Austin Peay State University

INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS TRACKING SYSTEM

Name of Unit: Language and Literature
Unit Coordinator: Susan Calovini Campus/Center/Site: Main Campus
Title of Coordinator: Chairperson Building & Room: 115/116 Harned Hall
Telephone: 221-7891 E-Mail Address: calovinis@apsu.edu
Name of Supervisory Unit: College of Arts and Letters
  Last Update: 6/7/2003 11:34:12 AM
 
  • Unit Statement of Purpose

    The Department of Languages and Literature promotes the value of language learning, good writing, critical thinking, and an informed appreciation of literature to our students, the university, and the community.  We are dedicated to excellence in teaching, creative and scholarly achievement, and professional service that supports the language arts through lectures, readings, publications, translations, and related activities.  We strive to produce literate men and women who understand the importance of language and literature in the history of humanity and who practice effective language use in their daily lives.

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  • Unit Objectives for Fiscal Year 2002-03

    Objective 1.0 Complete a successful five-year review of our academic programs including undergraduate programs in English and Foreign Languages and our graduate program in English.  
    Objective 2.0 Enhance the quality of academic programs by hiring REPLACEMENT faculty for four (4) open positions in English.  
    Objective 2.1 Hire a specialist in Creative Writing, Poetry to replace Malcolm Glass, who completes his post-retirement program at the end of the 2002-03 year.  The continued success of our creative writing program is heavily dependent on filling this position.  
    Objective 2.2 Hire a specialist in Eighteenth-Century English literature (for position vacated by Carl Fisher in 2000) to teach undergraduate and graduate classes in the specialization as well as core literature and writing.  
    Objective 2.3 Hire a specialist in Romantic English literature (for position vacated by Ann Hawkins in 2002) to teach undergraduate and graduate classes in the specialization as well as core literature and writing.    
    Objective 2.4 Hire a specialist in Comparative or World literature (for position vacated by Vlatka Velcic in 2001) to teach undergraduate and graduate classes in the specialization as well as core literature and writing.  
    Objective 3.0 Enhance the quality of academic programs by hiring two NEW faculty positions in foreign languages (German and Spanish).  
    Objective 3.1 Hire a tenure-track faculty member in German.  Majors in German, German/French, and German/Spanish as well as a Minor in German are totally dependent upon this position.    
    Objective 3.2 Hire a tenure-track faculty member in Spanish to satisfy the growing demand for lower-level classes on main and Fort Campbell campuses and RODP program.  
    Objective 4.0 Obtain additional classrooms, offices, and operating funds to better meet the educational needs of students and faculty in all aspects of our operations.  
    Objective 5.0 Improve our student services and persistence to graduation rates through advisement workshops, review of major field exams, and survey of alumni.  
    Objective 6.0 Enhance diversity and its value among students, faculty, staff and programs by holding an annual Cultural Diversity Symposium in Spring.  
    Objective 7.0 Improve the quality of our academic courses and programs through review, revision, and augmentation.  
    Objective 8.0 Improve faculty use of technology to enhance the university's educational and service missions.  
    Objective 9.0 Review and respond to Spring 2003 Program Reviews.  Begin plans to implement all desirable and feasible recommendations included in those reviews  
    Objective 9.1 Review English Program Reviews and implement recommended changes where they seem desirable, warranted, and feasible in terms of financial and human resources.  
    Objective 9.2 Review Foreign Language Program Reviews and implement recommended changes where they seem desirable, warranted, and feasible in terms of financial and human resources.    
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  • 2002-03 Annual Report Section
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    Accreditation or Program review activities from 2002-03 academic year.
    All of the Department's programs underwent review during Spring 2003.  These include the English undergraduate program, the English graduate program, and the Foreign Language program.
     
    New initiatives, activities or programs from the 2002-03 academic year.
    Due to a resignation, the Department requested and received permission to hire a replacement faculty member in French-Spanish.  The Department successfully completed that initiative with the hiring of Dr. Culley Carson-Grefe in June 2003.

    The faculty reviewed and updated the Department's Retention, Tenure, and Promotion Guidelines for inclusion in the Faculty Handbook.

    Department faculty contributed to the development of a new interdisciplinary Latin American Studies Minor to be housed in Languages and Literature, History, and Political Science.  The minor was approved to begin in 2003-2004.

    Department faculty continued to receive recognition for exemplary teaching, scholarship, and service, as evidenced by awards.  Jill Eichhorn received a Socrates Award for excellence in teaching in December 2002, and Allene Phy-Olsen received the Hawkins Award for excellence in scholarship in Spring 2003.  This followed a Spring (2002) in which David Till received the Outstanding Professor Award and Jim Clemmer earned the Distinguished Service Award.
    Books Published or
    Accepted for Publication    		 Authors, Titles, Locations/Conferences
    2  Franks, Jill, translator.  SPACE AND PLACE IN THE WORKS OF D. H. LAWRENCE by Stephania Michelucci.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Inc. Publishers, 2002.  184 pp.

    Magrans, Ramon, and Victor Alcazar.  SPANISH FOR FOREIGNERS, a language text in Spanish.  Accepted for publication in Mexico, publication expected Summer 2003. 
    Publications or
    Journal Articles    		 Authors, Titles, Locations/Conferences
    27  Barnes, Linda.  "Maya Angelou" in BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF LITERARY INFLUENCES: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 1914-2000.  Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 2003.

    Calovini, Susan.  "Two Parallel Currents: Biography, Fiction, and Women in THE LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE and NORTH AND SOUTH by Elizabeth Gaskell." Tennessee Philological Bulletin, Spring 2003.

    Eichhorn, Jill. "A Symposium on Feminist Experience in the Composition Classroom." In FEMINISM AND COMPOSITION: A CRITICAL SOURCEBOOK. Editor Gesa Kirsch. Bedford-St Martin, March 2003.

    Eichhorn, Jill.  "Isabel Allende" in BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF LITERARY INFLUENCES: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 1914-2000.  Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 2003.

    Emery, Taylor.  3 articles accepted for the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD WAR I AND II.  Editor Spencer C. Tucker. ABC-CLIO Publishing, 2003.

    Franks, Jill.  Review of "D.H. LAWRENCE: FIFTY YEARS ON FILM" by Louis K. Greiff.  D.H. Lawrence Review 30.3 (2002): 77-78.

    Franks, Jill.  "Myth and Biography in WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD and THE LOST GIRL."  D.H. Lawrence Review 30.1 (2002): 29-44.

    Hancock, Nancy.  "Supplement to Indices for Accessing Reviews of Shakespeare Plays in THE GENTLEMANS MAGAZINE, Volumes 1-20, 1731-1751."  Folger Library Documents, Folger Library, Washington, D.C., June/July 2003.

    Kitterman, Barry.  Review article, "Five Award-Winning Collections of Short Fiction" in West Branch, Bucknell University.

    Kitterman, Barry.  Short story, "Mediator," in Green Hills Literary Lantern, North Central Missouri College.

    Kitterman, Barry.  2 Poems published: in The Roundtable, Hopkinsville Community College, and in Red Mud Review, APSU.

    McWilliams, Cynthia.  2 articles published; details not available at this time.

    Phy-Olsen, Allene. 8 encyclopedia articles on influence of locale on literary works for ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LITERARY PLACES, Salem Press, February 2003.

    Phy-Olsen, Allene.  "Holy Books and Ebooks."  Against the Grain Journal, January 2003.

    Phy-Olsen, Allene.  "The Literature of World War I" in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WAR WAR I AND II. Editor Spencer C. Tucker.  ABC-CLIO Publishing, 2003.

    Phy-Olsen, Allene.  "Bathsheba; Wife of David and Mother of Solomon" accepted for publication in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HISTORICAL PERSONAGES.  Salem Press. 
    Presentations or
    Exhibits    		 Authors, Titles, Locations/Conferences
    49  Barnes, Linda.  Paper Presented at 18th Annual Ohio Valley History Conference, APSU, October 2002.

    Barnes, Linda.  Presentation on novel of Dame Ngaio Marsh.  National Womens Book Association, Nashville, TN, July 2003.

    Barnes, Linda.  Presentation on Dame Ngaio Marsh.  Clarksville-Montgomery County Friends of the Library Mystery Book Series, May 2003.

    Bekus, Albert.  "Reading to Writing in Liberal Education."  Phi Kappa Phi Conference on Excellence in the Liberal Arts, APSU, February 2003.

    Calovini, Susan.  Presentation on "Novelist A.S. Byatt and POSSESSION: A ROMANCE."  Clarksville-Montgomery County Friends of the Library Book Series, September 2002.

    Calovini, Susan.  "Woman Viewing Women: Cleopatra, Vashti, and Lucy Snowe in VILLETTE by Charlotte Bronte."  Tennessee Philological Association, Nashville, February 2003.

    Calovini, Susan.  Presentation on "The Lives of the Muses" by Francine Prose, APSU Book Talk Series, March 2003.

    Clemmer, Jim.  3 Workshops/Presentations for three departments on the use of multimedia equipment.

    Eaves, Arthur.  "Clothed Men and Naked Ladies: The Tate Victorian Nude Collection." College English Association Meeting, St. Petersburn, FL, April 2003.

    Eichhorn, Jill.  "Educating on Sexuality and Violence."  Montgomery County Domestic and Sexual Violence Prevention Team, Fall 2002.

    Eichorn, Jill.  Presentation on "Isabel Allende." Clarksville-Montgomery County Friends of the Library Book Series, October 2002.

    Eichhorn, Jill.  "The Changing Role of Adult Women  in the University: Adapting University Services and Teaching Methods to Meet the Needs of a Growing Population."  Phi Kappa Phi Conference on Excellence in the Liberal Arts, APSU, February 2003.

    Eichhorn, Jill.  "Visualizing Words, Visualizing Images: Opening Our Spirits to Intellectual Inquiry."  Women and Power Conference, MTSU, March 2003.

    Emery, Taylor. "Love Among the Ruins: John Donne Not Robert Browning."  Tennessee Philological Association, Nashville, February 2003.

    Emery, Taylor. "The Three Denials of Guinevere."  Kentucky Philological Association, Frankfort, KY, March 2003.

    Emery, Taylor.  "Newspapers and Audience."  Rhetoric and Composition Colloquium, Murray State University, Murray, KY, April 2003.

    Emery, Taylor.  Presentation on "Mary Stewart and the Merlin Trilogy."  Clarksville-Montgomery County Friends of the Library Book Series, April 2003.

    Franks, Jill.  "Sex, Guns, and Death: The Enhancement of Peter in the Film Adaptation of THE LAST SEPTEMBER."  American Conference on Irish Studies, Southern Regional Conference, Chattanooga, TN, February 2003.

    Goldstone, Dwonna. "The Edible Black Tit: Representations of Black Women in THE WIND DONE GONE by Alice Randall."  Twentieth Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, February 2003.

    Goldstone, Dwonna.  "The Politics of Gay Black Fiction: From James Baldwin to Audre Lorde to June Jordan."  Macalester College African American Studies Conference, St. Paul, MN, February 2003.

    Goldstone, Dwonna.  "An African American Professor Reflects on What 9/11 Means for African Americans, and Herself."  Popular Culture Association of the South, Charlotte, NC, October 2002.

    Goldstone, Dwonna.  "Black Protest at the University of Texas at Austin."  Ohio Valley History Conference, APSU, October 2002.

    Guest, David.  Commentator.  Session on Fiction and Historical Narrative.  Ohio Valley History Conference, APSU, October 2002.

    Hancock, Nancy.  "Desdemona in Eighteenth Century Iconography: Visual Representation of Race."  Tennessee Philological Association, Nashville, February 2003.

    Kitterman, Barry.  Reading, Hopkinsville Community College, Roundtable Awards.

    Kitterman, Barry.  Reading, Tennessee Young Writers Workshop, Tennessee Humanities Council, APSU.

    Magrans, Ramon.  "Mexico and the US: The Importance of Study Abroad," Clarksville High School, Fall 2003.

    Magrans, Ramon.  Lecturer and curator, Exhibit on Masks and Pre-Columbian Materials and Replicas, Cumberland Museum, Spring 2003.

    Magrans, Lecturer, "Help Us Help Others" program for English volunteers to the Hispanic Community, APSU.

    McWilliams, Cynthia.  "The Purposes of Frames in Intertwining Generational Stories: Seeing by the Light of the Fireplace."  National Council of Teachers of English Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 2002.

    McWilliams, Cynthia. "Thematic Units, Extended Readings, and FreshmanWriters."  Tennessee Philological Association, Nashville, February 2003.

    McWilliams, Cynthia. Presentation at Murray State University Rhetoric and Composition Colloquium, April 2003.

    Phy-Olsen, Allene.  "Religious Terrorism Around the World."  Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library, October 2002.

    Ruiz-Aviles, Miguel. "Our Hispanic Heritage in the USA" for National Hispanic Heritage Month.   Department of Veterans Affairs, Nashville, TN, October 2002.

    Ryan, Steve.  Paper on "Malcolm Cowley."  Ohio Valley History Conference, APSU, October 2002.

    Ryan, Steve.  Panel Presentation, Phi Kappa Phi Conference on Excellence in the Liberal Arts, APSU, February 2003.

    Schnell, Michael.  Commentator.  Session on Fiction and Historical Narrative.  Ohio Valley History Conference, APSU, October 2002.

    Sorenson, Karen. Workshop Presentation on Quebec to Mid-Continent Consortium faculty and students, Lipscomb University, April 2003.

    Sorenson, Karen.  "Gautier and Goethe."  International Symposium on Gautier, Paris, France, and Sigen, Germany, June 2003.

    Till, David.  Session Commentator, "Malcolm Cowley and the Clarksville Context."  Ohio Valley History Conference, APSU, October 2002.

    Till, David. Poetry Reading. "Bread and Words." APSU, November 2002.

    Till, David. Poetry Reading.  31st Annual Twentieth Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, Spring 2003.

    Till, David.  Distinguished Professor Address to the Faculty and Administration, APSU, May 2003.

    Wadia, Mickey.  "Harlots, Whores, Concubines, and Courtesans: A Brief Historical Perspective on Prostitution in Renaissance England."  Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, San Antonio, TX, October 2002.

    Wadia, Mickey.  "The Sinkhole of Multiculturalism: Challenges Related to and Recommendations for Teaching Immigrant Literature in the Freshman Classroom."  Tennessee Philological Association, Nashville, February 2003.

    Winters, Timothy.  "Web Resources for Greek Language Teachers and Students."  Annual Conference of the Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans, LA, January 2003.

    Winters, Timothy.  "Sentence, Paragraph, Page, Book: Moving from Textbooks to Text."  Annual Conference of Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Lexington, KY, April 2003.
     
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