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Beyond the Margins A Graduate Journal of Literary Scholarship University of New Orleans Beyond the Margins is a new annual, open access, blind peer-reviewed journal, housed at the University of New Orleans, dedicated to furthering diversity in academia through the publication of graduate student scholarship in the field of English, with a focus on literary and textual studies. The journal's aim is twofold: to broaden opportunities for graduate student scholars to contribute to academic conversations and to provide a platform for alternative forms of scholarship. Beyond the Margins welcomes submissions from currently enrolled graduate students at the Master's and Ph.D. level in the form of critical essays, reviews of contemporary scholarly books (published by university or trade presses), pedagogical articles, archival discoveries (including introduction and explanatory notes), and hybrid genres (such as autobiographical criticism). Students from public, urban universiti...

Comhfhios Boston College: An Irish Studies Conference February 23rd, 2019 Boston College, Connolly House, Chestnut Hill, MA The Irish Studies Graduate Students of Boston College, in conjunction with the Center for Irish Programs, are pleased to be hosting the second annual Comhfhios Boston College conference. Comhfhios , meaning “knowledge together,” or “open to all knowledge,” invites emerging scholars in all Irish Studies fields to gather again in Boston. This year, we will discuss the state of Irish Studies as it relates to the challenges and opportunities available to emerging scholars. The conference will feature a keynote address by Patrick Griffin (Notre Dame) and will include a panel presentation as well as a pair of roundtables. We invite proposals for presentations from any Irish Studies discipline pertaining to this year’s theme, “ Anois (now): Navigating the Field in 2019.” We especially encourage submissions from junior scholars, recent graduates, and current graduat...

Georgetown Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference: "ANGUISH" Conference Date: March 30, 2019 Are you feeling it now? The downward pressure of the graduate academic environment; your labors under-rewarded and underappreciated; the prospect of a low return on your investment in higher education; the MLA Jobs Information List this year; the prohibitively high cost of living; prohibitively expensive mental healthcare; healthcare inaccessibility everywhere; the national crisis in student debt; wage stagnation; political disengagement; personal estrangement—sad, lonely, burned out. How are you feeling? And how do you pick yourself up after all of this, how do you just do meaningful work in response? We don’t know, either. But since misery does love company, the English Graduate Student Association of Georgetown University invites graduate scholars of all stripes, disciplines, and approaches to an interdisciplinary conference on the topic of anguish. We especially welcome paper...

The American Studies Program at Stockton University has issued a CFP for their upcoming graduate conference on the topic of “The United States and its Global Impact.” The conference which takes place Tuesday, April 9, 2019 .  The deadline is February 8, 2019 . 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 .  Remember also that you have to apply for the funding before you attend the conference, and that you don’t have to wait for your paper or abstract to be accepted before you apply.  (In recent years, the funding has tended to run out early in the spring semester.)

The 30th Annual Gender & Women’s Studies Student Research Conference is on Friday, April 5, 2019. 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 2018 or written specifically for the conference. The conference is accepting submissions for both undergraduate and graduate students. Full Paper Eligibility and Submission Guidelines can be found here . Submission Deadline: Friday, February 8, 2019 Conference presented by Villanova's Gender & Women's Studies Program and The Greater Philadelphia Women's Studies Consortium.  Questions? Email gws@villanova.edu

Middle Tennessee State University has issued a CFP for their conference, “Gendered Migration, Bodies, Borders,” which takes place March 28-30, 2019.  The deadline has been extended to January 15, 2019 . 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 .  Remember also that you have to apply for the funding before you attend the conference, and that you don’t have to wait for your paper or abstract to be accepted before you apply.  (In recent years, the funding has tended to run out early in the spring semester.)

Dr. Lauren Shohet 's article entitled "Reading Milton in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein " was just published in the most recent issue of Milton Studies, which is put out by Penn State University Press .  You can read the article's abstract (and access it in full with login credentials) on Project Muse here . Congratulations, Dr. Shohet!

Members of Dr. Lisa Sewell ’s Ecopoetry and Environmental Criticism class, who recently attended the on-campus screening of the documentary Living in the Future’s Past,  were treated to a special event last week.  Two of the documentary's "luminaries," Susan Kucera (director) and Jeff Bridges (producer and narrator) met with Dr. Sewell’s class via video chat to discuss various aspects of the film.  You heard that right: the group got to virtually “meet” The Dude himself! Dr. Sewell's Ecopoetry & Environmental Criticism class Living in the Future’s Past , which is described on its website as a “beautifully photographed tour de force of original thinking on who we are and the environmental challenges we face,” explores the pressing environmental issues facing our world today.  The film, which includes expert commentary from an impressive group of psychologists, anthropologists, philosophers (including Timothy Morton!), and more, is driven by its core ques...

Don James McLaughlin, '09, who we recently announced  was awarded the Diane Hunter Prize for best dissertation in English from the University of Pennsylvania, also just published an essay in  Public Books  entitled "The Gay Conversion Therapy Memoir." You can read the essay  here . Congratulations again, Don James!