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Department of English

Welcome to the Auburn University Department of English

To major or minor in English Studies is to pursue some of the most vital skills in the humanities and liberal arts tradition. English Studies includes the study of literature, creative writing in both fiction and poetry, linguistics and rhetoric, and technical and professional communication.

The English Department consists of a diverse group of intellectually engaged people--faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate English majors and minors--united in their commitment to writing, interpretation, and analysis.

Explore the English Department web site and email us your questions english@auburn.edu or visit us in 9030 Haley Center.

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Events Calendar

02/10/10 RCC - Environment Studies

2:00 PM at Haley Center 3228
Research Culture Committee Workshop
Contact pkrb@auburn.edu for more information.
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02/11/10 Nineteenth-Century Studies Group

7:30 PM at Off Campus
Jana Gutierrez (Modern Lang & Lit.) 'Ravishing Forms: Seduction and Frigidity in 19th century Spanish American Poetry'
Contact rk@auburn.edu for more information.
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02/16/10 Provost to Discuss Scholarship of Public Engagement with AU Faculty

3:00 PM at 2225 Student Center

The Community and Civic Engagement Initiative in the College of Liberal Arts invites faculty to a dialogue on the scholarship of public engagement with Auburn University Provost Mary Ellen Mazey on Tuesday, February 16 at 3:00 p.m. in room 2225 of the Auburn University Student Center. 


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02/17/10 Faculty meeting

3:00 PM at Haley Center 3104
Faculty meeting
Contact ryanjae@auburn.edu for more information.
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02/18/10 Constructing Auburn Avenue as a Heritage Tourist Destination

3:00 PM at 2225 Student Center
Africana Studies Program invites you to “Constructing Auburn Avenue as a Heritage Tourist Destination,” a lecture by Professor Joshua Inwood.
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02/24/10 RCC Workshop

2:00 PM at TBA
Research Culture Committee Workshop
Contact pkrb@auburn.edu for more information.
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02/26/10 Promotion and Tenure Dossier Preparation

2:00 PM at Tichenor 215
All CLA faculty members are invited to attend the new "Promotion and Tenure Dossier Preparation"workshop.
Contact snoddts@auburn.edu for more information.
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03/01/10 Robert Hughes Mount, Jr., Poetry Prize Deadline for Submissions.

5:00 PM at 112 Rouse Life Sciences Building
The Auburn University Department of English, in the College of Liberal Arts, is pleased to announce its annual Robert Hughes Mount, Jr., Poetry Prize, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, and endowed by Mrs. Frances Mayes, offering a $100 prize and a year’s membership in the Academy of American Poets for the Auburn University student submitting the best poem. Graduate or undergraduate students may submit up to three poems to Jeremy Downes's mailbox in the English Department, 9030 Haley Center. The contest deadline is March 1, 2010.
Contact downejm@auburn.edu. for more information.
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03/10/10 RCC - Cognition and Neuroscience

2:00 PM at TBA
Research Culture Committee Series
Contact pkrb@auburn.edu for more information.
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03/11/10 Should’ve by Roald Hoffmann

7:30 PM at Telfair Peet Theatre
AU THEATRE TO PRESENT A STAGED READING OF SHOULD’VE BY NOBEL-PRIZE WINNING CHEMIST, ROALD HOFFMANN, Thursday, March 11 at 7:30pm in Telfair Peet Theatre. Hoffmann, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, has long been interested in the intersections of art and science. An accomplished poet and playwright, he has published four collections of poetry, a book of translations of his poems into Spanish, and a number of plays: most notably Oxygen, coauthored with Stanford University chemist Carl Djerassi.
Contact - belllin@auburn.edu for more information.
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