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@gm...

Check out this report about Friday's climate change demonstration in the Delaware County Daily Times , featuring comments by Villanova English professor Dr. Jean Lutes and senior English major, Molly Bonini. This is not the first climate activism involving Nova's English department. Grad students and faculty also participated in a climate strike last year. Villanova students marching for the environment

Carrying signs saying, "There is No Planet B" and "I Stand For What I Stand On," Villanova English graduate students, undergrad majors, and faculty joined the international climate change walk-out on Friday, March 15. After chants and speeches, a group of about 150 students, faculty, and local residents marched from the Oreo to Tolentine Hall to deliver their two demands to Father Peter Donohue: that Villanova pledge to move the date for making the campus carbon neutral up to 2030, and that the university enter into a power purchase for renewable energy contract by 2020. Faculty member Tsering Wangmo joins in on sign-making Daniella's sign The Main Line Times reported on the event, and quoted our very own Daniella Snyder: "Daniella Snyder, 23, a graduate student in the English department who had researched climate change for an earlier town hall meeting, said events like the protest were rare at Villanova. She held a sign that read, 'The...