Footnotes: The Department Newsletter

Volume 52 | November 26, 2007 | Number 13

Congratulations!
The Teaching Awards Committee had their final meeting Wednesday, November 7. On behalf of the committee members, we are delighted to announce departmental winners of teaching awards as follows:

1. Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by a Graduate Student:
David Roark
Tara Lyons
---Tara Lyons was selected as the nominee whose candidacy will be forwarded to the LAS competition.


2. Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by a Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Member:
John Rubins
Andrew Moss
---Andrew Moss was selected as the nominee whose candidacy will be forwarded to the LAS competition.
---Dennis Dullea received special commendation for teaching 100 courses.

3. Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by a Faculty Member:
Tony Pollock (whose candidacy will be forwarded to the LAS competition)

Please join the committee in congratulating our winners and in thanking all those finalists who submitted portfolios for this competition. We greatly appreciate the excellent work they are all doing on the English Department's behalf.

 

FROM THE GRADUATE STUDIES OFFICE

Fellowship Payment
Graduate students on fellowship for the Fall semester (8/16/07-12/15/07), will receive their last fellowship payment on 12/16/07.

FALL 2007 - Dates to Remember
November 30: Last day to drop a second half-session course
November 30: Last day to elect credit-no-credit option for a second half-session course or to change from credit-no-credit option to a regular grade
November 30: Last day to take final exam for Dec. doctoral degree
December 7: Instruction ends
December 7: Last day to deposit Dec. master's theses December 8: Last day to add or drop a second half-session course with approval (a W is recorded)
December 8: Last day to add or drop a semester course with approval (a W is recorded)
December 8: Reading Day
Dec 10 – 15: Final examination period
December 10: Last day to change an I grade from spring or summer to prevent F by rule
December 14: Last day to deposit Dec. doctoral dissertations
December 17: Dec. degree conferral (no commencement)

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

Sexing the Look: A Regional Interdisciplinary Conference on the Impact of Sexual Imagery in Popular Visual Culture
April 3-4, 2008
University of Missouri-St. Louis

We invite papers, presentations, and panels that examine how sexual imagery, including pornography and/or erotica, positively and/or negatively constructs its viewers. Papers might consider how images of women, men, and children are sexualized in various popular media, including Internet sites, film, popular magazines, television, advertising, music videos, and video and computer games.

We encourage presentations from those working in gender and feminist studies, literary and media analysis, cultural studies, psychology and psychoanalysis, criminology, neuroscience, anthropology, history, art history, philosophy, sociology, social work, political science, film studies, and communication.

Possible topics include:

virtual realities and sex crime technological determinism vs. voluntary viewing the sexualization of children online pedophilia sexing the ad/sexing the consumer framing erotica erotic looking queer looking male objects of the female gaze

female objects of the female gaze male objects of the male gaze female objects of the male gaze the predatory gaze online sex trafficking virtual porn and/or print porn personal Web pages addictive or compulsive looking virtual embodiment

Keynote Speaker:
Sut Jhally , professor of Communication, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; founder of The Media Education Foundation; director of Dreamworlds. Virgin and Slut, and Killing Us Softly 3.

Proposal Submissions:
*We strongly prefer e-mailed submissions.

*Send 350- to 500-word proposals or abstracts to kjusticeg@gmail.com or mail to Kathy Gentile, Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies, 212 Clark Hall, University of Missouri–St. Louis, One University Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63121.

*Proposals should include title, contact information, and institutional affiliation. For updated information on the conference, please check back here at the conference Web site, www.umsl.edu/sexingthelook.

*The deadline for submitting proposals is January 14, 2008. 

*Selected presenters will be notified by early February 2008 and must register for the conference by February 28 to be included in the program.

See file in 213 EB (Journals Room) for more information .