Conferences & Funding

UVA has issued a CFP for their upcoming Graduate Student Conference on “Constructing Experience: Narrative Innovations Across Time and Media,” which takes place March 23-24, 2018. Note that the deadline for proposals is Jan. 31. (By the way, Jess Swoboda, who sent the e-mail, was a Villanova undergrad.) As always, remember that if you decide to submit proposals to any conferences, be sure to consider applying for funding. See the Graduate Studies Office’s webpage on Conference Travel Funding . And remember that you have to apply for the funding before you attend the conference. (In recent years, the funding has tended to run out early in the spring semester.)

The University of Connecticut is hosting a one-day graduate student Irish Studies conference,  "Emerging Voices in Irish Studies," on  March 3, 2018 . As always, remember that if you decide to submit proposals to any conferences, be sure to consider applying for funding. See the Graduate Studies Office’s webpage on Conference Travel Funding . And remember that you have to apply for the funding before you attend the conference. (In recent years, the funding has tended to run out early in the spring semester.) If necessary, they might also seek funding through their departments and the Center for Irish Studies.

The English Graduate Student Association, is pleased to invite papers from graduate, and exceptional undergraduate, students within literary studies, literary theory or philosophy, digital studies, film studies, game studies, creative writing, literacy studies, linguistics, rhetoric/ composition, and childhood studies for our fourth annual conference on April 14, 2018. Papers and presentations might include (but are not limited to): • Histories, of any kind • Identity • Materialisms • Digital Content and Spaces • Exile and Migration • Colonialism • Post/Trans Humanism, Animal Studies • Modernity and Post-Modernity • Mysticisms, Religion • Hauntology • Affect • Popular Culture Keynote Speaker: TBD Submission Deadline: Proposals should be submitted to egsa2018conference@gmail.com by February 15th, 2018. Submission Guidelines: Please submit a 350 word abstract proposing a 8-12 page paper. Abstracts should be added to the email submission as