WEBER STATE WOMEN'S STUDIES NEWSLETTER

VOL 2 NO 3

COORDINATOR'S CORNER

Our November faculty profile features Dr. Sally Bishop Shigley, Assistant Professor of English and this year's Chair of the Women's Studies Executive Council. Sally is another of our pioneer supporters, involved with the program in its formative years, and we appreciate her contributions from a multitude of perspectives.

I want to draw your attention to several activities soon to be upon us. One is the memorial celebration for Patti O'Neal, to be held 3 November in Union Station's Browning Theatre. I thank Wangar wa Nyatet -Waigwa for her work in assembling, as well as participating on, the program. I encourage everyone to join with us in celebrating Patti's memory and in making contributions to the dance scholarship fund in her name; for more information, please call the Women's Studies Office (626-7632). The Utah Math/Science Network "Expanding Your Horizons" Conference will be held on Weber's campus on 4 November; there is often a need for volunteers to help with registration and guiding the attendees around campus. If you would like to help on that day, let us know, and we will get the information to an appropriate person. Finally, I'd like you to note the Brown-Bagger on 15 November, sponsored by the office of Services for Women Students. Dr. Shirley Weathers will discuss Welfare Reform, an issue which impacts women and children to a great degree. Dr. Weathers is a Single-Parent Specialist for Utah Issues, a non-profit organization that advocates for low-income and disadvantaged individuals. She focuses on educational and women's issues at the legislative level.

FACULTY PROFILE

Dr. Sally Bishop Shigley is an Assistant Professor of English and has taught at Weber since 1990, initially as an adjunct faculty member until 1992 when she assumed her current full-time tenure-track position. She has taught first-year composition, introductory and British renaissance literature, and critical theory classes in the English Department during that time. In addition, she teaches Composition and American Literature in the W.S.U. Honours Programme and chairs the Honours Faculty Advisory Committee. Her third allegiance is to the Women's Studies Program where she has taught the core course 305, Feminist Theories, as well as the cross-listed Perspectives in Women's Literature. She will be team-teaching 305 this winter quarter with Dr. Judy Elsley, also of the&127; English Department. She has served as faculty advisor for Broomstick, the W.S. student organization, and as a member of the Executive Council, which she chairs this academic year.

Sally was born in Salt Lake City where she attended public school and received a baccalaureate degree in English, accompanied by membership in Phi Beta Kappa, at the University of Utah. Her graduate work in English at Oklahoma State University led to an M.A. in 1987 and a Ph.D. in 1992. It was while she was completing her dissertation on the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop that she began teaching at Weber.

Sally's research interests include continuing work on Elizabeth Bishop, as well as new projects on reading cookbooks (especially those by women) as narratives instead of just lists of recipes and on the relationships between women and their gardens, in and outside of literary texts. She is actively presenting papers at professional meetings and preparing manuscripts for publication; her most recent contribution is an article on southern fiction writer Shirley Ann Gau in the recent issue of Short Story. She has received a grant for curriculum revision from the Multicultural Committee and was chosen Honours New Professor of the Year in 1994.

Sally has been married to John Shigley since 1985 and they share their home with Grace, a black labrador retriever, and Pepper, a gray tabby cat. Given three wishes, she would have an unlimited charge account at Valley Nursery, a dog that obeys perfectly when off-leash, and no bad teaching days.

THANKS are in order for those who helped with the Homeless Veterans' Stand-Down in SLC on 20 - 21 October. These events are often the turning-point in the lives of people who otherwise are unable to escape the streets. Thanks also to those of you who supported the events of Human Rights week, particularly the 26 October Candlelight Vigil at the Utah Capitol. The audience was large and supportive and the media helped the event be accessible to an even larger number of regional listeners. Congratulations to the planners - AAVOW and others - particularly to Nancy Haanstad and Annette Tittensor for their critical roles in making such a successful statement. Another very big thank-you goes to Laura Anderson for fulfilling one of my wishes before I articulated it to her. She has taken on the task of creating a Home Page for Women's Studies on the World Wide Web. When it is completed, the Newsletter will be readable by anyone "surfing the net." We will announce in the Newsletter when this is a "fait accompli." For the time being, the electronic version goes out on Groupwise.

Winter Quarter Classes:

WS 305 - Feminist Theories

ENGL 373 - World Literature

FRENCH 481-Francophone Women Writers

HIST 415 - Women in American History

PSYCH 220 - Psychology of Women and Gender

CALENDAR

1 November - Brown Bagger, Services for Women Students (SWS), Women's Health Issues - Readings at Thought Continuum, 7-9 p.m., featuring Brent Anderson, Helen M. Cook, Clarence Sockwell, and LaVon B. Carroll.

2 November - Exec. Council mtg, 3 p.m. - Marta Acosta will guide the discussion of Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"; Weber Co. Library, 7-9 p.m.

3 November - Patti O'Neal Memorial Celebration, 7 p.m., Browning Theatre in Ogden's Union Station.

4 November - W.S.U. "Expanding Your Horizons" Conference, sponsored by Utah Math/Science Network. 8 November - Brown Bagger, SWS, How to Get Off the Developmental Fee. 9 November - Women Veterans' Open House, SLC VA Medical Center, Bldg. 8, 1-4 p.m., for info. call Stephanie Zimmer, 582-1565, ext. 4566. 15 November - Brown Bagger, SWS, Welfare Reform and How It Affects You. - Elaine Ipson, Utah Poet of the Year, will read at the Weber Co. Library, 7 -9 p.m. 23 November - HAPPY THANKSGIVING!