Eagleton on Wilde at Notre Dame

Terry Eagleton will deliver the Notre Dame Department of English public lecture "The Contradictions of Oscar Wilde" at 4:30 PM in the Hesburgh Center Auditorium on Wednesday, November 3rd.

The Fall 2010 issue of Third Coast is now available! The issue includes work by Jake Adam York, John Matthew Fox, David Wagoner, Patty Seyburn, Keith Ratzlaff, Jennifer Fawcett and many others. There's also an interview with Alicia Ostriker AND a Symposium on Writing and the Midwest (with contributions from Eula Biss, Mark Halliday, Patricia Henley, Bonnie Jo Campbell, and our own Bill Olsen, Nancy Eimers and Stuart Dybek, among others). It's a cornucopia of literary delights.

To order a copy, visit http://thirdcoastmagazine.com, stop by the Third Coast office, or email Emily Stinson. We'll also have issues available at our Nov. 6 party (7-9pm at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center).

Sweeney receives Graduate College support

Creative Writing Graduate Student Chad Sweeney is the recipient of a competitive Graduate Student Research and Travel Grant by the WMU Graduate College. Congrats!

academic publishing internship opportunities

Comparative Drama, WMU’s scholarly journal devoted to the study of drama, invites applications for an internship position in Academic Publishing for the Spring 2011 semester.

Comparative Drama seeks three exceptional students to participate in the journal’s production for a semester term. The students will gain valuable, hands-on publishing experience and exposure to advanced academic writing.

Interns will meet with an editor once a week and attend editorial meetings. Responsibilities include reading essay contributions, fact checking, researching humanities databases, and assisting with editing and correspondence.

All undergraduate English majors are encouraged to apply. The internship will be helpful especially for students pursuing careers in publishing and/or who wish to attend graduate school. The internship will serve as an elective toward the English major. For students majoring in Practical Writing, the internship can substitute for 3620, “Readings in Creative Nonfiction,” or 3700, “Writing Creative Nonfiction.” Contact comparative-drama@wmich.edu for more information.

comparative drama staff

Eve Salisbury, Editor

Anthony Ellis, Associate Editor         

Cynthia Klekar, Associate Editor
Nick Gauthier, Editorial Assistant

comparative-drama@wmich.edu

 

Academic Publishing: Internship Application

(Spring 2011 semester)

Completed applications are due by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, November 12, 2010, to Professor Anthony Ellis’s mailbox in the English Department main office, 6^th floor, Sprau Tower. For questions, please contact either Professor Cynthia Klekar (cynthia.klekar@wmich.edu or 387-2600) or Professor Ellis (anthony.ellis@wmich.edu or 387-2606).

Name: ______________________________________________________________________

Address: _____________________________________________________________________

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Phone:          ______________________________________ 

Email:          ______________________________________

Major:          ______________________________________

Minor:          ______________________________________

Major GPA:         ______________________________________

Please submit a one-page explanation of why you are interested in completing an internship with Comparative Drama.

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CFP Michigan Academy 2011 Annual Meeting

CALL FOR PAPERS

LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE SECTION

Michigan Academy 2011Annual Meeting

MARCH 11. 2011

Saginaw Valley State University, University Center, Michigan

TWENTY MINUTE PAPERS

ON ANY ASPECT OF LITERATURE

BRITISH, AMERICAN, ETHNIC, COMPARATIVE, LITERATURE AND FILM

LITERATURE AND POPULAR CULTURE

Some  Suggested Areas

Interdisciplinary approaches to Literature

From Literature into  Film

Popular Culture and Literature

Seventeenth and Eighteenth  Century Literature

Shakespeare and the Renaissance

Ethnic Voices in  Literature

Victorian Literature

Modern and Contemporary Literature

Foreign Literature in English

Submit 200 Word abstracts to the Michigan Academy Website. For questions concerning the Language and Literature Section Contact

Maureen Thum

Department of English

University of Michigan-Flint

mthum@umflint.edu   ( “Michigan Academy” as Subject)

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: December  23, 2010

Please Submit 200 word Abstracts on the

Michigan Academy Website:  http://themichiganacademy.org/