Call for Papers: Rutgers University, Camden

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 an attachment with no identifying

information present. In the body of the email, please include your name, affiliated institution,

area of study, and contact information.

For questions, email egsa2018conference@gmail.com.

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.)