EGSA Digest 11.28.2011
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Greetings. I hope you have been able to rest or be productive over Thanksgiving break, and that you are in good shape to finish out the semester because there’s a lot still going on! Much of it is fun, and the rest is mostly fine. We hope to see you at many of the events listed below, not only because we like you, but also because it’s good to know you’re not being eaten (by animate stacks of essays to grade or seminar papers to write or puppet monsters, of course).
Thank you to everyone who helped prepare for and those who showed up to Dr. Kopley’s lecture last Monday. It was a great success, and we are grateful to Steve, Dr. Vitanza, Julie, and Lois for working so hard on this event for us.
Please take note of the following notices and events regarding the next two weeks of English Graduate Student life, as well as upcoming and ongoing events.
SBA, Secretary
ANNOUNCEMENTS
More Surveys, please!
Thank you to everyone who filled out the survey I sent out a few weeks ago. We would still love to hear from a few more of you. The GPD and Chair are eager to hear from us in order to help improve the exit surveys when people leave the program. Names will not be passed along with opinions, so the more honest, the better. So, if you have not offered your wisdom or complaints yet, click here.
T-Shirts! Deadline for Designs on January 6
Kalani has volunteered to coordinate the T-shirt design contest. To give you all of Christmas break, the deadline for designs will be January 6, 2012. Email submissions to Kalani_Pattison@baylor.edu (as image files like .jpg, .png, etc., front and back, with a unique filename.) Voting will be the first week of class. All submissions will remain anonymous, except for the winner’s (so don’t be embarrassed about submitting things because Kalani will be the only one who knows who submitted what). You are welcome to collaborate.
Friendly Reminder for May Graduates
January 19th is the last day to file for May 2012 Graduation.
In the Next Two Weeks (Nov 28 – Dec 11)
Irish Reading Group (IRG): Synge’s Playboy, Act III
Tuesday, November 29 @ 12-1pm in the Alice Bowerman Britton Room (2nd floor SUB)
We will be reading Act III of Synge’s Playboy of the Western World. Acts I and II are only about 35 pages and are very readable, in case you wanted to catch up. Sarah Clark has the library’s copies, so contact her to borrow one. Please let a Sarah know (Sarah_Clark1@baylor.edu or Sarah_Aspen@baylor.edu) if you have any questions. Hope to see you there!
Religion and Literature Reading Group
Thursday, December 1 @11am-12pm.
For more info, contact Jeffrey_bilbro@baylor.edu.
Christmas Tea by YOU
Friday, December 2 @2:30pm in 4th Floor Lounge of Carroll Science
Thank you to those of you who have volunteered to help with the English Department Tea that EGSA will be hosting this Friday, December 2. For volunteers: please bring your dessert to the lounge by 2:15 p.m. If anyone would like to arrive early to help set up the tables, we will be there beginning around 1:00 p.m. If you have not yet volunteered to make something delicious, it’s not too late! Please contact Danielle at danielle_williams2@baylor.edu.
19th Century Research Seminar: British Political History
Wednesday, December 7 @ 3:30-4:30pm in the ABL Seminar Room
“The Case of the Tamworth Reading Room: Sir Robert Peel and Civil Disorder in Early Victorian England” given by Dr. David Clinton (Political Science, Baylor).
2011 EGSA Christmas Party by the Wondrous Watsons
Saturday, December 10 @ 7pm at the Watson home
James Watson and family will be hosting a classy Christmas party for us this year, as usual. Please see James’s invitation sent out earlier today for details, and please RSVP to him at James_Watson@baylor.edu.
UPCOMING
Calling all authors!
Submit to Baylor University’s premier student publication, the Phoenix! Published for over 50 years, the Phoenix provides both undergraduate and graduate students an opportunity to submit their creative works for publication! In addition, the Phoenix offers monetary prizes in several categories. The Phoenix accepts publications of all types of creative fiction and nonfiction, as well as artwork (including photography, paintings, drawings etc.). All submissions are anonymous and made online through the Phoenix’s website found at www.baylor.edu/phoenix . Selections from previous issues are available online for viewing. The deadline for submission this year is January 20, 2012. For further questions please contact Benjamin_crawford@baylor.edu .
ONGOING
Midday Prayer
Thursdays at noon in the Bobo Spiritual Life Chapel. A quiet service for faculty, staff, and grad students with silence from noon to 12:15, then a short liturgy
Medieval Reading Group
Thursdays 5-6pm. Contact Adam_Marshall@baylor.edu or d_clark@baylor.edu for topics and locations.
Call for Papers
Please consider submitting work to the first issue of The Wide Net, the theme of which is “Occupying Spaces—
Reclaiming Cultural Spaces for Liberatory Causesâ€. The deadline for submissions is December 23, 2011. All submissions should be emailed to thewidenet@truman.edu. The first issue should be released in January. Visit http://thewidenet.truman.edu for more information.
*Events are listed in the wonderful EGSA calendar Nathan has put together and will continue to update. To find this calendar or add it your Gmail account, click above, then click “+ Google Calendar.â€
*If your event is not on the calendar, please email Nathan_Kilpatrick@baylor.edu with the pertinent information.
*If you have any information you would like to share with your colleagues for the next EGSA Digest, please email me at Sarah_Aspen@baylor.edu before noon on Fridays.