{"id":1544,"date":"2018-08-20T10:23:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T14:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2018-08-20T10:23:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T14:23:41","slug":"monday-missive-august-20-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/blog\/2018\/08\/20\/monday-missive-august-20-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Missive – August 20, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Engagement and Outreach<\/b>\u00a0— Our English Department has a long history of engaging with educational partners and allies and reaching out to community organizations.\u00a0 This tradition is alive and well as is reflected in two recent developments involving members of our English Department.<\/p>\n

Last week the university announced that Consuelo Salas is the 2018 recipient of the J. Murre\"\"<\/a>y Atkins Library Faculty Engagement Award.\u00a0 Consuelo, who has a joint appointment with the University Writing Program and the English Department, is being honored for her innovative and collaborative work with three of the librarians at Atkins in order to enrich the educational experiences of her students and promote “information literacy.”\u00a0 As part of this collaborative effort, Consuelo arranged for her students to draw on the resources of the library’s Visualization Lab (VisLab) in their research and writing projects.\u00a0 In an email Consuelo sent to me about this collaboration, she wrote, “Our collaborative curriculum has prepared students not only for their future university coursework but also for their future professions and to be critical and engaged citizens. We plan to continue our collaboration in future courses.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Consuelo will receive the Atkins Library Faculty Engagement award during a ceremony scheduled for 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 6, in the Halton Reading Room.\u00a0 For more information about Consuelo’s award, please click on the following link:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/inside.uncc.edu\/news-features\/2018-08-14\/salas-receives-atkins-library-faculty-engagement-award<\/a><\/p>\n

The English Department’s tradition of community outreach extends well beyond Charlotte’s city limits.\u00a0 For example, several members of our department are involved in an upcoming cultural event called On the Same Page:\u00a0 Ashe County’s Literary Festival.\u00a0 This festival will take place in West Jefferson, North Carolina, on September 11-15, 2018.\u00a0 Chris Arvidson and Henry Doss, two of our part-time faculty members, are helping to organize and promote this festival, and Bryn Chancellor is participating as one of the featured authors.\u00a0 One of the other participating writers is Tracy K. Smith, who is the current U.S. Poet Laureate.\u00a0 For more information about this literary festival, please click on the following link:\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/www.onthesamepagefestival.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

As these two recent examples demonstrate, our English Department does not exist within the confines of an isolated academic silo.\u00a0 To riff off lines from Johnny Cash’s “I’ve Been Everywhere” and Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land,”\u00a0 we are everywhere, man, from Atkins’s high-tech VisLab to Ashe County’s Lit Fest.<\/p>\n

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Kudos<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u2014\u00a0As you know, I like to use my\u00a0Monday<\/span>\u00a0Missives<\/span>\u00a0to share news about recent accomplishments by members of the English Department.\u00a0 Here is the latest news:<\/p>\n

Clayton Tarr<\/b>\u00a0published a review of\u00a0Big & Small:\u00a0 A Cultural History of Extraordinary Bodies<\/i>\u00a0in the most recent issue of the\u00a0Children’s Literature Association Quarterly.\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Upcoming Events and Meetings\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Here is a list of upcoming events and meetings related to the start of the fall 2018 semester:<\/p>\n

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–Classes Begin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Monday<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0August<\/span><\/span>\u00a020 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Classes begin at 5:00pm\/First day of daytime classes is on August 21<\/div>\n
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–CLAS All Faculty Mtg\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Friday,\u00a0August<\/span><\/span>\u00a024\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a08:30am-12:00pm in McKnight Hall<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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–English Department Mtg<\/b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Friday,\u00a0September 7<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a011:00am-12:30pm\u00a0in Fretwell 280C (English Department Conference Room)<\/p>\n

Quirky Quiz Question<\/b>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The person who is currently in charge of the Atkins Library’s Visualization Lab received her M.A. in English from our English Department.\u00a0 Do you know her name?<\/p>\n

Last week’s answer: Go Tell It On The Mountain<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Another Country is James Baldwin’s third novel. His first novel came out in 1953 and is an example of autobiographical fiction.\u00a0 Does anybody know the title of Baldwin’s first novel?\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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