Kirk Hazen Lecture-Linguistics Program Speaker Series
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Location:
Niles Gallery, Fine Arts Library
Ned Stuckey-French to give lecture "Baldwin, Didion, Digitization, and the Future"
THE AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM
PRESENTS
NED STUCKEY-FRENCH
"BALDWIN, DIDION, DIGITIZATION, AND THE FUTURE"
Thursday, October 6, 2011
4 pm
Niles Gallery
Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
Co-Sponsored by Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Program
Ned Stuckey-French teaches at Florida State University and is book review editor of Fourth Genre. He is the author of The American Essay in the American Century (University of Missouri Press, 2011), co-editor (with Carl Klaus) of Essayists on the Essay: Four Centuries of Commentary (University of Iowa Press, forthcoming 2012), and coauthor (with Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey-French) of Writing Fic-tion: A Guide to Narrative Craft (Longman, 8th edition). His articles and essays have appeared in journals and magazines such as In These Times, The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review, Walking Magazine, culturefront, Pinch, Guernica, middlebrow, and American Literature, and have been listed three times among the notable essays of the year in Best American Essays.
Date:
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Location:
Niles Gallery, Fine Arts Library
Linguistics Reception
Reception for Linguists
Majors, Double Majors and Minors
In Linguistics Welcome
Thursday, September 29th
5:00 pm
18th Floor Lobby,
Patterson Office Tower
Refreshments provided
Date:
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Location:
18th Floor Patterson Office Tower
From East to West: Linguistic Diversity in Kentucky with Jennifer Cramer
Jennifer Cramer is a sociolinguist specializing in Kentucky dialects. Her current research utilizes students from all around the Commonwealth.
This podcast was produced by Cheyenne Hohman.
The Mythology of the Doudou: Sexualizing Black Female Bodies, Constructing Culture and Nation in the French Caribbean.
Lecture by Dr. Jacqueline Couti, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Jacqueline Couti, an assistant professor of French and Francophone Studies in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Kentucky, will discuss how the development of "doudou," a Creole term in the French Caribbean, was adopted by 19th century European scholars to rewrite national identity in the then French colony of Martinique. Martinique is now a department, which is an administrative district of France.
Date:
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Location:
New Student Center, Room 249
EGSO Picnic
All English Department faculty, staff, and graduate students invited!
Feel free to bring significant others, children, and well-behaved pets.
Date:
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Location:
Woodland Park
Job Market Workshop for Grad Students
Dr. Pearl James is hosting a workshop for graduate students considering going on the job market. This will be the first of a series of meetings aimed to help job candidates apply for jobs, assemble applications, and prepare for interviews and campus visits.
Contact Dr. Pearl James for more information.
Date:
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Location:
1345 Patterson Office Tower