The YAWP: Villanova's Graduate English Program Blog

The English department celebrated the 20th anniversary of of its yearly Literary Festival with a reception and reading by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tyehimba Jess  on Jan. 30 in the President's Lounge. The Literary Festival brings five award-winning, renowned and emerging writers—including poets, novelists, memoirists and playwrights—to campus each spring as part of the University's Creative Writing Program. During their visits to Villanova, the writers offer readings and discuss their writing with students in an English course specially designed around their work.

Visit the posting on the Conference Opportunities page for the Call for Papers for “Interrogating ‘Common Language,’” Simon Fraser University’s 2018 English Graduate Conference. 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 Phil