News & Events
Victoria Boynton’s book of poems, Contraptions, will be published by  Stockport Flats Press. See the website, www. highwatermarksalon.com/index. The launch performance, with paintings by Marney Lieberman to accompany the poems, will be at the High Watermark Salon Studio at 4 PM on April 25. See website for directions. She has been invited to give readings in Binghamton and Ithaca over the summer and Truth or Consequences this spring. Also Boynton’s poem "First Date with a Dozer" will appear in Burnside Review Spring 2009 and her poem “Paper Doll” appears  in the Winter 2009 issue of  Plainsongs . Her essay "Women's Yoga: A Multi-genre Meditation on Language and the Body" will be published this summer by SUNY Press in Women at the Gym: Feminist Perspectives on Community through the Body .

Emmanuel Nelson’s chapters on James Baldwin, Alice Walker, David Feinberg and Larry Duplechan appear in the  three-volume LGBTQ America Today (Greenwood Press, 2009).  He also served as Advisory Editor for the project.

Janet Wolf is participating in two spring conferences:  the South Central Society for 18 th Century Studies (Corpus Christi TX), at which she presented a paper titled “Cara Sposa: Griselda, Alcestis, and Other Faithful Wives in Baroque Opera,” and the Northeast MLA, in Boston, at which she will chair a panel on “Innovative Approaches to Teaching Canonical Works” and reading a paper titled “The Golden Dustman as Villain and Voice of Reason: Enlightenment Comedy in Our Mutual Friend.”

Announcements

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Old Main 110

1:30-2:40 p.m.

SECRETARY:  Kennedy (Harbin should not begin her career as secretary at a meeting such as this one.)

Faculty Achievements:

Emmanuel Nelson has chapters on seven authors in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature:  Bharati Mukherjee, Santha Rama Rau, Abraham Verghese, Kaavya Viswanathan, Nahid Rachlin, Sara Suleri and Kiran Desai.  He also served as the advisory editor for the two-volume encyclopedia project.

Denise D. Knight’s book The Selected Letters of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, co-edited with Jennifer S. Tuttle, has been published by the University of Alabama Press.

From the Chair:

Commencement and reception plans

Exit interviews with graduating students

Winter Session Course

Summer Session I:  begins May 20

From the Dean:

Sabbatical criteria

TEC representation

Agenda items:

1. The Committee for Cultural and Intellectual Climate’s theme and “common book” plan for 2009-10 (Gauthier)

2. Department Committee elections:

Current memberships:

Curriculum Committees:  (PWR) Kennedy, Boynton, Franke

                                                   (Liberal Arts) Wolf, Gauthier, Lessig

                                                   (AEN) Sarver, Washburn, Masselink

Personnel Committee:   Knight, Nelson, Franke, Boynton (one more year), Byrnes (retiring)

Scholarship Committee: Gauthier, Stearns, Reid (leaving); Keegan Scholarship:  Wolf

Newsletter editor:  Boynton

English Club:  Stearns

3. (my machine will not allow me to type the numeral 3 at this point):  Discussion of “core mission” and strategic plans for the English Department, to provide to the Long Range Planning Committee.

4.  Introduction of a draft for request for the line that will be vacated with the retirement of Byrnes (NB:  we will not be voting on the draft; it is for introductory and informative purposes only.  Questions and comments are welcome, and the vote will occur at a later time, per Robert’s Rules.)

5.  New Business

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English Department meeting agenda

Wednesday, March 18, 2009; 1:30-2:40

Old Main G-23 (NB: room change)

SECRETARY:Gauthier

From the Dean

From the Chair:

Upcoming Open House; Honors Weekend; Commencement and Reception

Agenda:

1. Kathy Lattimore’s presentation of electronic student conference;

2. Cynthia Sarver’s report of the proposed electronic “reminder”status;

3. Update on student awards from the Scholarships Committee.

4. New Business

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Of importance:

For the next department meeting, March 18 th, Kathy Lattimore will be demonstrating the online tutor program.  We MAY need to change the room location—that is not a certainty.  I will let you know (and you, Rhonda—as soon as I can).

For the April 8 th meeting, representatives from the library (the library bibliographers) will join us at 2:15 to tell us news about library research.

Thanks.  k

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From the Chair:

Upcoming Spring Events and who is next in line to participate in them; From the Dean

Agenda Items:

                Approval of the minutes of February 4th

• Scholarship Committee news (Wolf, Gauthier, Boynton);
• News of current state of English Honors Society, Sigma Tau Delta (Stearns);
• Presentation on Writing Commons and new developments therein (Lattimore);
• New Business