EGSA: Dr Barcus @ Tomorrow’s Meeting!
We’re trading humor for pathos in this week’s digest. Please enjoy the following plea (#1) and the less demanding notices that follow. – Bethany
1. Please, please, please make every effort to attend this Wednesday’s EGSA General Council Meeting: 9 AM, 1st-
floor Seminar Room. Dr. Barcus has kindly agreed to come and discuss any concerns grad students have about various aspects of our program, including funding, requirements, and other anxiety-inducing topics. Come with questions for Dr. Barcus – this is a really rare chance to meet with our GPD as a English grad student body.
2. BEALL POETRY FESTIVAL Reminder. Nuala NÃ Dhomhnaill, an Irish poet visiting at Notre Dame, will be our headliner for the Beall Poetry Festival this year. She will be joined by poets Susan Stewart (Princeton) and Natasha Trethewey (Emory) and critic George Lensing (UNC). This promises to be an interesting festival with three dynamic women poets of diverse backgrounds. The festival will be held Wednesday-Friday, April 6-8, 2011. The schedule is now available: http://www.baylor.edu/beall/ This is the largest English department event of the year, and the English faculty will notice our attendance.
3. The King James Bible and the World It Made, 1611-2011 Conference. A number of preeminent scholars in the field will be here at Baylor for this event. A number of the plenary and regular sessions have explicit connections to literary studies, but the conference does partly overlap the Beall Poetry Festival (Thursday – Saturday, April 7-9), so you may have to be selective. This is one of numerous conferences commemorating 400 years of the KJV: http://www.isreligion.org/events/400-years-of-the-king-james-bible/
4. Dr. Hoagwood Thanks You, and So Do We. Our hosted lecturer, Dr. Terence Hoagwood of Texas A&M, expressed his gratitude toward his gracious reception here at Baylor. Besides being awed and amazed by the holdings and architecture of the Armstrong-Browning Library, he reported that the graduate students and faculty give a “very favorable impression” of the English program at Baylor. He also mentioned that I should share his email with anyone who may want to continue conversations with him. His email address is t-hoagwood@neo.tamu.edu. At the risk of sounding patronizing, I’d just like to emphasize the value of developing good working relations with faculty of neighboring universities. And on behalf of the entire EGSA Lecture Committee, I would like to express our sincere appreciation for your involvement and support. Cheers, Steve