UNC Student Organization for Undergraduate Literature

Hosted By:CAROLINA LETTERS- A Connected Learning Program Project
Date:Thursday, March 27, 2008
Time:6:30pm - 8:00pm
Location:Donovan Lounge, 2nd floor of Greenlaw Hall

This is a meeting to let everyone know what we've been working on the past year. We record lectures and post them on our website (see below). Come meet and eat with us and learn about this new resource.

www.johnstoncenter.unc.edu/clp/carolina_letters

Contact: whitkaejohnson@gmail.com

facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=9195659886

Dear English and Comparative Literature majors and minors:

The 2008 UNC Conference for English Language and Literature is
offering a unique opportunity for undergraduate students to share
their papers and research. Hosted by SOUL and the UNC Department of
English and Comparative Literature, this year it is titled
"Considerations of 19th and 20th Century British Literature."
Attached to this post is the call for papers.

The conference is accepting papers from undergraduates that touch
upon any aspect of British literature, from the Romantics to the
Victorians to modernism to contemporary literature. It is designed to
give you a chance to present your hard work and to gain firsthand
experience in how academic conferences are conducted. Papers written
for your classes at UNC are certainly welcome, as are honors theses
or personal research. For those of you who intend to apply to
graduate school, participating will not only be a boost to your
application and c.v., but will help to prepare you for later
conferences in your academic career. If you do not wish to present a
paper, but still wish to gain academic experience, consider
participating as a proposal reviewer or respondent.

The conference will be held in the afternoon on Saturday, April 5th.
And, yes, there will be refreshments!

Papers should be between 8-10 pages (or, if longer, pared down to a
15 minute presentation). Abstracts will be accepted until 11:59 pm
Monday, March 24th, and can be submitted to unc [dot] cell [at] gmail.com . Any questions about the conference can also be directed to this email address. - Professor Anderson, Anna Willis
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( Papers should be 8-10 pages long or capable of being presented in fifteen minutes. Submit your abstract and contact information to Anna Willis at unc [dot] cell [at] gmail.com by 11:59 pm on March 24th. Please note your A/V needs. Queries are welcome. )

Hi everyone!

Following Professor Anderson's message, I just wanted to extend my thanks to all of you--everyone involved with SOUL--for your participation and excitement this past semester. In a very real way, SOUL could not have been the success that it was without you.

As the community that has developed from the remnants (the rubble? the ashes?) of AEM (The Association of English Majors), we have good reason to be proud of ourselves. We've made something vital out of an idea that had essentially died. In doing so, I think we've moved in a significant way towards the creation of an English Major (and literature lovers) community. Every event we held this semester stands for an event we DIDN'T hold last semester, and hopefully we can expand upon this success in the coming semester and in the coming years.

We had planned two final events this semester--a student/faculty
get-together and a movie night (during which we'd show Wonder Boys)--but have postponed these events. At the tail end of the semester, stress is high and energy is low. We didn't want to fill your calendars (or ours) with events few would be likely to attend.

This said, we'll kick off the next semester with these and other fun
events, so look for our emails and keep checking our site. Best of luck on your finals!

Sarah Bull

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"Our great thoughts, our great affections, the Truths of our life, never leave us." - William Makepeace Thackeray

We want to tell you about the small grants that one undergraduate in your department received during the 2006-07 academic year and ask you to inform other undergraduates in your department of these opportunities. The Office for Undergraduate Research (OUR) offers small grants as partial funding to support undergraduates who are presenting their research at professional conferences (Undergraduate Travel Awards), or who need essential supplies to go forward with a feasible research project (Undergraduate Research Support). Following is the name of the student in your department who received funding, their faculty mentor, the title of their project, and the nature of the award:

Student: Madeline Walter
Faculty mentor: McKay Coble, Dramatic Art
Project title: Exploring Character and the Creative Process through the Intersection of Performance and Fiction
Type of funding received: Research supplies - Printing of short story for distribution to play audience members for online comparative survey

Please encourage the undergraduates in your department who are engaged in their own research to be aware of these Undergraduate Travel Awards and Undergraduate Research Support grants. For more information and an application for these grants, please visit http://www.unc.edu/depts/our/undergrad_travel.html for the Travel Awards and/or http://www.unc.edu/depts/our/undergrad_research.html for the Research Support grants. Applications received by the 15th of the month are reviewed by the end of that month. Thank you

Are you interested to learn what you can do with your English or Comparative Literature major? Would you like to find out what resources University Career Services offers to assist you in your job or internship search?

If so, please plan to attend our "What Can I Do With a Major in English or Comparative Literature" information session this Thursday, October 4th from 3-4 pm in Donovan Lounge. Donovan Lounge is located on the second floor of Greenlaw Hall, room 223.

Laura Lane, Assistant Director of University Career Services, will lead this session. Light refreshments will be provided.

See you there!

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..."

Sound familiar? If so, then this is the event for you.

On October 3rd, 2007, the Comparitive Literature Organization for Undergraduate Discussion, or CLOUD, is hosting a book discussion on Jack Kerouac's novel, "On the Road" in New West room 219 from 6-8pm.

CLOUD is an organization similar to SOUL, though you can imagine filled with more Comparitive Literature majors than English majors. Regardless, it's a group of people with a love of literature, who love to read and talk about it.

If you're interested, be sure to stop by and check it out, and tell 'em SOUL sent ya.

I just thought I'd post this to help get out the word:

The Office for Undergraduate Research (OUR) gave Undergraduate Travel Awards and Undergraduate Research Support Awards to 22 majors in 10 departments during 2006-07. OUR offers these small grants as partial funding to support undergraduates who are presenting their research at professional conferences (Undergraduate Travel Awards), or who need essential supplies to go forward with a feasible research project (Undergraduate Research Support).

For more information and an application for these grants, please visit http://www.unc.edu/depts/our/undergrad_travel.html for the Travel Awards and/or http://www.unc.edu/depts/our/undergrad_research.html for the Research Support Awards. Applications received by the 15th of the month are reviewed by the end of that month.

There will be an organizational meeting on Wednesday the 29th at 4:00pm in Donovan Lounge. If you can't make it to the meeting or if you have ideas that we might take up regarding the organization, feel free to add a comment and pass them along.