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Mini Grant enables Yang to Publish
Book on Media Coverage & Event Planning Workshop Workshop on Social Host Liability, Underage Drinking...
Kyung Im Noh
(Institutional Research & Assessment) will present on October 18 at the North
American Association for Environmental Education's 37th Annual Conference in
Wichita, Kan.
The purpose of the project is to develop, pilot, and refine assessment materials
for use in school service-learning programs in Amaryllis Siniossoglou
(Visual and Performing Arts) has been invited to
exhibit her prints during the Summer Printmaking Exhibition 08 at the
AROUND CAMPUS
Tsongas Scholarship Recipients Honored at Statehouse
The Tsongas scholarship offers the states top students full scholarships covering in-state tuition and mandatory fees for up to four years, approximately $5,300 each year. The awards, which are merit based, require that students maintain a 3.3 grade point average and fulfill requirements set by the nine participating state colleges. The scholarship program was launched in 1998 as a tribute to Paul E. Tsongas, United States Senator from Massachusetts, who died in 1997.
Mini Grant Enables Yang to Publish Book on
I kept seeing the same figure over and over again, she said. The dissertation finished, she decided to examine the pastoral figure in sixteenth and seventeenth century British drama. The female pastoral figure can take three different forms: the goddess; the mage or magician; or the wise woman who uses magic, witty game playing, advice, penance or tests of virtue to guide the other characters to a better understanding of themselves and their relationship to society. All have power. The goddess Venus, for example---represents divine or courtly love, Yang said. Its a love in service to divinity. The mage has studied alchemy and sacred arts, and so becomes more like a god, she said. The mage comes against the idea that women cant have power. She notes that wise women, who are educated and know how to use language to maintain order, often employing magic to do so, are not usually depicted as sexual. The pastoral figure Felicia, for example, is modeled on Diana, the goddess of chastity. The Faithful Shepherdess, one of the plays Yang has studied, includes a female pastoral guide who is chaste and wise and heals people. She gets her powers from Pan, the god. My work shows that there aren't really monolithic ways of looking at gender roles, Yang said. There's negotiated space between the genders. Yang's labor of love has taken seven years. She works on the manuscript each summer. When you have a 4/4 teaching load, that's when you can write, she said. Her 2007-08 mini-grant, Book Project: Goddesses, Mages and Wise Women: The Female Pastoral Guide in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century British Drama, enabled Yang to hire an editor to help prepare the manuscript for publication. After several years of revising the 350-page manuscript, I needed a fresh and professional eye to review it, she said. Yang joined the Worcester State faculty in 1999. In August 2007, Cambridge Scholars published a book she edited, The X-Files and Literature: Unweaving the Story, Unraveling the Lie to Find the Truth. Its another book project she spent summers on. Such a feat, two book projects in progress at the same time---requires passion. And perhaps a bit of magic.
MEDIA COVERAGE AND EVENT PLANNING WORKSHOP
Media Spotlight on You: A Two Part Workshop on Media
Coverage and Event Planning at Worcester State College Featuring
the Office of Public Relations and Marketing, Conference and Event Services
and College Police. Join us on
Wednesday, October 15, from 2-3p.m., in the Blue Lounge. This workshop is
free and open to the campus community.
FREE WORKSHOP ON SOCIAL HOST LIABILITY,
UNDERAGE DRINKING AND DRUG LAWS AND CONSEQUENCES
UPCOMING LASC WORKSHOPS DAC:
Diversity Across the Curriculum MAC:
Math Across the Curriculum If you have a specific LASC related topic(s) you would like addressed or are interested in leading or co-leading a workshop on a specific LASC area, please contact Bonnie Orcutt at borcutt@worcester.edu or extension 8750. LASC Team Site: LASC documents and other LASC related information will be
available at
www.worcester.edu/teamsites/LASC/default.aspx.
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THIS WEEK Wed., Oct. 17
Men's Golf @
M. Soccer @ Becker
Field Hockey @ Nichols
Thurs., Oct. 16
Neurobiology of
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Volleyball @ Salem State
Fri., Oct. 17
Andres Torres presents
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W. Soccer @ Westfield State
Sat., Oct. 18 Volleyball vs. Field Hockey @ Keene State
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Native American Storytelling
Concert w/Grammy Award
Energy Efficiency Workshop
Faculty Art Exhibition
Pilon Poetry Awards/Open Mic
Thriller of a Weekend
Election Day
Veterans Day Holiday
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Sharon
Yang knows full well the joy that comes from persistence in academic
research. She's been studying the female pastoral figure in literature since she
examined the figure in 19th century British novels for her
dissertation.