EGSA Digest: Teaching practices lunch, registration dates, Hoagwood lecture, and several CFPs!
Dear EGSA,
I hope are you not too exhausted from all the springing (spring break, spring cleaning, spring forward, etc) of the last week, and that
you have returned to campus ready to finish the semester well. Here are a few announcements for the coming week:
* Teaching Practices Lunch – If you are interested in a discussion about best teaching practices, join your fellow grad students for lunch on Tuesday, March 15 at 11:30 AM in the Memorial Dining Hall. We will use one of our free dining hall meals to eat and Memorial and share ideas about effective course design and classroom practices. Come prepared to answer these two questions:
1) How would you complete the following analogy? Teaching is to learning as ______ is to ________. How does your answer shape your teaching practices?
2) What are two of your most effective in-class activities for English 1304 (or other courses)?
If you’d like to walk to Memorial together from Carroll Science, meet in CS 406 at 11:20 on Tuesday. If you think you can come, email me (bethany_bear@baylor.edu) so I know what size table we will need. Feel free to bring friends from other departments!
* Registration dates and reminders
SUMMER & FALL 2011
BEARWEB EARLY REGISTRATION SCHEDULE www.baylor.edu/bearweb
Students may register on their scheduled day beginning at 6 a.m. through midnight on the dates listed for the following summer sessions and fall semester:
Minimester – May 15; ten week Summer Session and Summer Session I – June 2; Summer Session II – July 8; and Fall – August 26. (BearWeb may be unavailable at times if system maintenance is needed)
Students are responsible for registering for the courses for which they have been advised according to the requirements of their degree.
Graduate Students
March 29 (A-Z) – Tuesday – Beginning 6 a.m. (Continuous access to BearWeb registration any day after March 29)
* Hoagwood Lecture next week! Our own Steven Petersheim has done an extraordinary amount of work to make this lecture possible, so please come and enjoy the film and talk next week. “Visual Art and the Fictions of Adaptation: _The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde_” Dr. Terence Hoagwood, Texas A&M University
Specialist in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Philosophy and Literature, Textual Studies, and Film
Next Thursday, March 24th, 3:30pm Armstrong Browning Library Lecture Hall
*The Christianity and Literature panel at the MLA 2012 is interested in a few more
submissions, and if you work in this area please consider submitting a
proposal! Topic: Christianity and the Literature of the Global South. Proposals requested (in English) on aspects of Christianity in the literature of the Global South (Southern U.S., Caribbean, Latin America,
Australia, Africa, etc.). Title, abstract, CV by 15 March 2011; Mary-Anne
Lee Vetterling (mav@regiscollege.edu) and Mary-Anne Vetterling (vetterma@comcast.net).
* CALL FOR PAPERS: The Moviegoer at Fifty
The Inaugural Conference of the Walker Percy Center for Writing and Publishing Loyola University New Orleans
October 14-16, 2011
http://loyno.edu/wpc/call-papers
* VanArsdel Essay Prize
Graduate students are invited to submit essays for the 2011 VanArsdel Prize for the best graduate student essay on, about, or extensively using Victorian periodicals. The winner will receive $300 and publication in Victorian Periodicals Review. Manuscripts should be 15-25 pages and should not have appeared in print.