The 73rd annual convention of the College Language Association (CLA) will blossom in the Bluegrass this year. Themed, "Mason-Dixon and Maginot Lines: Borders, Boundaries and Barriers in Languages and Literatures," the conference will last from April 11-13, with pre-convention events on Wednesday, April 10.
The University of Kentucky Alumni Association presented its 2013 Great Teacher Awards to six recipients last night at a recognition dinner, followed by an appearance at Rupp Arena’s center court during halftime of the South Carolina vs. UK basketball game.
Come out, learn about Sigma Tau Delta--the Honors Society for students in English, and help us plan our Spring events.
The James S. Brown Award is given to honor the memory of Professor James S. Brown, a sociologist on the faculty of the University of Kentucky from 1946 to 1982, whose pioneering studies of society, demography, and migration in Appalachia (including his ethnography of “Beech Creek”) helped to establish the field of Appalachian Studies at U.K. and beyond.
In May 2013, ten students will go to Costa Rica to do ethnographic writing for English 205: Advanced Composition. Steve Alvarez of WRD is taking the group to the town of Heredia for four weeks. The course meets the graduation requirement for writing, and will include service learning opportunities and plenty of cultural experiences. For more information about taking this class, please contact the instructor.
Michael Trask will pre-circulate a paper for this Seminar.
Nazera Wright will pre-circulate a paper for this Seminar, co-sponsored by English and African American & Africana Studies.
Mary Jean Corbett, John W. Steube Professor of English and Affiliate of Women, Gender, and Sexual Studies at Miami U. of Ohio, will pre-circulate her paper on "Queering Closure in The Woman in White and Lady Audley's Secret" for this event.
Andrea Holliger will be speaking on "The Death of a Trope: Authority, Bodies, and the American Culture of Servitude" and Seth Lee will present "Whithersoever Thou Goest: The Discourses of Exile in Early Modern Literature."
