A list of upcoming English department events, updated as necessary.

Last updated: 19 April 2012

Spring 2012

Sigma Tau Delta Spring 2012 Book Discussion
Thursday, 12 January 2012
7:00 p.m. in Neville Hall 212
Contact: Dr. Jerry Alexander
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards

Creative Writing Meet & Greet
Thursday, 26 January 2012
4:30 p.m. at Neville Hall, second floor
Contact: Mr. Robert Stutts
Students interested in creative writing (either majoring/minoring or just taking a class) are invited to the first Creative Writing Meet & Greet. Current Creative Writing majors and faculty will be on hand to answer questions.

Visiting Writer Reading: Jackie Cooper
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
7:30 p.m. at My Friend’s Bookstore
Contact: Dr. Terry Barr

Call Me “Crazy”: A Conversation with Dr. Molly McGehee
PC-V event
Thursday, 9 February 2012
6:00 p.m. in Chapman Conference Center (second floor of Jacobs Hall)
Contact: Dr. Molly McGehee

The Vagina Monologues
PC-V event
Thursday-Friday, 16-17 February 2012
7:30 p.m. at Edmunds Hall
Directed by English major Natalie Heath and featuring performances by English majors Sarah Beth Anderson, Emily Ashley, Kathleen Lifsey, Meg McGill, and Amanda Sutker; and English minors Kristin Calandra, Lacy Feigh, and Mary Alice Reed.

Winter Open House
Monday, 20 February 2012
1:00 p.m.
Springs Gym
Join Dr. Alexander and Dr. Simpson to meet prospective PC students.

Open-Mic Night
Thursday, 23 February 2012
7:30 p.m. in Inklings (basement of Georgia dorm)
Contact: Mr. Robert Stutts
Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to come to the Open-Mic night and read their work (or someone else’s)! In celebration of Black History Month, readings by African American authors are encouraged. Hosted by Cameron Cook. Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing program and Figs & Thistles.

Visiting Writer Reading: Elizabeth Spann Craig, PC alumna (Class of 1993)
Monday, 19 March 2012
7:30 p.m. at My Friend’s Bookstore
Contact: Mr. Robert Stutts

Open-Mic Night
Thursday, 22 March 2012
7:30 p.m. in Inklings (basement of Georgia dorm)
Contact: Mr. Robert Stutts
Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to come to the Open-Mic night and read their work (or someone else’s)! Hosted by Cameron Cook. Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing program andFigs & Thistles.

Spring Supper
Thursday, 12 April 2012
5:00 p.m. in Harper Center lobby
Contact: Dr. Lynne Simpson
A sit-down supper party for all English majors, minors, and interested students!

Accepted Students Day
Saturday, 14 April 2012
12:00 p.m.
Templeton Gymnasium
Join Dr. Brent and Mr. Stutts to meet future PC students.

Figs & Thistles Launch Party & Reading
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
7:30 p.m. in the Neville Rotunda
Contact: Mr. Robert Stutts
Writers and artists featured in the 2012 issue of Figs & Thistles will read from or discuss their work. Come celebrate with us. Hosted by Cameron Cook and Rachel Genrich.

Honors Day
19 April 2012
Campus-wide
Senior Cameron Cook will give the Oral Defense of his creative Honors Research project, the novella Roebuck,  at 10:05 a.m. in Library 54.

Another two our seniors will present their Summer Fellows research:

Tripp Spradley, “Dixie on Display: Interpretations of the South in Film and Television” (11:10 a.m. in Library 54)
Amanda Sutker, “‘I Exist, I am Becoming, I am Moving’: Rabindranath Tagore and Indian Identity” (1:50 p.m. in the Library Reading Room)

Also, the English department will sponsor two sessions:

Revolution and Reform: Eighteen and Nineteenth Century British Writers and Social Consciousness (Dr. Alexander, presiding; 9:00-10:00 a.m., Library 54)
Erin Fish, Lee Lancaster, Andrew Hane, and Allen Butt

Shakespeare (Dr. Simpson, presiding; 11:10 a.m.-12:10 p.m., Library 39)
Purvis Cornish, Sarah Bumgarner, Grant LeFever, and Daniel Dye

Spring Open House
Saturday, 21 April 2012
12:00 p.m.
Springs Gym
Join Mr. Stutts to meet high school juniors considering attending PC.

Senior Capstone Presentations
Tuesday-Friday, 23-27 April 2012
HP Amphitheater
The students in Dr. Simpson‘s (Tragedy Evolving) and Dr. Alexander‘s (Buried Secrets: How the Past Haunts Us) Capstone classes will present their work.

Tuesday, 24 April 2012
3:00-3:30 p.m. Kyleen Carpenter, “The Monstrous Other: Taking a Closer Look at the Creation and the Creator”

3:30-4:00 p.m. Callie Neal, “Young Adult Novels in the Classroom: Helping Readers or a Teacher Copout?”

4:00-4:30 p.m. Emma Reynolds, “The Struggle for Power and Identity: The Effects of Extra-Marital Affairs on Women in Literature”

Wednesday, 25 April 2012
3:00-3:30 p.m. Emily Ashley, “Domestic Tragedy: How Tragedy is Intertwined with Familial Relationships”

3:30-4:00 p.m. Mary Auburn Shuler, “Who Pulls the Strings in the Cosmic Joke Called Life?”

4:00-4:30 p.m. Christy Simoneau, “Victim or Transgressor: The Women of Tragedy”

Thursday, 26 April 2012
3:00-3:30 p.m. Taylee Harms, “The Emergence of Autobiography in Literature”

3:30-4:00 p.m. Townley Cheek, “The Search for Meaning after Tragedy”

4:00-4:30 p.m. Lee Lancaster, “The Role of Traditional Feminine Spaces and the Awakened Woman”

Friday, 27 April 2012
1:30-2:00 p.m. Daniel Dye, “Tragedy Revived: Finding Catharsis in Contemporary Film”

2:00-2:30 p.m. John Mark Elliott, “Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire: The Deceptions of a Serpent, King, and Mother”

2:40-3:10 p.m. Sarah Beth Anderson, “Hamartia Evolving”

3:10-3:40 p.m. Philip Carter, “Aristotelian Tragedy and the Life of a Gangster”

Advanced Creative Writing Student Reading
Monday, 23 April 2012
7:30 p.m. at My Friend’s Bookstore
Contact: Mr. Robert Stutts
Students from the Advanced Creative Writing Workshop class will read from their work. Sponsored by the Creative Writing program.

Student Fiction Reading
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
7:30 p.m. at My Friend’s Bookstore
Contact: Mr. Robert Stutts
Students in the Creative Writing: Fiction class will read from their work. Special guest readers will include Daniel Dye, Lacy Feigh, and Rachel Genrich. Sponsored by the Creative Writing program.

Honors Research Student Reading
Thursday, 26 April 2012
7:30 p.m. at My Friend’s Bookstore
Contact: Mr. Robert Stutts
Cameron Cook will read excerpts from his creative Honors Research project, the novella Roebuck. Sponsored by the Creative Writing program.

Graduation Breakfast
Saturday, 12 May 2012
8:00 a.m. in the Writing Center
Contact: Dr. Molly McGehee
A last gathering of faculty and graduating majors—plus, the infamous Senior Superlatives!