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scHOOL NOTES


School of English
Studies (SES)
 The School of English
Studies welcomed five new faculty
members to its ranks last semester.
Four of the new arrivals, Shaniqua
Higgs, Kendra Seymour, Krista
Walkes and Dr. Helean McPhee,
lecture in Nassau while the fifth,
Dr. Daphne Grace, is assigned to
Northern Bahamas Campus in
Freeport, Grand Bahama.
 Two new courses have
come on stream this year and
are running well. One is a
course designed here at the
college, "An Introduction to
Film Studies", which adds to
the choices for students in the
General Education options, and
ENG 318, "Special Topics in
Literature", focusing on a single
writer, Toni Morrison, is the
other.
 This semester SES will revive
the Free Speech Project with two
sets of events. An investigation
into race relations with particular
focus on majority rule will be one
of them. In March a mini festival
of African films will be presented.
 Chairperson, Dr. Ian
Strachan, hopes to have the
Reading Room up and running
this semester. In the school's
efforts to encourage more
students to read more, Room F7
is being renovated to become
a reading resource room for
students.


 Dr. Strachan is also trying
to establish a pre-doctoral
or teaching fellowship for an
overseas professor. It will be
called the John Boyd Fellowship
in honour of John Boyd, a
Bahamian poet, described as "a
man of colour" in the foreword
of his book of verse "The Vision",
published in 1834, the year slavery
was abolished.
 Faculty members of SES
are also trying to help a group
of students who have started a
book club. The aim is to formalize
its proceedings so that it will
continue after the founding
group has been graduated. A
tentative name for the club is the
Robert Johnson Society after the
Bahamian poet who wrote the
anthology, The Road.
 Five members of the school's
faculty are going to present papers
at the West Indian Literature
Conference in Trinidad in March.
They are, Dr. !, 1,cli'c Addams,
Dr. Marjorie Brooks Jones, Ms.
X I oi S tiir..-i, il,-,N ill-, D r. Ian
Strachan and Miss Priya Kunan.
Dr. Strachan cannot remember
one school from COB being so
well represented in presenting
papers at a conference.
 The .inrl ..1. _- % of student
writing, Tamarind, which
appeared for the first time in 2005
will be published again before the
end of the academic year 2006. E


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