Karla Alwes, Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chair
Andrew Anderson, Lecturer
Alla Boldina, Visiting Assistant Professor
Ross Borden, Lecturer
Victoria Boynton, Associate Professor
Debra Brown, Lecturer
Jennifer Bryan, Lecturer
Amy Burtner, Lecturer II
T. Ellen Byrnes , Associate Professor
Jack Carr
Joseph Cleveland, Lecturer
Wesley Clymer, Lecturer
Gabriel Colella
Vaughn Copey, Technology Coordinator / Lecturer
Jesse Daugherty, Lecturer
Jennifer Drake, Lecturer
Bernie Earley, Lecturer
Tim Emerson, Lecturer
David Franke, Associate Professor and Director of Professional Writing
Marni Gauthier, Associate Professor
Ann Gebhard, Professor Emeritus
Alexander Gonzalez, Professor
Andrea Harbin, Assistant Professor
Mario Hernandez, Lecturer
Gwen Jadwin, Lecturer
Clark Jones, Lecturer
Mary Lynch Kennedy, Distinguished Teaching Professor and Campus Writing Coordinator
Denise D. Knight, Distinguished Teaching Professor
Kathy Lattimore, Lecturer IV
Christine Lemchak, Lecturer
Matthew Lessig, Assistant Professor
Gailanne Mackenzie, Lecturer
Ben Martin, Lecturer
Noralyn Masselink, Professor and Coordinator of Adolescence English Education (BA, MAT, and MSEd)
Edward McCorduck, Lecturer I
Homer Mitchell, Lecturer
Nicola Morris, Lecturer
Emmanuel Nelson, Professor
Lisa Neville, Lecturer
Robert Patterson, Lecturer
Jaclyn Pittsley, Lecturer
Alex Reid, Associate Professor
Robert Rhodes, Emeritus Professor
Jane Richards, Lecturer
Deborah Rogers, Lecturer
Linda Rosekrans, Lecturer IV
Cynthia Sarver, Assistant Professor
Joel Shatzky, Emeritus Professor
Susan Smith
Karen Stearns, Assistant Professor
Elizabeth Stone
John Suarez, Lecturer III
Paul Washburn, Assistant Professor
Laureen Wells-Weiss, Lecturer III
Anne Wiegard, Lecturer III
Janet Wolf, Associate Professor
Karen Knapp: 753.4307 (knappk@cortland.edu)
Priscilla Harvey: 753.4308 (harveyp@cortland.edu)
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.”
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
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