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William G. Cooper, Jr., Honors Program in English, UALR
August 2005
DISPLACED DEPARTMENT!!!
Please remember (how could you forget?) that the English Department will be moving out of Stabler Hall for the fall semester and possibly for part of the spring semester too while the top three floors of the building are overhauled (new heating/ac, asbestos removal, repainting, new furniture). Although we will not have a separate computer room in our temporary quarters, a bank of computers will be available for all students from the affected departments to use.
We will be temporarily housed in the old Schuster's Building in University Plaza at Asher and University. From campus, it is beyond the tennis courts and Public Safety as you walk towards Asher. There will be clear signage. There isnıt room for all faculty members to have a desk or office there, so the best way to get hold of them is by e-mail and by seeing them in class. For administrative help, contact the Chair, Dr. Russell Murphy, at remurphy@ualr.edu or the administrative assistant, Vicki Plant, at vlkottwitz@ualr.edu. Phone numbers remain the same.
COOPER STIPENDS FOR 2005/2006
Congratulations to the following students who have been awarded competitive Cooper stipends for this academic year.
2nd-year students: Joseph Barnett, Christina Cereghini, Wendy Hedrick, Dante Jacuzzi, Sara Murphy, Wynn Scoggins, Rain Story.
1st-year students: Sarah Burns, Jeaney Knox, Vicki Malpass, Sarah Miller, Shelinda Pattison, Virginia Wyeth.
COOPER SEMINAR & SPEAKERS FOR FALL 2005
Privilege and Protest in the Literature of the 1920s and 30s taught by Dr. Russell Murphy, Monday & Wednesday, 1:40-2:55
The course evaluates various WW I-era and post-war fictions that reflect on shifting social, economic, and political centers of community and power in the U.S. and Britain created both by the cataclysmic war and by an increasing emphasis on cultural and gender inclusiveness in literature.
From 28-29 September, Dr. Murphy will bring in Dr. Benjamin Lockerd, President of the T. S. Eliot Society, in connection with this seminar. Dr. Lockerd is professor of English at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and is the author of several books including Aethereal Rumours: T.S. Eliot's Physics & Poetics. Details later.
From 1-2 November, Dr. Roslyn Knutson will host Dr. Scott McMillin, Professor of English at Cornell University, who will come in connection with her course on English history plays. He has published the following books: The Elizabethan Theatre and the Book of Sir Thomas More (1987); Shakespeare in Performance: Henry IV, Part One (1991); Norton Critical Edition of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy (1996); The Queen's Men and Their Plays, 1583-1603, with Sally-Beth MacLean (1998), which was awarded Sohmer-Hall Prize for best work of early theatre history in 1998, by the Globe Trust in London; and The First Quarto of Othello (2001). His public lecture is on Tuesday 1 November at 7:30 in DSC Room A.
COOPER SEMINAR & SPEAKERS FOR SPRING 2006
Dr. Paul Yoder will teach a Cooper seminar on William Blake and will host a speaker in connection with this course. A poet, painter, and engraver, Blake lived in a period of philosophical, artistic, and political revolution. Unlike his more conservative contemporaries, Blake believed the fiery furnace of revolution would produce a better world, and his texts often put the reader through a similar sort of furnace experience, melting away old ways of seeing to make way for new vision. Readings include Blake's major poetry, some early satires, and selections from his unpublished notebooks and letters.
The second speaker will be hosted by Dr. David Jauss. Dr. Sydney Lea, who teaches at Dartmouth College, has published a novel, A Place in Mind; two collections of nonfiction, Hunting the Whole Way Home and A Little Wildness; and eight collections of poems, including one that was in the top three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in 2001. Among his many creative writing awards are fellowships from the Rockefeller, Fulbright, and Guggenheim Foundations. He founded New England Review. Date TBA.
STUDENT NEWS
- Shelinda Pattisonıs project on Arkansas slave narratives is featured in the 2005 UALR undergraduate research brochure available this fall. She is also contributing an essay to The Encyclopedia of Abolitionism, a two-volume reference work to be published by a major publisher, Greenwood Press.
- Wynn Scoggins attended the 2005 Toni Morrison Conference in Cincinnati. Wynn says, "I got to see Toni Morrison in the flesh six times and was once so close to her that I could hear her bracelets rattling against each other. It was like being in the room with God!!!" The highlight was a performance of the opera Margaret Garner, which is based on Morrisonıs novel Beloved.
- Greg DeRossitte attended the Stratford, Ontario, Shakespeare Festival to help with aspects of his Cooper project on staging Marloweıs Tamburlaine.
- Allison Redding has been awarded a teaching assistantship for graduate study in English at Fayetteville this fall. She is also busy training her standard poodle puppy, Apollo.
- Jackie Gharapour, a 2004 graduate of the Cooper and Scholars programs, has been selected for the Law Review at the University of Virginia Law School.
OTHER NOTABLE EVENTS
- Nobel Prize-winning Mexican author Carlos Fuentes will visit the campus on Monday and Tuesday 24 and 25 October. Donıt miss his public lectures: Monday the 24th at 4:30, "Mexico and the US: History, Trade, and Migration," and Tuesday the 25th at 6:30, "An Evening with Carlos Fuentes." Check for further information and tickets.
- The annual Sequoyah Research Center Symposium on Native American history, literature, journalism, and preservation runs Thursday 20 to Saturday 22 October. Hear indigenous authors, scholars, leaders, activists, and archivists from all over the USA, Canada, and New Zealand. Free and open to the public. For information go to http://www.anpa.ualr.edu
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