New Conversations on Teaching Series

Graduate Studies kicks off a new brown bag lunch series on teaching this fall with Thursday events in October and November. "Do's and Don'ts of the Classroom: Top Teaching Tips" will take place at 12:30 pm October 13 with two of the department's award-winning teachers, Professor Siobhan Craig and Professor Rebecca Krug. They will reveal their secret strategies for encouraging discussion, enlivening the classroom, avoiding dullness, and more. November 10 at 12:30 pm, "Behind the Podium: Lecturing 101" will feature two of our award-winning lecturers, Professor John Watkins and Professor Brian Goldberg, sharing tricks of the trade for keeping large groups of students enthralled and excited. Bring lunch and questions--these events will begin with our featured speakers, followed by lots of time for Q&A/general discussion. Soda and coffee served. Lind Hall 207A.

Faculty Promotions and Service

English faculty Tony C. Brown and Siobhan Craig have been promoted with tenure to Associate Professor in recognition of their outstanding research, teaching, and service. Professor Craig last year published Cinema After Fascism: The Shattered Screen (Palgrave Macmillan), and Professor Brown's book The Primitive, the Aesthetic, and the Savage: An Enlightenment Problematic is forthcoming. . . . Professor and former English chair Paula Rabinowitz has been elected to the University of Minnesota Senate. Congratulations to all!