UW-L English Studies Blog

New Site For Photos!

The English Club has a new home for photos at WINKFLASH.COM. This site is fast, easy-to-use, free, and has unlimited space. To see photos of past events, click here: http://uwlenglish.winkflash.com/ and click on folder # 1.

Do you have photos of past events? You can log in, too.

Username: UWLEnglish
Password: lacrosse

You can even add a folder for English Dept. events that are not English Club sponsored. Enjoy. ;)

Some Tips...

On the left, click "add photos" on the left. Browse for the pictures you want. Then click "Send to Winkflash."

Once the photos are there, click on "new folder" on the left. Name the folder and then choose the logo for it. Your folder is now empty.

Select all your photos that you want to be in your new folder. Then click "move photos" on the bottom left of the menu. Select the folder you want to move the photos to.

You now have your photos in your folder.

To make these available for all to see, click the "share folder" button. When you have gone through the page that comes up, it will take you back into your folder, but now there will be a little yellow thing at the top that says "public shared."

Want a UW-L English t-shirt?

 

Want to order UW-L English shirts? Log onto Designzonline.org here: http://www.tcsp.org/index.php?pr=Design_A_Shirt

You can create the shirt right from the website. Pick your color, placement, sizes, everything! The more shirts you order, the cheaper each shirt will be. For example, you can get 10 shirts for 10 dollars each.

 

Some tips...

You can find the graphics of the images seen above on the UW-L English Documents and Fliers page under "English Club": http://www.uwlax.edu/english/html/publications.htm (English Club made the shirts, but they are not shirts specific to the club.) Save the pictures to your harddrive and then upload them on Designz's easy-to-use design program, free to use.

Click "switch print location" to switch between front and back of the shirt.

Choose three-color because the dog image is black, white, and gray.

It should take 7 days to get the shirts printed. They're easy to pick up because they're right here in La Crosse. http://www.tcsp.org/index.php?pr=Directions

Hart Colloquium, May 1

"Making a Mockery of Mimicry, and the Character of Intertextuality in Salman Rushdie’s Shame"

David Hart
UW-L English Department

Friday May 1
Room 207, Wimberly Hall
2:30-3:30pm

 

 

All are welcome to attend.

Brought to you by the UW–L English Department’s 2008–2009 William J. and Yvonne Hyde Colloquium Series

English Dept. Social

You’re Invited to the Spring 2009 English Social!

 Come Join Us for a Pot-Luck, Wiffle Ball, and Awards

Where: Lueth Park

When: Friday, May 1, 2009            5pm-8pm

Directions: Go to the intersection of La Crosse Street and West Avenue.  If you are on La Crosse, then cross West Avenue and make the next right, onto 12th St.  It’s before the Concordia Ballroom. On 12th go about a block and park on the right side of the street. (Park is on the right). Everyone will be in the cul-de-sac in-between the park shelter and the skateboard area.

Celebration of Student Research and Creativity

Thanks to everyone who came to the celebration last Friday, and congrats to all students who presented. To see photos and see what English students presented, check out the STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS page on the UW-L English Dept. website.

(photos by Sharon Jessee)

Pribek Colloquium, 4/3

Tom Pribek will present
The War Poetry of Emily Dickinson (and) Abraham Lincoln!
April 3, Room 207, Wimberly, 2:30-3:30pm
All are welcome to attend.

Brought to you by the 2008-2009 William J. and Yvonne Hyde English Colloquium Series.

Book Club 4/2

Book Club is reading After Dark by Haruki Murakami this semester. If you've read the book and would like to partake in the discussion, come to English Club on April 2nd at 5:45 in 331 Cartwright. We'll be leaving from there to go to Peaberry's.

If you haven't read it, you can still come along.

If you really don't want to come with us, I hear the Chancellor's rocking the Cellar at 7.

Guest Author: Robin Hemley 4/21

Author of Do Over!: in which a 48-year-old father of three returns to kindergarten, summer camp, the prom, and other embarrassments comes to campus April 21, 2009. Check out his presentation in the Cleary Alumni Center at 5pm.

Department Open House, 4/6

  NOTE: This session has been rescheduled for Monday, April 6th.

Advising
Majors 
Minors
Careers
Grad School

Student peer advisors, faculty advisors
and a representative from Career
Services will be available

Speak! (The April Fool's Edition)

Speak! is English Club's monthly open mic night.

April 1st
will be the last Speak! of the semester, so don't miss this one!

8-10pm in the Cellar (basement of Cartwright)

Bring a pocket full of your favorite jokes.

The usual poetry, stories, and songs will be fair game as well.

Faculty and students are encouraged to attend.

Literacy and Lyrics Book Drive

Wed., April 29, 2009
10am to 4pm
at the Clocktower

Donate your old books to people who need them.

Bands will rotate in and out throughout the day.

Sponsored by the English Club.

English students at the Celebration of Research and Creativity

Come support the hard work of English students at the Annual UW-L Celebration of Student Research and Creativity!

When: April 3, 2009
Where: Cartwright Center

Schedule of English presentations:

9:25-9:45
Port-o-call
Devon Browning
"Female Contemporary Artists in Bangkok"

9:50-10:10
Room 332
Andrew Deples
"Post-Colonial Imbrications in Shakespeare's The Tempest"

10:15-10:35
Room 330
Christianne Swartz
"Edna Pontellier: A Twentieth Century Philomela"

11:05-11:25
Port-o-call
Jaime Nelson
"You Finished Writing Your Novel--Now What?: Revision, Editors, and Publication"

11:05-11:25
Room 330
Megan Campfield
"Caged Birds and Subjugated Authority: A Study of the Thematic and Historic Significance of Bird Imagery within the Works of Kate Chopin, Fanny Fern, and Susan Glaspell"

11:55-12:15
Room 326
Kurt Wilson
"The Darker Side: The Human Mind in Shakespeare's MacBeth and King Lear"

12:45-1:05
Room 332
Kaci O'Connell
"Unnatural Creation. Actual Destruction. Representations of Political and Societal Unrest in Shelley's Frankenstein and Hilman's Herland"

1:35-1:55
Port-o-call
Marnie Fisher
"The Necessary Role of Madness and Otherness in Bronte's Jane Eyre"

You will get another chance to see some of these presentations at NCUR two weeks later (April 16-18).

Mary Wang Presentation, 3/27

Mary Wang, author of Turning Bricks Into Jade: Critical Incidents for Mutual Understanding Among Chinese and Americans, will visit on March 27th. 

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Updike Gathering, 3/25

English Department Members,

As you know, John Updike passed away recently.  His birthday is March 18, but we’ll be on break then.  Therefore we’ve decided to hold a celebration in his honor on Wednesday, March 25, at 3:30, in room 315, CWH.

We’ll put out some sort of invitation just before break and a reminder right after.  Meanwhile, I’ll be trying to persuade you all to come and read something from Updike’s work.  Few writers offer so many deliciously tuneful passages to choose from, and in several genres.  Since it’s a birthday party, we’ll try to have cake.  Let me know if you’re interested.

Thanks, Bob Treu

Watsky Event, 3/5

Thursday, March 5th, 2008
7pm in Valhalla CC

A college student and undisputed backtalk champion, George Watsky has already achieved so much in his young career. He is not afraid to bring up subjects such as politics, class hierarchies, and schoolyard etiquette. Watsky won the Youth Speaks Poetry Grand Slam Finals in March 2006 with a perfect score. Later that year, he won Robert Redford's Sundance Summit Award for poetry on climate change. In 2007, he was on the sixth season of Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry on HBO.

This event is sponsored by the Campus Activities Board and the English Club. Tickets go on sale February 12, 2009. It's free for UW-L students who present their IDs. The event costs $3 for faculty and staff and $5 for general public.