{"id":1354,"date":"2018-01-29T14:23:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T19:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2018-01-29T14:23:17","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T19:23:17","slug":"monday-missive-january-29-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/blog\/2018\/01\/29\/monday-missive-january-29-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Missive – January 29, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Southern Child in Literature and Film<\/strong>\u00a0— Our English Department has a long tradition of promoting the study of Southern literature and culture.\u00a0 In 1977, the English Department officially added to the university catalog an upper-level course titled “Literature of the American South,” and ever since then, members of our faculty have been teaching courses and conducting scholarship on Southern literature.\u00a0 In keeping with this forty-year history, the English Department is about to launch a series of cultural events under the heading of “The Southern Child in Literature and Film.”\u00a0 Supported by a major grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council and co-sponsored by the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, these events will be open to the public and will take place at various venues both on campus and in the Charlotte community.<\/span><\/p>\n

The kick-off event will take place on\u00a0Thursday, February 8, 2018, at 5:00 p.m.<\/span>\u00a0in the Atkins Library’s Halton Reading Room. This event is tied to a special issue of\u00a0The\u00a0Southern Quarterly\u00a0<\/em>that I recently guest edited on “Children in the South.” \u00a0Three of the contributors to this special issue will give presentations related to their articles.\u00a0 Johnathan Alexander will give a talk titled “Outside Within:\u00a0 Growing Up Gay in the South.”\u00a0 Jan Susina will give a presentation titled “Alabama Bound:\u00a0 Reading Harper Lee’s\u00a0To Kill a Mockingbird\u00a0<\/em>While Southern,” and Joanne Joy will deliver a presentation titled “Lessons at the Southern Table:\u00a0 The Fusion of Childhood and Food in Dori Sanders’s\u00a0Clover.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>For more information about this event, please click on the following link:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/exchange.uncc.edu\/event\/the-child-character-in-southern-literature-and-film\/<\/a><\/p>\n

This project also involves a film series featuring films set in the South in which child characters play significant roles.\u00a0 The Charlotte Mecklenburg Library is sponsoring this film series, and the films will be shown at library locations.\u00a0 The details about this film series will be announced soon, but the tentative schedule is listed below:<\/p>\n

March 10th<\/sup>:\u00a0\u00a0 BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD<\/p>\n

March 24th<\/sup>:\u00a0\u00a0 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD<\/p>\n

April 7th<\/sup>:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 SOUNDER<\/p>\n

April 14th<\/sup>: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 THE REIVERS<\/p>\n

May 12th<\/sup>: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NIGHT OF THE HUNTER<\/p>\n

Several members of the English Department are contributing to the planning and administrative aspects of this project.\u00a0 Sarah Minslow is playing a key leadership role in all aspects of this project.\u00a0 Paula Eckard is participating in all of the planning meetings and is coordinating the project’s connections with the American Studies Program.\u00a0 Sam Shapiro, who teaches film courses for the English Department, is taking responsibility for the film series, and Angie Williams is handling the project’s budget.\u00a0 We also have two students who are helping with the project–Kelly Brabec and Amy Arnott.\u00a0 My thanks go to everyone who is helping to make this project a reality.<\/p>\n

Kudos<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u2014\u00a0As you know, I like to use my Monday Missives to share news about recent accomplishments by members of the English Department.\u00a0 Here is the latest news:<\/p>\n

Meghan Barnes<\/strong>\u00a0has put together an impressive string of journal publications in the past few months.\u00a0 Here is the list of her recent articles that she either wrote or co-wrote:<\/p>\n