PIPS Stuff, Edward Mendelson/Goldsmith Lecture no. 3

[Eric Alan Weinstein]

Just to apologise for not getting out a new newsletter yet. 
There has been a great deal to do at and for PIPS and 
I have simply under-estimated the time it would take to 
organise everything (and the time pressure the staff is under 
at start of term.)  I hope, with Sophie Chambers the 
administrative co-ordinator and Michelle Roberts the 
secretarial assistant, to have it ready soon---ten days perhaps?
The same will be true for the IPW and PIPS homepages.

    At the moment I am creating a cross database for two types
of scholars in the UK and Ireland:
1) Scholars with a first of second interest in Contemporary Fiction
2) Scholars with a first or second interest in  American Studies 

The cross-pollinated contents of which will help form the mailing
list for PIPS. The mailing list with specific research interest details
will be maintained at the Office for Humanities Communications site
and available to the academic community at large. Later in the year
I will probably begin to grow the database one humanities-based 
research interest at a time. 

May I also say that PIPS seminar dates are slowly starting to be
confirmed. The first confirmed sponsored lecture, the 3rd 
Goldsmith Lecture in British and American Literature, will be
delivered on the 15th of May by Prof. Edward Mendelson.
I hope to have several other confirmed dates in the next few weeks---
but some speakers have not yet received their invites (!). 
So if you are waiting to be invited, fear not. More invitations for
sponsored (and part-sponsored) PIPS lecturers are on their way
as we speak.

Sorry again for the delay and thank you all for your patience,
y'r humble servant,

Eric

PS If Laurel Brake and Dan O'Hara could contact me
before the end of the week, it would be much appreciated.



Eric Alan Weinstein
University of London
E.A.Weinstein at qmw.ac.uk