Footnotes: The Department Newsletter

Volume 52 |March 10, 2008| Number 23

FROM THE GRADUATE STUDIES OFFICE 

Fellowship Payment
Graduate students on fellowship for the Spring semester (1/16/08-5/15/08), will receive their first fellowship payment on 2/16/08 and their last payment on 5/16/08.  Please let me know if you have any questions.

Spring 2008 – Dates to Remember
March 10: Second half-session courses begin
March 15-23: Spring Break
March 14: Instruction resumes
April 4: Last day to add a second half-session course
April 4: Last day to add name to May degree list
April 11: Last day to withdraw from a current term without a grade of W
April 11: Last day to elect/change credit/no-credit option for a semester course
April 11: Last day for student to drop a semester course without a grade of W (without
approval)
April 11: Last day to take final exam for May doctoral degree
April 25: Last day to elect/change credit/no-credit option for a second half-session course
April 25: Last day to drop a second half-session course
April 25: Last day to deposit May master’s theses
April 30: Last day of instruction
May 1: Reading Day
May 1: Last day to add or drop a semester course with approval (a W is recorded)
May 1: Last day to remove an I grade from fall 2007 to prevent F by rule
May 2-9: Final examination period
May 2 : Last day to deposit May doctoral dissertations
May 11: May degree conferral (Commencement)

 

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT

Research Position
Pending funding

National Sun Yat-sen University invites applications for two full-time open- rank faculty positions starting Aug 1, 2008. All positions are a 50% appointment in the Center for Humanities and Social Sciences and a 50% appointment in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature. Each successful candidate at the rank of Assistant Professor / Associate Professor will teach two courses related to Englishand American literature or cultural studies per semester. The candidate at the rank of full professor will teach one course per semester. All candidates are expected to complete a research project or revise a doctoral dissertation in Early Modern / Pre-modern Cultural History and Literature. The focus of research project must be involved with ETHNICITY or NATIONHOOD.

Ph. D., strong research interests and teaching experience will give preference. Applicants for full professorship should have substantial publications. Applications will have to provide three copies of letters of application, C.V., statement of research project(s), curricular interests, writing samples and three letters of recommendation by March 15, 2008 and send to Director of Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, 70 Lien-Hai Road, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. For further information, please contact Dr. I-Chun Wang at chscaa@mail.nsysu.edu.tw.

 

FACUTLY ACTIVITIES AND PUBLICATIONS

Diana Sheets
Publications excerpted from my online literary blog: http://www.literarygulag.com
--- “Looking for real virtue in literature,” The Christian Science Monitor, 1/9/2008.
--- Audio Interview with Josh Burek, Opinion Editor, The Christian Science Monitor, http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0109/p09s02-coop.html.
--- “An Interview with Diana Sheets: The Literary Gulag,” Michael F. Shaughnessy, Senior Columnist, EdNews.org, 2/16/2008.
--- “Virtue,” The St. Croix Review, February, 2008.
--- “If it’s written, will the Great American Novel be published?” The Free Lance-Star, 2/3/2008.
--- “Diana E. Sheets: The demise of the great American novel,” Pasadena Star-News, 10 February 2008.