The School/Uni Thread

[Zephyrus]

So today was a major coup for my academic career. Since my mentor, the classicist at UMaine was physically unable, I delivered in her stead my very own lecture on Vergil's Aeneid to a group of 300 Honors College freshmen for an hour and a half. It was a huge success. A video of it should be posted online very soon if you'd like to check it out.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

win! i'd probably watch some of the video.

 

[Srontgorrth]

So today was a major coup for my academic career. Since my mentor, the classicist at UMaine was physically unable, I delivered in her stead my very own lecture on Vergil's Aeneid to a group of 300 Honors College freshmen for an hour and a half. It was a huge success. A video of it should be posted online very soon if you'd like to check it out.

Holy crap, how big is the honors college at UMaine?

 

[The Emptier]

I couldn't stand a class that big, my gen ed classes with 30 or so people seems big to me,

music major ftw

 

[Einherjar86]

Post a link, Zeph; I'd like to watch that.

 

[unknown]

some of you may know I'm the editor for my grad department's scholarly journal, Watermark. We have a call for papers out if you'd like to submit. Here's the CFP:

WATERMARK JOURNAL
CALL FOR PAPERS


Watermark, an annual scholarly journal published by graduate students in the Department of English at California State University, Long Beach, is now seeking papers for our sixth volume to be published in May 2012. Watermark is dedicated to publishing original critical and theoretical papers concerned with the fields of rhetoric and composition and literature of all genres and periods. As this journal is intended to provide a forum for emerging voices, only student work will be considered.

Possible essay topics may include, but are not limited to:
-Digital rhetoric in the media age
-Gendered, cultural, racial and economic borders and transitions
-"Green" Aesthetics and artistic forms
-Reconsidering regional and/or sentimental literature
-Investigations of Medieval and Renaissance texts
-The construction of minimalism
-(Re)configuring the colonial experience
-Dissident ideas and official voices
-Issues of identity, discipline, and excess
-The ethnicity of pastiche
-Critical perspectives on contemporary popular culture

The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, February 29th, 2012.

All submissions should include a cover with your name, phone number, email address, and the title of your essay or book review. All submissions should be approximately 10-15 pages and must be typed in MLA format with a standard 12 pt font. Please do not include your name on the essay itself, as it will be reviewed by a blind peer-review panel.

Email papers and cover letters as separate Word attachments to:
editor@watermarkjournal.com.

Please direct all questions to: editor@watermarkjournal.com
Visit our website: www.watermarkjournal.com

 

[Stereo]

After a few years' break from studying I'm now starting uni in 10 days. Was really looking forward to this for months but now I feel terrified. Woo!

 

[Zephyrus]

Post a link, Zeph; I'd like to watch that.

Sound quality is god-awful, but here it is. Password is hon112.

http://vimeo.com/35228687

 

[Einherjar86]

some of you may know I'm the editor for my grad department's scholarly journal, Watermark. We have a call for papers out if you'd like to submit.

I would love to do this, but I'm not happy with very many of my essays I have right now. I submitted my thesis to Arizona Quarterly and it got rejected, albeit with some excellent comments. So now I'm convinced that it needs to be significantly rewritten before I submit it again.

I have been working on some stuff that might fit the bill, though. Hopefully I can wrap something up soon and send it your way.

Thanks so much for posting the information!

 

[unknown]

definitely! and we're pretty open in terms of topic and material. I know you're an American Lit/Theory guy, so that's right up our alley. You have a little over a month, so no worries

 

[Einherjar86]

Sound quality is god-awful, but here it is. Password is hon112.

http://vimeo.com/35228687

Thanks! I'll check it out soon.

definitely! and we're pretty open in terms of topic and material. I know you're an American Lit/Theory guy, so that's right up our alley. You have a little over a month, so no worries

Awesome, I'll try to get something together.

 

[King Richard]

Congrats breh, rollin a j for you.

 

[unknown]

didn't get a class to teach this semester and am paying $2300 to take directed studies (read: sit at home and finish my thesis). last semester of grad school, fuck yeah!

 

[Srontgorrth]

When I saw your status I thought that meant you were getting paid the $2300, not the other way around

 

[Der Morgenstern]

Definitely in California, especially a public school.

 

[unknown]

When I saw your status I thought that meant you were getting paid the $2300, not the other way around

pfft. that would be fucking sweet.

 

[Einherjar86]

So I got my first response from a Ph.D. program yesterday. I got accepted into Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This is just the first response I've gotten; I've got like 10 more departments to hear from. So things have gotten off to a great start! And they got back to me quick as hell, so it looks like I'm in their first round of acceptances and thus a top candidate. Stuff like this makes me wonder why I'm so damn pessimistic all the time. Feels good, man.

Congrats man, that's awesome news.

 

[The Emptier]

Briefly, I've been thinking about what I would do post undergrad, a long ways off, but then again not so far off. I didn't know if I wanted to pursue a master in performance (I'm a jazz studies major right now) or doing something else, and I've definitely been thinking a lot about historical musicology, which is something I'm really interested in. I tested out of both semester of Music Lit, which never ever happens and I have a deep passion for music history and listening to as much music as I can. It would be a great way to balance my performance application to music, with a more scholarly approach, which I'm a big fan of. It could prepare me to be a music librarian, teacher of music history courses, research work, I could go on for a Ph.D etc...who knows honestly but it's some kind of goal. I definitely want to educate, but I don't exactly want an education degree because I don't plan on teaching elem-high school all my life, which is what most undergrad ed students do. So I think a B.M in performance and an M.M/M.A. in musicology would be fantastic.

 

[Zephyrus]

So following up on the success of my Vergil lecture, I've been asked to deliver another one, this time on Apuleius. Holy smokes.

 

[Der Morgenstern]

Are you talking about any of his works in particular, like Metamorphoses? Or the Apologia? Or just his life in general?