The YAWP: Villanova's Graduate English Program Blog

Suny Brokport will be holding a hybrid graduate conference on  Saturday,   April 18 , from 9:30 – 5:30. Graduate Symposium   (Hybrid conference – all sessions in person & on Zoom)   SEGue  Organizers invite proposals   for   creative works   (poems or short fictional/nonfictional prose for 10–15 minute readings, followed by q&a), individual scholarly presentations   (15-20 minutes, critically considering literary texts and contexts), panels/roundtables   (75 minutes).   engaging with any of the following aspects of   literary adaptation : Creative writing concerned with adaptation to social, political, climactic and other change Environmental or evolutionary adaptation (ecocriticism) Technological adaptation in translation, critical scholarship, or creative writing Adaptive publication (multimedial, multiple editions, etc.) Translation as adaptation (craft of translation and scholarship on translation)   Translingu...

From our friends over in Humanities and Theology & Religious Studies: The Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Conference (PMR) at Villanova University invites you to participate in its 50th International PMR Conference October 24-26, 2025 at the Inn at Villanova University. As always, the PMR makes an OPEN CALL to scholars, institutions, and societies to propose Papers, Panels, or Sponsored Sessions in all areas and topics in LATE ANTIQUITY/PATRISTICS, BYZANTINE STUDIES, MEDIEVAL STUDIES, ISLAMIC STUDIES, JEWISH STUDIES, and RENAISSANCE & REFORMATION STUDIES. The PMR committee this year makes a special invitation to scholars from all disciplines in these fields to address our plenary theme: In the Abyss of this Darkness … In the Deep Quiet of the Godhead: Mysticism, Mystery, and Trinitarian Life in Times of Crisis For the 50th gathering of the Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Conference at Villanova University. Featuring Sarah Coakley, FBA McDonald Visi...

GEO Conference 2023-24 Call for Papers: Displacement The University of Maryland’s Graduate English Organization invites proposals relating to the theme of “Displacement” for our 17th annual conference, to be held hybrid/in-person on March 8th, 2024. Displacement can refer to the forced migration and movements of peoples across the globe over centuries. From slavery to the internal displacement of peoples and the contemporary refugee crisis, the term allows us to connect the literary with the cultural and the political in myriad ways. More broadly, displacement speaks to the physical and metaphorical movements, transfers, and undulations that undergird human existence. It is both a frictional and harmonic phenomenon that interrogates the ideas of space, place, and (dis)possession. Displacement also allows us to engage productively with contemporary challenges facing the humanities. It can help us think creatively about the public role of the humanities, the literary value of language an...

 The Twenty-Fourth Annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference is calling for papers for their hybrid conference to take place on June 23-25.  According to their website, "BritGrad is an interdisciplinary conference which provides a friendly and stimulating academic forum in which graduate students can present their research, hear plenaries from world-renowned academics and network with each other. From 1999-2019, the conference took place in an active hub for early modern research: The Shakespeare Institute, part of the University of Birmingham, based in Shakespeare’s hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon. In 2020, BritGrad took place online in an equally dynamic virtual space, which allowed the conference to include more participants than ever before. This continued with the 2021 conference, which initiated a hybrid format offering three days of online panels and events, as well as two days in-person at the Shakespeare Institute." This year's format will again be fully hyb...

 The 2022 College English Association of Ohio conference will take place both in-person and digitally on Saturday, April 9. The conference will focus on changes in the disciplines of English and writing studies, particularly in the light of social changes emerging from the pandemic. They welcome proposals by Monday, February 15th. For more information, please visit their site here . 

We are so happy to announce that after a reluctant hiatus, this year's Gender and Women’s Studies Conference is ON! This year's Conference Chair is Dr. Lauren Shohet, Professor of English. The event will take place on Friday, March 25, 2022. The GWS conference is an exciting opportunity to showcase student work, discuss your interests in Gender and Women’s Studies with students and faculty from Villanova, and see the broad range of intellectual disciplines represented in the field. We are including in this announcement our annual Call for Papers. We are seeking essays and creative work written either for the conference or during Spring or Fall of 2020 or 2021 that engage gender, sexuality, or feminist theories. We encourage submission of alternative forms of expression, including but not limited to original scripts, poetry, or films that engage gender analysis. We hope that Villanova students across departments and programs will submit their work; these are the following catego...

Georgetown University's English Graduate Student Association is looking for presentation proposals for   their spring conference, upcoming at the end of April. The theme this year is The Humanities & The Age of COVID: ‘Disruption, Hesitation, Silence.’ In the light of the current pandemic climate, the conference will be held entirely asynchronously and virtually, so presenters will submit a video of themselves presenting their work. The requirements for submission are below, and the deadline for submission is Friday, March 26.  Georgetown University English Graduate Student Association (Online & Asynchronous) Conference The Humanities & The Age of COVID: ‘Disruption, Hesitation, Silence’  April 30, 2021 “I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence,” writes Louise Glück in her essay “Disruption, Hesitation, Silence.” A poem, she argues, represents a dual creation: a reader must acknowledge what is present on the pa...

This April, Carnegie Mellon University’s English Colloquia hosts their first-ever graduate conference on "Bridges and Borders: Navigating Problems and Possibilities in Language and Culture." They encourage any graduate student in the humanities to propose a paper, poster presentation, or roundtable. The conference keynote speaker is Dr. Jasbir K. Puar. The submission deadline is January 29, and the conference will be held virtually on April 23. Visit the conference website for the full call for papers and submission details. 

George Washington University's annual English Graduate Student Association Symposium is looking for presentation proposals for their virtual symposium this March. See the original CFP and symposium details below:  The George Washington University's English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) is pleased to circulate a call for papers for its annual spring symposium.  This year, the conference theme is "Decay and Regeneration," and our keynote speaker will be Anna Mollow, co-editor of Duke UP's Sex and Disability .  The conference will be held over Zoom on Friday March 5, 2021 from approximately 9 am to 4 pm EST.   GW EGSA Syposium : Decay and Regeneration Keynote: Anna Mollow March 5th, 2021 The theme of decay and regeneration captures our current global moment of political uncertainty, environmental catastrophe, public health crises, and mass protest. In the past few years, we have witnessed a once-in-a-century pandemic; global protests in response to police bru...

Boston College's Comhfhios Irish Studies conference is looking for proposals for a virtual conference this March. In the past, a number of Villanova grad students have presented at this conference. This year, the conference will be virtual, but if there are costs, the Irish Studies Program can provide support. See the original CFP below: Call for Papers Comhfhios Boston College Conflict and Resolution: Looking Back and Looking Forward March 5th, 2021 Boston College, Connolly House, Chestnut Hill, MA The Irish Studies Graduate Students of Boston College, in conjunction with the Irish Studies Program, are pleased to be hosting the fourth 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 themes of conflict and resolution in Irish Studies; from military struggles to social quarrels, from cent...

Villanova's interdisciplinary graduate student research journal,  CONCEPT,  recently opened for article submissions! CONCEPT is also searching for volunteers to serve as peer-reviewers. This is a great opportunity to publish your research or gain experience with peer-reviewing. See more details below: Call for Papers The journal is now accepting article submissions. The author of the best article in the 2021 issue will receive the Graduate Student Research Prize. The deadline for submission is Monday, February 1, 2021. Submissions should be material that has been researched as part of graduate work at Villanova. Authors should register with the website, http://concept.journals.villanova.edu   and follow the instructions there for posting their submission. (An author may submit no more than one (1) article for consideration.) Any questions should be directed to the Faculty Managing Editor, Dr. John Kurtz (john.kurtz@villanova.edu). Call for Volunteers The journal is...

 Dr. Mary Burke (UConn) is requesting papers for a 20-minute presentation in a panel on the Irish-American actress Grace Kelly. The panel will take place in March in Philadelphia at NeMLA, which is slated to be conducted in person.  According to the call for papers, "In the scholarship of Irish America, there is a startling absence of work on Grace Kelly (Princess Grace of Monaco), a cultured woman whose interest in her heritage led her widower to endow an Irish literature library in her honor. Irish American Studies has traditionally been preoccupied with narratives of Irish suffering or with prominent and powerful men, which does not gel with the story of an exceedingly photogenic woman from an immediate background of some privilege. Nevertheless, this glamorous veneer is the end-point of a multi-generation family story that follows the broad contours of post-famine Irish immigrant experience." More details can be found here . 

The Activist History Review is looking for proposals for a conference to be held at Villanova this coming summer! See the original call, below: The Activist History Review ​ invites proposals for its bi-annual conference, “Race and Equity in Higher Ed.,” to be held on June 13, 2020 [Saturday is best, though we are flexible on this date]. As the story goes, a college education facilitates the American dream. Accessible to all, we’re told, higher education drives social mobility and ensures that the best and the brightest all rise to the top. But from crippling student debt to racial disparities in access and the admissions rigging system that ranges from SAT prep to outright bribes, college access is bound by the very forces of race, class, and gender that a college degree purports to correct. TAHR ​ seeks to help unravel the relationship of race and place, which together overwhelmingly shape American life, in higher education at our bi-annual conference. We invite panel, poster, roun...

The Graduate English Organization at the University of Maryland College Park is extending the deadline for submissions for its conference, "Radical Visions: Abolition as Praxis in Literature, Rhetoric, and Culture." The conference will held February 28-29, 2020. Their plenary speakers include Jonathan Burton (Whittier College), founder of the Qualities of Mercy project, and Katherine Knight Steele (UMCP), project director of Synergies Among Digital Humanities and African American History and Culture , as well as a presentation from the Lakeland Community Heritage Project . Individual and panel abstracts can be submitted to conference.geo@gmail.com by February 1, 2020. Here is the relevant info from their call for submissions: What needs to be abolished in your discipline? What can emerge to take its place? Starting from the intellectual posture of prison abolition and encompassing diverse, interdisciplinary methodologies and periods, this conference seeks to ide...

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@gm...

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

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 gende...

The Graduate English Organization at the University of Maryland - College Park would like to invite graduate students to submit an abstract to the interdisciplinary 13th Annual Graduate English Conference. The title of this year's conference is “Radical Visions: Abolition as Praxis in Literature, Rhetoric, and Culture," and it will take place on February 28-29, 2020 . Abstracts can be submitted to conference.geo@gmail.com by December 30, 2019 . More Information: Call for Proposals: 13th Annual Graduate English Organization Conference  Radical Visions: Abolition as Praxis in Literature, Rhetoric, and Culture Department of English University of Maryland February 28-29, 2020 What needs to be abolished in your discipline? What can emerge to take its place? Starting from the intellectual posture of prison abolition and encompassing diverse, interdisciplinary methodologies and periods, this conference seeks to identify justice-centered approaches to the study of literature ...