Conferences & Funding

“Forms of Justice: Reflections on Writing, Creativity, and Social Change,” the English Graduate Conference at St. John’s University, has issued a call for papers. The conference will take place on April 6, 2019, in Queens. 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 .  Remember also that you have to apply for the funding before you attend the conference, and that you don’t have to wait for your paper or abstract to be accepted before you apply.  (In recent years, the funding has tended to run out early in the spring semester.)

Attachment and Affect March 22-23, 2019 The University of Virginia Department of English Graduate Conference Keynote by Lisa Ruddick (UChicago) Master class with Rita Felski (UVA/SDU) Why does the study of literature matter? What is the relationship between reader and text? How can affective responses to texts inform criticism? This conference seeks to take seriously our aesthetic and affective attachments, the attachments at work within and among literary texts, and the ways attachments form and function. The University of Virginia Department of English invites graduate student proposals for conference presentations that explore issues of attunement, mood, feeling, pleasure, taste, identification, inwardness, the self, intersubjectivity, judgment, politics, aesthetics, consumer culture, objects, the everyday and ordinary, and the state of academic criticism. We welcome papers that explore these topics as well as their interdisciplinary intersections in fields such as philosophy, relig

   Humanities Education and Research Association  11th Annual Conference, The Wyndham Hotel, Philadelphia Historic District 6-9 March 2019 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Theme: Highbrow, Lowbrow, No-brow: Research and Aesthetic Values in the Humanities The HERA conference peer review program committee invites proposals for presentations at the 2019 conference. The program committee’s theme is designed to incorporate any and all possible connotations. Our understanding of the tensions and implications of the “highbrow-lowbrow” continuum have existed for as long as the humanities. Although the terms are first associated with the 19th century, connotations of the humanities as possessing elevated, elite, upper class, or even sanctified religious ritual, intellectual, or cultural endeavor may be traced back to ancient times. Similarly, aspects of the humanities variously characterized as being lowly, crude or ordinary, lower class, or even pagan, anti-intellectual, or low class ma

George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia has issued a call for papers for its "Computers & Writing" conference, which will take place May 24-27 .  The Graduate Studies office has exhausted its budget for funding students’ travel, but the English department can still reimburse up to $100 of expenses.

Arcadia University’s English Department has issued an invitation for their upcoming graduate conference, " The 19th Century and Gender & Sexuality ," which will take place close by on Saturday, October 6th . 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.) You can apply before you hear whether your paper is accepted, but next year’s funding cycle doesn’t begin until June 1, so don’t apply before then. One further note: the Graduate Studies Office will give students only one travel grant in a fiscal year, so if you think you might also present at a conference that would cost more to get to, you may want to apply for funding for that other conference inste

As you may know, Simon Fraser University is far from us—it’s outside Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. Unfortunately, the budget for travel from Graduate Studies has been used up: “all of the Graduate Studies funds for conference travel have been expended for this fiscal year. Those students who have already applied and received approval for upcoming conferences will, of course, be reimbursed for their travel expenses up to the amount approved. Applications for funding to present at conferences in the new fiscal year – after May 31 – will be considered after April 1.”

Call for Papers Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium May 3-4, 2018 Conference Theme: Community Outreach and the Arts Keynote Speaker and Workshop Presenter Michael John Garcés, Cornerstone Theatre Company The Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium  is seeking abstracts for papers for our 12th Annual gathering of theatre scholars. This year’s theme is “Community Outreach and the Arts.” PTRS is seeking papers which engage a broad range of topics in theatre and drama studies including, but not limited to: Theatre for social change Oral history as performance  Documentary and Ethnodrama Site-specific and community based devising practices  Race, gender, and representation in community based theatre practices Audience engagement Abstracts of 250 words or less should be submitted along with a brief bio to PTRSVillanova@gmail.com The deadline for submission is March 5. About the Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium: The goal of the Philadelphia

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