English Graduate Student Association
Writing Into The Profession:
Enacting and Exploring Roles of the English Scholar
September 27, 2008
Since our first two conferences met with such success, The University of North Carolina -Greensboro's English Graduate Student Association again asks, “What you working on?” for its third interdisciplinary conference in English studies. We are each “Writing into the Profession” as we employ the theories and practices of effective English scholarship. This is not your usual CFP—we're not asking you to bend your interests to suit a specific theme. Instead, we want you to use our conference as an opportunity to explore and enact just what it means to be part of the English profession. Bring whatever you are currently working on and engage in productive dialogue with other graduate students who are also beginning to write themselves into the profession. Explore what it means to enter English Studies as a professional as you present your work at a conference, honestly engage your peer's work, and participate in a comfortable, open forum with current professionals who will answer questions you may have about the daily practices of scholars in our field. We invite you to share your current interests with us and encourage you to leave us with open-ended questions to fuel discussion.
This conference is designed to provide area graduate scholars an opportunity to share their current research among peers in a non-threatening and receptive academic environment. We hope to build a greater sense of community and create a useful dialogue among fellow graduate students.
This year's conference includes speakers from the following schools:
- Arcadia University
- California State University, San Bernardino
- Clemson University
- College of Charleston
- East Tennessee State University
- Elon University
- John Carroll University
- North Carolina State University
- North Carolina Wesleyan University
- Northern Michigan University
- Ohio University
- Purdue University
- The Citadel
- University of Cincinnati
- University of Georgia
- University of Nevada, Reno
- University of North Carolina Greensboro
- Valdosta State University
- Virginia Tech
- Washington University