English Department News

            

November 8, 2000

          

Volume 3, No. 11


November 8

  

Deadline for Teaching Effectiveness Survey notecards, 4:40 p.m.

November 8

  

Deadline for recommendations about courses in 2000-2001, 4:40 p.m.

November 9

  

Undergraduate Research Forum, 4:00 p.m., Foy Union 213

November 10

  

Deadline for professorial faculty to turn in course preferences for 2000-2001 (course preference forms to be distributed on November 9th), 4:40 p.m.

November 14

  

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

November 15

  

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

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.


Innaugural Undergraduate Research Forum

Three undergraduate English majors will be presenting their work at the first ever English Undergraduate Research Forum, on Thursday, November 9th, from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. in Foy Union 213.
The three--Steve Giles, Eleanor Inge, and Tara Tyson--have been working on independent research projects this semester--Steve on a Jungian approach to Norse mythology, Eleanor on the poems of our very own Natasha Trethewey, and Tara on the place of Mary Wollstonecraft in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The presentations promise to be interesting and enlightening.
Please come and support your students, and announce the forum to your classes.

Great Books Resources Relocated

Trying to schedule pedagogic brilliance for tomorrow's class and the filiment just isn't firing?
The department's resources for teaching Great Books were moved to HC 9007 at the end of the summer. This collection consists of a series of Twayne biographies of 20th-century authors, some primary source material including a series of editions of 18th- and 19th-century American writers, and a few books from the MLA series, "Approaches to Teaching . . . " (notably for Beowulf, Gawain and the Green Knight, and the Hebrew Bible.
There is no sign-out procedure, but we expect that those who borrow a book will return it as soon as they are finished with it. Thanks!

Editor Wanted

Roger K. Blashfield, a faculty member in Psychology, is seeking a person to provide a critical analysis of an essay on psychiatric diagnosis. The essay is a collage of therapy segments, associated memories, autobiographical details, and a discussion of psychiatric classification. The entire work is 44 pages in length. For more information, contact Roger Blashfield.

Question of the Week

What kinds of workshops or other forms of training would you find helpful for improving teaching effectiveness? Please respond to this week's question in The Forum. If you have forgotten your password, please contact George Crandell.


Patsy Fowler and Alan Jackson have contracted with AMS Press to publish Fanny Hill's Launch into the Wild World: Essays on the Novel and Its Influences. The edition will include Patsy's essay, "'This Tail-Piece of Morality': Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure as Hegemonic Apparatus."
Jennifer Garlen gave a paper, "Courting the National Heroine: British Nationhood in Late Eighteenth-Century Courtship Novels," at the meeting of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies on October 27, 2000 in Portland, Maine.
At SAMLA, Pat Morrow will present a paper at the Postcolonial session called "Taffy-Haired Brumbies: The Two Families in Patrick White's 'Down at the Dump.'" With Andrea McKinnis, Pat worked on a paper that looks at the relationship of Ada and her daughter Flora (from The Piano) and Hester and Pearl in The Scarlet Letter. Pat notes that Andrea will deliver the paper solo, but he will be there for support.
Marc Silverstein's article, "'With Greedy, Ravenous Eyes': Viewpoint as Vanishing Point in Brian Friel's Molly Sweene," will appear in the next issue of Essays in Theatre.

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