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| Richard Helgerson |
4/28/2008 |
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In Memoriam
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| Richard Helgerson, 1940-2008
Richard Helgerson, one of the leading scholars of Renaissance literature, died in Santa Barbara, California, on April 26 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Helgerson, who was known among other things for his studies of the ways in which the earliest European nation states described themselves to themselves and to the world, was a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, an institution at which he had taught since 1970. A memorial service will be held at the UCSB Faculty Club from 4:00-6:00 p.m. on Friday, May 23.
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| Full Obituary |
"Now cracks a noble heart."
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| Transcriptions Research Slam |
4/28/2008 |
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5/9/2008 1:00 PM - 5:30 PM SH 2635, 2509, and 2510
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One of the goals of UCSB's Transcriptions Center is "to demonstrate a paradigm—at once theoretical, instructional, and technical—for integrating new information media and technology within the core work of a traditional humanities discipline." With this in mind, the center is hosting a Research
Slam: an experimental research presentation model that seeks to highlight
the unique work done by scholars of media and information technology. . . more |
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| ACGCC Working Paper Series |
5/8/2008 |
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5/15/2008 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ACGCC Center (SH 2710)
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Please join us for the second meeting of the ACGCC's "Working Paper Series." The Working Papers Series offers graduate students the opportunity to workshop their papers in a supportive environment; we have two 'official' commentators on each paper, one faculty member and one graduate student--and, of course, all who attend the meeting are invited to respond. For this meeting the presenters are Yanoula Athanassakis and Eric Martinsen. They will be presenting their work-in-progress from their dissertations. Copies of their work will be available beginning on Monday May 12th, in the ACGC Center in 2607 South Hall, in a folder marked: "Working Paper Series."
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| English Department Expands Specializations Offerings |
11/11/2007 |
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| New Department Knowledge Base Wiki |
11/12/2007 |
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Just launched is the new EDKB-Wiki (English Department Knowledge Base wiki). Developed with the aid of a UCSB instructional improvement grant, the wiki is designed to serve both instructors and students by housing much of the evolving, shared institutional wisdom of the department--e.g., syllabi for often-taught courses, sample assignments, teaching materials, "best practices," interviews with veteran teachers, guides to research, writing, technology, and much more.
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| Commencement Reception |
6/15/2008 |
You are cordially invite to attend a reception to be held before the 1:00pm Commencement Ceremony celebrating the accomplishments of the Undergraduate Class of 2007-2008.
Sunday, June 15th
10:30am - 12:00 Noon
Girvetz Courtyard
Refreshments will be served
RSVP to Ann at 805-893-4710 or wainwright@english.ucsb.edu
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| Online World of “Second Life” |
9/24/2007 |
The UCSB Transcriptions Project is proud to announce its recent pedagogic and artistic foray into the online world of "Second Life," a popular 3-D virtual environment that first debuted for public use in 2003 and now supports over 30,000 concurrent users.
Funded by a 2007 Instructional Improvement Grant and developed under the direction of Profs. Rita Raley and Alan Liu, the project has successfully created its own experimental classroom space. This property is currently open for all registered Second Life users to explore and utilize for educational purposes. English department undergrads, grads, and faculty are invited to visit our virtual home at the following SLURL location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kerlingarfjoll/179/245/46.
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For more information, please visit the Transcription's Second Life Project blog.
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| Literature and the Environment Programs Launched |
9/1/2007 |
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 The English Department recently underscored its commitment
to the study of literature and the environment (often referred to as
"ecocriticism") by announcing a number of exciting new programs and
courses. In fact, a total of
fourteen L&E
courses will be taught in 2007-08 from a range of over twice that many that
will now be regularly offered. Undergraduates
can both declare an Undergraduate
Specialization in Literature and the Environment (USLE) for the first time,
as well as have the option of completing it with honors. Graduate
students now have the benefit of a L&E
graduate colloquium, teaching
opportunities, and other exciting new proposals. A number of L&E
events will also be taking place throughout 2007-08. UCSB's commitment to environmental
issues dates from 1969; after one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history off
the coast of Santa Barbara, a group of twenty-one UCSB faculty members calling
themselves the Friends of the Human
Habitat helped create the modern environmental movement. This commitment to
the environment continues today with our English Department, especially the twelve
Professors
that teach L&E courses.
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| Transliteracies Project Awarded UC Funding |
10/8/2005 |
 In summer 2005, the Transliteracies Project for research in the technological, social, and cultural practices of online reading was granted status as a University of California Multi-Campus Research Group (MRG) for 2005-2010, with total funding of $175,000 from the UC system and another $175,000 in cost sharing from UC Santa Barbara. Headquartered in the UCSB English Department, the project is directed by UCSB Professor Alan Liu and includes scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and engineering from throughout the University of California system. Over five years, the group will study historical reading practices alongside contemporary digital technologies in order to define a framework, development plan, and speculative tools to improve online reading and, equally important, to understand what "improvement" might mean in a broad cultural and historical perspective. The project was launched at a June 2005 planning conference featuring well-known speakers from universities and industry. (fuller statement of Transliteracies topic) (Transliteracies Web site)
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| Early Modern Center Creates Online Ballad Archive |
10/7/2005 |
 The Department's Early Modern Center (EMC) is well on its way to completing an online archive of Samuel Pepys's collection of English broadside ballads, the most important such collection of the seventeeth century. Created with permission from the Pepys Library at Magdelene College, Cambridge, as part of the EMC's ongoing English Ballad Archive, 1500-1800, The Pepys Ballad Archive currently makes available on the Web facsimiles of all 1,857 ballads that Pepys collected; extensive cataloguing of the ballads; introductory essays about ballad culture and the categories in which Pepys assembled his ballads; sample transcriptions, audios of musicians reconstructing the original songs, XML encodings of the works; and sophisticated search functions. In the future, the EMC plans to complete its "facsimile transcriptions" (allowing the reader to toggle back and forth between the difficult to read "black letter" font of the original ballads and roman-type transcriptions that preserve the works' original illustrations and ornaments) and expand its musical repertory to 1,000 available tunes. The goal of the ballad project is to open up new ways of understanding early modern popular culture, literature, art, and music.
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| Race and Pedagogy Project Launched |
9/27/2005 |
 The English Department recently announced the creation of a new web resource: the Race and Pedagogy Project (http://rpp.english.ucsb.edu/). A product of the department's Diversity Work Group and the American Cultures and Global Contexts Center, this resource provides teachers, students, researchers and the interested public with on-site research summaries and citations as well as bibliographies of research and teaching materials. The project has been inspired by lively, ongoing exchanges regarding anti-racist teaching strategies, exchanges that have evolved in a wide variety of disciplines and educational settings. The site attempts to convey the range of these engagements by highlighting representative examples of scholarship. The site developers envision this as a multi-year endeavor and they encourage suggestions and advice from site visitors, especially at this early stage. The site is carefully designed to lend many different voices to race and pedagogy dialogues. To this end, visitors are encouraged to add their comments by making use of the dialogue boxes positioned after each research summary and bibliography. The RPP development team includes four English graduate students, Susan Cook, David Roh, Benjamin Shockey and Katherine Voll, as well as Professor Carl Gutierrez-Jones. The project has been funded by UCSB’s Office of Research and the Rockefeller Foundation.
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