The YAWP: Villanova's Graduate English Program Blog

From the Director of Writing Programs over at U Sciences in Philadelphia... This is just a friendly reminder that we are still accepting chapter proposals for our book, *Exigence in the Anthropocene: Teaching Ecocomposition in the Age of Climate Change.* For this edited collection, we are seeking essays on the climate crisis as both a concept and context for teaching writing today. Since this is a very busy week from many of us, we’ve decided to extend the submission deadline to: Sunday, December 29, 2019 .  Abstracts should be no more than 1,000 words, with eventual chapter submissions being 6,000-8,000 words. Abstracts should be submitted as a Word Doc to: Ecocomp2021@gmail.com . Notifications of acceptance will be shared by March 1, 2020. The full CFP can be found at https://www.tinyurl.com/ EcoComp2021 . All the best,   Justin Everett & Russell Mayo, Co-Editors of *Exigence in the Anthropocene* Ecocomp2021@gmail.com

This one has a rapidly-approaching deadline (the 16th), but it's well worth checking out for grad students with writing center interests or experience. The MAWCA listserv also posts job opportunities from time to time. https://mawca.org/2020-cfp

The Irish Studies Graduate Students of Boston College, in conjunction with the Center for Irish Programs, are pleased to be hosting the third annual Comhfhios Boston College conference. Comhfhios (pronounced “co-is”) 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 role of women ( mná , pronounced “ma-naw”) in Irish Studies; from history to social media, literature to politics, activism to academia, we will focus on the impact women have had on Ireland. The conference will feature a keynote address by Leeann Lane (Dublin City University) and will include a panel presentation as well as roundtables. We invite proposals for presentations from any Irish Studies discipline pertaining to this year’s theme, “In Awe of all Mná : A Study of Irish Women.” We especially encourage submissions from junior scholars, recent graduates, and current graduate students. Topic

scholarly paper submissions critical engagement with genders and sexualities from all academic disciplines intersectional explorations of feminist and queer studies 3000 word maximum formatting and citations in APA style creative submissions critical engagement with genders and sexualities in any of the following formats:  text files (e.g., poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction): 3000 words maximum  audio files (e.g., spoken word, interview): 10 minutes maximum  image files (e.g., photograph, painting)  video files (e.g., short film, animation): 10 minutes maximum  include a short statement (500 words maximum) explaining how the work is informed by and/or contributes to intersectional explorations of feminist and queer studies submissions must be authored/created by undergraduate students, recent graduates (undergraduate degrees completed within the last year), or graduate students in their first year of graduate studies. please send submissions as an attachment to sp

Each year the Villanova Gender and Women’s Studies Program hosts a student research conference.  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. Submit your paper to compete for a  CASH AWARD  in one of the following three categories: 1.        Papers or creative works by first-year undergraduates (4-10 pages) 2.        Papers or creative works by sophomores, juniors, and seniors (5-20 pages) 3.        Papers or creative works by graduate students (12-30 pages) The Barbara Wall Award for Feminist Praxis may be given to a paper that demonstrates a commitment to practical applications of feminist theory. Eligibility Essays and creative work must engage gender, sexuality, or feminist theories ; a biographical or historical account of women or a woman is not sufficient. F

Huge congratulations to Dr. Kamran Javadizadeh, who has been awarded this year's William Riley Parker Prize for the best article published in  PMLA , the leading journal for literary studies!  His article “The Atlantic Ocean Breaking on Our Heads: Claudia Rankine, Robert Lowell, and the Whiteness of the Lyric Subject” appeared in the May 2019 issue of  PMLA .  Dr. Javadizadeh will  be presented with his award on 11 January 2020, during the association’s annual convention, to be held in Seattle. The members of the selection committee were Elizabeth Bearden (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison); Christopher D. Castiglia (Penn State Univ., University Park), chair; Beth Piatote (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Melissa E. Sanchez (Univ. of Pennsylvania); and John H. Smith (Univ. of California, Irvine). In their citation the committee wrote: "' The Atlantic Ocean Breaking on Our Heads' rose gracefully from a comparison of a line appearing in poems written by Claudia Rankine and R

The ETS Summer Institute program at Educational Testing Service (ETS) is hiring for positions in English Language Learning (TOEFL iBT ® and TOEIC ® ) and GRE ® (Verbal). The English Language Learning Summer Institute is open to undergraduate students, graduate students, teachers, professors, and professional writers. The GRE Verbal program is open to Master’s-level students and professors. The application process for summer associates is now open. The application process will close on January 31, 2020, and all the details needed to apply are stated below.       2020 ETS English Language Learning & GRE ® Verbal Summer Institute: Paid Summer Associate Positions Available   The English Language Learning (ELL) group and the GRE ® Verbal group in the Assessment and Learning Technology Development Division of Educational Testing Service (ETS) expect to hire approximately 24 summer associates for the summer of 2020.      POSITION OVERVIEW:       ELL s

First-year grad students Mary Cordisco and Olivia Stowell recently had their poetry published in Kissing Dynamite: A Journal of Poetry.  Mary's poem "sometime, summer 2002" was published in Issue 12, themed "Cityscape." Olivia's poem "Keep, Meaning" was included in Issue 11, themed "Hold On."  You can read Mary's poem here and Olivia's poem here . Congrats to Mary and Olivia!

Where are you from? I'm from Wayne, PA. What do you do outside of grad school? Where do you work, and what are some of your hobbies? I'm a high school English and French teacher in Center City Philadelphia. Outside of school,  I love to write creatively--I write poetry and creative nonfiction, primarily. I also like going hiking, and I like to sing.  Favorite text you’ve read in a class this semester?  I really liked "Ahistorical" by Valerie Rohy, which we read for Mary Mullen's session on Historicism, Presentism, and Anachronism in the Theory course. It was a really interesting reading of "Ligeia"--personally, I wouldn't have thought to read the text that way and I appreciated doing a queer reading of such a classic text. What are some areas of study you're considering? I've become really interested in the idea of the archive and the limitations of the traditional archive in its dominant structural form, as well as tran