tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65532786963171026652024-02-19T08:26:47.402-08:00CSU Bakersfield English Department Online NewsletterUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553278696317102665.post-62499355016055509592017-04-05T10:16:00.005-07:002017-04-05T10:17:10.326-07:00Lectures in Language and Linguistics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You are invited to this semester's talk in the Warren Family Lectures in Language and Linguistics (L3) series that is scheduled for 7 pm on Thursday, April 20. The guest speaker is Dr. Duranti, UCLA Distinguished Professor of Anthropology.<br />
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Alessandro Duranti is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and former Dean of Social Sciences (2009-2016) at UCLA. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the UCLA Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award, and the American Anthropological Association/Mayfield Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Dr. Duranti’s research projects have focused on the role of verbal and visual communication in political arenas, everyday life, and during music performance and rehearsals. His books include <i>The Samoan Fono: A Sociolinguistic Study</i> (Pacific Linguistics Monographs, 1981), <i>Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon</i> (co-edited with C. Goodwin, Cambridge 1992), <i>From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village</i> (University of California Press, 1994), <i>Linguistic Anthropology </i>(Cambridge University Press, 1997), <i>A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology</i> (Blackwell 2004), <i>Handbook of Language Socialization</i> (co-edited with E. Ochs and B.B. Schieffelin, Wiley-Blackwell 2012), and <i>The Anthropology of Intentions: Language in a World of Others</i> (Cambridge University Press, 2015).Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553278696317102665.post-58406926169787798152017-03-09T10:00:00.001-08:002017-03-09T10:01:40.455-08:00"Toward Forgiveness and Reconciliation"Congratulations to Professor Monica Ayuso for her essay "Toward Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Three Novels from Haiti" to be published in Volume 22, No. 2 of <i><a href="http://www.research.ucsb.edu/cbs/publications/johs/" target="_blank">The Journal of Haitian Studies</a></i>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553278696317102665.post-16068995260582569842017-02-06T10:04:00.002-08:002017-02-06T10:05:06.995-08:002017 Betty Creative Writing Awards<img alt="Betty Poster 2017" height="640" src="https://www.csub.edu/english/_images/Betty%20Creative%20Writing%202017.jpg" width="499" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553278696317102665.post-67398693644687426412017-02-04T15:11:00.004-08:002017-02-04T15:12:32.939-08:00Valley Poets: A Celebration<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553278696317102665.post-46888113934172085922016-11-26T14:24:00.004-08:002016-11-26T14:26:11.107-08:00California Writers Series<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553278696317102665.post-61118102427844730142016-05-11T10:50:00.007-07:002016-05-11T10:53:07.994-07:00The Eighth Annual Gender Matters SymposiumCalifornia State University, Bakersfield's Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Club GEN (Gender Equality Now!) Present the Eighth Annual Gender Matters Symposium on Friday, May 13, 2016 in the Multipurpose Room, Student Union<br />
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<b>Coffee & Welcome (8:30 am)</b></div>
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Dr. Debra Jackson (<i>Philosophy, CSUB</i>)<br />
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<b>Artwork, Research Posters (9:00 am)</b></div>
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Moderator: Samantha DeLaCruz (<i>Interdisciplinary Studies, CSUB</i>)<br />
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<li>“My Body, My Dress” Chyna Parker (<i>Psychology, CSUB</i>)</li>
<li>“Gender and Computer Mediated Communications: A Content Analysis of the Language Expressed in Twitch Broadcasts” Kristina Garibay (<i>Sociology, CSUB</i>)</li>
<li>“Rape Empathy: Clinicians’ Attitudes Towards Sexual Offenders” Casey Harris (<i>Psychology, CSUB</i>)</li>
<li>“Gender in Horror Films” Althea Martinez (<i>English, CSUB</i>)</li>
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<b>Community Resource Fair (9:00 am)</b></div>
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CSUB Center for Career Education and Community Engagement, CSUB Advocacy Services, CSUB Safe Zone, CSUB Title IX Advisory Board, Bakersfield PFLAG, Democratic Women of Kern<br />
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<b>Gender & Sexuality in Religious Contexts (10:15 am)</b></div>
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Moderator: Jai Bornstein (<i>Child, Adolescent, and Family Studies, CSUB</i>)<br />
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<li>“On a Scale of Faith: Muslim American Attitudes towards Homosexuality” Hala Alnajar (<i>Sociology & Religious Studies, CSUB</i>)</li>
<li>“Exclusively Male Gendered God-Language is Problematic: Why Religious Feminists are Proposing Change” Kait Kretsinger (<i>Religious Studies, CSUB</i>)</li>
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<b>Keynote Address (11:30 am)</b></div>
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Moderator: Jennifer Valencia (<i>Interdisciplinary Studies, CSUB</i>)<br />
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“Glitter. Power. Love:A (Re)Introduction to Gender” by Jacob Tobia, GenderQueer Advocate<br />
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<b>Gender in Literature (1:30 pm)</b></div>
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Moderator: Max Flint (<i>Finance, CSUB</i>)<br />
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<li>“Men and ‘Scribbling Women’: Changing Places in Captivity” Mallory DeGregori (<i>English, CSUS</i>)</li>
<li>“The Gilded Cage of Feminine Beauty in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth” Jessica Flores (<i>English, CSUB</i>)</li>
<li>“The Game of Marriage in David Fincher’s Gone Girl” Tiffany Dauner (<i>English, CSUB</i>)</li>
<li>“Flight of a New Era and a New Woman” Jack Dodd (<i>History, CSUB</i>)</li>
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<b>Negotiating Gender Roles (3:00 pm)</b></div>
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Moderator: Josh Lofy (<i>Physics, CSUB</i>)<br />
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<li>“To Ama, From Your Forgotten Daughter” Sylvia Brown (<i>Political Science, CSUB</i>)</li>
<li>“Por que naci mujer? Why was I born a woman? How gender plays into the life of an immigrant woman” Delfina Duarte (<i>Interdisciplinary Studies, CSUB</i>)</li>
<li>“Women in Buddhist Thailand” Ruby Castillo (<i>Sociology, CSUB</i>)</li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553278696317102665.post-75145953390268437242016-05-09T14:08:00.003-07:002016-05-10T08:33:56.581-07:00Walter Presents: Brian Evenson<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 7:00, The Walter Stiern Library presents the author Brian Evenson, the author of a dozen works of fiction. <i> The New Yorker</i> published an insightful overview of his work titled "<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-dark-fiction-of-an-ex-mormon-writer" target="_blank">The Dark Fiction of an Ex-Mormon Writer</a>," and you can read one of his stories, "<a href="https://arthurmag.com/2009/08/11/younger-a-new-short-story-by-brian-evenson/" target="_blank">Younger</a>," by following the link. <br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553278696317102665.post-90813522960343644042016-04-21T19:38:00.001-07:002016-04-22T10:13:08.575-07:002016 Betty Creative Writing Awards<h2>
Congratulations to the 2016 Stafford Betty Creative Writing Award Winners!</h2>
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<b>Poetry</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">First Place: Mateo Lara for "New Age and other poems"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Second Place: Chyna Jade Parker for "Drought Diaries"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Third Place: Laura F. Robbie for "Patient Notes"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">First Place: Shydel Villa for "Invisible People"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Second Place: Marlin Morales for "Dastaar"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Third Place: Jayme S. Reyna for "Chip"</span><br />
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<b>Drama</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">First Place: Robert J. Vasquez for "Blue Hour"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Second Place: Anthony Jauregui for "Figment"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Third Place: Bailey Russell and Sidney Russell for "Five Renters, One Landlord, and the AC Unit"</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553278696317102665.post-48497576188322068262016-04-21T19:35:00.001-07:002016-04-22T12:38:09.113-07:002016 Li'i Pearl Prize Winners<h2>
Congratulations to Charles (Chaz) Lemley and Heather Simmons, our 2016 Li'i Pearl Prize Winners!</h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Chaz Lemley</b>, who is close to finishing his MA, has been the sole tutor working in the Writing Center at the Antelope Valley campus, keeping that service available to AV students as many hours as humanly possible and budget-allowed. He designed GWAR preparation workshops, which he holds for AV students the day before their scheduled exams each quarter, and the GWAR pass rates for the AV students has continually increased to the point where last quarter, every AV student who took the exam earned a passing score. He is also currently in the TA program.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Heather Simmons </b>came to CSUB from Bakersfield College in Fall 2015, having graduated Summa Cum Laude and having been published in BC’s online journal, The Roughneck Review (Spring 2015 issue). She was also a member of Phi Theta Kappa at BC (a community college honor society). As the following list of accomplishments will attest, Heather’s transition to CSUB has been smooth: her CSUB GPA is 3.95; she is a member of the University Singers; she was a reporter (named “Staff MVP”) for The Runner during Fall 2015 (and she still freelances); she is English Club Treasurer; she participates in a group that gives volunteer vocal performances at Tehachapi Senior Center; she appeared in CSUB’s Theatre of New Voices (February, 2016) and in “Gary Stu/Mary Sue” (produced by the CSUB Film Club, Winter 2016); she is on the Dean’s List (Fall 2015-Winter 2016); she is a member of the National Society of Leadership and Success and also of Alpha Chi Honor Society; and she is a founding member and the current president of Club Anchor for students with disabilities. One of her personal goals is to utilize her talents in representing and enhancing the lives of persons with disabilities.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553278696317102665.post-31993565992508068152016-04-08T14:07:00.001-07:002016-04-21T19:42:00.941-07:00Reading the Drought<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553278696317102665.post-37525827962237049452016-04-04T13:10:00.002-07:002016-04-17T07:05:32.418-07:00Orpheus<i>Orpheus</i>, an annual literary journal produced by the English Department at California State University, Bakersfield, is currently seeking submissions. You are cordially invited to submit your short stories, poems, paintings, and other creative works for publication in the 2015/2016 edition.<br />
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Closing Date for Submission for the 2015/2016 edition is APRIL15, 2016.<br />
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Please submit works to:<br />
Milissa Ackerley (Faculty Towers 202C)<br />
c/o Department of English<br />
(661) 65402144<br />
mackerley@csub.edu<br />
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Submission Guidelines: All submissions must be typed, double-spaced, on 8 1/2" x 11" paper. There are no restrictions on subject matter, length, or theme; however, poems over one hundred lines are rarely published. Please contact the English Department for further instructions concerning submissions of visual art.<br />
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Copies are available in the English Department Office, Faculty Towers 202C.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553278696317102665.post-36480191580395364752016-03-31T13:58:00.003-07:002016-03-31T13:58:20.465-07:00Visiting Artist Series: Gabriela JaureguiVisiting Artist Lecture Series, The Dorothy Florence Zaninovich Fund, Todd Madigan Gallery & CSUB Department of Art present Gabriela Jauregui, April 5 Visual Arts Building, Room 103 at 4 p.m.<br />
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Gabriela Jauregui is the author of <i>Leash Seeks Lost Bitch</i> (The Song Cave/Sexto Piso, 2015), <i>Controlled Decay</i> (Akashic Books/Black Goat Press, 2008), a short story collection, <i>La memoria de las cosas</i> (Sexto Piso, 2015), and co-author of <i>Taller de taquimecanografía</i> (Tumbona ediciones, 2012). She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Southern California, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California Riverside, and an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Riverside. Her creative and critical works as well as her translations have been published in journals, magazines and anthologies in the UK the US and Australia, as well as Mexico. She works as a correspondent for various cultural publications including the BBC World Service's Cultural Frontline, Witte de With's Review, Art Forum, Art Review and others. She is a founding member and editor of the sur+ publishing collective.<br />
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This event is free and open to the public.<br />
For more information contact: jcaesar@csub.edu or tmgcsub@gmail.com<br />
CSU Bakersfield 9001 Stockdale Highway, Bakersfield, CA 93311<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553278696317102665.post-84139451190852987672016-03-25T10:52:00.003-07:002016-03-25T10:58:35.568-07:00The Passing of Dr. Solomon Iyasere<br />
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Dr. Solomon Iyasere spent a distinguished 44-year career at CSUB. He joined the CSUB faculty in the fall of 1972, having just earned a Ph.D. in English from Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York. He earned an MS in Education from SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, New York in 1968 just one year after earning a BA with honors in English from SUNY. Solomon was hired as an assistant professor to teach Shakespeare and literary criticism at a fledgling, two-year-old “CSB” campus. Two years later in 1974, he received early tenure and promotion to associate professor and became a full professor in 1978. He received the Millie Ablin Excellence Award in Teaching in 1985-86; the Exceptional Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching in numerous years; was a Wang Award nominee; a Professor of the Year award nominee; and was one of 50 professors selected nationwide by the American Association for Higher Education, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching for extraordinary leadership in teaching, scholarship, and service.<br />
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Solomon developed and taught more than 35 different courses here at CSUB. In addition to Shakespeare and literary criticism, his areas of specialization included creative writing, world literature, non-western literature, African literature, and African-American literature. He wrote extensively on the oral tradition in African and African American literature, which encompasses the use of proverbs, folk tales, myths, fables, and repetition. He was widely known as a scholar of African literature, a rhetorical critic, and essayist who distinguished Eurocentric and Afrocentric forms of literary criticism and the importance of employing both, “cultural formalism,” an analytical approach he pioneered, to validly analyze African and African-American literature. Of this need for cultural sensitivity he wrote, “To assess a work by foreign standards leads to a mutilation of the message and robs the communication of its vitality.”<br />
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His scholarship included literary critical analyses of Othello and Nobel prize-winning author Toni Morrison’s <i>Beloved </i>and <i>Sula </i>(with his wife, Dr. Marla Iyasere, CSUB’s Founding Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor of English Emerita). His essay, “Narrative Techniques in <i>Things Fall Apart</i>,” has been reprinted four times and is considered a definitive analysis of the most widely read and studied English language African novel. He was a frequent contributor to the journal <i>Shakespeare in Africa</i>. His conference presentations included “Racial Issues in Shakespeare’s <i>Othello</i>”; “Race Matters: Approaches to Shakespeare’s <i>Othello</i>”; “Teaching Shakespeare’s <i>Othello </i>to a Group of Multi-Racial Students”; and “Pardon Me, Professor, Why Do I have to Read <i>Othello</i>?”<br />
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In addition to his teaching and scholarship, Solomon’s record of service to the University is extensive. As the founding Director of Diversity Services (1988-92), he laid the groundwork for inclusive excellence, one of the core values that guides us and a pillar of our vision statement. He collaborated to establish effective diversity policies and strategic guidelines resulting in the hiring of diverse faculty and staff. He helped revise the GE curriculum to include multicultural and international dimensions, and designed the English Single Subject Teacher Preparation program to incorporate multiculturalism. He developed the MA in Teaching of English, which is now the cornerstone for educating community college writing teachers in the CSUB service region. He served as Chair of the Department of English and Communications (1992-97), co-founded the Career Beginnings Program and the Ernest Williams, Jr. Scholarship Fund, and served on numerous departmental and university-wide committees.<br />
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Solomon’s legacy includes his founding of <i>Orpheus</i>, the annual student literary journal. Since its establishment in 1973, the journal has published the work of more than 2,500 students, several of whom have become national award-winning writers and playwrights. The journal invites the submission of short stories, poems, paintings, and other creative works for publication in the 2015/2016 edition.<br />
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Through the generosity of Dr. Stafford Betty, the 2016 Betty Creative Writing Awards are presented annually to honor the creative work of students at the undergraduate and graduate levels at California State University, Bakersfield and California State University, Bakersfield – Antelope Valley Campus. Awards in three categories will be presented:<br />
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3rd Place - $200</div>
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1st Place - $500</div>
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1st Place - $500</div>
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3rd Place - $200</div>
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Application Deadline: April 4, 2016<br />
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Submission Guidelines<br />
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<li>Applications must be filled out completely to be considered for an award.</li>
<li>Only complete entries received by 5 p.m. on April 4, 2016 will be considered.</li>
<li>Submissions should include a completed application, plus three hard copies of the work.</li>
<li>Each entry should be given an original title, which must be included on the application and at the top of the first page of the entry.</li>
<li>Each of the three hard copies must have the original title of the entry on the first page, but should contain no other identifying information such as author’s name.</li>
<li>Submission forms can be found <a href="http://www.csub.edu/~ecase/Betty_Awards_Application_2016.htm" target="_blank">here</a>. </li>
<li>Submissions must have been written by a student who is an undergraduate or graduate student at CSUB and CSUB-AV during the current school year.</li>
<li>Submissions must not have been published previously and must be the original work of the submitter.</li>
<li>Only one entry per contestant may be submitted per category.</li>
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Eligible categories are:<br />
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<li>Poetry – Poetry may be one poem or a sequence of poems but must be between 40 and 80 lines in length; entries should be printed in a standard font (Times New Roman 12 point) on white paper.</li>
<li>Short Story – Short stories must be a minimum of 8 typed pages and a maximum of 25 typed, double-spaced pages in length and printed in a standard font (Times New Roman 12 point) on white paper.</li>
<li>Drama – Drama may be for radio, stage, or screen; entries must be a minimum of 8 typed pages and a maximum of 25 typed, double-spaced pages in length and printed in a standard font (Times New Roman 12 point) on white paper.</li>
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Entries that do not conform to these standards will not be considered for an award.<br />
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<li>Awards will be presented at the Annual Sigma Tau Delta Induction and Awards Ceremony on April 28th, 2016. Award winners do not need to be present to win.</li>
<li>There are no entry fees or payments to enter or win the Betty Creative Writing Awards.</li>
<li>As a co-sponsor of this contest, Sigma Tau Delta will be responsible for assembling and managing the awards screening committee, which will consist of CSUB faculty and staff.</li>
<li>Sigma Tau Delta/The Betty Creative Writing Awards reserves the right not to name a winner in any or all of the categories if insufficient entries are submitted.</li>
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Submit directly to –<br />
Dr. Emerson Case<br />
Faculty Towers 204B<br />
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Or mail to –<br />
Dr. Emerson Case<br />
Department of English<br />
California State University, Bakersfield<br />
10F<br />
9001 Stockdale Hwy.<br />
Bakersfield, CA 93311<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553278696317102665.post-70957799933531426082016-02-09T18:51:00.001-08:002016-02-09T18:51:18.592-08:00Writing Color<span style="color: #3d596d; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25.5px;">As part of an interdisciplinary improvisation, <a href="https://bakersfieldbside.wordpress.com/2015/02/13/art-instructors-are-people-too/" target="_blank">Matthew Rich</a> had his art students collaborate with Matthew Woodman's creative writing students to work on the interplay between visual and verbal arts. Woodman's </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3d596d; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25.5px;">students wrote poems for Rich's art students to illustrate as blocks of color, and then they reversed the process and had Woodman's students respond to colors Rich's students generated. The whole endeavour was a worthwhile exercise in inspiration, connotation, and collaboration. At the end, thanks again to Matthew Rich, a gallery space on campus exhibited the results.</span><br />
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CSUB Theatrefest Presents <i>The Theatre of New Voices</i> written and directed by CSUB students.<br />
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This is a biennial festival of student-written, student-directed one-acts. Seven short plays were selected through a competition held last spring.<br />
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Thursday-Saturday, February 25, 26, 27 at 8PM<br />
Saturday-Sunday, February 27 & 28 at 2PM<br />
Doré Arena Theatre<br />
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Limited seating; reservations strongly recommended as this production normally sells out: (661) 654-3150. Reservations taken starting February 15th.<br />
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$10 General Admission<br />
$8 Seniors (60+)/CSUB Faculty & Staff<br />
$5 Students with Identification<br />
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Box Office opens one hour prior to each performance and takes cash and checks only. We do not take credit cards. For a reservation, call (661) 654-3150.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553278696317102665.post-8528513262708129342015-12-02T19:27:00.000-08:002015-12-02T19:31:43.169-08:00Polish Poetry after Tadeusz RóżewiczIn the latest issue of the literary journal <i>Jacket2</i>, Professor Marit MacArthur introduces a series of new translations of Polish poetry inspired by Tadeusz Różewicz, a Polish poet who lived from 1921-2014 and whose deadpan, pragmatist perspective has influenced poets across Europe as well as here in America.<br />
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MacArthur's introduction is titled "(Polish) Poetry after Różewicz," which you can read <a href="https://jacket2.org/polish-poetry-after-rozewicz" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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To read three of MacArthur's co-translations, of the poet Jerzy Jarniewicz, click <a href="https://jacket2.org/poems/three-poems-jerzy-jarniewicz-b-1958" target="_blank">here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553278696317102665.post-66160845619518012102015-11-19T09:04:00.000-08:002015-11-19T09:04:16.455-08:00Matthew Zapruder Reading<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On Wednesday, November 18, The California Writers Series hosted the poet Matthew Zapruder, who read from his poetry collections <i>Come on All You Ghosts</i> and <i>Sun Bear</i> and from a nonfiction manuscript-in-progress about how to approach and engage poetry. The reading was a resounding success, with Zapruder following his poems by engaging in a question-and-answer session with the audience and signing copies of his books.<br />
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Many thanks to Matthew Zapruder for sharing his work with us, and thanks to Marit MacArthur for arranging the reading; Curt Asher and the Walter Stiern Library for hosting; Poets & Writers, Sigma Tau Delta, and the CSUB English Department for sponsoring; and Eileen Montoya and Milissa Ackerley for managing arrangements and publicity.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553278696317102665.post-50132818210765278312015-10-27T14:09:00.003-07:002015-11-12T17:35:48.152-08:00California Writers Series<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On Wednesday, November 18 at 7:00 p.m., the California Writers Series and Walter Stiern Library will host a reading by the poet Matthew Zapruder. Zapruder earned a BA in Russian literature at Amherst College, an MA in Slavic languages and literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA in poetry at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His honors include a Lannan Literary Fellowship and a 2008 May Sarton Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has taught at the New School; the University of California Riverside, Palm Desert; and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst’s Juniper Summer Writing Institute. He lives in San Francisco, where he teaches in the St. Mary's MFA program, works as Editor-at-Large for Wave Books, and rocks out as a guitarist in the band The Figments.<br />
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Semantics is a notoriously tricky field within linguistics. Not only is it difficult to state exactly what words mean, but even more fundamentally, it’s hard to know what meanings even are. It is tempting to say that meanings are mental concepts--the ideas that are generated in our minds when we hear words like dogs, swim, happy, or frustration. But what are the mental concepts associated with words like every? some? two? many? hella? We might say that these mental concepts are quantities...but exactly what quantities? How many is many, after all? This talk explores these questions, arguing that in order to answer them, we need a theory of semantics that treats the meaning of a word not as the mental concept it evokes but as the way it points to objects in the world around us.<br />
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Kristen Greer received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from UC Davis in 2014. Before that, she completed a B.A. in Spanish and an M.A. in Spanish Linguistics, also at UC Davis. She is currently a lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at UCLA. Her research focuses on the meaning of quantity-denoting expressions (every, some, many, few, two/three and the like) in context. Her work has been published in the semantics journal <i>Linguistics and Philosophy</i>, and she has spoken at conferences at UC Davis, UC Berkeley, and UCLA, as well as to smaller audiences at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553278696317102665.post-62290156114581023522015-09-28T17:14:00.006-07:002015-09-28T17:14:58.647-07:00What's in the minds of our CSUB English Majors?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>What made you want to major in English?</i> A failed Computer Science route, along with an interest in the pragmatic and creative side to writing.<br />
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<i>What has been your best experience as an English major here at CSUB?</i> Winning 2nd place in the Betty Creative Writing Award for Drama, two years in a row. (Like the repetition? Let's hope for another next year.)<br />
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<i>What do you plan to do after graduation?</i> Travel the United States and explore life before (hopefully), settling into a Master's Program for Writing Dramatic Media. (Fingers crossed UNLV)<br />
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<i>What is your favorite work of literature?</i> Edward Albee's "The Goat or Who is Sylvia?"<br />
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Jacqueline Lucas<br />
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I decided to major in English about half way through general education at Bakersfield College. I hopped all over the place, testing out different majors to see what was fit for me. After a couple of trial and error courses, I took a British Literature class and really fell in love with the English major. The most rewarding experience as an English major at CSUB was learning Middle English in Dr. Troup's Chaucer course during my first quarter at CSUB. I remember being so intimidated by the material. I read the most hilarious stories from <i>The Canterbury Tales</i>, in an untranslated version of the book and I had to memorize the first 18 lines from The General Prologue. I can still recite them to this day. After graduation, I am going to graduate school for a Master's in English so I can become an English Professor. My favorite work of literature is <i>The Bald Soprano</i> by Eugene Ionesco because it is absolutely hilarious yet completely alters the way we think about language and human interaction.<br />
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