Volume 39.4 :: September 17, 2007

Events Calendar

09/26 (Wednesday)     Wick Poetry Reading 2007 Winners 4:00 PM KIVA
09/26 (Wednesday)      Enormous Reading Room Series Stark 7:30 PM Library Conference RM
09/28 (Friday)               USC 1:00 PM RR 09/28 (Friday)              
                                        FAC 3:30-5:00 PM RR
09/28 (Friday)               Department Meeting 2:00 PM RM 112A
10/08 (Monday)            Wick Poetry Reading Nancy Reisman 8:00 PM Library
10/11 (Thursday)          Free Lecture Series Kent Free Library 7:00 PM Hemingway

Remember course withdrawal period is Sept. 10 – Nov. 4.  

Departmental News

*Congratulations to Professors Klaus Gommlich and Brooke Horvath, who have been named as finalists for the Distinguished Teaching Award this year.

 *Congratulations to Katherine Blackbird and Barbara Karman, who have been named finalists for this year's Outstanding Teaching Award.

Wick Poetry Center

Wick Poetry Center and the English Department are proud to announce Celebrating Our Own, an annual poetry reading featuring the undergraduate winners of the 2007 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Scholarship, and the winners of the Ohio High School Poetry Competition.  The Wick Poetry Center also welcomes special guest Tony Trigilio, former scholarship winner and author of The Lama’s English Lessons. The reading will be held on Wednesday, September 26th, at 4 PM in the Kent State University KIVA.

Professional News

Maggie Anderson (Wick-NEOMFA Dir.) and David Hassler (Wick Program and Outreach Dir.) are co-editors of After the Bell: Contemporary American Prose About School, just published by the University of Iowa Press.

Maggie Anderson (Wick-NEOMFA Dir.) was the keynote speaker and workshop leader at the California Poets-in-the-Schools Annual Conference in San Diego, CA, September 7-9, 2007.

Noelle Bowles (TT-Trumbull) has published “Tennyson’s Idylls of the King and Anglican Authority” in Christianity and Literature 56 (2007): 573-594.

David Hassler (Wick Program & Outreach Dir.) gave a keynote talk on the Wick Outreach Program at the Gamma Lamda Chapter meeting of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society of women educators at the Akron Women’s City Club on Saturday, September 8.

Stacie L. Hanes (Literature Ph. D. Candidate) presented two papers "Boxed In: Representing Alternative Sexualities on the Social Internet" at the Conference on College Composition and Communication and "Angels Would Fall: Melissa Etheridge's Representation of Lesbian Sensibility Through Visions of Heaven and Hell" at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Also she was appointed to the Executive Board of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, as the Membership & Registration Coordinator.