The next AND FINAL ISSUE of the semester will appear on 2 December 2009.
The next speaker in the “Conversations in and Out of the Disciplines” series will be Andrew Nicholls from the Department of History and Social Studies Education, this Friday, 20 November at 3 pm.
Students in the Writing Major will read from their work on Thursday, 3 December, 4-6 pm in the Flexible Theater. Encourage your students to attend. Rightabout now extra credit is looking pretty attractive.
Mark your calendars for the English Department Holiday Party, Friday, 4 December at 5 pm in Butler 210.
Lisa Berglund has a spare ticket to Ha Jin’s reading at Babel this Friday, 20 November, at Kleinhans: $18.
The NEH Summer Institutes at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park this year are “Reading Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure” with Kate Flint and “Five by Five; The Short Story as Art and Artifact” with Louis Menand. The Institute runs 4-9 July 2010, and you get room, board, travel, lodging, texts and a $1200 stipend. You could actually make money! Applications are due 12 March.
A great opportunity for teachers from NEH: An interdisciplinary institute, "Mozart’s Worlds: The German Operas," for 25 American school teachers, will be held in Vienna, Austria, June 21-July 15, 2010. For an application or more information, consult www.udayton.edu/~nehinstitute2010 or call Annie Milliron at 937-229-4229. Each participant will receive a stipend of $3,300 from the NEH. Applications must be postmarked no later than March 2, 2010. Applicants should have an elementary knowledge of music, but need not be music specialists to apply successfully; applications from teachers covering the entire field of humanities are actively solicited.
The College Partnership Development office of the Center for the Development of Human Services at BSC is seeking faculty partnership projects in the areas of Proposal Writing, and Business Writing for Erie County Development of Social Services. Such projects aid social service providers in delivering information and skills to clients in NYS. The project(s) would begin immediately this semester and run through August 31, 2010. The stipend for individual faculty partnership projects is $1600. Partnership Grants are recognized as Faculty Service and, often, Applied Research.
Projects can be research oriented, web-based delivery, workshop description or materials, multi-media curriculum, etc. Submitting a proposal to CDHS is a very streamlined process; contact Gail Daniels, Director of College Relations. For more information you also can talk to Barbara T. Bontempo.
Please remember to vote on the Part-Time Faculty by-law revision moved and seconded in the English Department meeting on Tuesday. Ballots are available from Maureen Lougen.
The McNair Scholars Program provides financial and academic support for talented sophomores and juniors who are first-generation college/low-income and/or from traditionally under-represented groups. Eligible students need to pursue graduate study, with a goal toward entering a doctoral program. The program currently is recruiting academically strong and motivated students from all disciplines; applications are due by December 11. Encourage interested students to visit the McNair Scholars Program homepage or the McNair Scholars Office, 253 Science, or to call 878-3411. Faculty Supervisors for the McNair Scholars program are needed. Benefits to participating faculty include a $1,000 stipend to supervise a student’s research project and financial support to fund the student’s material costs for research. For more information, contact Sandra D. Washington.
Funding Available for Undergraduate Students to Conduct Research: The Office of Undergraduate Research’s Small Grants Program provides up to $400 to assist students in carrying out their research and creative activities during the academic year. NEW this year: up to $600 may be requested for a single project that involves two or more students. The funding is intended to help defray the cost of travel, supplies, and other materials necessary to conduct a research, scholarly, or creative project. It is not intended as salary for the student(s). Student(s) receiving small grants awards are required to participate in the 12th annual Student Research and Creativity
Celebration, April 30 and May 1, 2010. A second round of this program has a spring call for applications and a submission deadline of February 26, 2010.
Hooray! Ann Colley has scaled the peak!!!... er, I mean, Ann’s been named a SUNY Distinguished
Professor! Let’s hear from Acting Provost Kevin Railey, our erstwhile chair: “It is my great pleasure to announce that Ann C. Colley, professor of English, has been named a SUNY Distinguished Professor— the highest rank awarded to instructional faculty at SUNY institutions—by the Board of Trustees. All of us who have worked with Professor Colley in her nearly 25 years at Buffalo State College know she is a brilliant scholar, an outstanding teacher, and a wonderful colleague. She is also a great credit to her department, to our institution, and to the field of Victorian studies. Her promotion to SUNY Distinguished Professor is an honor she richly deserves.”
Barbara Bontempo presented a session on “International/Global Approaches to Learning: Benefits for Faculty & Staff” as part of a slate of Panel/Workshops following the Faculty Scholarship & Creativity Exhibits on October 29, 2009. The presentation described her English Conversations Partner Project (Fall 08/Spring 09) where students from ENG 461 were paired with BSC International students for informal, conversational exchanges of stories about family, culture, school life, and the experience of adolescence across cultures.
The Winter 2009 issue of The Florida Review will publish Kim Chinquee’s review of Peter Selgin's collection Drowning Lessons. This Saturday, 14 November, Kim will be reading and book-signing as part of the Somerville News Literary Festival, in Somerville, MA. And as of November 30, she'll be the new fiction and nonfiction editor of the literary journal elimae, www.elimae.com
At the annual NEASECS conference in Ottawa two weeks ago, Lisa Berglund was elected to a three-year term on the Executive Board. She also presented a paper entitled “Remaking Mrs. Piozzi as a Cultural Ambassador: The 1804 Paris Edition of British Synonymy,” and chaired a panel on the Bluestockings.
Alumni!—We want to share your news! Send updates and weblinks to Lisa Berglund or Maureen Lougen.
On-line giving: Each year the English department produces workshops, poetry and prose readings, scholarly presentations, student scholarships, and student publications. Alumni are always welcome to participate in department events, and even a small donation can help. To donate online to your English Department, visit the Buffalo State English Department Giving; under School, Department, and Specific Funds choose the ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FUND. You may also choose to support a specific department project. If you have any questions please contact
Maureen Lougen.
English Department Newsletter
Buffalo State College
Compiled by Lisa Berglund
berglul@buffalostate.edu
