The YAWP: Villanova's Graduate English Program Blog

A new position for grad students has recently been announced, a position with Villanova’s Center for Speaking and Presentation (CSP), which will be entering its third year in the Fall of 2019.  The Center will be hiring at least one graduate student tutor for a two-year appointment. Tutors receive tuition remission of 6 credits per semester (so it won’t quite cover the usual full-time graduate schedule of 9 credits each semester), plus an hourly rate of $9.60.  Tutors commit to 12-14 hours per week, most of which are spent tutoring; some are spent providing workshops and class visits.  The director, Juliana Studer, says that applicants who have worked as a peer tutor before or who have taken public speaking courses would have a competitive edge in the applicant pool.  She also says that since this is a fairly new service, tutors in the CSP have the unique opportunity to help nurture and shape a growing service, which may be of interest for any applicants seeking a ...

Graduate Assistant – CLAS External Relations and Communications Office The College’s Office of External Relations and Communications is seeking a Graduate Assistant to support the team with a variety of projects and responsibilities including drafting correspondence on behalf of the Dean, assisting with project management and producing presentations for college-wide events. Additional tasks may include taking photos or videos for social media at on-campus events, taking photos of faculty or students for the website and assisting with event promotion. Requirements: Applicants must have excellent writing skills, an intermediate competency level in Excel and Microsoft Word. Experience in Photoshop, InDesign and video editing software is a plus. Applicants should have excellent time-management skills and the ability to manage a variety of moving parts in one project.

From last year's symposium--look at all the learning!! The Ninth Annual Thesis and Field Examination Symposium will take place on  Monday, May 6th from 5:30-7:30pm in SAC 300 . This event is a great opportunity for students who are completing the program to present their research, while also giving first-year students a sense of the sorts of projects that are undertaken as master’s theses and field examinations.  We typically have two consecutive one-hour sessions, in which students offer ten-minute presentations of their research.  The event is structured to allow for plenty of time for comments and questions by audience members and other presenters.  We will have some refreshments at the start of the event, and offer a hot dinner to follow. If you are currently working on a thesis or field exam we encourage you to present your work !  Whether you will be finishing this semester or over the summer, this can be an opportunity for you to share your co...

Student Sustainability Coordinator: The Student Sustainability Coordinator will assist the Sustainability Manager in supporting student targeted events and programming. Responsibilities: • Lead, guide, and train students, and/or volunteers working on campus sustainable efforts. • Lead the launch of the new Nova Bike Share Program starting in Fall 2019. • Organize and lead the Student Sustainability Committee (SSC) fall training. • Run campus sustainability related efforts during freshmen orientation. • Research existing and available sustainable technologies and programs to evaluate potential of implementation on Villanova’s campus. • Compile data and information for annual reports, including but not limited to AASHE STARS report, Greenhouse Gas Inventory, and APPA survey. • Outreach to campus community and other sustainability offices on college campuses. Write, edit and publicize the monthly sustainability newsletter. • Provide support for camp...

Congratulations to Alex Einspahr, Cassandra Modica, Kristen Sieranski, Lia Mrozinski, Sarah Morgan, Nicholas Keough, Nick Manai, and Jesse Schwartz, who were all published in the Spring 2019 volume of  CONCEPT , Villanova's interdisciplinary journal of graduate studies! Papers written by Alex, Cassandra, and Kristen were published in CONCEPT's print issue, and papers by Lia, Sarah, Nicholas, Nick, and Jesse were published in CONCEPT online.

Thanks to everyone who came our spring colloquium, featuring Dagmawi Woubshet from the University of Pennsylvania.  His talk was entitled “Outside the Temple: James Baldwin’s Changing View of Love and Sexuality" -- you can read his article, published in The Atlantic this past January, here ! Dr. Kamran Javadizadeh introduces Dr. Woubshet

Are you seeking eternal glory? What about some $$? The deadline for the Margaret Powell Esmonde Memorial Award is coming up soon! Make sure to submit by next Friday, April 12 . This award is given to “the most distinguished scholarly or critical essay written by a graduate student in English” (not something that has been submitted as part of an M.A. thesis). Submissions should be e-mailed to Sharon Rose-Davis , English Department administrative assistant.  For further details about how to submit a paper, see th e English Essay Prizes webpage . The recipient of the award receives a $250 prize!

It's been a busy couple of months for  Dr. Joe Drury . In February, he gave a talk at a colloquium on science and literature organized by the Yale English Department's 18th- and 19th-Century Studies group. His talk was called, "Samuel Johnson and the Science of the Living World." Read more about it here ! Just last week, Dr. Drury also gave a paper at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual meeting in Denver. His paper was called, "Achilles on the Couch, or, Why Did Eighteenth-Century Physicians Use Fictional Characters as Case Studies?"