EGSA Digest 02.21.14
EGSA,
Thank you to everyone who helped make last weekend such a success. Your reward is a short Digest.
Announcements
Call for Papers: Rocky Mountain MLA Conference
- Jordan Carson writes:
Looking for some way to use those seminar papers and presentations you have clogging up your computer? Â A few of us are chairing panels this fall at the RMMLA (Rocky Mountain MLA) Conference in Boise, Idaho (October 9-11 2014), and we need submissions. Â If you are interested, please email by March 1 an abstract and/or paper to the chair of the panel that interests you. Â (I know that’s not far off, but, come on, you know you have a presentation lying around somewhere that’s already written. Â Or you have that one idea you’ve been wanting to write on…)Â The panels and chairs are listed below:
Religion and Literature: Ryan Womack
Eco-critcism: Lois Johnson
ASLE (association for the study of literature and the environment): Jordan Carson
- Of course you’ll have to stay a few extra days to fully imbibe the rich history and cultural offerings of Boise, Idaho. Plan for that.
MRRS, Today, 2:30–3:30pm, Jones 200
- Dr. Barr, “Feminizing God’s Word? A Comparison of Biblical References in Medieval, Reformation, and Post-Reformation English Sermons”
- Be advised: sermons from Antiquity will not be considered. I feel it only fair to be upfront with you about this.
19CRS, Today, 3:30–4:30pm, ABL Lecture Hall
- Dr. Sarah Walden, “Tasteful Domesticity: Women’s Rhetoric and the American Cookbook”
- So, the saucepan was a hit. (That is, it was well received; it did not execute any type of blow.) Thanks, Dr. Walden, and thanks to you, EGSA, for your silent support.
 Upcoming Events
20CRS, Fri., 28 Feb., 2:30–3:30pm, CS 4th
- Dr. Robert Hamner, “Derek Walcott: Postcolonial Critical Issues”
- Is there Postcolonialism without critical issues?
Bad Wine, Bad Poetry Night, Fri., 28 Feb., 7-10pm, Reids’ (4512 Athens Ave.)
- Suppose you were reading Nimoy’s A Lifetime of Love, and suppose you were reading bad poetry; but I repeat myself.
Wishing you plenty of tissue as you bid
goodbye
to the delightful distraction that was
women’s Olympic hockey
and seek solace
in Leonard
‘s poetic embrace,
Jeremy Leatham
EGSA Secretary