Footnotes: The English Department Newsletter
Volume 54 | September 8, 2009 | Number 3
FROM THE GRADUATE STUDIES OFFICE
Fellowship Payment
Graduate students on fellowship for the Fall semester (8/16/09-12/15/09), will receive their last fellowship payment on 12/16/09.
Conference Travel Grants
Applications for fall 2009 Conference Travel Grants have been distributed by email. If you did not receive an application please stop by the Grad Studies Office or contact Stephanie Shockey at
shockey@illinois.edu. Applications are due to Stephanie Shockey on September 14.
Reminder to Grad Students
The Registrar does not take account of teaching and research appointments when certifying full-time status of students. TAs with student loans must carry 12 hours when full-time certification is necessary. (Requirements can differ; check with your loan company.) If you have any questions concerning your status, check with Stephanie Shockey in 210 EB.
Pictures
Anyone wanting an updated picture should see Chris in 210 EB by September 11. These pictures will be posted in the glass case outside 208 EB.
Fall 2009 – Dates to Remember
September 18: Last day to take final doctoral exam for Oct. degree
September 25: Last day to deposit Oct. master's theses
October 2: Last day for student to add a semester course through Graduate Registration and Records without written dept approval
October 2: Last day to deposit Oct. doctoral dissertations
October 2: Last day to drop a first half-session course
October 2: Last day to elect credit-no-credit option for a first half-session course or to change from credit-no-credit option to a regular grade
October 15: Oct. degree conferral (no commencement)
October 15: Last date for guaranteed review of petitions for graduating students
October 19: Second half-session courses begin
November 2: Registration for spring begins
November 6: Last day to add a second half-session course
November 13: Last day for student to drop a semester course without a grade of W (without approval)
November 13: Last day to elect credit-no-credit option for a semester course or to change from credit-no-credit option to a regular grade
November 13: Last day to withdraw from the current term without a grade of W
November 13: Last day to add name to Dec. degree list
November 13: Last day to take final exam for Dec. doctoral degree
Nov 21 - 29: Fall vacation for students
Nov 26 - 27: Thanksgiving Break (all campus holiday)
November 30: Instruction resumes
December 4: Last day to drop a second half-session course
December 4: Last day to elect credit-no-credit option for a second half-session course or to change from credit-no-credit option to a regular grade
December 4: Last day to deposit Dec. doctoral dissertations
December 4: Deadline for Office of the Registrar to receive the final exam Certificate of Result
December 9: Instruction ends
December 10: Last day to add or drop a second half-session course with approval (a W is recorded)
December 10: Last day to add or drop a semester course with approval (a W is recorded)
December 10: Reading Day
December 10: Last day to change a grade of DFR (in a non-thesis course) or I, awarded last spring or summer to prevent F by rule
December 11: Last day to deposit Dec. master’s theses
Dec 11 – 18: Final examination period
December 21: Dec. degree conferral (no commencement)
EVENT
Grad Student Resource Fair 2009
One-stop for a wide range of information and resources about the Urbana campus and the surrounding Champaign-Urbana community. Open to all new and continuing graduate/professional students and their families. Partners, spouses, and children are welcome.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Illini Union Rooms A, B & C
11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Participating organizations in 2009
Download the flyer here at www.grad.illinois/events/flyers/GradFairFall09.pdf.
Co–Sponsored by: The Graduate College and University Housing
In partnership with the Provost and Graduate College Student Advisory Board
For more information: call 217.333.4610 or email GradCareerServices@illinois.edu
TUTORS NEEDED
The YWCA in partnership with Volunteer Illini Project Social Empowerment and Urbana High School are looking for writing tutors for the Writing Partners Program. Writing tutors help high school students with their writing skills during school hours. Tutors are needed from 8:00-8:50am and/or from 8:54-9:44am on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. If you would like to become a writing tutor please contact Gia Lewis-Smallwood at gialewis@ywcauofi.org for more information.
Gia Lewis-Smallwood
Strong Alone. Fearless Together.
Program Director University of Illinois YWCA
1001 S. Wright St.
Champaign IL 61820
217-344-0721
www.ywca.org/universityofillinois
POETRY CONTEST
CAESURA
The literary journal of Poetry Center San Jose
$500 PRIZE AND PUBLICATION
The winner will be published in the Spring 2010 issue of:
CAESURA -- The literary journal of Poetry Center San Jose
Final Judge: Nils Peterson, Poet Laureate, Santa Clara County
Entry fee: $10 for three poems
Submission Period: 8/17/09 – 10/17/09
Send submissions and entry fee to: Caesura Contest, P. O. Box 33145, Los Gatos, CA 95031
Guidelines at www.pcsj.org <http://www.pcsj.org>
FELLOWSHIP
Humanities, Arts, Science, Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) Scholars Program
http://www.hastac.org/scholars
The HASTAC Scholars fellowship program recognizes graduate and undergraduate students who are engaged in innovative work across the areas of technology, the arts, the humanities, and the social sciences. This group of select Scholars from institutions across the nation will act as the eyes and ears of HASTAC’s virtual network, bringing the work happening on their campuses and in their region to international attention. The Scholars will spend the year as part of a virtual community of students creating, reporting on, blogging, vlogging, and podcasting events related to digital humanities, arts, social science, media and learning for an international audience. HASTAC Scholars will also orchestrate a regular discussion forum on the HASTAC web site featuring their own ground-breaking research and interests alongside those of leaders and innovators in the digital humanities. Scholars receive a $300.00 fellowship stipend for their work as a scholar. Nominated by faculty from its member institutions, the HASTAC Scholars Program is coordinated locally by the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science.
For the 2009-2010 award year, Scholars from the University of Illinois will be working with the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science to facilitate the growth of digital humanities, arts, and social science on the Illinois campus. I-CHASS is delighted to announce as part of this initiative that selected scholars will be working with the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) and the Department of American Indian Studies (AIS) to document the work of each of those programs throughout the year.*
Scholars are expected to blog two entries per month (minimum) about the digital humanities, arts, and social sciences. Each scholar will also be expected comment briefly on one or two on scholar’s blog per month and host a forum on a topic of their special interest in consultation with HASTAC during the award year. Scholars will also have the opportunity to work with I-CHASS on the upcoming HASTAC 2010 virtual conference. Scholars must be currently enrolled students at the University of Illinois from August 2009-May 2010.
*Other departments interested in sponsoring a HASTAC Scholar are encouraged to contact guiliano@uiuc.edu
Nominee:
Name: _________________________________________
Major: _________________________________________
E-mail Address: _________________________________________
Phone: ________________________________________
Nominee’s interests/work (in brief):
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
Nominator:
Name: _________________________________________
Title/Department: ___________________________________
E-mail Address: _________________________________
Phone: _________________________________________
Please return this form to Jennifer Guiliano (Guiliano@illinois.edu) by September 10, 2009.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies
28th Annual Graduate Student Conference
CFP Deadline: October 15, 2009
Conference Dates: Thursday, January 21-23, 2010
In celebration of the Center’s thirtieth anniversary, this year’s conference is expanded to three days and will include nine panels with up to thirty-six student papers, a keynote address by eminent scholar Jean Howard, and a staged reading of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by the Shakespeare Project of Chicago.
Call for Papers
We invite abstracts for 15-20 minute papers from master's or Ph.D. students on any medieval, Renaissance, or early modern topic. We encourage submissions from disciplines as varied as the literature of any language, history, classics, art history, music, comparative literature, theater arts, philosophy, religious studies, transatlantic studies, disability studies, and manuscript studies. Please submit a curriculum vitae and an abstract of up to 300 words to renaissance@newberry.org.
Priority is given to students from member institutions of the Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium, who may be eligible for reimbursement for travel expenses to attend. See www.newberry.org/renaissance for more information.
Printable PDF poster: http://www.newberry.org/renaissance/conf-inst/CallForPapers2010.pdf.
________
Karen Christianson, Ph.D.
Assistant Director
Center for Renaissance Studies
The Newberry Library
60 W. Walton St.
Chicago, IL 60610-7324
phone: 312-255-3539
fax: 312-255-3502
christiansonk@newberry.org
www.newberry.org/renaissance
