An Occasional Broadsheet

William G. Cooper, Jr., Honors Program in English, UALR
December 2006 (No. 27)

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

COOPER SEMINAR FOR SPRING 2007
In spring 2007, Dr. Jim Levernier will teach the Cooper seminar The Alternative American Canon on Wednesdays from 12:15 to 2:55.

He will also host a public lecture and class visit by Dr. Lorrayne Carroll, Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern Maine, author of Rhetorical Drag: Gender Impersonation, Captivity, and the Writing of History (forthcoming, Kent State University Press) and of many articles on early American literature, pedagogy, and globalism. She will be coming in mid April, details later.

CO-SPONSORED COOPER SPEAKER
On 28 February, at 7:30 pm, the Cooper Program will co-sponsor a lecture by Dr. Julia Holloway, a distinguished and internationally prominent medievalist and scholar of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Her public lecture will be on the Brownings, and she will hold an informal discussion the same afternoon on Dante and Dante's teacher, Latini. Dr. Michael Kleine from the Department of Rhetoric and Writing (who has just published a book on Latini) is coordinating the visit.

UALR UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPO 2007
The second UALR Undergraduate Research EXPO will take place on 16 April 2007. Last year's EXPO included poster presentations by 58 students including half a dozen from the Cooper Program.

I am requiring all students who will present their project at the Cooper Colloquium at the end of spring semester to submit their projects for presentation at the Expo. The format for the Expo is poster presentations (not oral delivery). I will send out instructions on effective poster presentation during the spring semester. You'll be hearing a lot more about the Expo and the applications procedure early in the spring.

COOPER SEMINAR FOR FALL 2007:
Dr. Dennis Vannatta will teach a Cooper seminar on Hemingway and Faulkner.

COOPER 10TH ANNIVERSARY:
Spring 2007 marks the 10th anniversary of the first Cooper students that graduated from the Program. A celebratory booklet is in production at the moment. Do you know that almost 70 students have graduated from the Program? The booklet details their projects and mentors and provides a sampling of Cooper seminars and Cooper speakers. There will be a special anniversary event near the end of the spring semester.

STUDENT NEWS:
ROBERT WEBB is graduating from Syracuse University in spring 2007 with an MA in African American Studies. He will enter the PhD program at Syracuse in fall 2007.

NANNETTE CRANE is currently teaching English Composition and Creative Writing at National Park Community College in Hot Srpings. She has been teaching Creative Writing at UALR's Community School for the Arts summer program for two years . She is also finishing up a short story collection titled Expert Zipper Repair.

SARAH BURNS will attend a workshop, on Teaching Japan, at the University of Central Arkansas in the spring of 2007. It is in connection with her Cooper project on Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha as interpreted through the theories of Edward Said.

L. JEANEY KNOX is graduating in December 2006. Her Cooper Honors project is titled "Re-creating Slavery in Frankenstein."

BRANDON BEAM, an early Cooper graduate, has been given the Bowen Scholar Award to attend UALR Law School.

RUTH LOVETT BOOKER SCHOLARSHIP:
This year's topic is "Isaiah Johnson, Dallas County." Thanks to the generosity of the donors the winner will receive $1250 towards his or her tuition next fall and spring. This program showcases the ingenuity and creative talents of our English majors. Entries are due 3 April and the winner will be announced at the AHSS award ceremony in May 2007.