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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

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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

Tuesday, Feb. 7, 6-7 p.m.
Language and Literature 2 (LL 2) ASU, Tempe Campus 
 
Join English Club @ ASU for an evening with Dr. Mark Lussier, Professor of English at ASU and English Club's faculty advisor, as he explores and blends science, romanticism, and Buddhism in the study of literature. 
 
Event is free of charge and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided. 

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. 

This event is free of charge, catered, and open to the public.
 
To participate as a reader in this event, please RSVP to Heather.Maring@asu.edu by September 30th. Readers are free to read in either Old English or modern English, and will need to bring their own copy (an edition with line numbers and with Old English and modern English on facing pages is recommended). 
 
Event contact information:
Heather.Maring@asu.edu
480-965-3744
english.clas.asu.edu/beowulf 
 

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. 

This event is open to the public.
 
 

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.