Spring Semester Updates

It's already turning out to be a very busy spring semester, and we still have quite a bit of winter ahead of us. Here are some upcoming events to keep an eye out for:

• First, congratulations to Cristina Stasia, whose lecture "Mrs. Croft: Angelina Jolie & the Straightening of the Female Action Genre" was, by all accounts, a successful start for the spring colloquium lineup.

• Hearts of Westcott, the English Dept soccer team, has its first match of the indoor season on Monday night.

• PhD admit Eve Eisenberg is headed our way this Wednesday to have lunch with graduate students and sit in on a graduate seminar. Please make her feel welcome. More PhD & MA admits will be visiting this term, and will be announced soon.

• Thursday the department will be hosting prospective senior hire Sarah Projansky, who is currently in the Gender & Women's Studies program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. If you would like to attend the lunch with Professor Projansky, or the teaching talk, please contact Mike Dwyer.

• Ben Jonson's Head, the Department's Trivia team, is firmly entrenched in the peleton, but needs help to make the push to the top of the rankings. Trivia starts at 9pm at the Inn Complete.

• This month's Negotiations panel will be held on February 29th.

• Finally, we're trying to get a ego website together that is a little more comprehensive & appealing. Feel free to check out the new Syracuse English Graduate Organization homepage and tell us what you think.
  
  As a part of this, we'd like to put together a backlog of abstracts of Negotiations panels, so if you have abstracts for papers you've given, you can send those along as well.
  
  But the thing we need the MOST help with is the "Guide to Syracuse" section. We just want to give people a sense of what kind of resources might be available to them as a grad student in Syracuse. If you want to see a model, you can check out the Univ of Florida's EGO site here.
  
  So, I'll ask two things, respond to me at mddwyer (at) syr.edu.
  
  1) List up to three favorites in any categories you have opinions on.
  2) Write up (at least) one very brief description for any one of your choices. 100-200 words, tops.

Thanks!
Mike