Thursday's Notes

1. Announcements:

• Don Bogen, Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati, is the Department’s Distinguished Visiting Speaker and will read from his work at 7 p.m. April 18 in the Whitsett Room (SH 451). He is the author of four books, Luster (2003), The Known World (1997), After the Splendid Display (1986), and A Necessary Order: Theodore Roethke and the Writing Process (1991). He is the editor of The Cincinnati Review and is a book reviewer for The Nation. The reading, book-signing, and reception are open to the public.
• The Department extends its condolences to Sharon Smartt, whose mother, Eva Smartt, passed away on April 1.
• Please announce to your classes the various departmental awards for undergraduate and graduate students. You can get information on the awards in the English Department office.

2. Reminders:

• The Associated Graduate Students in English (AGSE) at CSUN will hold its annual graduate student conference on April 28, 2007.  This year's conference title is "Red Light Literature: Confronting Taboos.”  Students are invited to submit paper proposals that explore the theme of taboos and their incarnations and transformations including, but not limited to: dissections, deconstructions, blurrings, violations, regulations, disruptions, and/or transgressions. For more information visit http://www.csun.edu/~agse/.
• The English Intern Program will be hosting an English major career workshop 3-5 p.m. April 23 in the Whitsett Room (SH 451). Information will be provided for students interested in careers other than teaching. Featured speakers will include Jan Potzmann from the Career Center and English Department graduates who will share their experiences in making the transition into the workplace. For more information, please contact Kent Baxter, kent.baxter@csun.edu, (818) 677-3425.

3. Faculty/Student/Staff Achievements:

• Mary Angelino, a creative writing (poetry) student, has accepted a four-year fellowship at the MFA program at University of Arkansas, where she was also awarded a TA position.
• Joseph Thomas presented his paper “Curious Boys, or How William S. Burroughs Murdered Children’s Literature” and chaired and co-organized the panel "The End of Children's Literature" at the Seventh Biennial Conference on Modern Critical Approaches to Children's Literature in Nashville, Tenn.
• Beth Wightman's essay "Geopolitics and the Sight of the Nation: Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September" has appeared in LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 18. She has also been selected to participate in the NEH Summer Seminar on "Joyce's Ulysses: Texts and Contexts," directed by Kevin Dettmar at Trinity College Dublin.

4. New Items in the Thursday’s Notes file (ST708) or on Bulletin Board (Outside 710)

Competitions and Fellowships

• Rattle, a journal that offers $5,000 for first place in its poetry contest, is accepting submissions with a deadline of Aug. 1. For more information, visit http://www.rattle.com/.

Lectures and Other Events

• Gloria DeLaTorre-Wycoff, author of Scarred by Scandal, Redeemed by Love: The Triumph of an Unmarried Mother, will appear as part of the CSUN Distinguished Speaker Program at 11 a.m. April 17 in the Whitsett Room (SH 451).
• Novelist and poet Sesshu Foster will present a discussion and slide show titled “Atomik Aztex: Identity, Border Crossings, and Rage” at 4:20-7 p.m. April 26 in the Flintridge Room of the University Student Union. His appearance is part of the CSUN Distinguished Visiting Speaker Program.

Jobs and Oportunities

• The English Department at UC Riverside is seeking applicants for full- and part-time lecturer positions for its composition classes. The application deadline is April 23. For more information, contact Susan Brown at 951-827-1456.
• The CSU Summer Arts Program will offer a course this year titled “How to Create Comic Books and Graphic Novels.” The guest faculty will include Sabrina Jones, Trina Robbins, Paul Buhle, and Spain Rodriguez. Also, Terry Zwigoff, director of the films Crumb, Art School Confidential, and Ghost World, will be a guest speaker. Students interested in the class, which will run July 1-14, should visit http://www.csusummerarts.org/ for more information.

Compiled by Scott Andrews, Associate Chair

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