Conferences & Funding

Gender and Women's Studies Student Research Conference CALL FOR PAPERS The 29th Annual Gender & Women’s Studies Student Research Conference is on  Friday, April 6, 2018 . It is an exciting opportunity to showcase your work, discuss your interests with students and faculty from Villanova and other area universities, and see the broad range of intellectual disciplines encompassed by Gender and Women’s Studies. Essays and creative work must engage gender, sexuality, or feminist theories. All papers must have been written during Spring or Fall 2017 or written specifically for the conference. Paper Eligibility and Submission Guidelines : http://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/artsci/gws/ecs_conference/papers.html Submission Deadline: Friday, February 16, 2018 Conference presented by Villanova's Gender & Women's Studies Program and The Greater Philadelphia Women's Studies Consortium.  Questions? Email gws@villanova.edu

The Department of English at St. John's University invites papers that think about narrative across literary and writing studies. The Department of English at St. John's University invites papers that think about narrative across literary and writing studies. Our topic for this year's graduate conference, "Telling Stories: Rethinking Narrative in Literary and Writing Studies," asks us to consider what is entailed in generating narrative(s). We seek work that explores the cultural place of stories and their various modes of telling-through drama, poetry, prose forms, performance, digital media, translation--as well as the role of narrative in pedagogy and writing studies, in any historical, national, or diasporic tradition. Conceiving of "telling stories" broadly, we welcome work that critically engages or reconceptualizes storytelling, including analyses of individual, collective, or representative texts or performances; considerations of the making ...