Logan: Life Elevated!

Its time for another contest!! The first 10 people to post a picture on our Facebook page with a picture somewhere in Logan with the caption, Logan: Life Elevated, with get a yummy snickers bar!! Everyone post until Monday morning at 8am!!

Thanks!!

Survey for USU Students

From Jared Troy Meacham:
My aim is to get responses (they are anonymous) from a diverse group of students in all states and affiliated territories and I am having no real luck connecting with students in Utah with the exception of a few at University of Utah and Weber State....

One goal I have is to give students from all regions of each state representation among the over 27,000 students whose data I will collect.   I also aim to gain the participation of students from all academic areas of study to ensure a diverse representation of the college population. Your participation will remain confidential as I will not divulge the name of any participating professor.  For your assurance, my IRB approval letter for exempt research is attached.

I very much appreciate any consideration you provide for allowing my survey link to be shared with your students.

- it takes less than 2 minutes to complete
- it can be emailed, text messaged or posted on line
- students can be at any level of their college career (undergrad to doctoral) - online students are also included
- the more diverse their educational, cultural and ethnic background the better
- the research is completely anonymous as students can in no way be identified by their responses
- to comply with IRB standards, the survey begins with an informed consent page followed by the questionnaire
- university IRB tend to honor its exempt study status as professors are not directly collecting/analyzing the data
- data collection for this project will close at the end of next month

I thank you for your time and consideration.

To take this survey, please click the link below:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5M2QQLM<https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5M2QQLM>

This link should open with a simple click of the mouse.  However, should this fail, copying and pasting the link directly into a new browser window will work.

Please feel free to view the survey as many times as you wish.  All I request is that it not be filled out nor submitted.  Upon viewing the questions, it's okay to simply log off the page.  I'll see an "incomplete" survey and it can easily be removed without compromising the data.  I thank you for your consideration and your time.
Sincerely,

Jared Meacham
(918) 805-0461

Picture Contest Winners

The following students each won a $5.00 gift certificate to Aggie Ice Cream for posting a campus picture!!! (Contest has ended)

Shelly Halling

Liz Wilson

Lori Lee

I will leave your certificates in the main office with Lori Hyde!

Thank you for participating and keep looking, we will be doing something like this again! 

Call for Proposals

Fourth Annual

University of Nevada, Reno (UNR)

College of Liberal Arts Graduate Student Symposium (CLAGS)

February 20 and 21, 2014

Theme: "Constructing the World"

 

For the complete announcement details, please click here!

What adds up to a PRIZE?!

    The first four current graduate students who:
    Read this blog post
    Go to our FB page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Utah-State-University-English-Grads/
    Post a recent campus picture that they took
    With the tag “Isn’t our campus pretty this time of year!”
+  By Monday, 10/28, at 8 am                                                                                                                                     
= Will win a $5.00 gift card to Aggie Ice Cream! (Candi will see who the winners are on Monday).  

Literature and Writing Graduate Program

♮  FALL   SOCIAL !!! ♮
(Especially for new LW grad students!)
Meet your professors!

Hear Presentations by second-year veterans!

 

 

EatFreePizza!
Thursday, October 24, at 1:30Anthropology Museum
(Where: Old Main, Second Floor, South End of Building)
(BYOB of water or soda!)
Identify three of these writers to win a treat!

Funny Comic Strip

(Click the comic strip to make it bigger).

Quilt Museum Executive Director Opening

The International Quilt Study Center and Museum (IQSCM) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has announced a search for Executive Director after the retirement of their founding director, Patrica Crews. They are looking for a person of great vision and vigor to lead this wonderful research center and museum in the years ahead. 

The link to the online position description and how to apply is:

https://employment.unl.edu/postings/36936 

Attachesd is an advertisement for the position. If you would like to find out more about the position, please consider emailing or calling Professor Michael James, the chairperson of the Department of Textiles, Merchandising, and Fashion Design (and a renowned quilt artist himself). His contact information is: mjames2@unl.edu<mailto:mjames2@unl.edu>  and 402-472-2911.

 

 

The officers of the Idaho State University English Graduate Student Association invite you to join us for the 9^th Annual Intermountain Graduate Conference on March 7-8, 2014, on the Idaho State University campus in Pocatello, Idaho. The theme for this year is “Discovery, Division, and Debate.” Students are encouraged to interpret this theme broadly. We welcome presentations by graduate students in all areas of literature, language studies, film, composition, pedagogy, creative writing, and professional writing. In addition to graduate students, undergraduates are invited to submit with a professor’s recommendation Cost to participate in the Conference is $40 per participant.

Submissions will be accepted through ISU’s English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) until January 6, 2014, by mail or via email to egsa@isu.edu. Queries may also be directed to the email address provided. Please send proposals of no more than 250 words, a working title, letter of recommendation if required, and contact information including name, school, degree level, and email address. Gather with fellow English students to enjoy this welcoming, affordable, and academically-rigorous conference.  

Theme: “Discovery, Division, and Debate”

When: March 7^th & 8^th, 2014

Where: Idaho State University, 921 S. 8^th Ave, Pocatello, Idaho 83209

SubmissionDeadline: January 6, 2014

Graduate Assistant Positions!!

There are two Graduate Assistant positions available for the academic year 2013-2014 with the USU 1330 Creative Arts course.


Responsibilities include:
·      Grading short written assignments
·      Monitoring and grading on-line discussion groups


You must be well-organized and possess good critical reading and writing skills.

If interested, please contact:

Dr. David Wall
Assistant Professor of Visual and Media Studies
Department of Art & Design
david.wall@usu.edu <mailto:david.wall@usu.edu>

Teaching opportunity for any grad or recent grad student!

Are you interested in teaching composition online?  

Anyone interested in applying for this position can apply on our employment site at: http://wwccwy.peopleadmin.com/hr/postings/307

Thank you in advance for your assistance.
Doug Bunn

Douglas N. Bunn, Ph.D.Associate Professor of Business & Economics
Division Chair of Humanities & Business

Western Wyoming Community College
P.O. Box 428   D-483
Rock Springs, WY 82902
307-382-1849  (Office)
208-610-6853 (cell)
dbunn@wwcc.wy.edu<mailto:dbunn@wwcc.wy.edu>
http://www.wwcc.wy.edu/academics/busi_admin/faculty.htm<http://www.wwcc.wy.edu/academics/busi_admin/faculty.htm>
 

 

Scholarship

2014 Reed and Cleone Frischknecht Scholarship

 

 

 

What you could receive:

One scholarship will be awarded that will pay $600 for 2014 Spring Semester.

 

Who can apply:

This scholarship is for USU senior undergraduate students and graduate students with a record of high academic achievement and community service, and an interest in a career in public service majoring in one or more of the following: Communications; English; History; Languages, Philosophy, and Speech Communication; Liberal Arts and Sciences; Political Science; Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology; Religious Studies; or Economics. Expected graduation date must not be before May 2014. Residents from the state of Utah will be given preference in selection.

 

How to apply:

Please submit a letter of application, a resume, a current USU transcript (unofficial transcripts are acceptable) or a transcript from previous colleges (for transfer students), and the names and contact information of three references.  There is no application form. Your letter should describe your interests, your experience, your community service, and your future career plans, as well as why you are interested in this scholarship. It should also indicate your connection to the state of Utah. Please submit your application simply stapled. Do not submit it in a folder or binder. If you choose to submit photos (this is not required), please limit the number to three. (Please be sure to include your contact information: mailing address, email, phone number, including where and how you can be reached over the Christmas holidays as well as at school.)

 

Selection of recipient shall be made by the scholarship committee of the Mountain West Center for Regional Studies in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

 

For more information, please call 435-797-0299 or stop by Old Main, Rm 339.  Applications must be received by 5:00 P.M. on Monday, November 18, 2013.  Submit all application materials to:

 

             Frischknecht Scholarship

             Mountain West Center for Regional Studies

             Utah State University

             Old Main 339

             UMC 0735

             Logan, UT 84322-0735                                                     

 

                                             The scholarship recipients will be notified in December. 

Reed L. and Cleone R. Frischknecht

Reed and Cleone Frischknecht were both born in Logan, Utah. They were married in 1946. Reed received his academic training at Utah State University and the University of Utah, earning his Ph.D. in Political Science with a minor in Economics in 1952. In the 1950s, he served as a consultant and confidential assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. He also served as a legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Arthur V. Watkins (Utah) from 1954-1958. He returned to Utah and taught at the University of Utah from 1961 to 1974. At his retirement, the University of Utah chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society, gave him a commendation for his high standards of scholarship, his personal interest in his students, and his willingness to serve as faculty advisor to the chapter. Cleone also attended Utah State University. She loves basketball and golf, but family and friends are her main interests. They are the parents of two children.

Spring 2014 Courses

Registration for Spring Semester is just around the corner!

Registration for Grad students begins November 11.

 

Our Spring offerings are as follows.  Please note that we will be adding course descriptions for these courses as we get them from faculty. 

 

ENGL 6350	AMER LIT & CULT	W 4:30PM- 7:00PM	RWST 113	Crumbley, P
ENGL 6360	WORLD LIT & CULT	T 4:30PM- 7:00PM	RWST 214	Graham, S
ENGL 6400	ADVANCED EDITING NO XL -- Deb Ray	ARR	ARR ONLINE	Ray, D
ENGL 6450	READING THEORY/ DOCU XL ENGL 7450	ARR	ARR ONLINE	Shook, R
ENGL 6460	DIGITAL MEDIA XL ENGL 7460	ARR	ARR ONLINE	Hailey, D
ENGL 6610	SEMINAR AMERICAN WEST XL HIST 6610	TR 1:30PM- 2:45PM	RWST 306	Graulich, M
ENGL 6720	FOLKLORE FIELDWORK XL HIST 6720	R 3:30PM- 6:00PM	MAIN 203	Gabbert, L
ENGL 6740	FOLK NARRATIVE XL HIST 6740 and ENGL/HIST/ANTH 5700	MF 11:30AM- 1:45PM	RWST 214	McNeill, L
ENGL 6800	T/P ONLINE EDUC XL 7800	ARR	ARR ONLINE	Grant-Davie, K
ENGL 6810	INTRO TO COMP STUDIES	T 4:30PM- 7:00PM	RWST 114	Kinkead, J
ENGL 6883	POETRY WRITING WS	M 4:30PM- 7:00PM	RWST 113	Gunsberg, B

 

English 6810 Introduction to Composition Studies
Spring 2014
Tuesday, 4:30-7:00 pm
Dr. Kinkead
This course focuses on the scholarship of writing studies. Students become acquainted with scholars, forums, themes, and methods of the field. But, we will be engaging in hands on work, developing research projects that can come to fruition by semester’s end. Additionally, we will discuss the undergraduate research movement and its integration in writing studies and how as teachers we can work with students on research in writing studies.

About the instructor: Dr. Kinkead is the author/editor of ten books; she has just finished a manuscript on Researching Writing, and she is at work on another book project. She is a charter board member of the National Writing Centers Association (now the International WCA) and served as editor of The Writing Center Journal for six years. Her areas of scholarship include computers and writing, writing program administration, and undergraduate research.
Questions? Contact Dr. Kinkead at Joyce.Kinkead@usu.edu

6360 – World Literature and Culture:
“Traumatic Memory and Postcolonial Literature”
Shane Graham
Why is it so difficult to represent exceedingly violent historical events? How is that difficulty compounded by disorienting new ways of thinking about space and time in our postmodern era of globalization and consumer capitalism? How useful are psychoanalytic theories of trauma and memory in understanding such massive social ruptures in collective memory as slavery in the Caribbean, the Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, and apartheid in South Africa?

Such questions will be the driving force of this class. We will take novels, stories, and poems about those three historical “moments”—slavery, Partition, and apartheid—as testing grounds for various theories of memory and memorialization, taken from such diverse theoretical models as psychoanalysis, cultural geography, and postcolonial theory.

In addition to extensive critical and theoretical readings from those disciplines and schools of thought, our reading list will include: Andrea Levy, The Long Song; Michelle Cliff, Abeng; Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children; Amit Majmudar, Partitions; Antjie Krog, Country of My Skull; Jane Taylor, Ubu and the Truth Commission; and poems by Ingrid de Kok and Derek Walcott. Students will write a major research paper of 15-20 pages. Every student will also take part in a mock conference in which they present their research to the class, and will give a Reader Report in which they summarize designated readings for their classmates and apply those readings to the literature we will read that week. And of course, every student will be expected to contribute regularly to class discussions in this seminar-style course.

Eng 6720 Folklore Fieldwork
Lisa Gabbert
The class will cover ethnographic fieldwork techniques, focusing primarily on participant observation, interviewing techniques, and the writing of fieldnotes.  Other topics to be covered include ethics, human subjects/IRB, transcription issues, some technical information on recording equipment, and academic questions of identity, reflexivity, and power.  Students will be required to participate in a series of directed fieldwork assignments; PhD students will be required to write a full fieldwork-based research paper.  This class is required for all folklore students. It fulfills one 3 credit option for section B: Research for TPPC students.

Ben Gunsberg

Engl 6883-Poetry Writing

My graduate poetry writing class will focus on questions of technique and influence. To this end, we will read and write both free and formal verse.  We will discuss student work as well as poetry written by established authors. Our conversations will revolve around craft, which means we will explore those time-tested categories and techniques that guide and strengthen poets’ efforts.  This approach will begin with close attention to the language that moves us and, moreover, careful consideration of why it moves us.  

English/History 6610—Seminar in the US West

Melody Graulich

This seminar will focus on classic western American memoirs by writers such as Miné Okubo, Bill Kittredge, Mary Clearman Blew, Leslie Silko, Norma Cantú, Maxine Hong Kingston, Richard Rodriquez, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Evelyn Funda.  If you send me an email at melody.graulich@usu.edu, I will send you a list of course books.  Please get the appropriate editions.  Coursework will include both critical writing and memoir.  Depending on class size, I will also assign oral reports and/or discussion leading.

Grad Research Training

The Office of Research and Graduate Studies has established a Graduate Student Research Training Series, regular hour-long events designed to provide supplemental professional development opportunities and a social outlet for graduate students. 

There will be an open panel format in which graduate students can the Dean and the Associate Deans anything they've ever wanted to know about USU or grad school. 

 

Pleae click here for the dates, times, locations, ect.

What the Elimination of Plan C means for you!

Read the attached document from last week's meeting with graduate students (p.s. I was surprised at how few of you came). If you were planning to graduate with a Plan C any time this year (with the exception of Tech Writing Students), you should make an appointment to see me to discuss your individual situation.  If you have been vacillating between Plan B and C, you should also come talk to me.  To set up appointments, see Lori or Rebecca in main office. 

 

Manifest West Call for Submissions

Submission deadline: February 21, 2014

 

The Western Press of Western State Colorado University invites submissions to the 2014 edition of Manifest West, the literary anthology of the university¹s Master of Fine Arts degree program in creative writing. This year we're calling for submissions of literary work based on the theme of ³Diversity In The West². Submissions should deal with the interaction and/or collision of various elements that make up the area of the country known as The West. Please visit westernstatepress.submishmash.com/submit for submission details including deadlines.

 

“Making Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Literary Culture”

The literature and culture of the late medieval and early modern periods were profoundly affected by the expansion of new artisanal and scientific technologies—innovations and ideas that would lead to the production and consumption of new forms of knowledge. In both periods, knowledge was conceptualized across a range of intersecting disciplines, including natural philosophy, astrology, mathematics, medicine, art, mechanics, and cartography, among others. Literature embraced, criticized, or participated in these fields in diverse ways, often examining how these new forms or categories of knowledge influenced the locus and ontology of the individual and social self

Collectively, we will investigate the ways in which medieval and early modern literature engages with scientific, technological and textual processes of making and disseminating knowledge. In addition, we are interested in discussing the creation and development of modern/postmodern technologies through and around medieval and early modern texts. As such, scholars studying medieval and early modern texts, performances, and art—or later reassessments thereof— are welcome. 

This conference is part of a three-year collaboration between King’s College, London and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Previous conferences include “Shakespeare and the Natural World” at UNC and “Shakespeare, Memory, and Culture” at KCL. “Making Knowledge” aims to continue this collaboration and engage in critical discussion with graduate students from both institutions and from across the US.

Suggested topics include:

·      Technology or science’s effects on gender, politics, religion, magic, nature and preternature, economics, or epistemology

·      Scientific observation and innovation, taxonomies, and literary form

·      Transmission of texts

·      Mechanics in literature and performance

·      Medicine, technology, alchemy, humours and prostheses of bodies in texts

·      The position of the self within material, vitalistic, or atomistic conceptions of the cosmos

·      Boundaries between the human and the machine

·      Nature versus artifice

·      The effect of modern and postmodern technologies on the dissemination and evolution of medieval and early modern texts

·      Medieval, early modern and postmodern intersections of text and technology

·      Genre and technology

Dr. Pamela Smith, a cultural historian at Columbia University, will deliver the keynote titled “From Matter to Ideas: Making Natural Knowledge in early Modern Europe” on Saturday evening, April 5^th. Dr. Smith’s publications include Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science and Art in Early Modern Europe, The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution, and Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400-1800.

We invite papers on these and related topics. Abstracts of 300-400 words are due December 1^st, 2013 to uncgradconference@gmail.com. Participants will be notified on January 25^th.

“Making Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Culture” will be held at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill from April 4^th-5^th, 2014.