EGSA Digest 2-24-12
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Sometimes we feel bad about being grad students (click & watch Simpsons above), but sometimes we feel lucky. We have coming up some great opportunities to hear insightful lectures and participate in peer fellowship. Happy Friday, everyone.
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
Graduate Student Leadership Council
President Danielle faithfully attends these meetings and writes up notes for our benefit. Check out the attached document for important, useful, and interesting information that could save some people $107.
The E.G.S.A. Reporter: English Gossip, Sources Anonymous
Are you ready to put all those useless facts that you’ve learned as an English student to use? It is a known fact (I read it on the Internet!) that English grad students can kick ass and take names at trivia-related events. Show up at the Dancing Bear Pub on Tuesday nights at 6:30 to put your trivia knowledge on display and put those other teams to shame (especially those from the law school…those jerks who are going to school to get a job where they can make money). Also, it gives you an opportunity to be SOCIAL! With Beer! And Nachos! And Salty Language! Watch out for English dept traitors though…CD, I’m putting you on blast.
Last Day to Defend for Spring Graduation: March 9 Spring Break: March 10-18
In the Next Two Weeks (Feb 24-March 9)
19CRS: “‘The Rites, Ceremonies, and Superstitions of their own Countries’: Race, Rebellion, and Medicine in the British Atlantic Worldâ€
Friday, Feb 24 @ 3:30-4:30pm in ABL lecture room
Lecture given by Dr. Kelly Wisecup from the English Department, University of North Texas.
“Sonnets in the Night (and from the Portuguese): Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s lost and
found notebook at the Armstrong Browning Library”
Tuesday, Feb 28 @3:30-5pm in ABL lecture room
Scholar Discussion given by ABL Visiting Fellow Barbara Neri, Interdisciplinary Artist & Scholar of Pinckney, Michigan. Come enjoy the talk, with refreshments following in the Seminar Room, AND a private tour and conversation with Barbara in the EBB Salon about the Elizabeth Barrett Browning ensemble she researched and brought for display.
Trivia @ Dancing Bear Pub
Tuesday, Feb 28 @ 6:30pm at the Dancing Bear (12th & Speight)
Come join your English colleagues to conquer some local trivia. Teams cannot exceed four people, and you can join late (but you’ll miss some points). The social chairs think this will be fun, so blame them if you need to. (Virginia_Jarrell@baylor.edu and Ginger_Hanchey@baylor.edu)
20CRS: Yeats, Magic, and Textual Production
Friday, March 2 @ 2:30-3:30pm in CS Fourth Floor Lounge
Lecture by Prof. David Holdeman. Free cookies and coffee!
IRG: Irish Reading Group – Yeats; Please RSVP!
Tuesday, March 6 @ 7:30-8:30pm in Alice Room, second floor of SUB
Last meeting ended up being a Sarah party, so we’re instigating a new policy. We are super excited about reading Irish literature aloud with peers, but we do not want to keep investing time and energy in the endeavor if no one is coming to the meetings. Therefore, we are requesting people to “rsvp†to one of the Sarahs; if only two of you commit to attending, we’ll go ahead with the meeting. If not, we’ll wait until the next meeting where we will again require 2 rsvps. Again, the calendar of readings can be found here.
Questions? Want to rsvp to the Yeats reading? Email Sarah_Clark1@baylor.edu or Sarah_Aspen@baylor.edu.
PROFF Workshop: Alternative Paths*
Wednesday, March 7 @ 3:30-5pm in Creekmore Conference Room, Jones 202
Semester after semester of classrooms full of students, syllabi and assignments, office hours and a departmental committee here and there: employment as full-time faculty is not the only career path in higher education after your graduate education. Professional interests, personal circumstances, particular skills and talents, and external factors are just a handful of the conditions that lead to higher education employment in administration, student life, program leadership and other types of work, whether in combination with or in lieu of teaching. Are you walking or contemplating an alternative path? Come learn about the challenges, opportunities and special characteristics of job searches and early career development in non-faculty higher education employment. * Registration required.
*If your event is not on the EGSA 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.