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August 28
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Faculty Meeting - HC 3104 - 3:00 p.m.
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August 28
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Great Flicks - Antigone - HC 1203
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August 28
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EGO Meeting - HC 3324 - 3:00 p.m.
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August 29
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Technical and Professional Communication
Students - 3:05 - 3:40 pm - HC 3226
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August 29
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Great Flicks - Discuss Antigone -
HC 8009 - 12:15
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September 4
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Teaching Classical Text - Mary Kuntz -
Brown Bag Lunch (location, time tba)
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September 4
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Faculty Meeting - HC 3104 - 3:00 p.m.
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September 4
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Gender, Feminism, and Great Books - Pot
Luck Dinner - 7 pm (see details below)
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September 10
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Graduate Studies Committee Meeting - HC
9030D
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September 21
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New Directions '02 -- for all
Faculty (not GTAs) -- President's home -- 8:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
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September 24
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Graduate Studies Committee Meeting - HC
9030D - 8 am
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September 25
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Faculty Meeting - HC 3104 - 3:00
p.m.
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September 25
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Great Flicks - Throne of Blood -
HC 1203 - 7:00 p.m.
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October 8
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Graduate Studies Committee Meeting - HC
9030D - 8 am
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October 9
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ADA Workshop - HC 3104 - 3:00 p.m.
(mandatory for all new department members)
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October 9
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Great Flicks - Voices and
Vision: Emily Dickinson - HC 1203 - 7:00 p.m.
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October 16
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Faculty Meeting - HC 3104 - 3:00
p.m.
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October 21-22
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MA Comp Exams
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October 22
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Graduate Studies Committee Meeting - HC
9030D - 8 am
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October 23
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Great Flicks - Frankenstein
- HC 1203 - 7:00 p.m.
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November 5
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Graduate Studies Committee Meeting - HC
9030D - 8 am
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November 6
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Great Flicks - Orlando - HC
1203 - 7:00 p.m.
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November 11-15
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Doctor Faustus and Early Modern Drama Week
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November 19
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Graduate Studies Committee Meeting - HC
9030D - 8 am
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November 20
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Great Flicks - Hamlet - HC
1203 - 7:00 p.m.
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December 4
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Great Flicks - Apocalypse Now
- HC 1203 - 7:00 p.m.
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The Year-at-a-Glance
Department Calendar is a new feature. The calendar
details the department activities for the year.
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Great Flicks
Antigone - the first film
in the Great Flicks series - will be shown Wednesday, August 28 at 7 pm in HC
1203. Come discuss Antigone Thursday, August 29 from 12:15 -
1:15 in HC 8009 - bring your lunch.
Feel free to incorporate these films into your
teaching as you see fit. All students are invited to attend
the movies.
For a complete list of movies, click here: "Great
Flicks" series. For more information, please see Constance C. Relihan, Coordinator of Great
Books.
Gameday, Game-Day,
Game Day Survey
Dr. Robin Sabino is researching the pronunciation, spelling, and
meaning of a word that's so new it's not in any dictionary. Click here
to
participate in the GAMEDAY, GAME-DAY, GAME DAY, survey.
Gender, Feminism,
and Great Books Reading Group
An interdisciplinary reading group for those in the
Auburn community interested in gender and feminist issues, lively discussion,
good food and drink, we investigate a variety of literary and critical works,
often focused on a theme or interest, such as ethnicity, autobiography,
spirituality, feminist theory.
Please join us for a Back to School
Potluck Dinner to inaugurate a new series of discussions. Bring: a
potluck item and ideas about what to read or what theme to pursue.
Wednesday, September 4 - 7:00
pm - Susan Roberson’s home - 901 Tacoma Drive, slroberson@mindspring.com
Contacts: Co-coordinators -
Susan Roberson (Alabama State U faculty, formerly AU Instructor); Joyce
Rothschild (AU faculty)
Interested in
Technical and Professional Communication
All graduate students are invited to attend
a planning meeting for 2002-2003 activities. Possible activities include
field trips, guest speakers, the annual meeting with the Birmingham
chapter of the Society for Technical Communication, and more!
Meet Thursday, August 29 - 3:05 pm to 3:40 pm in HC 3226.
Interested in Technical and
Professional Communication
All
undergraduate
students are invited to attend a planning meeting for 2002-2003
activities. Possible activities include field trips, guest speakers,
the annual meeting with the Birmingham chapter of the Society for Technical
Communication, and more!
Meet Thursday, August 29 - 3:05 pm to 3:40 pm in HC 3226.
- Charlie Rose's short story, "Chairs" appeared
in the spring issue of Southern Humanities
Review. His review of Oxford Stroud's novel, To
Yield a Dream, appeared in
The Montgomery Advertiser and was reprinted in the
summer issue of First Draft: The Journal of the Alabama Writers'
Forum.
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- Paula Backscheider's review of two books entitled
In
Search of Robinson Crusoe, one by Daisuke Takahashi and one by Tim Severin, appeared
in Book World in
The Washington
Post this summer. "Survivor"
was in the June 30 - July 6 issue. She has also been invited to be a consultant and
symposium member for the New York City Juggernaut Theatre Company's project,
"The First 100 Years: The Professional Female Playwright."
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- Barbara Brumbaugh's article "Jerusalem
Delivered and the Allegory of Sidney's Revised Arcadia"
has been accepted for publication by Modern Philology.
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- Chris Keirstead's article "Going Postal: Mail
and Mass Culture in Bleak House" has been accepted for
publication in the 2003 issue of Nineteenth Century Studies.
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- Joseph Walker's essay "Criminality and (Self)
Discipline: The Case of Paul Auster" appears in the latest (Summer
2002) issue of Modern Fiction Studies.
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If you would like to include an item in the "Professional
Notes" section of The English Channel, please submit your note to Betsy
Smith.
- Former Instructor Dan Albergotti,
currently on the faculty at UNC
Greensboro, was among the finalists in the National Poetry Series open
competition. Although Dan didn't win the competition, to be selected as
a finalist from among 1,300 applicants is a noteworthy distinction.
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Department Picnic
Please submit items and direct all questions or comments
about The English Channel, to Betsy
Smith
or Alise
Chabaud.
To include an item in The English Channel, submit text items by Tuesday at 11:40 a.m.
for publication Wednesday. Graphic images are due by the preceding Friday at 11:40 a.m. Submit items
by email or by putting a note or disk in Alise Chabaud's
mailbox (disks will be returned). If you submit an image on disk, please make
sure that it can be edited to fit and be read clearly on the page. Items over fifty words in length should be submitted on disk or sent by
email. Please check your submission for accuracy and completion--all calendar items and meeting announcements
must include the date, time, and location of the event. Please omit all unusual formatting.
