EGSA Digest 11.08.13

EGSA,

If you’re like your students, you’re taking a few days to recover from your demanding spectating experience last night. We here at the EGSA Digest office are awarded no such luxuries, so here’s another edition. Get to it whenever you feel like you can handle it.

Announcements

Independent Study; or, We’ll Get You What You Need, But Have the Decency To Try All the Normal Options First, Please

• Drs. Vitanza and Barcus recently met with the upper echelons of the EGSA hierarchy to clarify the purpose of Independent Study courses. The result was the following paragraph, to be added to the EGSA Handbook:

The independent study will only be approved if 1) the course is immediately related to your dissertation/thesis and 2) the content of the course would never be offered as part of the regular curriculum. Whether or not these criteria have been met is subject to the approval of the Graduate Program Director. If you would like to take a course that hasn’t been offered recently but has been taught in the past, you should directly petition the appropriate professor to teach the course again (as a regular course, not as an independent study).

• Well, EGSA, I don’t know about you, but this announcement comes at just the right time for me. I had just given up hope of ever being able to take that Twilight studies course I’ve been needing. Thank you, upper echelons.

Cheap Books

• Emily Brower writes,

Baylor University Press is having a $1 book sale next Friday, November 15^th, from 9-4. Baylor UP primarily publishes in religion, theology, etc., so most of the books will be along those lines, but also has a decent number of religion & lit books.  The Press is located at 4^th and Daughtrey (in the cream-ish brick building that looks like a bank).

• You work hard. You read piles of books. You scour journals. You visit obscure archives. You write. You revise. You write some more. You cry. You start over. You sacrifice sleep, health, vacations, relationships, sanity. You defend. You graduate. You revise some more. You get it published. And your publisher sells it for $1. Anyway, good news for us about the sale.

Departmental Tea, Today, 2:30–3:30pm, CS 4^th

• Go. Smile. Nod. Eat. Drink. Eat. Nod. Smile. Go.

Lecture, Today, 3:30–4:30pm, Sycamore 119

• Toni Wall Jaudon: “How To Do Things with (Religious) Books”
• “How Bibles employed by enslaved Africans in the Caribbean sealed revolutionary conspiracies, punished traitors, or revealed occult truths . . .”
• What a tantalizing ellipsis.

Shakespeare Read-Around, Today, 7:00pm, Daniel, Travis, and Ryan’s (601 Dyer Ave.)

• Didn’t RSVP to Sarah Rude (Sarah_Rude@baylor.edu) for this MRRS event? Still time and parts. Or simply show up and expect mercy, but bring a pound of flesh just in case. Or maybe just a pound of candy.

Upcoming Events

 

19CRS, Fri., 15 Nov., 3:30–4:30pm, ABL Lecture Hall

• Bill Boelhower (English, LSU): “Atlantic Studies in Theory and Practice: The Case of Frederick Douglass’s Heroic Slave”
• I don’t know if this title is cryptically clever or just troublingly truncated. Go to find out, I guess.

Medieval Movie Night, Sat., 16 Nov., 7pm, Marshalls’ (2500 Marketplace Dr. #837; gate code: 5335)

• The MRRS is showing The Lion in Winter because it was made back then.
• See the second attachment for details. Or for a good chuckle at old movie posters.

Mercifully, that’s it for today. I know how taxed you must be.

Jeremy Leatham

EGSA Secretary