Friday, December 24, 2010
Harold Bloom publishes Stephen Paul Miller
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Northeastern Grad Conference
The Northeastern University English Graduate Student Association is pleased to announce our 5th annual interdisciplinary graduate student conference:
RAW MATERIAL
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ann Laura Stoler, Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School For Social Research
Faculty Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Britt, Northeastern University
March 19-20, 2011
We invite papers that explore the concept of “Raw Material” in literature, theory, drama, history, film, composition, and art. Raw Material is that which can be found, extracted, altered, worked, manipulated, manufactured, produced, and consumed. It is the subject of human labor and the element out of which “things” are made. The quest for raw material continues to drive the exploration of both real and imaginary worlds. As scholars, it leads us to the archives, marketplaces, printers’ shops, cutting-room floors, and classrooms in which “materials” undergo processes of alteration, transformation, and manipulation—materials that could be understood as the productive elements of texts, subjects and selves, bodies, empires, and nations.
While “materiality” has held a rooted place in scholarship, we are particularly interested in examining the concept of the “raw” and “raw material.” The term itself embodies the tensions inherent in projects of creative, cultural, financial, and national enterprise. Raw material is, as Marx writes, “the fish which we catch and take from their element, water, timber which we fell in the virgin forest, and ores which we extract from their veins.” It is the matter of labor and empire, and evokes both images of creation and potential, as well as processes of destruction, exploitation, and misappropriation. We invite papers that may explore the dynamics of labor processes; that may consider the significance of raw material to creative, cultural, financial, and national projects; that may examine raw material as physical, tangible, and corporeal, as well as imaginative and ephemeral; and finally that may map the discursive processes through which the raw material of human experience is shaped, produced, exchanged and deployed.
200-word abstracts may be sent to neuegsa@gmail.com<mailto:neueg
RAW MATERIAL
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ann Laura Stoler, Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School For Social Research
Faculty Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Britt, Northeastern University
March 19-20, 2011
We invite papers that explore the concept of “Raw Material” in literature, theory, drama, history, film, composition, and art. Raw Material is that which can be found, extracted, altered, worked, manipulated, manufactured, produced, and consumed. It is the subject of human labor and the element out of which “things” are made. The quest for raw material continues to drive the exploration of both real and imaginary worlds. As scholars, it leads us to the archives, marketplaces, printers’ shops, cutting-room floors, and classrooms in which “materials” undergo processes of alteration, transformation, and manipulation—materials that could be understood as the productive elements of texts, subjects and selves, bodies, empires, and nations.
While “materiality” has held a rooted place in scholarship, we are particularly interested in examining the concept of the “raw” and “raw material.” The term itself embodies the tensions inherent in projects of creative, cultural, financial, and national enterprise. Raw material is, as Marx writes, “the fish which we catch and take from their element, water, timber which we fell in the virgin forest, and ores which we extract from their veins.” It is the matter of labor and empire, and evokes both images of creation and potential, as well as processes of destruction, exploitation, and misappropriation. We invite papers that may explore the dynamics of labor processes; that may consider the significance of raw material to creative, cultural, financial, and national projects; that may examine raw material as physical, tangible, and corporeal, as well as imaginative and ephemeral; and finally that may map the discursive processes through which the raw material of human experience is shaped, produced, exchanged and deployed.
200-word abstracts may be sent to neuegsa@gmail.com<mailto:neueg
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Call For Papers!- Grad Conference
The Second Annual WRTC Graduate Symposium on Communication
James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
“Communication in the 21st Century: New Media, New Ideas”
Friday, April 22, 2011
The School of Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication at James Madison University welcomes proposals from graduate students in any discipline for a one-day symposium exploring all facets of communication. This year, an emphasis has been placed on the role of “New Media” in relation to communication, ranging from the way it informs classroom pedagogy to the way it shapes our society.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
· applications of communication theories to 21st century communication practice
· civic engagement
· intellectual property
· digital rhetoric
· science and technology
· communication and media convergence
· visual communication
· multi‐modal and multimedia communication (visual, verbal, and audio)
· 21st century theory and practice of web communication
· intercultural communication in a globalized world
· 21st century technical and scientific communication: issues, problems, perspectives
Formats for presentations include 15-minute panel papers, research posters, and multimedia displays. More information about the symposium and serving as a repository for abstracts and presentations can be found at www.communicationsymposium.org
This year, the keynote speaker for the symposium is Dr. Carolyn Miller, SAS Institute Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Technical Communication at North Carolina State University. Dr. Miller’s research interests are in digital rhetoric, rhetorical theory, the rhetoric of science and technology, and technical and professional writing. Her publications have appeared in journals such as Argumentation, College English, the Journal of Business and Technical Communication, the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetorica, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly. She is a past president of the Rhetoric Society of America and was named a Fellow of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing in 1995 and a Fellow of the Rhetoric Society of America in 2010. In 2006, she received the Rigo Award for lifetime contributions to the field of communication design from the ACM SIGDOC.
Proposals for presentations should be submitted electronically as an attachment in '.doc' or '.rtf' format by Monday, January 24 to communicationsymposium@gmail.
James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
“Communication in the 21st Century: New Media, New Ideas”
Friday, April 22, 2011
The School of Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication at James Madison University welcomes proposals from graduate students in any discipline for a one-day symposium exploring all facets of communication. This year, an emphasis has been placed on the role of “New Media” in relation to communication, ranging from the way it informs classroom pedagogy to the way it shapes our society.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
· applications of communication theories to 21st century communication practice
· civic engagement
· intellectual property
· digital rhetoric
· science and technology
· communication and media convergence
· visual communication
· multi‐modal and multimedia communication (visual, verbal, and audio)
· 21st century theory and practice of web communication
· intercultural communication in a globalized world
· 21st century technical and scientific communication: issues, problems, perspectives
Formats for presentations include 15-minute panel papers, research posters, and multimedia displays. More information about the symposium and serving as a repository for abstracts and presentations can be found at www.communicationsymposium.org
This year, the keynote speaker for the symposium is Dr. Carolyn Miller, SAS Institute Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Technical Communication at North Carolina State University. Dr. Miller’s research interests are in digital rhetoric, rhetorical theory, the rhetoric of science and technology, and technical and professional writing. Her publications have appeared in journals such as Argumentation, College English, the Journal of Business and Technical Communication, the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetorica, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly. She is a past president of the Rhetoric Society of America and was named a Fellow of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing in 1995 and a Fellow of the Rhetoric Society of America in 2010. In 2006, she received the Rigo Award for lifetime contributions to the field of communication design from the ACM SIGDOC.
Proposals for presentations should be submitted electronically as an attachment in '.doc' or '.rtf' format by Monday, January 24 to communicationsymposium@gmail.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Dreaming of Summer (Employment)?
The Institute of Reading Development is seeking candidates for summer 2011 teaching positions. We seek applicants with an undergraduate degree or higher from any discipline. We provide a paid training program and comprehensive on-going support.
Summer teaching positions with the Institute offer the opportunity to:
* Earn more than $6,000 during the summer. Teachers typically earn between $500 and $700 per week while teaching.
* Gain over 500 hours of teacher-training and teaching experience with a variety of age groups.
* Help students of all ages develop their reading skills and ability to become imaginatively absorbed in books.
Summer teaching positions with the Institute offer the opportunity to:
* Earn more than $6,000 during the summer. Teachers typically earn between $500 and $700 per week while teaching.
* Gain over 500 hours of teacher-training and teaching experience with a variety of age groups.
* Help students of all ages develop their reading skills and ability to become imaginatively absorbed in books.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Beyond St. John's: Dr. Brian Quinn
As a holiday treat that will continue into the New Year, we're going to post some information about recent St. John's English dept graduate alums who have moved on to great places in the wide world.
To kick things off, we have Brian Quinn, who recently received his Doctoral Degree in the spring of 2010 for a creative project on which he worked primarily with Gabriel Brownstein. Dr. Quinn will begin next fall as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Alfred State College (SUNY) in western New York. Congrats to him!
To kick things off, we have Brian Quinn, who recently received his Doctoral Degree in the spring of 2010 for a creative project on which he worked primarily with Gabriel Brownstein. Dr. Quinn will begin next fall as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Alfred State College (SUNY) in western New York. Congrats to him!
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
University of Rhode Island Graduate Student Conference
The Department of English at the University of Rhode Island is proud to announce its annual Graduate Student Conference scheduled for Saturday, April 16th, 2011. Our theme, “[Pre]Occupations: Working, Seizing, Dwelling,” speaks to a broad range of humanities disciplines; we anticipate an exciting mix of presentations and invite your students to participate.
[Pre]Occupations: Working, Seizing, Dwelling (Saturday, April 16th, 2011) A Graduate Conference hosted by the Department of English at the University of Rhode Island
The Latin root of “occupation”—occupare—accounts for the word’s aggressive, militaristic sense: to seize or to capture. While “occupation” still retains this meaning, it also comes to signify one’s profession, the office that one holds, or the work that one does within or on a culture, a nation, or a world. But this word also has a material dimension—an abode, a building, a dwelling—as well as a ruminative sense—an abiding, a dwelling, a letting be. These dimensions or senses demonstrate the agility of “occupation,” but to them we also add something else: that occupations often precede us, sweeping us into a being or becoming preoccupied. This year we hope that our title [Pre]Occupations captures these competing and collaborating dimensions, opening a field of exciting and exigent problematics: What history or histories might one claim? What periods seize one’s interest? What miracles, joys, sadnesses, or violences [pre]occupy a reader, a worker, or a citizen? What labors does one undergo in order to live? What perpetual efforts does one attempt in order to make a present, a home, or a dwelling? What wars of nations or ideas, what occupations, what trespasses belabor the self and/or the other? What does it mean to be at work in a world or on a world?
We invite graduate students to submit paper or panel proposals that attend to these (or related) questions. In addition, we encourage submissions from a variety of fields—history, film, cultural studies, philosophy, languages, literature, political science, rhetoric/composition, communications, psychology, sociology, anthropology, women’s studies, library and information studies, and visual studies (though not limited to these fields).
Possible topics and areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Labor (class, production, commodification, capital)
• Historiography and the archive
• Postcolonial studies (imperialism, resistance, ethnography, post-independence shifts, mimicry)
• The relationship of work, leisure, and play
• Desire and pleasure (Freud, Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze)
• Rhetoric and composition (literacy, writing technologies, multicultural rhetorics)
• The work of form (style, narratology, prosody, genre)
• Pedagogy (learning, apprenticeship, preparation, contra didacticism, professionalization)
• Politics of prepositions (working for, on, toward, between, in, etc.)
• Subject formation (self-fashioning, interpellation)
• War and peace (militarism, treaties, reparation, diplomacy, international governance)
• Body and/as machine (prostheses, cyborg theory, disability/impairment studies)
• [Pre]occupied minds (trauma studies, philosophies of the mind, neurological studies, cognition)
• Publics (world-building, intersubjectivities, virtual/online publics, individual/communal)
• Organizations of space, place, time (architecture, archaeology, genealogy, city planning)
• The author and authorship (death of the author, author-function, intentionality, biography)
• Meditation, imagination, rumination
• Diaspora, migration, immigration, citizenship
• Politics and/or organization of difference (race, nationality, ethnicity, gender, religion, etc.)
• Specialization, periodization, canonization
Submit abstracts of 250 words (for individual proposals) or 400 words (for panel proposals) to uriconference2011@gmail.com by February 1st, 2011. Please include your full name, contact information, and institutional affiliation. Individual presentations should be no longer than 15 minutes.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
It's a Party ...
and you're invited!
The English Department is hosting a lovely end-of-semester party on Thursday, December 9 from noon until 2:00 pm in the department offices. That's St. John Hall B-40 -- and if you don't remember how to get there, please see my post from earlier this semester.
And there will be FOOD! This will be a wonderful way to wind down the semester, or at least to stress together about the last week. Remember -- stressed backwards spells desserts!
Reflections....
Hi All-
I was just reflecting on the semester. Although it isn't quite over yet, I took a moment to think about where I was when the semester began and how I am feeling about things now. I feel as though I have definitely gone through a transformation. Not the painful werewolf kind, but the caterpillar-butterfly type. I feel as though by the time the semester is over my little wing buds will have grown just enough to encourage me to continue my academic pursuits. Since I'm at the beginning of my D.A. program, I hope that by the time I am ready for comps my wings will be big enough to help me keep up with all of the bees and birds already in academic flight. Yes, I know this is a corny metaphor but stick with me.
I encourage all of you to pause for a moment to take stock. What have you learned this semester? What kind of transformations have you experienced? What have you learned about yourself that you can bring with you into the next semester?
Of course, if you would like to share we would love to hear from you.
In the meantime, Good Luck with finals and seminar projects. It's almost over....
I was just reflecting on the semester. Although it isn't quite over yet, I took a moment to think about where I was when the semester began and how I am feeling about things now. I feel as though I have definitely gone through a transformation. Not the painful werewolf kind, but the caterpillar-butterfly type. I feel as though by the time the semester is over my little wing buds will have grown just enough to encourage me to continue my academic pursuits. Since I'm at the beginning of my D.A. program, I hope that by the time I am ready for comps my wings will be big enough to help me keep up with all of the bees and birds already in academic flight. Yes, I know this is a corny metaphor but stick with me.
I encourage all of you to pause for a moment to take stock. What have you learned this semester? What kind of transformations have you experienced? What have you learned about yourself that you can bring with you into the next semester?
Of course, if you would like to share we would love to hear from you.
In the meantime, Good Luck with finals and seminar projects. It's almost over....
Thursday, December 2, 2010
CFP: Boston College Biennial English Graduate Conference
The Boston College English department is hosting a graduate conference on March 19th, 2011 titled "I, S/he, We, They: Writing Lives and Life Writing." Abstracts are due January 13th.
As the Presidential Theme for the 2011 MLA conference indicates, life writing is a critical element in the contemporary landscape of literary studies. The Boston College Biennial English Graduate Conference invites papers that investigate the many roles that life writing plays in the creation and analysis of discourse. Whether examining transnational narratives, ancient oral traditions, modern diaries and letters, or groundbreaking documentary film, the vast array of possibilities for life writing allows us to bring together distinct points of view in productive ways. This conference seeks to answer questions including: what is the place of life writing in literary and cultural studies when examining forms such as autobiography, biography, radio, reality television, diaries, blogging, and travelogues? What are the political and social ramifications of narrating lives? Where do elements of self-fashioning and self-negating come into play? How does this mode of writing cooperate with or resist traditional composition and rhetoric? Where does trauma figure into the writing of lives? In what ways are ethics both generated and challenged between life writers and their readers?
Proposals on the above questions are particularly attractive; however, we welcome surprises and encourage innovative points of view that will help further develop the field of life writing.
Please send all queries and proposals to colloq@bc.edu<mailto:colloq@
As the Presidential Theme for the 2011 MLA conference indicates, life writing is a critical element in the contemporary landscape of literary studies. The Boston College Biennial English Graduate Conference invites papers that investigate the many roles that life writing plays in the creation and analysis of discourse. Whether examining transnational narratives, ancient oral traditions, modern diaries and letters, or groundbreaking documentary film, the vast array of possibilities for life writing allows us to bring together distinct points of view in productive ways. This conference seeks to answer questions including: what is the place of life writing in literary and cultural studies when examining forms such as autobiography, biography, radio, reality television, diaries, blogging, and travelogues? What are the political and social ramifications of narrating lives? Where do elements of self-fashioning and self-negating come into play? How does this mode of writing cooperate with or resist traditional composition and rhetoric? Where does trauma figure into the writing of lives? In what ways are ethics both generated and challenged between life writers and their readers?
Proposals on the above questions are particularly attractive; however, we welcome surprises and encourage innovative points of view that will help further develop the field of life writing.
Please send all queries and proposals to colloq@bc.edu<mailto:colloq@
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
St., John's Graduate Student Conference -- April 13, 2011
A message from Dr. John Lowney, Director of Graduate Studies --
On behalf of the English Department, I am writing to invite you to submit proposals for the 2011 St. John's English Graduate Student Conference, to be held on Wednesday, April 13th on the Queens Campus. Proposals on any topic related to literary, cultural, and writing studies are welcome. We are seeking proposals for group panel presentations and individual presentations, and we encourage panel and presentation formats that will generate dialogue among the panelists and between the panelists and their audience.
Proposals for individual presentations should be one-page abstracts of your presentation. Proposals for group panels should include one-page abstracts for each presentation as well as a brief rationale (a paragraph or so) for the panel. Each session will last about an hour, so you should plan on brief individual presentations (about 15-20 minutes) and panels of three people to leave enough time for dialogue.
I invite all English graduate students as well as undergraduate English majors to attend this conference even if you are not planning to give a presentation. It is a great opportunity to learn from your peers and to celebrate each other's accomplishments in the graduate program.
Please submit proposals to Dr. Sicari's office or by email to me by Tuesday, February 1. I look forward to seeing your proposals.
John Lowney
Director of English Graduate Studies
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