OCTOBER 2021
Friday, October 29, 2021
Dear Colleagues,
I hope you are doing well and that your classes, research, and daily life are rich in every way possible. It has been wonderful to see many of you in the department and to talk with you in person. Please drop by whenever you are on campus, even if for a brief visit. I am always happy to talk with you. If telephone is easier, my office phone is 704-687-0021.
I have a couple of reminders to share:
Book orders for next semester were due October 15. If this slipped your mind, please order your books as soon as possible.
Please send me information about any books or awards that should be included in the CLAS Annual Faculty Recognition event. Hard copies and links to online information or images of books are needed. I need to submit these by December 8.
Our next department meeting is November 5th from 11:00-12:30. Angie will send out the agenda, zoom link, and minutes from the previous meeting next week.
KUDOS
Meghan Barnes published a co-authored article titled “Learning Doesn’t Follow a Bell Schedule: Developing “Authentic” Literacy Practice through Digital Tools in the Journal of Literacy Innovation.
Liz Miller was an invited guest speaker (via Zoom) in a graduate class at Arizona State University.
The English Department was well-represent at the Victorians Institute Conference held in Charlotte recently. Alan Rauch gave a paper titled “Victorians, Technology, and Identity Theft: Thoughts from Hardy’s A Laodicean” at the Victorians Institute Conference held in Charlotte recently. Clayton Tarr presented a paper titled “Arsenical Literature: ‘Goblin Market,’ Penny Novels, and the Unknown Public.” Papers were also presented at the conference by two of our students. Undergraduate student Erin Dulin presented “Gendered Abjection in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Gothic: Miserable Marriages, Dark Doubles, and Fatal Families.” Graduate student Cody Ward presented “Is Samuel Butler’s Erewhon a Modernist Novel?”
Aaron Toscano did a virtual presentation titled “Tribalism and Closed Systems of Advancement: How Interstellar and Arrival Embody Anthropocentric Ideology” at the Popular Culture Association of the South/American Culture Association of the South Conference.
Greg Wickliff has been selected to direct Summer Ventures in Science and Mathematics (SVSM), a summer enrichment program for 40-70 rising high school juniors and seniors next summer at UNC Charlotte. The program is run through the College of Education and also involves three other UNC campuses. It is a no-cost, state-funded program for academically talented North Carolina students who aspired to careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Greg has been teaching a scientific communication module for our campus program for the past several years.
I hope everyone has a great weekend and a happy Halloween!
Best wishes,
Paula