The English Club
The English Club @ ASU offers undergraduate students a voice in the affairs of the Department of English and a space for comfortable interaction with peers and faculty. We place student representatives on departmental committees, offer workshops in areas of interest and concern to students, plan social and scholarly events involving students and faculty, and facilitate student access to funding and awards. We also coordinate and host an annual undergraduate conference which provides students with a stage for presenting their academic and creative work to peers, mentors, friends, and family.
English Club Officers, Spring 2012
Julie Riedel, President
Alexandra Goodspeed, Vice-president
Sarah McCabe, Secretary
Rebecca Hoffman, Webmaster
Dr. Mark Lussier, Faculty Advisor
English Club @ ASU schedule of Spring 2012 meetings
All meetings will be held on Mondays from 3:30-4:30 in LL 112 unless otherwise stated:
January 23, 2012
January 30, 2012
February 6, 2012
February 13, 2012
February 20, 2012
February 27, 2012
March 5, 2012
March 12, 2012
March 19, 2012 -- NO MEETING, SPRING BREAK
March 26, 2012
April 2, 2012
April 9, 2012
April 16, 2012
April 23, 2012
All additional meetings TBA.
For more information and for club updates, send an email to our webmaster to be added to the English Club's mailing list!
Upcoming Club Events
Upcoming booksale and faculty lecture dates TBA!
PAST CLUB EVENTS, 2010-2012
"Critical Travels in Transdisciplinarity" -- A Talk with Dr. Mark Lussier, Professor of English
Language and Literature 2 (LL 2) ASU, Tempe Campus
4th Annual Beowulf Symposium
Saturday, Oct. 9, 1:30-5:30 p.m.
Social Sciences 109 (SS 109) ASU
The ASU Department of English, the English Club @ ASU, the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and the ASU Institute for Humanities Research present the 4th annual Beowulf Symposium. Join us for a communal reading of Beowulf from start to finish.
English Club Book Sale!
Monday-Friday, Oct. 11-15th, 1-4 p.m.
Hayden Lawn @ ASU
The English Club @ ASU presents a week-long book sale! Join us on the Hayden lawn from 1-4 p.m. for shopping and fun. Paperbacks are all $1, while all hardcovers are $3. Buy books for yourself or donate a book to the Mingus Mountain Academy, a residential treatment center for emotionally and behaviorally at-risk adolescent girls.
Crazed Grannies, Choking Dobermans, And Psycho Clowns: Terror and Horror in the Urban/Contemporary Legend
Thursday, October 28th, 5-6 p.m.
LL14 (in the basement)
The English Club @ ASU presents a presentation by Larry Ellis on the American folk genre of urban legends. Join us for scary stories from around the country just in time for Halloween!
This even is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.
Text, Lies, and Mediascapes: Narrative Forms Shaping Human Existence
Friday, November 19th- Saturday November 20th
ASU Memorial Union @ Tempe Campus
Co-presented by the English Club and Student Advocates for Global Justice
Stories have been part of the practice of every culture for all of human history, and the act of telling, reading, viewing, hearing, or even feeling a story is always a transformative event. Stories rouse deeply buried emotions, inform a sense of individual and group identity, are a playground for the imagination, and move us to action. Responses evoked by the stories of our lives are largely what make us who we are as individuals, communities, and nations. This unique conference will feature undergraduate student performances and presentations which explore the fascinating power of narrative in any form to shape human experience.
NO REGISTRATION FEE.
FREE FOOD AND BEVERAGES FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS THROUGHOUT ENTIRE CONFERENCE.
Submit electronic proposals to Elizabeth.Pitts@asu.edu
or mail proposals to Liz Pitts, English Club Co-president,
ASU Department of English, PO Box 870302, Tempe, AZ, 85287.
Submission deadline is Friday, November 5, 2010.
Questions? Contact Elizabeth.Pitts@asu.edu.
Conference co-sponsored by the Arizona State University Department of English, the Undergraduate Student Government and the Coalition for Human Rights.