Important Reminders
—-The deadline for certifying student attendance is Wednesday, March 5, 2008. Please be sure to do so before then.
—–Our next Department Meeting is Thursday, March 6, 10:30 in CH-324.
—–The 2nd Faculty Gathering is scheduled for Friday, April 4, 2008, 12:00 - 3:00 PM at the Darlington Building. Lunch will be served.
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CEA: Caribbean Chapter Conference
Writing Race
February 29 to March 1, 2008
Filed under Announcements, Invitations | Comment (0)Movie Medievalism: The Imaginary Middle Ages Publication
NIck Haydock’s book MOVIE MEDIEVALISM: THE IMAGINARY MIDDLE AGES (McFarland 2008) will be out in May of this year. It is already available for eager beavers on Amazon.com. This book provides a theoretical introduction to the study of films about the Middle Ages and what the author calls the “medieval imaginary.” Employing Lacanian psychoanalysis and Deleuze’s philosophy of cinema, Haydock explores images of multivalent time and looks at how contemporary society projects the past it requires in a number of recent films, including: FIRST KNIGHT, A KNIGHT’S TALE, THE MESSENGER: THE STORY OF JOAN OF ARC, KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, KING ARTHUR, NIGHT WATCH, AND DA VINCI CODE.
Nick Haydock is also in the process of editing with Edward Risden a collection of essays titled HOLLYWOOD IN THE HOLY LAND: THE FEARFUL SYMMETRIES OF MOVIE MEDIEVALISM (also for McFarland & Co.). This book should be out sometime early next fall.
Intellectual Property Colloquium March 28, 2008
Coloquio sobre Propiedad Intelectual
This conference will take place on March 28, from 7:30pm -4:30 pm in the Sala de Conferencias A of the UPRM Library. For more information, refer to the links.
Filed under Announcements, Events | Comment (0)Faculty Resource Network
This link takes you to the Faculty Resource Network which offers year-round programs and events to provide faculty with a broad range of faculty development opportunities ranging from intensive summer seminars, longer research residencies, lunchtime lectures, panel discussions, national symposia, and more.
The activities are free of charge for all UPRM faculty.
Filed under Announcements, Events | Comment (0)Guide to Categories in the English Department Blog
This is a brief overview of the categories in which postings are classified in the English Department Blog, which may be both useful for you to sort through the materials, but is also informative in terms of the kinds of postings you can make (or send info for us to post).
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How to Open DocX Files, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Microsoft
If you are having increasing numbers of problems with files generated by Microsoft Office 2007, in the new docx format, which isn’t compatible with Office 2003 for Windows or Office 2004 for Mac, then here are some solutions for the problem.
Filed under Instructions | Comment (0)Congratulations to Graduate Student Irmaris Rosas
Please congratulate graduate student Irmaris Rosas on the approval of her Institutional Review Board proposal Exploring the Writing Process across Modalities: Learning in Face-to-Face and Online Classrooms. Irmaris is about to commence focus groups with undergraduate students from the two versions of her 3103 Intermediate Writing I course as a component of her thesis-based research on this topic.
¡Felicidades, Irmaris!
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Festival Casals @ Figueroa Chapel in March, 2008
Festival Casals @ Figueroa Chapel
This link provides the dates in which the Festival Casals will be at Figueroa Chapel. Tickets are free and can be picked up at the Student Center, in the Oficina de Actividades Sociales y Culturales.
Be sure to take your RUM ID card with you when you pick up the tickets!
