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| English Department Newsletter |
10/21/2009 |
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 The Fall 2009 English Department Newsletter has been released in digital form. Click to read about our new faculty, programs, graduate student accomplishments, and recent events.
English Department Fall 2009 Newsletter
Any questions, comments, or concerns regarding the newsletter should be addressed to UCSB.English.news@gmail.com
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| English Department Office Closures, Fall 2009 |
11/11/2009 |
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Please note the following closures for the English Department office this Fall:
- Wednesday, November 25th: the department office will close at 3 pm.
- Thursday, Nov. 26th, and Friday, Nov. 27th: the department will be closed for Thanksgiving.
- Wednesday, December 23rd: the department office will close at noon.
- Thursday, December 24th through Friday, January 1st: the department will be closed for the holidays.
Thank you, and apologies for any inconvenience.
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| Shirley Lim receives MELUS Lifetime Achievement Award |
9/23/2009 |
Congratulations to English department faculty member Shirley Lim on one of the most significant
awards a member of our faculty has ever achieved,
the MELUS Lifetime Achievement Award. A reception will be held at the MLA convention in Philadelphia on Dec. 28th to mark
the event.
Time: December 28, 2009 at 8:00PM
Place: Wenying Xu's suite, Courtyard
Philadelphia Downtown, 21 Juniper Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, 215-496-3200
Dr. Lim is an internationally recognized scholar who is currently Professor of English at University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Lim has published widely in the areas of literary criticism, Asian American studies, poetry, fiction, and memoir. Her most recent publications include Princess Shawl (Maya Press: Kuala Lumpur, 2008); Listening to the Singer: New and Selected Malaysian Poems (Maya Press: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2007); and Sister Swing, A Novel (Singapore/London: Marshall Cavendish, 2006). Dr. Lim’s wide-ranging and deeply influential contributions to scholarship and teaching have frequently been acknowledged with numerous grants, prizes, awards, and honors such as NEH and American Book Award.
For more information on the MELUS Lifetime Achievement Award, see their website at http://webspace.ship.edu/kmlong/melus/.
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| 2009 Undergraduate Commencement Reception photos |
6/15/2009 |
 Please click here or the adjacent thumbnail photo to view the picture gallery of the department's undergraduate graduation reception. Thank you to everyone who attended and congratulations to our English majors. We are very proud.
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| ACGCC launches new Journal of Transnational American Studies |
2/24/2009 |
 The American Cultures & Global Contexts Center is delighted to announce the inaugural issue of its Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS), a new peer-reviewed online journal co-sponsored with Stanford University's Program in American Studies and now available free of charge at http://repositories.cdlib.org/acgcc/jtas/
JTAS seeks to broaden the interdisciplinary study of American cultures in a transnational context and is the first academic journal explicitly focused on what editorial board member Shelley Fisher Fishkin called the “transnational turn” in her 2004 American Studies Association presidential address.
The founding editorial team includes UCSB English Professor Shirley Geok-Lin Lim (editorial board) and doctoral candidates Eric L. Martinsen (managing editor), Caroline Kyungah Hong (co-managing editor), and Yanoula Athanassakis (editorial assistant).
English professors Giles Gunn and Carl Gutiérrez-Jones sit on the journal's prestigious advisory board, which includes American Studies scholars based in Australia, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Germany, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, the UK, and the U.S.
JTAS's inaugural issue reflects a remarkable geographic and topical breadth with contributions from scholars and writers based in Germany, Ireland, Japan, Poland, Taiwan, the U.K., the U.S., and Vietnam. It includes selections from forthcoming or recently published books on Asian American art, Thurgood Marshall in Kenya, and constructions of race in the U.S. and Brazil, along with meditations by some of the leading figures in the field theorizing transnationalism and analyzing the current moment in American Studies scholarship. [read more . . .]
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| New on The Agrippa Files |
12/9/2008 |
- Recovery of the code from an original 1992 diskette containing William Gibson’s self-encrypting, self-disappearing memory poem and an emulated “run” of its software. (Go to The Poem Running in Emulation)
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Original footage from December 9, 1992, public debut of Agrippa at the Americas Society in New York City during the “Transmission” event. (Go to The “Hack”)
- Essay by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, with Doug Reside and Alan Liu, “No Round Trip: Two New Primary Sources for Agrippa"
Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) appeared in 1992 as a collaboration between artist Dennis Ashbaugh, author William Gibson, and publisher Kevin Begos, Jr. The Agrippa Files (http://agrippa.english.ucsb.edu) is a scholarly site developed by members of the UCSB English and Comparative Literature departments that presents selected pages from the original art book; a unique archive of materials dating from the book’s creation and early reception; a simulation of what the book’s intended “fading images” might have looked like; a 1993 experimental video "remix" based on the bootleg video from an original 1992 Agrippa “transmission” event; a “virtual lightbox” for comparing and studying pages from the book; commentary by scholars; an annotated bibliography of scholarship, press coverage, interviews, and other material; detailed bibliographic descriptions of the book; and a discussion forum. (more)
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| English Department Expands Specializations Offerings |
7/7/2008 |
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| Online World of “Second Life” |
9/24/2007 |
The UCSB Transcriptions Project is proud to announce its recent pedagogic and artistic foray into the online world of "Second Life," a popular 3-D virtual environment that first debuted for public use in 2003 and now supports over 30,000 concurrent users.
Funded by a 2007 Instructional Improvement Grant and developed under the direction of Profs. Rita Raley and Alan Liu, the project has successfully created its own experimental classroom space. This property is currently open for all registered Second Life users to explore and utilize for educational purposes. English department undergrads, grads, and faculty are invited to visit our virtual home at the following SLURL location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kerlingarfjoll/179/245/46.
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For more information, please visit the Transcription's Second Life Project blog.
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| Literature and the Environment Programs Launched |
9/1/2007 |
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 The English Department recently underscored its commitment
to the study of literature and the environment (often referred to as
"ecocriticism") by announcing a number of exciting new programs and
courses. In fact, a total of
fourteen L&E
courses will be taught in 2007-08 from a range of over twice that many that
will now be regularly offered. Undergraduates
can both declare an Undergraduate
Specialization in Literature and the Environment (USLE) for the first time,
as well as have the option of completing it with honors. Graduate
students now have the benefit of a L&E
graduate colloquium, teaching
opportunities, and other exciting new proposals. A number of L&E
events will also be taking place throughout 2007-08. UCSB's commitment to environmental
issues dates from 1969; after one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history off
the coast of Santa Barbara, a group of twenty-one UCSB faculty members calling
themselves the Friends of the Human
Habitat helped create the modern environmental movement. This commitment to
the environment continues today with our English Department, especially the twelve
Professors
that teach L&E courses.
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| Transliteracies Project Awarded UC Funding |
10/8/2005 |
 In summer 2005, the Transliteracies Project for research in the technological, social, and cultural practices of online reading was granted status as a University of California Multi-Campus Research Group (MRG) for 2005-2010, with total funding of $175,000 from the UC system and another $175,000 in cost sharing from UC Santa Barbara. Headquartered in the UCSB English Department, the project is directed by UCSB Professor Alan Liu and includes scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and engineering from throughout the University of California system. Over five years, the group will study historical reading practices alongside contemporary digital technologies in order to define a framework, development plan, and speculative tools to improve online reading and, equally important, to understand what "improvement" might mean in a broad cultural and historical perspective. The project was launched at a June 2005 planning conference featuring well-known speakers from universities and industry. (fuller statement of Transliteracies topic) (Transliteracies Web site)
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| Early Modern Center Creates Online Ballad Archive |
10/7/2005 |
 The Department's Early Modern Center (EMC) is well on its way to completing an online archive of Samuel Pepys's collection of English broadside ballads, the most important such collection of the seventeeth century. Created with permission from the Pepys Library at Magdelene College, Cambridge, as part of the EMC's ongoing English Ballad Archive, 1500-1800, The Pepys Ballad Archive currently makes available on the Web facsimiles of all 1,857 ballads that Pepys collected; extensive cataloguing of the ballads; introductory essays about ballad culture and the categories in which Pepys assembled his ballads; sample transcriptions, audios of musicians reconstructing the original songs, XML encodings of the works; and sophisticated search functions. In the future, the EMC plans to complete its "facsimile transcriptions" (allowing the reader to toggle back and forth between the difficult to read "black letter" font of the original ballads and roman-type transcriptions that preserve the works' original illustrations and ornaments) and expand its musical repertory to 1,000 available tunes. The goal of the ballad project is to open up new ways of understanding early modern popular culture, literature, art, and music.
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| Race and Pedagogy Project Launched |
9/27/2005 |
 The English Department recently announced the creation of a new web resource: the Race and Pedagogy Project (http://rpp.english.ucsb.edu/). A product of the department's Diversity Work Group and the American Cultures and Global Contexts Center, this resource provides teachers, students, researchers and the interested public with on-site research summaries and citations as well as bibliographies of research and teaching materials. The project has been inspired by lively, ongoing exchanges regarding anti-racist teaching strategies, exchanges that have evolved in a wide variety of disciplines and educational settings. The site attempts to convey the range of these engagements by highlighting representative examples of scholarship. The site developers envision this as a multi-year endeavor and they encourage suggestions and advice from site visitors, especially at this early stage. The site is carefully designed to lend many different voices to race and pedagogy dialogues. To this end, visitors are encouraged to add their comments by making use of the dialogue boxes positioned after each research summary and bibliography. The RPP development team includes four English graduate students, Susan Cook, David Roh, Benjamin Shockey and Katherine Voll, as well as Professor Carl Gutierrez-Jones. The project has been funded by UCSB’s Office of Research and the Rockefeller Foundation.
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| Legal & Regulatory Notices |
1/1/2005 |
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