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January 15, 2009
Vol. 11 no. 15

English Channel

Alumni are invited to send personal and professional news for posting on the English Department alumni web site. Send your news to Margaret Kouidis at kouidvm@auburn.edu. Check out the web site.

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Professional News

  • Alicia Carroll Alicia Carroll has been invited to contribute an essay on "Race" to George Eliot in Context, to be published in 2010 by Cambridge University Press.
  • Chris Keirstead Chris Keirstead delivered the paper “Fictions of Gender and Genre and the Truth in Travel Writing” at the MLA Convention in San Francisco as part of the panel “Genders of Travel,” sponsored by the Discussion Group on Travel Literature.  He focused on Mary Kingsley’s Travels in West Africa and a later travelogue inspired by her journey, Caroline Alexander’s One Dry Season:  In the Footsteps of Mary Kingsley.  Keirstead considered the tension between fiction and non-fiction in travel writing and the ways this conflict informs constructions of gender.

Announcements

  • There will be a brown bag lunch Wednesday, January 14, 2009, to discuss what to expect when invited for a campus interview. Presenters will be Michelle Sidler, Susana Morris, and Anna Riehl. This discussion builds on two previous lunch meetings focusing on phone interviews and MLA interviews.  Previous sessions have been well-attended and beneficial, but they are not a prerequisite!  Current and future job candidates, as well as anyone with a general interest in the topic, are invited to attend. The location is Haley 8009, 12:00 - 1:00 P.M.
  • Dotty Cavender (cavendh@auburn.edu, 887-8865) asked that this offer be posted in our department:
    For Sale: GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD, 60 VOLUMES,  BLACK LEATHERETTE BINDING;  PLUS THE GREAT CONVERSATION GUIDE  by MORTIMER J. ADLER;  ALL BOOKS IN MINT CONDITION; CURRENTLY SELLING AT BRITANNICA FOR $1,195.  WILL SELL FOR $500 CASH; MAY BE PICKED UP OR WILL SHIP AT SHIPPING COST
  • There is a microfilm reader with printer in Special Collections in the library now.  This placement is intended to facilitate faculty and graduate student research.

 

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The ENGLISH CHANNEL publishes news of department activities and events involving faculty, students, and alumni. The English Channel also maintains a department calendar and publishes announcements of up-coming events, as well as news of awards, conference presentations, publications, and other professional activities. Please send items for the English Channel to Margaret Kouidis at kouidvm@auburn.edu. We try to publish on Wednesdays and need to have your news by mid-afternoon on Tuesday.

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