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The English Department at the University of Georgia is a diverse scholarly community of over 40 faculty, 100 graduate students, and more than 600 undergraduate majors and minors held together by a common commitment to preserving, transmitting, and extending the rich cultural legacy of the English language. At the core of our discipline lie the complex skills of reading and writing, and though these can be productively applied to a wide range of professional goals our own work as scholars and teachers strives to deepen our understanding of the critical and creative imagination.
A sympathetic participation in the verbal worlds of other times and places, drawing on the full range of linguistic tools, historical knowledge, and interpretive experience at our disposal, allows our students to enhance their appreciation for expressive possibility. The diversity of the faculty's interests and research methods helps ensure that an English major at the University of Georgia develops a sophisticated, practical grasp of the central role that language plays in the preservation of human institutions.
 Saturday , February 11 (10:00 AM) Georgia Medievalists' Group Spring 2012 Colloquium The English department is proud to host the Spring 2012 semiannual meeting of the Georgia Medievalists' Group. All presentations will be held in Park 144. 10 am: Coffee, English Department Library, Park Hall 10:30: James Ryan Gregory, UGA: "Digestam... vitam direxi: Oral and Written Sources for the Twelfth-Century Cult of St. Wenefred" 11:00: Henry Bayerle, Oxford College, Emory University: "Barbarossa in Medieval Latin Epic" 11:30: Elizabeth Keohane, Fordam University: "The Venn Diagram of Politics and Religion in Late Medieval and Early Modern England: The Authorization of Holy Days by Convocations from the 13th to the 16th Centuries." 12:00: Lunch Break 2:00: Wendy Turner, Augusta State University: "Medieval Understanding of the Brain" 2:30: Christine Arabatzis, Kennesaw State University: "Angels and Troublemakers: An Analysis of Two Women Mystics in the Middle Ages" 3:00: Paul Dover, Kennesaw State University, "How Heinrich Bullinger Read his Solinus" 3:30: Convivitas et garrulitas This event is funded by the Department of English, and is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Cynthia Turner Camp (ctcamp at uga dot edu). For more information on the Georgia Medievalists' Group (including contact information for future meetings), please visit http://www.reinhardt.edu/academics/Arts_Humanities/Faculty/JGood/gmg.html.
Monday , February 20 (12:15 PM) Graduate Admissions Committee The faculty members of the Graduate Committee will meet in 261 Park Hall to consider applications to the Ph.D. and M.A. programs. Wednesday, February 29 (05:00 PM) Georgia Colloquium in 18th & 19th Century British Literature J. Paul Hunter, Professor Emeritus of the University of Chicago and the University of Virginia, will deliver a talk for the colloquium series. Dr. Hunter has published extensively on poetry and poetics, the couplet, the history of the novel, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, and Alexander Pope. His book, Before Novels: The Cultural Contextsof Eighteenth-Century English Fiction, was awarded the Louis Gottschalk prize for best book of the year by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in 1991. This event is sponsored by the Willson Center and the Rodney Baine Lecture Fund. More details to follow. |  |
Spotlight
 A Sense of Shock What does modern British and Irish literature have to do with French impressionist painting? And what does Henry James have to do with the legal dispute between John Ruskin and James McNeill Whistler? What links Walter Pater with Conrad's portrait of a genocidal maniac in Heart of Darkness? Adam Parkes argues, in this newly-published book from the Oxford University Press, that we must answer such questions if we are to appreciate the full impact of impressionist aesthetics on modern British and Irish writers. |
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Spotlight
 Jonathan Wetherbee Jonathan Wetherbee is a third year student from Augusta majoring in History and English. He gets down with Nourish International and the Demosthenian Literary Society. Jonathan just won the English 4k Essay Contest. This is almost as cool as his 5th grade accolades which include winning the school creative writing contest, the school geography bee, and the U-12 Columbia County Rec. Dept. basketball championship . He is the "Grammar Allied Powers" to the "Grammar Nazis." Jonathan's handwriting was the model for the Times New Roman font. Though, his handwriting wasn't always so pristine. When Jonathan was four years old, his handwriting was used as a model for the Comic Sans MS font. Jonathan is working on a book of notations to Don Gifford's Ulysses Annotated. Jonathan recognizes that the most under-discussed topic of debate is whether Walt Whitman or Lord Byron is the biggest hipster of the 19th century. Jonathan enjoy it when the subject disagree with the verb. Passive voice is aggressively used by Jonathan Wetherbee on the reg. Jonathan will always and forever be a user of the Oxford comma. |