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Hello everyone. English Club is making a spook station for Ghoulees in the Coulees. If anyone would be willing to donate any newspapers or chairs, that would be great. We need about 12 chairs. They can be kitchen chairs, lawn chairs, fold-chairs, anything. You will get them back when we're done (the end of next week). Thanks.
You can drop off items in the English Club office in 425 CWH.
--Jaime : nelson.jai2@students.uwlax.edu
Hi, everyone,
The English department is featured prominently in events taking place this week across campus. Sharon Jessee will be presenting her paper, “The Heteroglossia of 
Green: American Ecology from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Toni Morrison,” as one of four UWL Scholars celebrating Chancellor Gow’s Inauguration. The scholars’ presentations will take place Thursday, October 18th, at the Cleary Center. A reception for the scholars’ presentations will begin at 3PM, followed by the presentations, beginning at 4PM.
That same afternoon (Th 10/18), Brian Turner will read from his Iraq war poetry collection, Here, Bullet, in the Port O’ Call Lounge at Cartwright Center, beginning at 5:30. Mr. Turner’s reading, and related class activities Wednesday and Thursday, have been organized by Matt Cashion.
Both events have been widely publicized, in the Campus Connection, in the Raquet, on our English Department web page blog, and in the La Crosse Tribune. I hope many of you will be able to find the time to support our colleagues’ activities, and to remind interested students to try to attend.
Finally, thanks to all of the faculty and students who made our 3rd semi-annual kickball social and cookout celebration a success. The faculty once again prevailed in kickball (with only a minimum amount of cheating). And a good time was had by all.
Dick Sullivan
Inauguration Scholars to speak on Oct. 18
Four Inauguration Scholars, chosen by the Inauguration Scholar subcommittee, will give their presentations beginning at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, in the Great Hall, Cleary Alumni & Friends Center. A reception for the Inauguration Scholars will precede the presentation at 3 p.m. in the Gathering Place, Cleary Alumni & Friends Center. READ MORE...
Sharon will present "The Heteroglossia of Green: American Ecology from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Toni Morrison." Jessee is professor of English and of Women Gender and Sexuality Studies at UW-L. She contributed to the English department's American Literature curricular reform in the 1990s in integrating diversity into courses for general education and for majors. Currently, her book manuscript, "Voice Upon Voice: Polyrhythm in Toni Morrison's Trilogy," is in its final revision and editing phase before it is submitted for consideration to university presses.
English faculty and students gather at Myrick Park shelter next to zoo this Friday, October 12, 5-8 p.m.
Sharon Jessee
Greetings!
If any of you, or your students, would like to attend a class visit by Brian Turner, our guest poet, he will be speaking to my Forms of Poetry class at 5:00 in Room 338 on Wednesday, October 17th. You are welcome to attend!!!
Mary V. Davidson
P.S. More information about his visit should be posted soon!
