English Faculty Meeting
Wednesday,
February 3, 2016
Agenda
1. Introducing Garrett Sullivan, our NEAG Visiting
Professor for Spring 2016
2. Announcements and Updates
3. Welcoming Mary Gallucci, Adjunct Faculty Liaison
4. Invitation/Offer to teach First Year Writing
5. Changing the merit system for professors in
residence
6. Discussion of Hiring Priorities
1. Welcoming Garrett Sullivan
• 2016 Neag Visiting Professor
• Author of Sleep, Romance and Human
Embodiment: Vitality from Spenser to Milton
(Cambridge UP, 2012)
• Co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to
English Renaissance Tragedy (CUP, 2010)
• Co-editor of the Encyclopedia of English
Renaissance Drama (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)
2. Announcements and Updates
• Minutes of our last meeting are on their
way.
• Aetna Chair Search – saving your comments
• Mengestu Visit
• Report on the Budget Meeting
• Update on the redesign of the English
Major
• Terrence Cheng has been named Director of
the Stamford Campus.
2. Announcements and Updates
• Please congratulate Sarah Winter on her NEH
Fellowship for her project “Habeas Corpus,
Human Rights, and the Novel in the 18th and
19th Centuries”
2. Announcements and Updates
• Margaret Higonnet was part of a research
group awarded a Leverhulme grant of
£124,942 for a project titled “Landscapes of
Realism.
• Ellen Carillo won a Provost Grant for
Teaching Innovation
• Yohei Igarashi’s essay “Keat’s Way: The Dark
Passages of Meditation and Why He Gives
up Hyperion” won the essay prize of the
Keats-Shelley Association of America.
2. Announcements and Updates
• Fred Roden published a coedited edition of MarcAndré Raffalovich's
Uranism and Unisexuality:
A Study of Different
Manifestations of the
Sexual Instinct
(Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2016)
3. Adjunct Faculty Liaison
Welcome Mary Gallucci as the Adjunct Faculty
Liaison
• Member of the Adjunct Faculty Task
Force/Committee
• Member at large for the AAUP
4. Teaching First Year Writing
• The department is inviting faculty to teach a
course in the First Year Writing cycle.
• After teaching such a course three times,
faculty will be awarded a teaching release,
since they will have banked three credits.
5. Merit Pool for Professors in
Residence
• Address the problem of merit for professors in
residence
• Would not effect instructors and lecturers in
residence
• Separate pool
• Same form
• Gathering Comments and Suggestions from
professors in residence
6. Hiring Priorities
• Senior Shakespeare scholar
– manage our affiliation with the Folger Institute
– help attract undergraduate majors
– direct dissertations
• Rhetoric-Composition specialist
- develop rhetoric-composition / writing studies
- serve as director of FYW in a sustainable rotation
• 19th-Century Americanist (perhaps with a
speciality in Twain)
– to fill the vacuum left by the retirement of Sherry
Harris
– direct dissertations
– develop our relationship with the Twain and
Beecher Stowe Houses
• Digital Humanist
– mentor and support our digital humanist faculty
on the tenure track
– take a leadership role in developing DH at UCONN