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Footnotes: The Department Newsletter

Volume 52 |April 14, 2008| Number 27

THANK YOU!

Thank you to those who helped with Campus Visits this year. A special thank you to Shannon Godlove, Liz Hoiem, and Christopher Simeone for their hard work helping make arrangements!

CONGRATULATIONS!

Teresa Bertram is a winner of the 2008 Chancellor’s Distinguished Staff Award. This is the highest recognition given to staff members on this campus. Congratulations to Teresa on this well-deserved recognition of her many contributions to the English Department and the Center for Writing Studies.

Jodi A. Byrd , assistant professor at the University of Illinois won the 2008 Beatrice Medicine Award for Scholarship in American Indian Studies. The award was given by The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at the Native American Literature Symposium (NALS) in Mystic Lake, MN, on March 29, 2008. She won for her essay, "'Living My Native Life Deadly': Red Lake, Ward Churchill, and the Discourses of Competing Genocides." Citation: American Indian Quarterly; Spring 2007, Vol. 31 Issue 2, p310-332, 23p. Congratulations to Jodi on this national recognition of her scholarly excellence.

Christa Olson has just been awarded a P.E.O. (Philanthropic Education Organization) fellowship for next year. This $15,000 award is meant to support her dissertation research and writing. The P.E.O. promotes educational opportunities for women.

Winners of the 2008 Creative Writing Awards Caleb Curtiss (undergraduate poetry), Rafael Ibay (undergraduate fiction), Dana Burchfield (graduate poetry), and Micah Riecker (graduate fiction).

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.

Congratulations!
Mary Unger successfully passed her Special Field exam with Distinction on American Literature 1870-1950 ( Bauer, Ch.; Maxwell, Parker, Marsh) on 4/2/08.

Spring 2008 – Dates to Remember
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)

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on Symbolism, Symbolism: Its Origins and Its Consequences

We would like to invite you to submit a conference proposal for the International Conference on Symbolism, Symbolism: Its Origins and Its Consequences, which will take place at the University of Illinois Conference Center, Allerton Park and Retreat Center, between April 22-25, 2009. The keynote speaker for the conference is Madame Genevieve Lacambre, a former curator of Musee d'Orsay in Paris. The purpose of the conference is to explore the origins of Symbolism, a variety of Symbolist manifestations in art, literature, music and philosophy, its consequences in art and literature, and to understand how ideas moved from one European country to another.

The abstracts should be written in English, the official language of the event. The abstract should be submitted via email no later than September 1, 2008. The maximum length for abstracts is 250 words. The email address is symbolismabstracts@uis.edu.

For more information, please visit the Conference web site:
http://www.uis.edu/hosted%2Dorgs/conferences/symbolism/index.html

Rosina Neginsky, PhD
Associate Professor of English/Comparative Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies
Affiliated Art History Faculty
University of Illinois at Springfield
UH 3027
email: rnegi1@uis.edu



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Footnotes Directory	Footnotes: The Department Newsletter Volume 52 \|April 14, 2008\| Number 27 THANK YOU! Thank you to those who helped with Campus Visits this year. A special thank you to Shannon Godlove, Liz Hoiem, and Christopher Simeone for their hard work helping make arrangements! CONGRATULATIONS! *Teresa Bertram* is a winner of the 2008 Chancellor’s Distinguished Staff Award. This is the highest recognition given to staff members on this campus. Congratulations to Teresa on this well-deserved recognition of her many contributions to the English Department and the Center for Writing Studies. *Jodi A. Byrd* , assistant professor at the University of Illinois won the 2008 Beatrice Medicine Award for Scholarship in American Indian Studies. The award was given by The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at the Native American Literature Symposium (NALS) in Mystic Lake, MN, on March 29, 2008. She won for her essay, "'Living My Native Life Deadly': Red Lake, Ward Churchill, and the Discourses of Competing Genocides." Citation: American Indian Quarterly; Spring 2007, Vol. 31 Issue 2, p310-332, 23p. Congratulations to Jodi on this national recognition of her scholarly excellence. *Christa Olson* has just been awarded a P.E.O. (Philanthropic Education Organization) fellowship for next year. This $15,000 award is meant to support her dissertation research and writing. The P.E.O. promotes educational opportunities for women. Winners of the 2008 Creative Writing Awards Caleb Curtiss (undergraduate poetry), Rafael Ibay (undergraduate fiction), *Dana Burchfield* (graduate poetry), and *Micah Riecker* (graduate fiction). 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. Congratulations! Mary Unger successfully passed her Special Field exam with Distinction on American Literature 1870-1950 ( Bauer, Ch.; Maxwell, Parker, Marsh) on 4/2/08. Spring 2008 – Dates to Remember 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) CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Symbolism, Symbolism: Its Origins and Its Consequences We would like to invite you to submit a conference proposal for the International Conference on Symbolism, Symbolism: Its Origins and Its Consequences, which will take place at the University of Illinois Conference Center, Allerton Park and Retreat Center, between April 22-25, 2009. The keynote speaker for the conference is Madame Genevieve Lacambre, a former curator of Musee d'Orsay in Paris. The purpose of the conference is to explore the origins of Symbolism, a variety of Symbolist manifestations in art, literature, music and philosophy, its consequences in art and literature, and to understand how ideas moved from one European country to another. The abstracts should be written in English, the official language of the event. The abstract should be submitted via email no later than September 1, 2008. The maximum length for abstracts is 250 words. The email address is symbolismabstracts@uis.edu. For more information, please visit the Conference web site: http://www.uis.edu/hosted%2Dorgs/conferences/symbolism/index.html Rosina Neginsky, PhD Associate Professor of English/Comparative Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies Affiliated Art History Faculty University of Illinois at Springfield UH 3027 email: rnegi1@uis.edu

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