Extra Credit Opportunities

***All extra credit responses are due at the beginning of class on Thursday, April 11th***

*Please remember that you must write a one page, typed response in order to get credit for attending the event*

Conferences and Symposiums:

*please note that you can do a maximum of two responses for the three events in this list

  • Will Eisner Symposium on Comics and Graphic Novels (February 20 & 21) http://www.english.ufl.edu/comics/

  • "Theoretical Misfits": 2nd Annual English Graduate Organization Interdisciplinary Conference (April 4-6, 2002)

http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/ego/conference02/

  • The Florida Writer's Festival (March 28 & 29)

http://www.english.ufl.edu/events/events2001-02/crw/festival.html

 

Various Readings Around Town:

  • The Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research Spring 2002 Colloquium Series (ongoing)

 "Gloria Anzaldua's Mestiza Pain: Mexican Sacrifice, Chicana Embodiment, and Feminist Politics"

by Dr. Suzanne Bost

Tuesday, April 9th

3:30pm 219 Dauer Hall

  • Electronic poet and internet filmmaker John Cayley will be reading from 8-9:30 PM on March 26, 2002 at the Harn Museum of Art

Press Release on Caley from the English Department

  • Poet Lola Haskins will be reading this Thursday, January 24, at 7 PM as part of her book tour for her latest collection, The Rim-Benders at Wild Iris Bookstore

At the Across Town Repertory Theatre:

  • Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

         March 21st 2002 through April 20th 2002

  • Dream Girls Music by Henry Krieger
    Book & Lyrics by Tom Eyen

Please visit ACT's homepage for ticket information and show times (http://acrosstown.org/).

At the Hippodrome State Theatre:

  • Diary of Anne Frank adapted by Wendy Kesselman
    March 1 - 24, 2002

Please visit the Hippodrome's homepage for ticket information and show times http://hipp.gator.net/

At the University of Florida's Contans Theatre:

  • Man of LaMancha by M. Leigh, J. Darion, D. Wasserman

March 29-30; April 2-7 - Sunday @ 2 pm

  • The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, Constans Theatre Stage 2

Jan. 31-Feb.3 – both matinee & 8 pm performances Sat. & Sun

Please visit the Department of Dance and Theatre's homepage for ticket information and show times http://www.arts.ufl.edu/theatreanddance/).

Picture of a teacher with a star from corbis.com

  

At the Reitz Union Gallery:

  • exhibit on bodies (they don't have the title listed on their web page, but it's there)

http://www.union.ufl.edu/gallery/index.shtml

At the Harn Museum:

  • Terry Adkins: Deeper Still (October 7, 2001 - February 2002)
  • Tradition and Modernism: Selections from the Permanent Collection
    May 13, 2001-Summer 2002
  • Sergio Vega: Modernismo Tropical
    March 24 - July 14, 2002
  • Beyond Preconceptions: The Sixties Experiment
         June 23 - September 29, 2002

Please visit the museum's homepage for further information http://www.arts.ufl.edu/harn/index.html