| Chair: Kent Baxter | Compiled by: RosaMaria Chacon |
Announcements
How shall we say adieu to Jackie Stallcup…..with difficulty….first, since She Shall Return in a semester …and second because she worked so hard for us for multiple years. And she did it with spirit and heart . . . Many Thanks Jackie
Welcome, Kent, in your new incarnation as chair. Happy New Year and Good Luck
A Good Spring Semester to us all
For a bit of news about Dr. Harry Stone and his gift to the Oviatt Library see http://library.csun.edu/eNews/Winter-2015/thanks-dr-harry-stone
College of Humanities Academic Programming Fund Proposals Due February 8 by 5 pm
AGSE and Sigma Tau Delta have joined forces to host a conference 4/16-17. Submission Deadline February 19th for proposals for Explorations of Text and Writing in Creative, Historical, Sociopolitical, Pedagogical and Metaphysical Spaces. Please Do tell your Honors students, Grad students and other likely interested folk.
Faculty Award Nominations Due February 19th. In recent years some English Dept men have won. Let’s nominate some deserving women and some deserving men!
Reminders
First Week of School ~ you could use permission #s BUT remember students still have portal control and will take all your openings even as you dole out #s and Rise above Cap…. Best to wait until 2nd Week
February 12th ~ last day to drop on solar, last day to add with a permission # (please remind your students to avoid running around and the run around–get it done by this date)
February 19th ~ last day to add or drop with instructor signature (please remind your students to avoid the hassle and sorry but no that comes later)
The main office will be busy–ask your students, please, to email you (not call the department)
Opportunities
Local Opportunity to let yourself be heard on 2% versus 5%. Chancellor’s Open Forum this Friday 1:30-2:30 at Plaza del Sol. You don’t have to go to Long Beach only across campus. If you want to show solidarity for 5% Wear your free red shirts given out late last year or Wear any red shirt/blouse. To not disturb the forum in process come by 1:00/1:15 please.
Comics and Visual Culture, a symposium on Saturday Feb 27th at the University Student Union. Students may submit their work until Feb 1st. Contact Professor Frances Gateward or Charles Hatfield for more information.
Probationary Faculty Grant Due March 1 by 4pm Do the proposal so you can get a little more time to do your research.
2016 Beck Grant to support Learner-Centered Instructional Projects Due March 1 by 4pm
Achievements
So Many People working hard and Getting Results!
Alumni Cody Deitz’ chapbook of poems Pressed Against All that Nothing was published in the Native Blossoms Chapbook series of Yak Press. Leilani Hall describes the poems as “poems of addiction, recovery, fraternal love, and a Ginsberg-like faith that there is salvation in poetry.” Cody is now working on his Ph.D. at U of N. Dakota.
Iswari Pandey’s book South Asian in the Mid-South: Migrations of Literacies has been released by the U of Pittsburgh Press. Ellen Cushman from Michigan State U calls it “Timely. Relevant. Important . . .”
Stephanie Satie’s Silent Witnesses will be at the 13th Street Repertory Company in New York City March 17th thru April 3rd. “Revealing and powerful . . .” according to the Tolucan Times. If the snow clears and you are in New York, you may want to see it.
Noreen Lace’s novella _West End_ has been published by REaDLips Press. Looks interesting…..
Christian Cardenas, one of our grad students, published Jigsaw Japan: 10 Secrets about the JET Program as a kindle edition. It provides an inside look at teaching English in Japan. This book has been called “honest and funny.”
The 2nd edition of Irene Clark’s book College Arguments: Understanding the Genres has been published by Kendall Hunt. It was written with Emmanuel Sabaiz-Birdsill and includes material by Andrea Hernandez, Lida Perez, Enrique Solis, and Cesar Soto. Check it out…
Joseph Galasso’s “Small Children’s Sentences are ‘Dead on Arrival’: Remarks on a Minimalist Approach to Early Child Syntax” was published in the Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development (V3 N4 2015). Sounds interesting.
Kudos to All!
until another Thursday ˜