Monthly Archives: October 2010

W Forums For Faculty

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In each W forum listed below, a video related to writing pedagogy will be shown; the screening will be followed by an open discussion about the topic portrayed, as well as any related concerns the participants might have. The forums will be held in the library’s Thomson Reuters eclassroom.

  • Responding to Student Writing, Thursday, 10/28, 11am-12pm, Thomson-Reuters E-Classroom
  • Teaching the Research Paper, Thursday, 11/4, 11am-12pm, Thomson-Reuters E-Classroom  
  • Working with Non-Native Writers, Thursday, 11/11, 11am-12pm, Thomson-Reuters E-Classroom

In addition, this forum will serve as an ongoing Writing Center open house for faculty who wish to incorporate the Writing Center tutoring in their curriculum for the rest of this semester and in spring 2011.

Comments? Suggestions for future topics, please contact:

Serkan Gorkemli, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Writing Coordinator
203-251-9585

American Literature Discussion Series, Thursdays@6:30

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Join UConn Stamford’s Michael J. Marotto, Ph.D.,  adjunct professor of English at the Ferguson Library for several discussions on great American writers: Edgar Allan Poe, Nanthaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville.

The seminars will be held Thursday evenings at 6:30pm,  at The Ferguson Library, third floor auditorium. For more information, call 203-351-8231.

  • Thursday, October 28-  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Thursday, November 18– Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Thursday, December 9 – Herman Melville

A bibliography of readings about and by Edgar Allan Poe is available at the the Ferguson Library and also by searching their library catalog.
More suggested readings for Edgar Allen Poe available at the Universty of Connecticut is below:

  • The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe. Edited by G.R. Thompson. Norton Critical Edition [HOMER]
  • Love and Death in the American Novel by Leslie Fiedler [HOMER]
  • Reading Poe Reading Freud: The Romantic Imagination in Crisis by Clive Bloom[request thu ILLiad]
  • The Peculiarity of Literature: An Allegorical Approach to Poe’s Fiction by Jeffery DeShell [HOMER]
  • Poe’s Fiction: Romantic Irony in the Gothic Tales by G.R. Tompson[HOMER]





Our World of Film Festival @UConn Stamford

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This fall the Ferguson Library and the Jeremy Richard Library at University of Connecticut Stamford will come together once again to share some of the most exciting international films of recent years.

“Our World of Film” will spotlight four notable films from Germany, Italy, Sweden and France. The programs will be held on Wednesday evenings @ 6:30 at the UCONN Stamford campus in the Multi-Purpose Room #108.

Wednesday October 13, 2010

Coco Before Chanel
With Audrey Tautou and Benoit Poelvoorde. Directed by Anne Fontaine.2009. 110 min. France.
This biopic details the rise of legendary fashion designer Coco Avanti .Chanel.

Wednesday October 20, 2010

Vincere
With Fabrizio Costella and Giovannia Mezzogiorno. Directed by Marco Bellocchio. 2009.128 min. Italy.

     This unusual and offbeat historical drama resst on a little known fact. Though seldom discussed in history books and undisclosed for half a century, fascist dictator Benito Mussolini had a son with a woman named Ida Dalser. A son he allowed to be born , acknowledged, and then promptly denied for the duration of his life.

Wednesday November 3, 2010

 The Girl Who Played with Fire
With Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist. Directed by Daniel Alfredson. 2009     130 minutes. Sweden/Denmark/Germany.

      The second installment of Steig Larsson’s “Millennium” trilogy comes to the big screen with this tale of a prominent magazine publisher who launches an investigation into Swedish sex trafficking and political corruption.

Wednesday November 17, 2010

The White Ribbon

With Christian Freidel and Leonie Benesch. Directed by Michael Haneke. 2009, 144 min. Germany/Austria.

     In a village in Protestant northern Germany, on the eve of World War I, the children of a church and school run by the village school teacher and their families experience a series of bizarre incidents that inexplicably assume the characteristics of a punishment ritual.  This film won the Palme D’Or  at the Cannes Film festival this year.