Thursday's Notes

1. Announcements:

• Former CSUN faculty member Brian Leung will be in Los Angeles in August for a reading promoting his new novel, Lost Men. The novel will be released in June from Shaye Areheart Books. Brian will be appearing at Skylight Books in Los Angeles at 5 p.m. on Aug. 4. He is now on the faculty at the University of Louisville. More information on the novel is available at http://www.readbrianleung.com.

2. Reminders:

• An "Items of Interest" section has been added to the English Department home page. This section contains links to online newspapers and other web sites with newsworthy articles relevant to those interested in our field. (For instance, there arecurrently links to the Los Angeles Times obituary for Kurt Vonnegut and the announcement of a new J.R.R. Tolkien novel.) If you would like a link added to the section, please send it to Scott Kleinman (scott.kleinman@csun.edu).
• Thursday’s Notes is also published weekly on our department webpage. Please submit items for upcoming Thursday’s Notes to Scott Andrews, the Associate Chair, or to the Thursday’s Notes folder in Martha Alzamora’s office.

3. Faculty/Student/Staff Achievements:

• Jo Anna Bashforth will receive a Polished Apple Award from the University Ambassadors at their 12th annual ceremony on May 9.
• Pamela Bourgeois and Irene Clark attended the CSU English Council meetings in Burlingame, Calif., April 18-20, meeting with English faculty from across the CSU.
• Irene Clark has received a Beck grant for a project titled "Linking Writing Across Disciplines: An Integrative Model." She will be working with Dr. Jim Craine in the Department of Geography and Dr. Ronald Fischbach in the Department of Public Health.
• Rene Fleischbein has been accepted to the University of Southern Mississippi’s English Ph.D. program for Fall 2007. She was offered a TAship for one year that is renewable for an additional two years.
• Barbara Kroll gave a presentation, “Advanced EFL Writing Courses for Doctoral Students,” at the recent annual conference of the American Association of Applied Linguists (AAAL) in Costa Mesa. Her talk focused on the writing program Barbara studied while a Visiting Scholar at Haifa’s Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Fall 2005. The program’s director, Professor Shimona Kushner, flew in from Israel to co-present the paper with Barbara.
• Linda Rader Overman's creative nonfiction piece titled "Family Pictures Shape Memory" will appear in the anthology Chican@s in the Conversations to be published this fall.

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

Lectures and Other Events

• "Historical Formalism, or Aesthetics in American Literary History" is a conference scheduled for the Huntington Library in Pasadena on May 18-19. Eleven leading scholars in American cultural and literary studies will be participating: Nancy Bentley, Bill Brown, Russ Castronovo, James Dawes, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Wai Chee Dimock, Robert Kaufman, Dana Nelson, Samuel Otter, Nancy Ruttenburg, and Eric Sundquist. For more information contact Paul Gilmore (pgilmore@csulb.edu) or Greg Jackson (greg.jackson@rutgers.edu).  For registration information contact Susi Krasnoo (skrasnoo@huntington.org, 626-405-3432).

Jobs and Opportunities

• The College of the Canyons is looking to hire two full-time English instructors by the fall semester. More information on the positions is available at: http://jobs.canyons.edu/ASEWebAcademic/ASEPage_JobListMenu.asp.

Compiled by Scott Andrews, Associate Chair

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