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Meeting (2018-10-22)

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Meeting Time:       Monday, October 22, 2018, 2:30-4:00

Meeting Location: Transcriptions Center (SH 2509)

Meeting Zoom:     For anyone who needs to attend by Zoom please let Alan know in advance; we can use Alan's "instant" Zoom ID (default meeting Zoom):  https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/760-021-1662

 


Purpose of today's meeting

  • Initial brainstorming

 

1. Overview

  • Current centers and expanding sense of "center"
    • ACGCC (director: Candace)
    • COMMA (director: Maurizia)
    • EMC (director: Bernadette
    • Hemispheric South/s (director: Stephanie)
    • L&E  (director: Tess)
    • L&M (director: Kay)
    • Medieval Literatures (director: Heather) (Jessica Zisa)
    • Transcriptions (director: Alan) (RA: Alanna Bartolini)
    • Las Maestras (directors: Cherríe, Celia)
    • Global Latinidades (director: Ben)
  • The description/definition of "centers" now on our department website:
    • From the "About" page:
      • "The UCSB English Department offers courses in a full range of literary historical periods, national and transnational literatures in English, and critical approaches. It is distinctive for eight multidisciplinary centers that cut across traditional boundaries and allow facultypost-doctoral and visiting scholars, graduate and undergraduate students to collaborate on critical and creative activities. The research clusters reimagine what it is to teach the humanities, privileging collaborative knowledge-practices as the necessary complement to the traditional classroom. This model of balanced education is the foundation of a robust English major.
    • From the "Research Centers" page:
      • "The first generation of the department’s centers, started in the 1990s, include the Transcriptions Center, the Early Modern Center (EMC), and the American Cultures & Global Contexts Center (ACGCC). A second generation, Literature & Mind Initiative (L&M), Literature & Environment (L&E), Hemispheric Souths (HSs), the Center on Modernism, Materialism, and Aesthetics (COMMA), and Medieval Literature, began 2008-10. All the centers have a distinguished record of funded research, colloquia, and curricular “specializations” for students.  For more on the centers, please see this excerpt." 
    • From the "Research Centers Excerpt" (by Alan Liu) page:
      • (See the page, which contains an excerpt from an article by Alan that describes the center model) 

 

 

2. Cross-center Programming

  • Possible ideas:
    • Lecture Series (Maurizia suggests: "a trans-center lecture series organized around a topic that may interest all the different centers--a topic that may be approached from different methodological and theoretical perspectives, and therefore capable of respecting the specificity and work of each center")
    • Two- (or three-) center synergy events
      • A round-robin of center-center "what are you doing?" meetings each year (e.g., Transcriptions meets to share ideas, trends, with any other center)
      • Center-center events (eg., a Transcriptions and L&M event based on Kate Hayles' Unthought book) 
    • Transcriptions workshops on digital methods/tools for other centers (cf., Nicole Dib's Critical Pedagogy workshop series this year) 
    • ? 

 

 

3.  Engaging undergraduates in our centers (and helping to increase enrollments and majors)

  • Possible ideas:
    • Curriculum:
      • Starting center-based courses that have the potential to become large courses (feeder courses into the major)
        • Example: Ken's course
        • Possible future examples? (Alan's idea for courses titled "Telling Stories with Data", and "Writing for the Internet") 
      • Center contributions to the repertoire of "Uses of Literature" (English 11) courses
      • Creative-writing tie-ins to the centers?  (e.g., "Writing New Media Fiction," "Writing Climate Fiction"?)
    • Research
      • Channel some of the Arnhold Collaborative Research Groups (and RAs) into/through the centers?
      • Undergrad RAs for centers?
      • Starting research projects designed to include undergrads
    • Event Programming:
      • Designing events for undergrads and including undergrads. E.g.,
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