Please join us in wishing Cindy Burger, administrative assistant to the dean, English and humanities, a happy retirement at a reception today, May 25, from 2-3:30p.m. in the Robert H. Stephens Room.
Category Archives: English and Humanities
Retirement reception for Cindy Burger tomorrow
Please join us in wishing Cindy Burger, administrative assistant to the dean, English and humanities, a happy retirement at a reception tomorrow, May 25, from 2 -3:30p.m. in the Robert H. Stephens Room.
LLCC student wins journalism awards
The Illinois Community College Journalism Association recently awarded Carmen Dillman first place in Page Design and Front Page Design for the April 2022 issue of The Lamp. She also won third place in Multimedia Story. The ICCJA awards for work produced in 2022 were given April 14, 2023, at the spring convention held at the College of DuPage.
Lincoln Land Review available
The new issue of the Lincoln Land Review is now available. It features the work of students who won awards for academic writing, creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry and artwork in several mediums.
In the community
John Paul Jaramillo, professor of English, will be doing a live Zoom book reading on May 10 at 7 p.m. His third book was recently published by Twelve Winters Press. The book cover was designed by Thom Whalen, professor of art.
Writing Center Sway presentation
The LLCC Writing Center is here to help! Students are welcome to schedule an appointment (either through MS Teams or in person) to discuss pre-writing, drafts, revisions — any writing-related activity for any of their classes. Just call 217-786-2341. We hope you enjoy our Sway, “Write and Write Again.”
Ryan Roberts to serve on Working Group for BSA Fellows and Fellowships
Ryan Roberts, librarian (professor), has been selected to serve on the Bibliographical Society of America’s (BSA’s) new Working Group for BSA Fellows and Fellowships. His appointment will run for three years, beginning Jan. 28, 2023. The Working Group was formed to better promote the Society’s Fellowship Program and those who conduct research as Fellows. The BSA has the distinction of being “the oldest scholarly society in North America dedicated to the study of books and manuscripts as physical objects.”
Sociology and humanities students participate in Partnership2Gether program
Yesterday, LLCC Sociology and Humanities students participated in a “Women Leading a Dialogue” through Partnership2Gether, a program of the Jewish Agency and the Jewish Federations of North America, promoting people-to-people relationships. Facilitated discussions were held about culture, community and life, including issues pertaining to being women and mothers in Israel and the Western Galilee.
In the news
Dr. Bailey Shaw, professor of English, has a chapter “‘I’d have my life unbe’: Undoing Experience in Tess of the d’Urbervilles” in the forthcoming book #MeToo and Modernism (Clemson UP, February 2023). Using several canonical authors and texts alongside some lesser-known but nonetheless important writers, the collection combines chapters of literary criticism regarding the foreshadowing implications of the ongoing #MeToo movement during the Modernist era. Professor Shaw’s chapter examines the vexed publication history of Tess and Thomas Hardy’s recurrent alterations to the text in the context of the #MeToo movement. Through the novel’s growing attention to representing Tess’s subjectivity, the “ache of modernism” is painfully revealed through Tess, a “Pure Woman” who is made to suffer in a world without justice.
Sheridan Lane, director, culinary program and operations, wrote this week’s Epicuriosity 101 column on “Modern day tacos.”
Annual Banned Book Celebration today
In conjunction with the American Library Association’s Banned Book Week, LLCC presents its annual Banned Book Celebration today, Sept. 21, from 1-2 p.m. just outside A. Lincoln Commons. LLCC has held this event since 2001, and this will be the first one in-person since 2019. Approximately one dozen readers consisting of staff, faculty and faculty-librarians will present excerpts from books that were banned at one time. “This year seems more fraught because so many states have or are attempting to pass laws that put librarians and instructors in danger of jail time for merely sharing links to books that have been challenged or allowing minors to check out books that have been challenged,” says Dr. Deborah Brothers, professor of English. “Freedom of access and books that feature topics that are sometimes difficult to talk about need to remain available.”