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Dates and Deadlines English Department and Student Services
December 1:
Deadline for May and August
Graduation Packets to be
submitted to Student Services
December 11:
Classes end
December 11:
Last day for AS&E students to
WITHDRAW from courses
and receive a grade of W
December 12:
Reading Period
December 13:
Reading Period
December 14:
Final Exams begin
December 21:
Final Exams end
East Hall
Department of English
• • •
In This Issue
Dates and Deadlines 1
Student Events 2
Student Groups 2
Announcements 3
Shakespeare Course! 4
Beinecke Scholarship 5
Undergrad Notes News from the English Department of Tufts University December 2017
Save the Date! April 18, 2018 6-7:30pm
The English Department will celebrate our graduating
senior majors! Additional info to follow.
The English Department faculty and staff wish you
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!
Enjoy a safe and relaxing winter vacation.
The newsletter will return in February.
Toni Morrison American Novelist (b. 1931)
Student Events Poetry Potluck
Friday, December 8th 5:30-7:30pm
Parnassus is hosting a gathering
of friends, food, and poetry!
They will be meeting in Miner
112 to eat good food and share
our favorite poems with each
other (both original poems, or
poems written by our favorite
writers). It will be a combination
of a potluck and open mic night!
As always, nobody will be
required to share or speak in
front of a crowd if they don't
want to. People are more than
welcome to just come and watch.
All are welcome!
Email [email protected]
m for more information.
Student Groups This semester, there are two
exciting new literary
groups/publications on
campus! Future Histories and Blue
Lake Press are both looking for
students to get involved, so don't
hesitate to reach out if you love
creative writing, editing, or
publishing. These organizations
represent an exciting opportunity
to engage with and help shape a
publication from the beginning.
Blue Lake Press: A weekly
workshop for experienced and
novice writers alike, a regularly-
published zine compiled from
our workshops, and a
community of writers.
https://www.facebook.com/bluel
akepress/
Future Histories: The premier
literary journal. Publishes fiction,
poetry, creative nonfiction, art,
photography, and other
meritorious creative works on a
semiannual basis. Accepts
submissions in any language.
And as always, students
interested in getting involved
with journalism, creative writing,
and/or publication on campus
should consider getting involved
with some of the campus's
established student
organizations.
The Daily: The student-run daily
newspaper. Runs op-ed pieces
submitted by students as well as
traditional news, arts, and sports
articles covering both the Tufts
campus and the greater
Medford/Somerville/Boston area.
https://tuftsdaily.com/
Melisma: The premier journal of
music. Covers local, independent
music relevant to Tufts and
provides an outlet for thought on
the music industry at large.
https://melismamagazine.com/
The Observer: A weekly-to-
biweekly publication of news
analysis, opinion pieces, and
reviews and analysis of current
arts, entertainment, and cultural
trends. http://tuftsobserver.org/
Parnassus: A community which
meets once a week for an hour of
unrestrained creative writing,
sharing, and literary bonding.
https://www.facebook.com/tufts
parnassus/
The Public Journal: A collective
autobiography, author unknown.
It’s written by the people, for the
people.
https://www.facebook.com/Tufts
PublicJournal/
The Zamboni: The premier
humor and satire publication,
reporting only the finest fake
news, made-up features, and
photoshopped images.
http://www.tuftszamboni.com/
The elephant drawings are from
rosietea.blogspot.co.uk.
House of Jane Austen British Novelist (1775-1817)
Wanted:
Undergraduates
Interested in an
Organization for
English Majors and
Minors The English Department’s
Undergraduate Studies
Committee is looking for
students interested in organizing
or participating in a Society for
Textual Studies in English. With
so many talented and committed
majors and minors, and so much
energy and enthusiasm in our
classrooms, the only thing the
English Department lacks is an
opportunity for our students to
experience a stronger sense of
community outside the
classroom. We hope that an
English society might help to fill
that gap. Activities such a group
might sponsor could include
reading groups, lectures by
critics and creative writers, film
screenings and discussions, and
other intellectual and social
events. We are open to any and
all ideas, but the important thing
is that the Society be designed by
and for our majors and minors
themselves. So we are asking you
to let us know if you’re
interested in doing just that.
If you like this idea and want to
be a part of it, send an email to
Professor Lee Edelman, the Chair
of the Undergraduate Studies
Committee
([email protected]). If
enough people express interest in
moving forward, he will contact
all respondents at the beginning
of next semester to set up a
preliminary meeting. Your
message need contain nothing
more than one of two possible
responses: a) Yes, I am interested
in participating in a society for
students of English; b) Yes, I am
interested in and would be
willing to help organize a Society
for students of English. Please
respond before the end of the
semester.
We look forward to hearing from
you!
The Bucknell
Seminar for
Undergraduate
Poets Consider applying to the
Bucknell Seminar for
Undergraduate Poets, a free
three-week intensive seminar on
the campus of Bucknell
University. More information can
be found here:
https://www.bucknell.edu/junep
oets.
Department of English – Spring 2018
English 51: Shakespeare II
In this course, we will undertake a careful study of nine of Shakespeare’s plays: Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, King Lear, Coriolanus, and The Winter’s Tale. Although we will engage these plays in a variety of historical and theoretical contexts, our primary focus will be on close reading of the texts. Please note: Shakespeare II (this course) and Shakespeare I (English 50) are not a sequence; they are courses that present two different selections of plays, chosen from the entirety of Shakespeare’s career. You are free to take both courses; you may not repeat either one of them. This course fulfills the pre-1860 requirement.
Julia Genster [email protected]
J+ TR 3:00 – 4:15pm
Tufts Deadline: January 16, 2018
About the Program The program seeks to encourage and enable highly motivated students to pursue opportunities available to them
and to be courageous in the selection of a graduate course of study in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Each scholar receives $4,000 immediately prior to entering graduate school and an additional $30,000 while
attending graduate school. There are no geographic restrictions on the use of the scholarship, and recipients are
allowed to supplement the award with other scholarships, assistantships and research grants. Scholars are
encouraged to begin graduated study as soon as possible following graduation from college, and must utilize all
of the funding within five years of completion of undergraduate studies.
Website http://fdnweb.org/beinecke/program/
Eligibility To be eligible for a Beinecke Scholarship, a student must:
● Have demonstrated superior standards of intellectual ability, scholastic achievement and personal
promise
● Be a college junior pursuing a bachelor’s degree during the 2017-2018 academic year
● Plan to enter a master’s or doctoral program in the arts, humanities or social sciences
● Be a United States citizen or a United States national from American Samoa or the Commonwealth of
the Northern Mariana Islands
● Have a documented history of receiving need-based financial aid during his or her undergraduate
years
Application Materials ● A Certification of Eligibility Form completed by the dean or administrative officer responsible for the
nomination and a Financial Data Sheet completed by a financial aid officer certifying that the student
qualifies for need-based financial aid
● A completed Application Form
● A current resume
● A personal statement of 1,000 words or less from the nominee describing his or her background,
interests, plans for graduate study and career aspirations. The statement should include a discussion of
some experiences and ideas that have shaped those interests, plans and aspirations
● A letter from the dean or administrative officer summarizing the reasons for the nominee’s selection.
● Three letters of recommendation from faculty members that assess the nominee’s intellectual
curiosity, character and potential for advanced graduate study
● An official copy of the nominee’s transcript
● Other material considered directly relevant to the nominee’s application
For more information about the application process, email Dr. Anne Moore
