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Title: An Idealized State of Mind
Author : English Studies in Canada
Release Date : January 01, 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
Pages : * pages
Size : 48 KB

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POURING OVER MARJORIE GARSON'S VALUABLE first twenty-five-year history of ACUTE/ACCUTE, I am warmly reminded of all the reasons I became so involved in the association in the first place. Like a lot of emerging scholars, I first gleaned an idea that ACCUTE even existed when the Learneds invaded my town, that is, the town of the University of Western Ontario, where I was a graduate student in 1978. Talk about a transformative experience. I was a teaching assistant for both English literature and film classes and had no idea what a learned society was until I tagged along with some professors to well-attended panels being hosted by ACCUTE and the Film Studies Association. Besides the punishing late May sun and the opportunity to drink a lot of beer outdoors in the middle of the day with scholars whose articles I was devouring, I remember being surprised at the magnitude of the entire Learneds congress, the obvious camaraderie my professors shared with visitors to the Western campus, and the glamorous slate of international stars who were listed on the program for both societies. Two years later I delivered my first formal conference paper for ACCUTE at the congress in Montreal, at the UQAM campus, one of those career-marking moments one tracks in a line of continuity with whatever follows. By then I had signed on to ACCUTE and was starting to shape an idea of what being a member of a national professional society meant.