| 2008 - 2009 Events Holiday Literary Feast 2008 Christmas on the Range This year's theme, "Christmas on the Range," comes from the senior Honors Seminar, which this fall took as its subject "The American West." Throughout the semester we studied various Wests--beginning with the eastern frontier of upstate New York depicted in James Fenimore Cooper's _The Last of the Mohicans_ (1826), continuing through the Wild West of Owen Wister, Frederic Remington, Buffalo Bill, and Billy the Kid, the Nebraska prairies of Willa Cather, the counterculture West of 1960s California seen in Wallace Stegner's _All the Little Live Things_ (1967), and finally, the West reimagined by native American authors such as James Welch and in films like _Unforgiven_ (1992) and _No Country for Old Men_ (2008). The feast was a hootenanny of a good time, with down-home victuals, loads of cornbread, classic Western tunes (and parodies of them), a rousing game of "Shoot-'em-up Trivia," and--of course--a round of square dancing. Click here to view the pictures
Spring Awards Reception and Graduating Seniors Dinner Our Spring Awards Reception was held the afternoon of Monday, April 30th, the last day of class, in the English Department Lounge. During the reception, the chair presented writing awards--$100 checks--for the best papers written for classes in each of the three categories: 100-level, 200-level, and 300-level. This year's winners are: Kate Ryan, Janine Harouni, Ryan Fields, Susan Newman, Hannah Blauvelt, Paul Zajac
Faculty members who taught majors courses during the year also presented "booking awards"--books the professors had specifically chosen to give individual students who distinguished themselves in some way in their majors courses. Those students are: - Samantha O'connor, Charlie Strode, Bryan Doscher, Jeffrey Malone, Ryan Adams, Sarah Biernacki, Ariell Watson, Christina Delcher, Paul Zajac, Amanda Cammarata, Doug Polisin, Matt Ferris, Charles English, Dan Corrigan, Rich Gibbons, Kelsey Welch, Barry Dima, Michelle Bruck, Alison Koentje, Dan Procaccini
After the awards reception, graduating seniors and the faculty attended a cocktail party and dinner in the Hug Lounge and Refectory.The annual dinner honors the hard work of our graduates and gives students and faculty the opportunity to exchange memories, news of future plans. This was part sponsored by the Student Activites Department. Click here to view the pictures
Evergreen Players Production of Measure for Measure Several English department members are involved with the Evergreen Players' exciting new production of Measure for Measure. It opens Friday, February 15th, and run Saturday, February 16th, with a Matinee Sunday the 17th, then repeats the cycle next week (February 22-24). The script is based on the Robert Miola's Aperio seminar's edition of Measure for Measure, the Symposium textbook. Cast members include: Dan Corrigan (2009) is the dramaturg Amanda Cammarata (2009), Sister Francesca/Master Froth Christian Klarner (2010), Barnardine Dan Procaccini (2008), Duke Vincentio Paul Zajac (2009), Pompey Dave Dougherty (Faculty), Escalus
Judge, Judge Not: The 2008 Humanities Symposium William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure Clowns and magistrates, nuns and prostitutes, saints and sinners--all take the stage in Measure for Measure, Shakespeare's provocative meditation on justice, law, and mercy. This modernized text, newly edited from the First Folio (1623) by Loyola students, provides a complete record of textual notes ample commentary. Concise and helpful appendices discuss language and rhetoric, sources and adaptations, the play in performance, and characters; they include a fully annotated bibliography of print and Internet sources. An accompanying website offers additional resources: www.loyola.edu/measure
Holiday Literary Feast 2007 Pacific Christmas: Signifiers in the world The feast's theme comes from Dr. Juniper Ellis' Senior Honors Seminar, How to Read the World: First Signifiers. The signifiers "Tattoo," "Geography," and "The Human Face" reveal themselves in the literature of the Pacific Rim, such as The Whale Rider, Tales of the Tikongs, and They Who Do Not Grieve and describe different methods of reading the world. Department of English Faculty and Students enjoyed the Christmas atmosphere with a Pacific twist! In addition to Pacific island food, prepared by students and faculty, the evening included performances by the Madrigals, under Ernest Liotti's direction; a student parody of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, featuring beloved English Department faculty; student and faculty singing of Christmas carols; and a student/faculty performance of a popular song by the New Zealand rock group OMC. Click here to view the pictures
International Conference on Romanticism The 2007 conference theme invites participants to consider the objects of Romantic study. This broad topic can include the goals of our academic inquiry and the artistic and intellectual pursuits of Romantic period authors, as well as the material things that provoke these goals and pursuits. What are Romantic objects? How are they defined and expressed? What kinds of responses do objects
demand? Visit http://loyola.edu/romanticobjects for more information.
Workshop Details September 26, Time: 3:00, Topic: "Henry V", Room: Humanities 232 Prof. Tom Scheye, upper-level Shakespeare class on histories & tragedies September 27, Time: 10:50, Topic: "Henry V", Room: Humanities 232 Prof. Jack Breihan, Honors Program Class on Renaissance Europe Sept., 27, Time: 12:15, Topic: "Shakespeare's Rhythm & Line", Room: MD Hall 342 Prof. Bryan Crockett, English Core class on "Literature & Search of Meaning" Sept., 27, Time: 1:40, Topic: "Shakespeare's Rhythm & Line", Room: MD Hall 342 Prof. Bryan Crockett, English Core class on "Understanding Literature" Sept., 27, Time: 4:30, Topic: "Acting Shakespeare", Room: Humanities 242 R Prof. Bryan Crockett, upper-level English class on "Modern Drama"
Awards Reception and Graduating Seniors Dinner Our annual end-of-year awards reception and the Senior Dinner were held April 30, 2007. During the reception, we honored the six prize winners of our paper contest with $100 checks, and faculty who taught our majors courses presented Booking Awards to distinguished students in their upper-division classes. We sent a large group of English majors and minors off into the wider world this spring and were especially pleased to recognize and honor four senior majors and one minor who made Phi Beta Kappa and to award honor cords to senior students who had been inducted into Sigma Tau Delta, the national English honor society. Members of the Senior Honors Seminar also received books to recognize their accomplishments. After the awards reception, our seniors and faculty gathered for a buffet dinner in the Hug Lounge, where we all exchanged memories, took pictures, and discussed our graduates’ future plans. Click on the thumbnail to view larger images Literary Feast Each year the English Department hosts a Literary Holiday Feast, which takes its theme from the subject of the Senior Honors Seminar and is organized by the members of that class and their professor. This year the seminar topic was Nineteenth-Century Novels into Film, and because the class studied several films with Indian connections, the class decided on the theme “Victoria Goes Raj.” As is our tradition, English majors and professors prepared much of the food, decorated the dining area and lounge, and performed the evening’s entertainment, which included senior Anthony Minervini’s solo, “Birds in the High Hall Garden,” (lyrics from Tennyson’s Maud); Prof. Mark Osteen singing “I Hate People” from Scrooge; senior Terry Foy reading from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol; and carols and other songs performed by Loyola students, former students, and faculty—all accompanied by Prof. Jean Cole on electric piano. Senior Timothy Callahan delivered the call to the feast on bagpipes, playing “The Siege of Delhi.” After dinner, which included lamb curry, tandoori chicken, English roast beef and gravy, roast goose, and mulaga-tawny soup—among other delights—the seminar students attempted (!) to lead the assembled masses in learning to dance the Derbyshire hop. Click on the thumbnail to view larger images. |
