Department of English @ TAMU Announcements

First Year Seminar Symposium

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

First Year Seminar Symposium

December 10, 2009 9:00am-3:00pm

The students in the Fall 2009 First Year Seminar will be presenting their work-in-progress. Our topic for this year is "English Without Borders," and the students will be presenting their particular takes on this topic, based on our semester readings and their own interests. A schedule of the presentations will be sent out closer to the date. All are welcome!

Contact: Sally Robinson

Email: sallyr@tamu.edu

First Year Seminar Symposium

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

First Year Seminar Symposium

December 10, 2009 9:00am-3:00pm

Contact: Sally Robinson

Email: sallyr@tamu.edu

Belinda Wallace

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Belinda Wallace

November 12, 2009 7:00pm

Dr. Belinda Wallace, the first speaker in the Africana Studies' Emerging Scholars Lecture Series, will be presenting "Stab Out Me Meat: Sexual Politics in Dancehall Culture" on Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 7:00 pm in room 204E of Evans Library.

Dr. Wallace's presentation will focus on reading the female black body as "text" in contemporary reggae and dancehall culture. Her presentation, "Stab Out Me Meat: Sexual Politics in Dancehall Culture," takes its title from Lady Saw a Jamaican reggae singer regarded as the "first lady of Dancehall." Wallace's work will evaluate the gender politics of Dancehall culture and by proxy a highly intriguing part of Caribbean culture.

Contact: knbrown@tamu.edu

URL: http://africana.tamu.edu

Countercultural Movements Working Group Meeting

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Countercultural Movements Working Group Meeting

November 19, 2009 11:00am-12:00pm

We are going to have our next meeting on Thursday, November 19th at 11:00 AM...we will be
discussing Nancy M. Grace's "Seeking the Spirit of the Beat: The Call for Interdisciplinary
Scholarship" and talking about reading Troia: Mexican Memoirs by Bonnie Bremser. We also had a suggestion of bringing beat poems to read to the meeting...

Once again:

Date: Thursday, November 19th

Time: 11:00 AM

Place: Glasscock 311

Reading: Nancy Grace's "Seeking the Spirit of the Beat: The Call for Interdisciplinary Scholarship" -- if you need a copy of this email so I can send you the pdf.

Please let me know if you can make it...

Thanks,
Christopher Carmona

Contact: Christopher Carmona

Email: cab1one@tamu.edu

Tool Time: Engl 301

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Tool Time: Engl 301

November 10, 2009 2:00pm-3:30pm

Quality Control: Managing the Analysis Report Project

234D

Contact: Abigail Weston

GAT/Lecturer Appreciation

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

GAT/Lecturer Appreciation

November 18, 2009

GAT/Lecturer Appreciation

Tool Time: Engl 104/241

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Tool Time: Engl 104/241

November 17, 2009 12:30pm-2:30pm

Tech Tools: Exploring Options in the Computer Classroom

ETC Lab

Tool Time: Engl 104

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Tool Time: Engl 104

December 9, 2009 10:30am-12:30pm

De-Briefing and Re-Tooling: What Worked, What Didn't Work and What's Next

GAT/Lecturer Appreciation

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

GAT/Lecturer Appreciation

November 17, 2009

GAT/Lecturer Appreciation

Tool Time: Engl 301

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Tool Time: Engl 301

December 9, 2009 11:00am-3:00pm

Design-Build: Incorporating the New Learning Objectives for 301-web-based

Tool Time: Engl 241

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Tool Time: Engl 241

December 9, 2009 12:30pm-3:30pm

The "Compleat" Kit: Tool Up to Teach 241

Tool Time: Engl 301

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Tool Time: Engl 301

December 10, 2009 11:00am-3:00pm

Design-Build: Incorporating the New Learning Objectives for 301-classroom

Tool Time: Engl 104

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Tool Time: Engl 104

January 14, 2009 9:00am-2:00pm

Moodle/Waypoint Workshop for Engl 104

Tool Time: Engl 203

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Tool Time: Engl 203

November 12, 2009 10:30am-12:30pm

New Instructors Tool Up to Teach 203

Queer Studies Working Group meeting

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Queer Studies Working Group meeting

November 16, 2009 1:00pm-2:30pm

The Queer Studies Working Group is gathering in 417D of the Evans Library Annex to watch and discuss Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others). You may want to read Richard Dyer's "Less and More than Women and Men: Lesbian and Gay Cinema in Weimar Germany" (New German Critique, no. 41, Autumn, 1990, pp. 5-60) before the meeting.

Contact: Krista May

Email: k-may01@tamu.edu

URL: http://queerstudies.wordpress.com/

Digital Humanities lecture

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Digital Humanities lecture

October 28, 2009 4:00pm-5:00pm

28 October, Wednesday, 4:00 p.m.
B. Stephen Carpenter (Teaching, Learning, and Culture) and Trina Davis (Teaching, Learning, and Culture), "Digital Humanities in the Metaverse: A Report on the Design, Implementation, and the Future of Glasscock Island," Evans Library, 204E.

Contact: Maura Ives

Email: m-ives@tamu.edu

URL: http://glasscock.tamu.edu/Programs_Activities/digitalhumanitieslectures.htm

Dana Gioia Presentation

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Dana Gioia Presentation

October 22, 2009 4:30pm-6:30pm

Dana Gioia speaking on teaching poetry.

Contact: Joanna Gibson

Email: jbgibson@tamu.edu

Prelims: Lunchtime discussion

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Prelims: Lunchtime discussion

November 5, 2009 11:30am-12:30pm

A lunchtime discussion of prelims for graduate students: for those who are about to take them, preparing to take them, thinking of taking them, thinking they might get around to it someday. Please contact Paulette Lesher by noon the day before to let her know you will attend.

Contact: Mary Ann O'Farrell

Email: p-lesher@tamu.edu

Countercultural Movements Working Group Meeting

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Countercultural Movements Working Group Meeting

October 26, 2009 2:00pm-3:00pm

Wet will be having our next meeting on Monday, October 26th at 2 PM
in Glasscock 311. We will be discussing Raj Chandarlapaty's "Jack Kerouac, the Common 'Human
Story' and White-Other Historicity: Beatniks Face the Challenge of Popularizing and Humanizing
Otherness" from his book, The Beat Generation and Counterculture: Paul Bowles, William S.
Burroughs, Jack Kerouac. If you would like a copy of this piece email me and I will send you a .pdf version of the text.

Once again:

Date: Monday, Oct. 26th

Time: 2:00 PM

Place: Glasscock 311

Reading: Raj Chandarlapaty's Jack Kerouac Chapter

Thank you,

Christopher Carmona

Contact: Christopher Carmona

Email: cab1one@tamu.edu

Guest speaker Phyllis Randolph Frye

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Guest speaker Phyllis Randolph Frye

October 22, 2009 5:30pm

"Civil Dialogues and GLBT Communities"

Koldus 111

Contact: Krista May

Film "Copyright Criminals"

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Film "Copyright Criminals"

October 26, 2009 7:00pm-9:00pm

The film "Copyright Criminals: This Is a Sampling Sport" will be shown in Evans Library 204E, 7-9 pm. The film will be introduced by Dr. Patrick Burkart.

Produced by Benjamin Franzen and Kembrew McLeod, "Copyright Criminals: This Is a Sampling Sport" examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the related debates over artistic expression, copyright law, and (of course) money.

For more than thirty years, innovative hip-hop performers and producers have been re-using portions of previously recorded music in new, otherwise original compositions. When lawyers and record companies got involved, what was once referred to as a “borrowed melody” became a “copyright infringement.”

As artists find ever more inventive ways to insert old influences into new material, this documentary asks a critical question, on behalf of an entire creative community: Can you own a sound?

(Description from film's website, www.copyrightcriminals.com)

Contact: Maura Ives

Email: m-ives@tamu.edu

URL: http://www.copyrightcriminals.com

EMS meeting

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

EMS meeting

October 22, 2009

The Early Modern Studies working group will be meeting in Glasscock 311 at 10am.

Contact: Meghan Parker or Nandra Perry

Email: nandraperry@tamu.edu or meghan_lee@tamu.edu

Poetry Reading by James Ragan

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Poetry Reading by James Ragan

October 28, 2009 7:00pm-8:30pm

October 28, 7-8:30 pm
Poetry Reading by James Ragan Texas A&M University Campus, Harrington 209
"Views of Central Europe: An Odysey in Verse."
James Ragan will read from The Hunger Wall, Too Long a Solitude and other books.
Ragan is a poet, playwright, and screen writer who has special ties to Czech and Slovak history and culture. This poetry reading will centering on his cultural roots and personal accounts ranging from witnessing the Russian invasion of Prague (1968) and the Havel years, to his reading in 1985 for Gorbachev (with Bob Dylan and Seamus Heaney), to the present dynamics of "Presidential" reading performances (for Havel and Klaus) during the post-communist years.
Admission is free.
This event is sponsored by the CEFT William J. Hlavinka Czech Fellowship in the Department of English."

Contact: Clinton Machann

Email: c-machann@tamu.edu

NMBS Graduate Colloquium

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

NMBS Graduate Colloquium

November 2, 2009

NMBS Graduate Colloquium featuring presentations by Leslie Gautreaux Edwards, Byoungchun Min, and Emily Monteiro. Monday evening, 2 November 2009, EGSA lounge. Pizza at 6:30 pm.; discussion begins at 7:00 p.m.

Contact: Mary Ann O'Farrell

Email: maof@tamu.edu

Countercultural Movements Working Group Meeting

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Countercultural Movements Working Group Meeting

September 28, 2009 12:30pm-1:30pm

1st Meeting of the Countercultural Movements Working Group

We are going to have our first meeting on
Monday, September 28th
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Glasscock Rm. 311.

This is an organizational meeting where we will discuss speakers, reading selections, and various business with the working group. We will be providing pizza for lunch (one vegetarian and one pepperoni) for all those attending, so please let us know if you are able to make it out to this meeting and hope to see you there.

Dr. Chuck Taylor (Group Coordinator)
Christopher Carmona (Group Coordinator)

Contact: Christopher Carmona

Email: cab1one@tamu.edu

Mangos with Chili Stunning South Tour

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Mangos with Chili Stunning South Tour

October 16, 2009 7:00pm

Mangos with Chili Queer and Trans People of Color Cabaret

"Splendor & Grit: The Stunning South Tour 2009."

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Ms. Cherry Galette
SKIM
Aleksa Manila
Ms. Vagina Jenkins
Maceo Cabrera Estevez
Amir Rabiyah

Friday, October 16th 2009
7 PM (Doors Open at 6:30). Rudder Forum. Free and open to the public.

Mangos with Chili is a multi-racial, multi-genre, and multi-gender performance group that uses theater, spoken word, drag, dance and performance art to tell the stories of class, survival, desire, dreams, and migrations of queer and trans people of color. Mangos spans identities from Sri Lanka, Aztlán, the Phillipinnes, the Caribbean, Brooklyn, the Arab world, and migrant small towns.

Mangos with Chili creates community, build bridges, and foster cross-cultural dialogue by presenting breathtaking shows featuring queer and trans of color artists creating cutting-edge, high-caliber work to audiences and communities whose
stories are not always represented onstage. Sharing much needed and little heard queer and trans of color stories brings queer and trans people of color out from isolation, helping QTPOC build networks of community, support,
resources and survival, taking This Bridge Called My Back into the 21st century.

Fragrance Free Event: In order to ensure the space is accessible to the whole community, please refrain from wearing perfume, cologne, aftershave, or other scented products.

Co-Sponsored by: The Department of English, The Department of Performance Studies, Africana Studies, Women's and Gender Studies Program, Creative Writing, the Queer Studies Working Group, the South Asian Studies Working Group, Multicultural Services, and more TBA.

For More information, contact Qwo-Li Driskill (qdriskill@neo.tamu.edu) or Mikko Tuhkanen (mikko.tuhkanen@tamu.edu).

Contact: Qwo-Li Driskill or Mikko Tuhkanen

Email: qdriskill@neo.tamu.edu or mikko.tuhkanen@tamu.edu

URL: http://mangoswithchili.wordpress.com/

Janisse Ray Reading

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Janisse Ray Reading

November 12, 2009 7:00pm

Janisse Ray Reading

Whitley Suite, Evans Library

Africana Studies Working Group

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Africana Studies Working Group

September 10, 2009 3:00pm

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 3pm

Glasscock 311

The AFST Working Group meets to discuss The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation and the Rise of Black Internationalism by Brent Hayes Edwards.

Arguing that diaspora is less a historical condition than a set of practices, Edwards elucidates its workings by tracking the wealth of black transnational print culture between the world wars, exploring the connections and exchanges among New York-based publications (such as Opportunity, The Negro World, and The Crisis) and newspapers in Paris (such as Les Continents, La Voix des Nègres, and L'Etudiant noir). The Practice of Diaspora takes account of the highly divergent ways of imagining race beyond the barriers of nation and language. In doing so, it reveals the importance of translation, arguing that the politics of diaspora are legible above all in efforts at negotiating difference among populations of African descent throughout the world.

For more information about the group or to obtain a book, please contact organizers: Shona N. Jackson (soursop@tamu.edu); Mikko Tuhkanen (mikko.tuhkanen@tamu.edu)

Contact: soursop@tamu.edu

Chitra Divakaruni: book reading and signing

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Chitra Divakaruni: book reading and signing

November 5, 2009 7:30pm-9:30pm

Evans Library Room 204E

Contact: Roberta Short

Qwo-Li Driskill lecture

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Qwo-Li Driskill lecture

August 26, 2009 3:10pm

A lecture by Qwo-Li Driskill, "'Asegi Ayetl': Cherokee GLBTQ/Two-Spirit People Reimagining Nation," at 3:10 p.m. in 169 Blocker. The lecture is part of New Graduate Student Orientation. All faculty and graduate students are invited to join us for the lecture.

Contact: Mary Ann O'Farrell

Email: maof@tamu.edu

Queer Studies Working Group meeting

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Queer Studies Working Group meeting

September 8, 2009 11:00am-12:30pm

The Queer Studies Working Group, a Glasscock Center working group, is holding its first meeting of the semester in the Glasscock Center Library (Glasscock rm. 311). We'll discuss plans for the year, as well as "The Antisocial Thesis in Queer Theory," a conference debate appearing in PMLA 121, no. 3 (2006): 819-28.

For a link to a PDF of the reading, visit the QSWG's blog.

Contact: Krista May

Email: k-may01@tamu.edu

URL: http://queerstudies.wordpress.com/

Guest speaker Nazera Wright

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Guest speaker Nazera Wright

October 2, 2009 12:30pm-1:45pm

Nazera Wright, assistant professor of English at the University of Kentucky, will be giving a talk (title TBA) in the Women's and Gender Studies lunch lecture series, 12:30-1:30 in Glasscock 311. Dr. Wright's research concerns 19th- and 20th-century African American literature and giflhood studies.

Contact: Nancy Sumpter

Email: nsumpter@tamu.edu

Guest Speaker Allison Moore

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Guest Speaker Allison Moore

September 17, 2009 7:30pm-9:00pm

Creative Writing Guest Speaker; Glasscock Library

Reception 4pm Blocker 235

Contact: Paul Christensen

Guest Speaker Samuel Hazo

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Guest Speaker Samuel Hazo

October 12, 2009 4:00pm-5:00pm

Jerry Loving Guest Speaker, Whitley Suite, Sterling Evans Library

Contact: Jerry Loving

Guest Speaker James Hynes

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Guest Speaker James Hynes

October 22, 2009 7:30pm-9:00pm

Creative Writing Guest Speaker; Whitley Suite, Evans Library

Reception 4pm Blocker 235

Contact: Paul Christensen

Queer Studies Working Group meeting

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Queer Studies Working Group meeting

July 29, 2009 2:00pm-3:00pm

The Queer Studies Working Group will meet in Glasscock rm. 311 to discuss selections from Heather Love's Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard UP, 2007; pp. 1-30, pp. 100-28).

Contact: Krista May

Email: k-may01@tamu.edu

URL: http://queerstudies.wordpress.com/

Hierth Lecture by Amanda Anderson

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Hierth Lecture by Amanda Anderson

September 24, 2009 3:00pm-5:00pm

"Explaining the Humanities"

301 Rudder

Contact: Lisa Hoyt

Creative Writing and Genre Studies Workshop

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Creative Writing and Genre Studies Workshop

July 8, 2009 6:00pm-9:00pm

WORKSHOP in room 109 Blocker, 6:00 p.m.; all welcome. E-mail piece to be workshopped to Janet McCann at j-mccann1@tamu.edu by July 1. Dinner from Jin's.

Contact: Janet McCann

Email: j-mccann1@tamu.edu

Queer Studies Working Group meeting

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Queer Studies Working Group meeting

July 15, 2009 2:00pm-3:00pm

The Queer Studies Working Group will meet in Glasscock rm. 311 to discuss selections from Heather Love’s Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard UP, 2007; pp. 1-30, pp. 100-28). If you have any questions, please e-mail .

Contact: Krista May

Email: k-may01@tamu.edy

URL: http://queerstudies.wordpress.com/

Queer Studies Working Group meeting

Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Queer Studies Working Group meeting

June 3, 2009 2:00pm-3:00pm

The Queer Studies Working Group will meet in Glasscock rm. 311 to discuss Tom Boellstorff's "When Marriage Falls: Queer Coincidences in Straight Time" (GLQ 13.2-3, 2007, pp. 227-48). This reading kicks off our "Keeping Up with Queer Studies" reading and discussion series. Visit the Queer Studies Working Group's blog for a link to a PDF of the article (http://queerstudies.wordpress.com).

Contact: Krista May

Email: k-may01@tamu.edu

URL: http://queerstudies.wordpress.com

Lewis Lecture & Dinner

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Lewis Lecture & Dinner

April 23, 2009 5:30pm-9:30pm

Paul Parrish will present the 2009 lecture, "Donne in Music and Art"

Empire Room, Pebble Creek Country Club

Contact: Dalaiah Eiland

Email: d-eiland@tamu.edu

URL: http://www-english.tamu.edu/index.php?id=1254

Queer Studies Working Group meeting

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Queer Studies Working Group meeting

April 16, 2009 4:00pm-5:00pm

The Queer Studies Working group will meet in Glasscock rm. 311 to discuss "Evocations: The Romance of Indian Lament" (chapter 2 of Dana Luciano's _Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America_, New York UP, 2007).

Contact: Krista May

Email: k-may01@tamu.edu

URL: http://queerstudies.wordpress.com/

Julia Flanders, "From Egoism to Altruism"

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Julia Flanders, "From Egoism to Altruism"

April 16, 2009 4:00pm-9:00pm

College of Liberal Arts Digital Humanities Program: Julia Flanders (Brown University), "From Egoism to Altruism: Collaboration in Age of Digital Standards," 4:00 p.m., Evans Library 204E.

Contact: Maura Ives

Email: m-ives@tamu.edu

Lisa Spiro, "Methodology for the Infinite Archive"

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Lisa Spiro, "Methodology for the Infinite Archive"

April 2, 2009 4:00pm

Lisa Spiro will present a talk, “Methodology for the Infinite Archive”: Exploring the Implications of Digital Resources and Tools for Literary Scholarship,,” in 204E, Evans Library. Dr. Spiro is the Director of the Digital Media Center and ETRAC (Educational Technology Research and Assessment Cooperative) in the Fondren Library at Rice University. Sponsored by the Digital Humanities Program. For more information, contact Maura Ives at m-ives@tamu.edu

Contact: Maura Ives

Email: m-ives@tamu.edu

Thinking Ahead to the Dissertation

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Thinking Ahead to the Dissertation

April 15, 2009 6:30pm-8:30pm

Thinking Ahead to the Dissertation. Dinner and discussion for first-year Ph.D. students. Presentations by Christina Cedillo, Nicholas Lawrence, and Ki Yoon Jang. 6:30-8:30 p.m., Wed. 4/15, EGSA lounge. Sponsored by the Graduate Office. FIrst-year Ph.D. students, please rsvp to Paulette Lesher by 5 p.m. on 4/14.

Contact: Mary Ann O'Farrell

Email: p-lesher@tamu.edu

Book Proposal Talk

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Book Proposal Talk

March 26, 2009 4:00pm-5:30pm

Before You Send It Out WHO: Marcela Landres, Editorial Consultant WHAT: Agents and editors don’t have time to read entire manuscripts. So how do they choose which writers they want to work with? Proposals. Regardless of whether you have a book for adults or children, in fiction or nonfiction, you need a strong proposal. But while many writers invest a significant amount of time, energy and money in crafting their manuscripts, few know how to compose a proper proposal. In this class, you will learn: 1. • Why 90% of submissions are rejected based on the cover letter alone 2. • The single most reliable—and free!—resource for finding a good agent 3. • Three common, yet easily avoidable, mistakes writers make 4. • A proposal’s true purpose (hint: it’s not to demonstrate talent) WHEN: Thursday, March 26, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. WHERE: Visual Arts Gallery, Second Floor of Memorial Student Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX FOR MORE INFO: Elise Elliott,

Contact: Elise Elliott

Email: elisemarie.elliott@gmail.com

URL: http://marcelalandres.com/workshops.html

Black Artemis/Sofia Quintero

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Black Artemis/Sofia Quintero

April 7, 2009

Black Artemis is the pen name of Sofía Quintero, a writer, activist, educator, speaker and comedienne born into a working-class Puerto Rican-Dominican family in the Bronx. Determined to write edgy yet intelligent novels for women who love hip hop even when hip hop fails to love them in return, Sofía wrote her debut novel Explicit Content.

Contact: Kimberly N. Brown

Email: knbrown@tamu.edu

URL: http://africana.tamu.edu

Stories, Songs, Signs, Survivance: A Symposium on Indigenous Discourse

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Stories, Songs, Signs, Survivance: A Symposium on Indigenous Discourse

February 3, 2009 1:00pm-5:00pm

Whitley Suite, Evans Library Malea Powell, PhD (Michigan State) "Rhetorical Powwows: American Indian Writing and Making." 4PM Angela Haas, PhD (Illinois State) "Indians in Not-So-Unexpected Places: Decolonizing the Blogosphere." 1:45PM David Shane Wallace, PhD Candidate (Louisiana State) & Lecturer (Texas A&M) “Liquor, Sacrifice, and Murder: A Native Tale in Three Tellings.” 1PM Cassie Cobos, PhD Student (Texas A&M) "Rhetorics of Malinche: Sor Juana, Gloria Anzaldúa and Lucy Fischer West (Tortilla-Maker)." 3PM Gabriela Rios, PhD Student (Texas A&M) "Songs of Survivance: Native American Song Making and the Construction of Identity." 3:30PM Fragrance Free Event: Please refrain from wearing perfume, cologne, or other scented products. For other disability access, contact Disability Services at http://disability.tamu.edu/. Co-Sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts, the Department of English and the Glasscock Center's Indigenous Studies Working Group.

Contact: Qwo-Li Driskill

Email: qdriskill@email.tamu.edu

Dept Web Server Maintenance

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Dept Web Server Maintenance

February 6, 2009 7:00am-8:00am

The department web server (http://www-english.tamu.edu) will be unavailable for routine maintenance this Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 7am – 8am each day. Sorry for any inconvenience. Thanks. -ENGL Tech Support

Contact: Matt Cheshier

Email: techsupport1@english.tamu.edu

URL: http://www-english.tamu.edu

ENGL/COMM 654 Final Presentations

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

ENGL/COMM 654 Final Presentations

December 8, 2008 11:00am-12:30pm

Breaking Precedent, Revising Stories: New Scholarship on Histories of Rhetoric(s) Please come support the graduate students of Qwo-Li Driskill's “ENGL/COMM 654: History of Rhetoric to 1800” for their final project presentations. A Q&A and reception will follow. Sarah Brenner Jones. “Rhetoric of the Everyday: Women’s Manuscript Writing in Early Modern England.” Casie C. Cobos. "Rhetorics of Malinche: Sor Juana, Gloria Anzaldúa and Lucy Fischer West (Tortilla-Maker).” Patricia Welsh Droz. “Birthing a Genre: Writing about Nature in English.” Mark Houston. “Drawing within the Lines: The Dual Rhetorical Function of Medieval Manuscript Illuminations.” Jeremy Miller. “Onnagata Performance of Gender: An Analysis of _The Words of Ayame_.” Gabriela Ríos. “Songs of Survivance: Native American Song Making and the Construction of Identity." Blocker, Room 203

Contact: Qwo-Li Driskill

Email: qdriskill@neo.tamu.edu

URL: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=41069417185&ref=mf

Poet H.R. Stoneback

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Poet H.R. Stoneback

January 14, 2009 4:30pm-10:30pm

Poet, scholar, teacher, folksinger, guitar strummer, H.R. Stoneback will be reading from his poems in the handsomely appointed Mayo Thomas Room of the Cushing Library on Wednesday, January 14. The reading will commence at 4:30 and terminate no later than 6:00. Return to campus a few days early and come see and listen to the Sage of the Mid-Hudson Valley. You won’t regret it. H. R. Stoneback is Distinguished Professor of English at the State University of New York (New Paltz), and has served as Visiting Professor at the University of Paris, Fulbright Professor at Peking University, and Director of the American Center for Students and Artists in Paris. A widely published literary critic, poet, and leading Hemingway scholar of international reputation, Stoneback is the author or editor of 15 volumes of criticism and poetry and more than 150 essays on American and world literature.

Contact: Michael Beilfuss

Email: mbeilfuss@tamu.edu

Grad: Writing conference abstracts (lunchtime discussion)

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Grad: Writing conference abstracts (lunchtime discussion)

March 23, 2009 11:30am-12:30pm

For graduate students: a discussion of how to write abstracts for conference papers, featuring Dr. Juan Alonzo and Dr. Anne Morey. The lunch and discussion will be held in the EGSA lounge (235 Blocker) from 11:30-12:30 on Monday 3/23. Lunch will be provided. RSVP to Paulette Lesher (845-9836 or ) by 5 p.m. 3/12.

Contact: O'Farrell/Lesher

Email: p-lesher@tamu.edu

Brazos Valley Reads

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Brazos Valley Reads

March 3, 2009 6:30pm-9:30pm

Brazos Valley Reads 2009 - Sherman Alexie reads from *The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian*

Email: bvr@english.tamu.edu

URL: http://www-english.tamu.edu/index.php?id=128

Gordone Awards Competition

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Gordone Awards Competition

March 26, 2009 12:00pm

Click here to download (and print) the competition information.

Contact: Glenn Phillips

Email: glenn@tamu.edu

URL: http://www-english.tamu.edu/assets/files/2009_gordone_awards_competition.pdf

Memorial Service for Douglas Brooks

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Memorial Service for Douglas Brooks

February 20, 2009 3:00pm-5:00pm

All Faiths Chapel

For additional information please contact Lisa Hoyt at 979.845.3452, lchoyt@tamu.edu or stop by the main office (Blocker 227).

For additional information on Douglas Brooks, please click here.

Contact: Lisa Hoyt

Email: lchoyt@tamu.edu

URL: http://dmc-news.tamu.edu/templates/?a=7262&z=15

Discussion and poetry reading by Antler.

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Discussion and poetry reading by Antler.

March 25, 2009 5:00pm-7:30pm

Antler, the last important figure of the Beat Generation, will meet with students at 5 p.m. for an open discussion of his work and interests. Poetry reading to follow at 6 p.m. in Whitley Suite, Evans Library. University community is welcome.

Contact: Paul Christensen

Email: p-christensen@tamu.edu

Poetry reading by Carolyn Forche

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Poetry reading by Carolyn Forche

April 2, 2009 7:30pm-9:30pm

Carolyn Forche, one of America's foremost poets, will read her poems on Thursday, 2 April in the Stark Gallery at 7:30 p.m. The event is sponsored by the English Department and is free and open to the university community.

Contact: Paul Christensen

Email: p-christensen@tamu.edu

Andrea Lunsford

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Andrea Lunsford

February 19, 2009 7:30pm-9:30pm

Author of "Everything's an Argument" sponsored by Bedford St Martin's 302 Rudder

Contact: Amelia Reid

Email: amelia@tamu.edu

Lecture by John Fletcher

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Lecture by John Fletcher

February 26, 2009 4:00pm-5:30pm

The Queer Studies Working Group is sponsoring a free public lecture by John Fletcher, Assistant Professor of Theatre History and Women's and Gender Studies at Louisiana State University. The title of his lecture is "Intolerations: Ex-Gays, Queer Theory, and the Limits of Radical Democracy." All are invited. In Evans Library, Room 204E.

Contact: Krista May

Email: k-may01@tamu.edu

URL: http://queerstudies.wordpress.com/

Suheir Hammad

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Suheir Hammad

February 26, 2009

In Celebration of Black History Month, Palestinian-American poet, author and political activist, Suheir Hammad will speak on campus. Hammad is the author of Born Palestinian, Born Black.

Contact: Kimberly N. Brown

Email: knbrown@tamu.edu

URL: http://africana.tamu.edu

Emily Raboteau

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Emily Raboteau

February 5, 2009 7:00pm

In celebration of Black History Month, Emily Raboteau, the author of The Professor's Daughter will be speaking on campus.

Contact: Kimberly N. Brown

Email: knbrown@tamu.edu

URL: http://africana.tamu.edu

Queer Studies Working Group meeting

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Queer Studies Working Group meeting

December 1, 2008 3:00pm-7:00pm

The Queer Studies Working Group will meet in Glasscock 311 to discuss "The Desire for Gender" by Robyn Wiegman and "Forgetting Family: Queer Alternatives to Oedipal Relations" (both are in _A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies_, George E. Haggerty and Molly McGarry, eds., Blackwell, 2007). For a PDF of the articles, e-mail Krista May at k-may01@tamu.edu.

Contact: Krista May

Email: k-may01@tamu.edu

Women's Studies Lecture

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Women's Studies Lecture

November 20, 2008 4:00pm-5:05pm

As its third speaker in the 20th anniversary series, the Women's Studies Program announces a visit from Theda Perdue, Atlanta Distinguished Term Professor of Southern Culture, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her lecture is titled "Sacagawea and Her Sisters: Writing Native Women Into American History," and will take place Thursday, November 20, 2008, at 4:00 p.m., in Sterling C. Evans Library, Room 204E.

Contact: Emily Hoeflinger or Nicole McDaniel

Lecture by John Rumrich, 4:00pm, Cushing Memorial Library

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Lecture by John Rumrich, 4:00pm, Cushing Memorial Library

November 11, 2008

Dr. John Rumrich of the University of Texas at Austin will present a paper titled "Reading Milton at this Hour."

Contact: Reuben Sanchez

Email: sanjo@tamu.edu

Digital Humanities / Textual Editing Meeting, 10:00, Blocker 205B

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Digital Humanities / Textual Editing Meeting, 10:00, Blocker 205B

November 12, 2008

Dr. John Rumrich of the University of Texas at Austin will meet with students and faculty to discuss possible ways in which the English departments of Texas A & M and UT Austin might work together as regards digital humanities and textual editing.

Contact: Reuben Sanchez

Email: sanjo@tamu.edu

"Touring Culture"

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

"Touring Culture"

November 6, 2008 1:00pm-4:00pm

Glasscock Center Symposium: "Touring Culture" George Haggerty (University of California-Riverside), "Horace Walpole on the Grand Tour," and Linda Levy Peck (George Washington University). "Cosmopolitanism, Politics, and Love: The Countess of Salisbury on the Grand Tour 1699-1703." Glasscock Center Room 311, starting at 1pm; a free afternoon symposium with guest speakers and discussion roundtable of English & History faculty and graduate students exploring travel and travel narratives

Contact: Margaret Ezell or James Rosenheim

URL: http://glasscock.tamu.edu/Calendar/acadyear08_09/nov08.html

Early Modern Studies Working Group

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Early Modern Studies Working Group

November 6, 2008 10:00am-11:00am

Early Modern Studies Working Group meeting: featuring Linda Levy Peck (George Washington University)10:00 - 11:00 a.m., Glasscock Building, Room 308.

Contact: Courtney Beggs or Dana Lawrence

URL: http://glasscock.tamu.edu/Calendar/acadyear08_09/nov08.html

Africana Studies Working Group

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Africana Studies Working Group

November 5, 2008

We will be reading Beryl Gilroy's Inkle and Yarico. For copies of the book, please contact Dr. Kimberly Brown at knbrown@tamu.edu. The group will meet in the Graduate Lounge at 3pm.

Contact: Dennis Winston

Email: dwinston@tamu.edu

Lecture in Blocker 203

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Lecture in Blocker 203

November 3, 2008 3:00pm-4:00pm

Jacqueline Whipple Walker, "The Penitent Sinner and the Diseased Text: Word Play in John Donne's DEVOTIONS UPON EMERGENT OCCASIONS"

Contact: Paul Parrish

Email: p-parrish@tamu.edu

"Writing Cultures" Symposium

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

"Writing Cultures" Symposium

October 25, 2008

"Writing Cultures: Gender, Class, and Authorship in Early Modern England" Rudder 707 9 a.m.-5 p.m with reception immediately following (location TBA) A one-day symposium, featuring keynote speakers Wendy Wall (Northwestern University) and Devoney Looser (University of Missouri). In addition to the contribution made by these scholars, this symposium will feature the collaborative participation of panelists (both graduate students and faculty) from Texas A&M, as well as nearby institutions such as Rice University, the University of Texas, and the University of Houston. Some of the broad goals for this event are: to further investigate the intersection of gender, class, and writing practices in early modern England; to reflect on the history of these topics within Early Modern humanities scholarship; and to consider their impact on current critical trends.

Contact: Dana Lawrence

Email: danalawrence@tamu.edu

Fiction reading by Oscar Casares

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Fiction reading by Oscar Casares

November 10, 2008 7:30pm

Oscar Casares, nationally renowned for his short-story collection, BROWNSVILLE, will give a reading of his short fiction in the Whitley Suite at 7:30 p.m. on November 10, 2008. This event is funded by the Creative Writing Program and the English department, and is free to the university community.

Contact: Paul Christensen

Email: p-christensen@tamu.edu

writer Scott Kaukonen reads

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

writer Scott Kaukonen reads

October 1, 2008 7:00pm-8:00pm

Scott Kaukonen reads from his award-winning story collection, ORDINATION in the MSC Forsyth Center Galleries

Contact: Amanda Nowlin-O'Banion

Email: nowlin-obanion@tamu.edu

Africana Studies Lecture Series -- Dr. Manning Marable

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Africana Studies Lecture Series -- Dr. Manning Marable

October 14, 2008 7:30pm

Dr. Manning Marable will be presenting his lecture "Living Black History: How Re-imagining the African-American Past Can Re-Make America's Future" as part of the Africana Studies Lecture Series. The event will take place in Evans Library, Rm. 204E. Dr. Marable is a leading historian of African-American culture and is a currently a professor at Columbia University. His talk should be of interest to anyone studying American history,literature or culture. For more information on Marable, please refer to www.manningmarable.net

Contact: Kimberly Brown

URL: http://africana.tamu.edu

NMBS Graduate Colloquium

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

NMBS Graduate Colloquium

October 20, 2008 7:00pm-9:00pm

NMBS Graduate Colloquium, 7-9 p.m., 235 Blocker (EGSA lounge). Featuring presentations by Soo Kim, Sonya Sawyer, and Gina Terry.

Contact: Mary Ann O'Farrell

Email: maof@tamu.edu

"The Toxic Closet: Being Gay in the Bible Belt": Lecture by Bernadette Barton

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

"The Toxic Closet: Being Gay in the Bible Belt": Lecture by Bernadette Barton

October 7, 2008 4:00pm-5:30pm

The Queer Studies Working Group (QSWG) is sponsoring a public lecture by Bernadette Barton, Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Morehead State University, on "The Toxic Closet: Being Gay in the Bible Belt." The lecture will be in Rudder 301. This program is part of TAMU's Coming Out Week events and is co-sponsored by the Dept. of Educational Psychology, Women's Studies, the GLBT Professional Network, and the Dept. of Multicultural Services.

Contact: Krista May

Email: k-may01@tamu.edu

AFST Working Group

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

AFST Working Group

September 26, 2008 3:00pm-5:00pm

We will be holding our first reading group discussion on Jacki Kay's _Trumpet_ in the graduate lounge Room 235 from 3p-5p.

Contact: Dennis Winston

Email: dwinston@tamu.edu

The African Presence in Mexico

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The African Presence in Mexico

October 22, 2008 6:00pm-8:00pm

A group of distinguished scholars and activists from both Mexico and from various institutions in the United States will meet at Texas A&M University (College Station), October 22 & 23, 2008, for a symposium of unprecedented importance, "The African Presence in Mexico." "The African Presence in Mexico" will begin Wednesday night, October 22, with the keynote address by Fr. Glyn Jemmott, a Roman Catholic priest currently serving the Parish of St. John of the Cross in El Cirelo, Pinotepa Nacional, Mexico. This address will be held in the MSC's Stark Gallery beginning at 6:00PM The morning and afternoon schedule for Thursday, October 23, features brief presentations by Herman L. Bennett, Juan Manuel de la Serna, Maria Elisa Velazquez and Arturo Motta on "Slavery and Freedom in Colonial Mexico" and "'Where Did the Blacks Go?' Post-Slavery Mexico." Respondents to these scholarly lectures will include Joan Bristol, Patrick J. Carroll, Nicole von Germeten, Frank "Trey" Proctor III, and Marisela Ramos. These two lectures will be held in Rudder Tower, Room 302 at 10:00AM and 1:00PM. The symposium will close Thursday night, October 23, with "Contemporary Afro-Mexicans," a group conversation, led by Ben Vinson III, in exchange with Naya Jones, Laura Lewis, Jean-Philibert Mobwa Mobwa N'Djoli, Fr. Glyn Jemmott, Bobby Vaughn, Anita Gonzalez and Maria Elisa Velazquez. The last conversation will be held in the MSC's Stark Gallery beginning at 6:00PM. During these two days of national and international intellectual and political exchange, "Afro-Mexican Faces from the State of Veracruz, Mexico," an exhibition of photographs by Marcus D. Jones, will be mounted in The Flag Room of the MSC at Texas A&M University Monday through Thursday, October 20 - 23, 2008. The symposium and exhibition are co-sponsored by Texas A&M University's Callaloo and by the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Callaloo, the premier literary and cultural journal of the African Diaspora, is sponsored by Texas A&M University and published quarterly by Johns Hopkins University Press in Baltimore.

Contact: Callaloo

Email: callaloo@tamu.edu

URL: http://callaloo.tamu.edu/events.htm

AMST Distinguished Lecture

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

AMST Distinguished Lecture

November 13, 2008 7:00pm-9:00pm

Professor John Carlos Rowe, "Disease, Transnationalism, and the Americas," Stark Gallery, 7 pm. Reception to Follow.

Contact: Susan Stabile

Email: stabile@tamu.edu