An Occasional Broadsheet
William G. Cooper, Jr., Honors Program in English, UALR
September 2005
SPECIAL GRE/PRAXIS SESSIONS
The English Department has organized some practice sessions for students planning to take the GRE specialized Literature in English exam (required for entrance to many graduate programs in English). Test taking hints, practice questions, and overviews of periods, authors, critical approaches, etc.
might also help English major/Secondary Education minor students who will have to take Praxis exams at some point.
All sessions are voluntary, of course. The English faculty are also giving their time for this extra activity. Come to whatever sessions you wish, especially those in areas where you feel particularly weak. Also, check out the GRE website at www.gre.org. The sessions are listed as lasting an hour and a half, but they may well not go that long.
If you have anthologies that cover the periods below, please bring the relevant one(s) with you to each session. Dr. Knutson in particular will be using index information from an anthology in the session she is leading.
PLACE: All sessions will be held in Donaghey Student Center Meeting Room E.
Monday, 9/26, 3-4:30 pm: Overview/American Literature (Zabelle Stodola)
Tuesday, 10/4, 6-7:30 pm: Medieval & Renaissance Periods (Roslyn Knutson)
REMEMBER TO BRING AN ANTHOLOGY OF BRITISH LITERATURE TO ABOUT 1650 IF YOU HAVE ONE.
Monday, 10/10, 3-4:30 pm: Romanticism (Paul Yoder)
Monday, 10/17, 3-4:30 pm: Victorian Literature/Native American Literature (Jim Parins)
Monday, 10/24, 3-4:30 pm: Modernism (Russell Murphy)
Monday, 10/31, 3-4:30 pm: Contemporary Period (Dennis Vannatta)
NO MEETING ON NOVEMBER 7TH.
Monday, 11/14, 3-4:30 pm: Eighteenth-Century Literature/ Literary Criticism (Earl Ramsey).
COOPER SPEAKERS SERIES
All Cooper stipend holders are expected to attend at least one, and preferably both, of these lectures.
Dr. Benjamin Lockerd, President of the T. S. Eliot Society, will give a lecture titled "T. S. Eliot on Nature and Culture." Prof. Lockerd is Professor of English at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and has published several books including Aethereal Rumours: T.S. Eliot's Physics & Poetics.
Wednesday 28 September, DSC Room C, 7:30 pm.
Dr. Scott McMillin, Professor of English at Cornell University, will give a lecture titled "The Disappearance of Falstaff." Prof. McMillin 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).
Tuesday 1 November, DSC Room A, 7:30 pm.
BOTH Lectures free and open to the public. Reception afterwards.
COOPER SEMINAR & SPEAKERS FOR SPRING 2006
Dr. Paul Yoder will teach a Cooper seminar on William Blake. Readings include Blake's major poetry, some early satires, and selections from his unpublished notebooks and letters. He will host a lecture by visiting speaker Dr. Sheila Spector, whose topic is Benjamin Disraeli's Alroy (available in an electronic edition she edited), considered the first Jewish historical novel. Details later.
Dr. David Jauss will host a reading by writer Sydney Lea, who teaches at Dartmouth College. Dr. Lea has published a novel, two collections of nonfiction, and eight collections of poems, including one that was in the top three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in 2001. Details later.
STUDENT NEWS
- GREG DEROSSITTE attended the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, over the summer, with partial funding from the Cooper Program. He was particularly interested in the Festival's staging of Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II. He wanted to apply information about direction and interpretation to his Cooper project on staging another Marlowe play, Tamburlaine the Great. Greg was able to talk to some of the actors and asked them why the director had decided "to remain absolutely true to Marlowe's text." The answer was that he "trusted Marlowe," even hundreds of years later when other directors have sometimes taken great license with the texts.
- CLAUDIA VAN DEUSEN is recovering from successful cancer treatments. We look forward to seeing her on campus again.
OTHER NOTABLE EVENTS
- Nobel Prize-winning Mexican author Carlos Fuentes will visit UALR on Monday and Tuesday 24 and 25 October. Don't 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." Further information and tickets available through the Dean's Office, CAHSS.
- 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 world. Free and open to the public. For information go to http://www.anpa.ualr.edu.
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