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July 9, 2009
Posted by: pkrb at 11:11 am
Welcome to the English Department’s Research Blog
We hope that our blog will spark lively, interesting, and beneficial conversations. Sponsored by the Research Culture Committee, it is intended to encourage research, creative work, and publication.
Research in our field is primarily a solitary activity, but it is best carried out in an environment that is friendly, supportive, stimulating, and challenging. Exposure to different theories, methodologies, and ways to work can raise the level of our work and open new avenues. Most of us have been in vital intellectual communities, and we have experienced times when we made others’ work better and saw our own flourish.
There is a bookcase in the main office with publications from the last nine months, and new publications are displayed promptly. Year-old publications will disappear. Please browse your colleagues’ publications, and please give us a copy as soon as you have a new publication. If you did not receive offprints, we can produce them.
The blog offers a way for us to receive ideas, suggestions, and feedback. I hope that you will participate freely and actively.
Paula Backscheider,
Chair, RCC
This forum is for discussing research and creative work only.
For other department topics, please post to the English Channel.
This forum is for discussing research and creative work only.
For other department topics, please post to the English Channel.
Postings
April 9, 2011
Posted by: admin at 3:17 am
“The Historical Uncanny: Phantoms, Doubles, and Repetition in the War on Terror”
- W.J.T. Mitchell, University of Chicago
The work of Mitchell’s most recent book, Cloning Terror, is marvelously recapitulated in this lecture. In our current culture, words and images are instinctively linked and perpetuated by image recognition in various forms. Terrorism and terror represent the global perspective because never before has there been a global war of this type.
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April 9, 2011
Posted by: admin at 3:13 am
“The Turn Away from Marxism: Why We Read the Way We Read Now”
- Charles Sumner, University of Southern Mississippi
Sumner examined the importance of surface reading of politics and the world around us. In reading, visibility ultimately exists without eliciting a response, which makes the hermeneutics of suspicion not self-referential, but rather a function of representation and navigation to narration.
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April 9, 2011
Posted by: admin at 3:12 am
“Pursuing Singularity Across the Disciplines (In Spite of Our Selves)”
- Monika Gehlawat, University of Southern Mississippi
Professor Gehlawat combined a unique set of information on both literature and community planning in order to show the relational framework of singularity, where singular = the post-modern “other.” In this context repetition and singularity and uniquely bound.
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February 12, 2011
Posted by: admin at 3:56 am
The four panelists at the RCC session on February 11th, 2011, entitled “Models of Apprenticeship: Encouraging Excellence”, responded to the desire for more effective mentoring. Effective mentoring is a product of awareness, intention, and a genuine desire to see protégés succeed; all of which occur through encouraging excellence through various models of intellectual and professional development.
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February 1, 2011
Posted by: admin at 3:49 am
The successful goal of English research is most always publication; however, the last step of research is publication, the step that involves getting one’s work selected, reviewed, edited, and approved; the step that lies in the scope and job description of the editor was demystified through interesting discussion at this event.
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October 28, 2010
Posted by: admin at 4:08 pm
On October 27, 2010, the Research Culture Committee held its final event of the fall. “Net Works: Scholarship and Digital Media” continued the crises and developments series with a panel led by Jeremy Downes, Emily Friedman, Susana Morris, and Susan Youngblood.
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October 8, 2010
Posted by: admin at 1:00 pm
On Thursday, October 7th, the Research Culture Committee sponsored a special event entitled “The State of Monograph Publishing & the University Press Process.” Presenting at the event was Mark Simpson-Vos, senior editor of the University of North Carolina Press.
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September 30, 2010
Posted by: admin at 4:14 pm
On Wednesday, September 29, the RCC sponsored a discussion entitled “Where Has Post-Structuralism’s Future Gone?” led by Dr. Don Wehrs and panelist Dr. Miriam Clark.
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September 25, 2010
Posted by: admin at 5:49 pm
Peter Campion has won the 2009 Levis Reading Prize given by Virginia Commonwealth University for the best first or second book of poetry published in that year.
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August 31, 2010
Posted by: admin at 3:33 pm
On Monday, August 23, the RCC sponsored a dinner for the last night of Research Assistant Training. The food (provided by McAlister’s Deli) preceded a final test for the nineteen new RA’s.
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Highlights
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The Research Culture Committee would like to recognize the two English department faculty members who won both of the awards given out in the category of "Early Career Teaching Excellence."
Chantel Acevedo and Anna Bertolet are the 2010-2011 recipients of the College of Liberal Arts "Early Career Teaching Excellence Award." Both were were recognized and awarded for their outstanding work at the 2011 College of Liberal Arts Awards Ceremony on March 31 at the Julie Collins Smith Museum.
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The Research Culture Committee would like to recognize Craig Bertolet, the 2010-2011 recipient of the College of Liberal Arts "Teaching Excellence Award in Humanities." He was recognized and awarded for his work at the 2011 College of Liberal Arts Awards Ceremony on March 31 at the Julie Collins Smith Museum.
Paula Backscheider was recently honored in the January 28, 2011 issue of The Auburn Report 's "Profiles in Excellence" series, which recognized her literary, research, and scholarship achievements.
Paula Backscheider has been awarded the University's Creative Research Award; she is the only faculty member to have won it twice.
Don Wehrs has been awarded the University's Distinguished Diversity
Researcher Award for 2010. Diversity research is defined as
the application of applied and theoretical research methods to the area
of diversity, and publication records, external funding, and other
scholarly activities, such as presenting diversity research at
conferences, are the bass for the award.
Peter Campion's -The Lions- has won the 13th annual Levis Reading Prize
from Virginia Commonwealth University for the best first or second book
of poetry.
John Bolton's new book is out and available for perusal in the faculty publication bookcase in the main office.
This book by Anna Riehl is available to browse in the faculty publication bookcase in the main office.
This coauthored book by Kathryn Riley and Jo Mackiewicz is available to browse in the faculty publication bookcase in the main office.
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