{"id":1763,"date":"2019-03-18T11:56:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T15:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2019-03-18T11:56:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T15:56:57","slug":"monday-missive-march-18-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/blog\/2019\/03\/18\/monday-missive-march-18-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Missive – March 18, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Celebrating the Connections between the English Department and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program<\/b>\u00a0— Beginning in 1987, March has been designated as Women’s History Month in the United States.\u00a0 Since I am writing this Monday Missive in the middle of March, it seems like an appropriate time to write about the longstanding relationship between our English Department and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program.<\/p>\n

UNC Charlotte’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program can be traced back to the late 1970s, but it wasn’t until the 1981-82 academic year that it made its first appearance in the university’s official catalog.\u00a0 This catalog contains the following description of the program:\u00a0 “The Women’s Studies Program at UNCC is designed to meet the needs of women and men for an educational program which recognizes the equal value of women’s experience and contribution to humanity.”\u00a0 Ann Carver, an English professor, was named the first Coordinator of UNC Charlotte’s Women’s Studies Program.\u00a0 Several other English faculty members also helped launch the program, including Shelley Crisp and Stan Patten.<\/p>\n

In recognition of Ann Carver’s leadership in establishing women’s studies as a field of study at UNC Charlotte, the Women’s and Gender Studies Program now sponsors the Dr. Ann C. Carver Essay Contest.\u00a0 The deadline for this contest is March 22, 2019.\u00a0 For more information about this contest, please click on the following link:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/womensandgenderstudies.uncc.edu\/node\/629<\/a><\/p>\n

Throughout the history of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, members of the English Department have played important leadership roles in the program.\u00a0 This pattern is especially evident in the recent history of the program.\u00a0 The three most recent directors of the program are all faculty members in the English Department.\u00a0 From 2012 to 2014, Paula Eckard served as the program’s director.\u00a0 From 2014 to 2017, Katie Hogan served as the director.\u00a0 Since 2017, Janaka Lewis has served as the program’s director.<\/p>\n

Today the Women’s and Gender Studies Program is one UNC Charlotte’s largest and most influential interdisciplinary programs.\u00a0 The success of this program has a lot to do with the many contributions by members of the English Department.<\/p>\n

Kudos<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u2014 As 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

Janaka Lewis<\/b>\u00a0spoke on “Freedom and Family Narratives of African American Women” for the Charlotte Chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society today (3\/16) and did a “meet the author” talk on her books and research process for 4th and 5th grades at Winding Springs Elementary on Monday 3\/11.<\/p>\n

Kirk Melnikoff<\/b>‘s co-edited essay collection\u00a0Christopher Marlowe, Theatrical Commerce, and the Book Trade\u00a0<\/i>was recently reviewed in\u00a0TLS<\/i>.\u00a0 Also, Kirk recently delivered the paper “‘[H]e that likes not this’: Elizabethan Publishing, Browsing, and the Book” at the RSA conference in Toronto, Canada.<\/p>\n

Malin Pereira<\/b>\u00a0currently has the following three essays in production:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThylias Moss\u2019s\u00a0Slave Moth<\/i>: Liberatory Verse Narrative and Performance Art.\u201d\u00a0Slavery and\u00a0<\/i>the Post-Black Imagination<\/i>. Eds. Bert Ashe and Ilka Saal. In press, U Washington P, 2019;\u00a0\u00a0\u201cAn Angry, Mixed Race Cosmopolitanism: Race, Privilege, Poetic Identity, and Community in Natasha Trethewey\u2019s\u00a0Beyond Katrina<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Thrall<\/i>.\u201d\u00a0Cosmopolitanism, Race and Ethnicity<\/i>. Eds. Ewa Luzcak, Anna Pochmara and Samir Dayal. In press, de Grunter, 2019; and\u00a0\u201cBrenda Marie Osbey\u2019s Black Internationalism.\u201d\u00a0Summoning Our Saints: The Poetry and Prose of Brenda Marie Osbey<\/i>. Ed. John Lowe. In press, Lexington\u00a0Books, 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lara Vetter<\/b>\u00a0recently published an essay titled “Journeys Without Maps: Literature and Spiritual Experience” in\u00a0British Literature in Transition, 1920-1940: Futility and Anarchy<\/i>”\u00a0 (Cambridge UP).<\/p>\n

Upcoming Events and Meetings<\/b>\u00a0— Here is a list of upcoming events and deadlines:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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March 21<\/strong> — The Children’s Literature Graduate Organization (CLGO) will hold their annual Graduate Student Colloquium on March 21 in Cone 111 from 9:30 to 2:30. The title for this year’s colloquium is “Modern Authors, Historic Influences:\u00a0 Framing Children’s Literature in Historical Context.”<\/p>\n

March 23<\/strong> — Grace C. Ocasio will lead a poetry workshop, read from her two previous books, and read from her now under-contract collection (Family Reunion<\/i>\/Broadstone Books) at Press 53’s The High Road Festival on Saturday, March 23, in Winston Salem.<\/p>\n

March 26<\/strong> — The Personally Speaking presentation featuring Bryn Chancellor will take place on Tuesday, March 26, 2019, at UNC Charlotte Center City.\u00a0 Bryn’s presentation on her book\u00a0Sycamore<\/i>\u00a0will begin at 6:30 p.m.\u00a0 A book signing and reception will follow her presentation. For more information and to RSVP, please click on the following link:\u00a0https:\/\/clas.uncc.edu\/community\/personally-speaking\/sycamore-novel<\/a><\/p>\n

March 29<\/strong> — The Children’s Literature Graduate Organization (CLGO) is sponsoring a Harry Potter Trivia Night on Friday, March 29th, at 7pm in the Halton Reading Room in Atkins Library.\u00a0 CLGO is using it as a fundraiser for Read Charlotte, and all the teams will donate $10 as an entry fee.<\/p>\n

March 30<\/strong> — The Center City Literary Festival will take place on Saturday, March 30, at UNC Charlotte Center City. The children’s part of the festival will run from 10:00am to 1:00pm, and the adult part will run from 6:00pm-9:00pm.\u00a0 For more information, please click on the following link:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/centercitylitfest.uncc.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Quirky Quiz Question<\/b>\u00a0\u2014 During her career at UNC Charlotte, Ann Carver taught many different courses, but she most frequently taught courses on a particular topic related to her academic area of expertise.\u00a0 What was this topic?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Last week’s answer: Nancy Gutierrez<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bryn Chancellor’s familiarity with Arizona stems from the fact that she lived in the state for much of her youth.\u00a0 She earned her B.A degree from Northern Arizona University and her M.A. degree in English from Arizona State University before earning her M.F.A. from Vanderbilt University.\u00a0 Like Bryn, another person associated with our English Department has significant connections to the English Department at Arizona State University.\u00a0\u00a0 Who is this other person?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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