to please encourage your students to submit to the Circle. It's
an excellent opportunity for them to publish their work. With your help, we hope to make the Auburn Circle one
of Auburn University's finest publications.
Stephanie Wilson
The New Novel in 18th-Century England
John Richetti will speak on "Ideas and Voices: The New Novel in 18th-Century England" on
Monday, October 25th at 3:00 p.m. in Foy 189. The lecture is designed to be interesting to a broad audience.
John's most recent books are The English Novel in History and
The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel. He is the editor of the Restoration and
18th-century volumes of the new Cambridge History of English Literature.
He collaborated with Paula Backscheider on Popular Fiction by Women and is a professor at the
University of Pennsylvania.
Congratulations to Summer Graduates!
The English Department congratulates the following summer graduates: Mary Sue Churchill, Jack
William Jacobs, and Jennifer L. Kroll were all awarded the Ph.D. degree.
These students earned their bachelor's degrees:
David Milton Burchell, Sarah Katherine Burson (cum laude),
Racheal Caldwell, Piper Lynn Cumbo, Lorie Marie Grimes, Lynn Wilson Jinks, IV, Jennifer Ann Johns,
Lauren Kenny (summa cum laude),
Kathryn Skelly Pickral, Tonya Denita Powell, Peyton Tarain Ruth (magna cum laude and University Honors Scholar),
and David Bradley Williams.
Picnic Pics
Visit The English Channel's gallery of photographs from the annual picnic.
How many new faces (and veteran faces) can you identify by name?
Action Shots Wanted for Undergraduate Brochure
In order to produce more attractive promotional materials for our undergraduate program--a brochure
and English major handbook--Tim Dykstal is looking for pictures of the English Department "in action."
If you have an idea for an interesting photo that illustrates what goes on around here, or if you'd like to volunteer yourself
or your class for a photo shoot, please contact Tim Dykstal.
Eighteen Graduate Students Enter M.A., Ph.D. Programs in Fall 1999
Several of our new graduate students eluded photographer Craig Bertolet; nevertheless,
please welcome Jay Arnold (B.A., Auburn), Beth Calhoun (B.A., Westminster College), Cheryl Clark, (B.A., Southeast Oklahoma State), Mark Kjellman (B.A., Bowling Green State),
Lea Neuhauser (B.A. and M.A.T., University of West Alabama),
and Julia Sutherland (B.A., Walsh College, M.A., University of Akron). Please also welcome the other new
graduate students, who are pictured below. Returning students Kirsten Ratza and Joanne Tidwell entered the Ph.D. program.
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Scott Black: Even though I moved around a lot when I was young, I think of Alabama as home because I was born in
Anniston and went to high school in Huntsville. I did my undergraduate work at Northland College, which is hidden away in the wilds of northern Wisconsin, and the University
of Baltimore, which is hidden away in the wilds of downtown Baltimore. I graduated with a B.A. in English and a specialization in
Professional Writing, but I am really more interested in literature, creative writing, and teaching.
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Shawn Knight: I graduated from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee
with a B.A. in English and theatrical literature. As an Honors Scholar, I completed a thesis on Charles Dickens, and I
now hope to pursue a path of study in the Victorian novel or modern drama. My theatre roles at Belmont ranged from characters in the
Stephen Sondheim musical Sweeney Todd to Adolphus Cusins in Shaw's Major Barbara and Birdboot in Tom
Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound. I hope one day to pursue playwriting goals, and my
first one-act play is being produced at Belmont University in November! I plan to write, of course, while teaching in
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David Murdock completed the B.A. at Berry College and his M.A. at Jacksonville State. |
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Amanda Muse comes to Auburn with a B.A. and a M.Ed. from the University of North Alabama.
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Kelly Pierce earned her B.A. degree at the University of Findlay.
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Cara Pumphrey: I was raised on a healthy dose of prairie and bluegrass in the two
"K" states. My undergraduate experience occurred at Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky, and now I'm embarking on a Master's in English
literature--perhaps with an eye toward the Renaissance. I think if I had my wish, I would be studying Shakespeare
in the woods next to a waterfall, but so far I'm enjoying my Auburn experience despite being
confined to a virtual skyscraper. |
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Rosemary Steck received her B.A. from Juniata College.
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John Stripling earned his B.A. at Florida State.
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Shawna Thorp: I completed my M.A. at the University of Nebraska--Lincoln. I am
currently in the Ph.D. program at Auburn. |
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Educational Specialist's degree at Troy State University (Montgomery), and have begun working on a Ph.D. |
Jon Bolton's article, "Irish Stew at the Café du Monde: Heterogeneity and the
Émigré Experience in Paul Muldoon's 'Yarrow', has won the South Atlantic Review essay prize for 1999. The award will be presented at the
SAMLA meeting in November.
Joseph Walker's essay "Criminality, the Real, and the Story of America: The Case of Don DeLillo"
has been accepted by The Centennial Review.
If you would like to include an item in the "Personal Notes" section of The English Channel,
please submit your note to George Crandell.
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