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1. Announcements

Today, November 6, at 7 p.m. in Jerome Richfield 319, there will be a poetry reading featuring two award-winning Los Angeles poets: James Ragan and Lynne Thompson. The reading is being co-sponsored by the English Department and the Northridge Creative Writers Circle. All are invited. Refreshments will be served.

Please announce to your classes that the TA Application Deadline has been extended until Monday, November 10. For more information, see Tonie Mangum.

“Do You Really Want to Live Forever?”–The Post Mortal Performance Project–will be held on Thursday, November 13, and Friday, November 14, in Oviatt 25. For more information and to reserve a seat, see http://goo.gl/VyU8YX.

George Uba will give a 20-minute talk entitled “Politicizing the Lyric: Poetry, Poststructuralism, and Protocol” on Tuesday, November 18, 12:30-1:30 p.m. in ST 703 (English conference room), as part of the Faculty Development Teaching Series. The presentation is used for the lower division survey course English 275: Major American Authors, but can be used in upper division literature courses as well.

Ian Barnard will give a talk entitled “Upsetting Composition Commonplaces” for the Undergraduate Studies Stretch Writing Program Series on December 5, 2:00 p.m. in the Library Presentation Room.

Kim Young will be hosting an upcoming reading and talk (funded by the College of Humanities and the English Department) on Wednesday, November 12. The panel will feature creative non-fiction writer Dinah Lenney, poet Raphael Dagold, and novelist Sandra Hunter. The event will begin at 7:00 p.m. in Chaparral Hall 5125.

2. Reminders

Today, November 6, there will be a march in solidarity with 43 missing Mexican students of Ayotzinapa and missing Central American migrants in Mexico. The march will begin in front of Sierra Tower at 11:00 a.m. and end at the Matador Square at 12:15 p.m.

The Asian American Studies Department is hosting a film screening and Q&A session with filmmaker and SFSU Professor Valerie Soe on Thursday, November 6 from 3:30-5:00 p.m. in the Reseda Room (USU).

3. Opportunities

Faculty are invited to apply for a CSUN eLearning Grant to obtain support to develop instructional projects that improve student learning through, for instance, flipped or hybrid classes, tablet pedagogy, or interactive eTexts. If you have considered redesigning a course or you want to create new instructional materials, now is the time to apply. Visit the CSUN eLearning website to learn about different types of projects, and submit your proposal using the eLearning Grant application form. The application deadline is Monday, December 8, 2014.

4. Achievements

On October 20, Irene Clark gave a presentation at the University of Bristol, England. It was titled “Writing Effective Theses and Dissertations.”

On October 23, Irene Clark also gave a presentation at Queen Mary University, London. It was titled “Improving Student Writing: Genre Awareness, Threshold Concepts, and Transfer.”

Scott Kleinman led a workshop on Text Analysis with Lexos at THATCamp DHSoCal, the regional Digital Humanities “unconference,” at San Diego State University. In addition, the Serendip-o-matic search engine, which he worked on as part of the One Week | One Tool project, continues to receive accolades. Most recently, it received the Charleston Advisor’s Reader’s Choice Award for Best New Mobile App.

Elyce Wakerman’s monthly blog,” Birth of a Book,” in which she describes what goes on behind the scenes as the author prepares to send her book out into the world, can be found at the new URL: http://ewakerman-birthofabook.tumblr.com.