{"id":3197,"date":"2019-08-22T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csun.edu\/english\/tn\/?p=3197"},"modified":"2019-08-22T10:46:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T17:46:39","slug":"volume-511","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csun.edu\/english\/tn\/blog\/2019\/08\/22\/volume-511","title":{"rendered":"Volume 51:1"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. Announcements<\/p>\n

Welcome back to another school year! \u00a0As the new Associate Chair, I look forward to compiling and editing Thursday’s Notes (TN) for this coming academic year.\u00a0If you have any announcements or achievements you would like for me to post, please send them to me (adawahare@csun.edu), and, ideally, by Monday of each week. In any case, I will be sure to include them in TN. Also a warm welcome to the newly elected Chair of the English Department, Professor Beth Wightman!<\/p>\n

The Composition Program Orientation will be held today from 12:00-4:00 p.m. in JR 319. Professor\u00a0Mark Marino from USC will give a talk titled “Teaching Writing in the Post Blogging Era,” and Professor\u00a0Rachael Jordan (one of our M.A. graduates and a full time Lecturer at CSU\u00a0Channel Islands) will present ideas for commenting on student papers. All are welcome to attend.<\/p>\n

Our first Department Meeting will be held on Friday, September 13, from 3:00-5:00 p.m. The remaining meetings will be held on the following dates: \u00a0October 11, November 8, February 14,\u00a0March 13, April 10, and May 8.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0<\/span>Waves <\/em>celebration will be held on Friday, October 4, from 3:00-5:00 p.m. at the Grand Salon in the USU.<\/p>\n

2. \u00a0Opportunities<\/p>\n

The College of Humanities has several grant and fellowship opportunities available this year, such as the Faculty Fellowship and Grant Program and the Research Fellowship Program.\u00a0 Please visit https:\/\/www.csun.edu\/humanities\/college-funded-activities-and-research<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3. Achievements<\/p>\n

Fatema Baldiwala, one of our M.A. graduates, published an article, \u201cHow to Teach Your Students to Write the Perfect Pitch,\u201d in the national NACCE Entrepreneur<\/em> magazine (May 17, 2019).<\/p>\n

Michael Bryson\u2019s new book,\u00a0<\/span>The Humanist (Re)Turn <\/i>was published in August by Routledge. It is a theoretical and comparative work that engages with literature from the\u00a0<\/span>Bhagavad Gita<\/i>, Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Richardson, Austen, Charlotte Bront\u00eb, Goethe, George Eliot, and Flannery O\u2019Connor.<\/p>\n

Irene Clark’s book\u00a0<\/span>Concepts in Composition: Theory and Practices in the Teaching of Writing<\/i>\u00a0(Routledge, Taylor and Francis) has been published in a third edition.<\/p>\n

Anthony Dawahare presented a paper drawn from his new book, Tillie Olsen and the Dialectical Philosophy of Proletarian Literature <\/i>(Lexington 2018), <\/i>at the Marxist Literary Group\u2019s Institute on Culture & Society (University of Illinois, Chicago) in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. Announcements Welcome back to another school year! \u00a0As the new Associate Chair, I look forward to compiling and editing Thursday’s Notes (TN) for this coming academic year.\u00a0If you have any announcements or achievements you would like for me to post, please send them to me (adawahare@csun.edu), and, ideally, by Monday of each week. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csun.edu\/english\/tn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csun.edu\/english\/tn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csun.edu\/english\/tn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csun.edu\/english\/tn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csun.edu\/english\/tn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3197"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.csun.edu\/english\/tn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3206,"href":"https:\/\/www.csun.edu\/english\/tn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions\/3206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csun.edu\/english\/tn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csun.edu\/english\/tn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csun.edu\/english\/tn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}