The YAWP: Villanova's Graduate English Program Blog

We hope you can be present on Friday, April 24, from 2:30 to 4 p.m. in the Driscoll Atrium to celebrate the launch of the 2026 edition of   CONCEPT , Villanova's interdisciplinary journal of graduate studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. We are pleased to report that English is again well-represented this year, with Guadalupe Martinez, Carly Johnson, and Griffyn Leeds contributing articles. You can find more information about their papers below:   CONCEPT 2026   Guadalupe Martinez,  “Education, Relationships, and Movement in   Female American  and   Woman of Colour”     Carly Johnson,  “Publicity, Power, and Perception: Research in Entertainment PR” Griffyn Leeds,  “Tuberculosis and Incest in  The Fall of the House of Usher" We hope you can join us to congratulate the authors, as well as thank the student editors and peer reviewers. We look forward to celebrating with you around great food, drink and convers...

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...

Four Villanova graduate English students have published original scholarship in CONCEPT, Villanova's interdisciplinary journal of graduate studies, this spring. The students are Caitlyn Dittmeier (Networks of Foam: Becoming through Relation in Marianne Moore's Shoreline Poems), Anne Jones (Tracing the Missing Letter: Reassembling Nonhuman Agency in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake ), Nicholas Keough (Boys Will Be Boys: Constructions of Toxic Masculinity in Dramatic, Metaphorized, and Real-Life War Spaces), and Olivia Stowell (A Form of Work We’d Rather Not Do Alone: Chen Chen, Poetics of Relationality, and the Intersubjective Lyric I). CONCEPT accepts submissions from Villanova graduate students in all fields of the arts and sciences. Submissions are reviewed by graduate student editors, faculty editors and peer reviewers, with final decisions made by the editors. According to Managing Editor John E. Kurtz, PhD, Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, ...

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.

CONCEPT, Villanova's interdisciplinary journal of graduate studies, is now seeking submissions. The deadline for submission is Friday, February 1, 2019. We are also looking for volunteers to serve as peer reviewers for the 2019 issue. PAPERS : We are looking for well-written, well-researched, and not-too-technical papers of up to 25 pages. Students from all of the Graduate Studies Programs for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are encouraged to submit. We seek papers that are exemplary in their respective disciplines and that address topics with an interdisciplinary appeal for our broad readership. Submissions should be material that has been researched as part of graduate work at Villanova. Selection for publication is highly competitive. We will recognize the best paper of the 2019 issue with the Graduate Research Prize. The winning author will be formally recognized at a publication celebration on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 from noon to 1:30 PM in Falvey Room 205. ...

Dr. John Kurtz, the faculty Managing Editor for CONCEPT, the interdisciplinary journal for graduate students in the college, is looking for students to serve as either editors or peer reviewers. From Dr. Kurtz: "We are looking for graduate students who are interested in sharing their scholarship and/or serving as Peer Reviewers for the 2019 issue. The graduate students will be receiving direct emails about CONCEPT later in the semester, but interested students can contact me anytime. Please let me know if you have any questions about submitting papers, positions on our editorial board, or anything else about CONCEPT. I thank you in advance for your support of this tradition of graduate student scholarship." Email Dr. Kurtz at john.kurtz@villanova.edu with any questions!

Our English MA students took over the Journal of Graduate Studies this year! Congrats Nick, Lia, Angeline, Stephen, and Casey! For more information about Concept and to read their articles,  click here .

Concept , Villanova's own Graduate Journal published its latest volume this April. We are proud to announce that the winner of this year's Graduate Research Prize went to our very own Kevin Halleran for his essay "Nothing But a Good Man Feeling Bad: How Toomer Sings the Blues in Cane ."

The deadline for submitting a paper to Villanova’s graduate student journal for research, CONCEPT,  is Monday, Feb. 2, 2015. The author of the best article in the 2015 issue will receive the Graduate Student Research Prize. Submissions should be material that has been researched and written as part of graduate work at Villanova and may be up to 25 pages. Scholars from all of the Graduate Studies Programs for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are invited to submit. We seek papers that are exemplary in their respective disciplines as well as papers that have an interdisciplinary appeal. Selection for publication is highly competitive. We will recognize the top essay as the Graduate Research Prize Essay. The winning author will be formally recognized at the publication celebration on April 23rd @ 2:30 in Falvey Library. Authors should register with the website, http://concept.journals.villanova.edu and follow the instructions there for posting their submission. (An ...

It's that time of year again! CONCEPT, the interdisciplinary journal sponsored by the Graduate Program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is now accepting both article submissions and volunteers to serve as editors and peer-reviewers. The author of the best article in the 2013 issue will receive the Graduate Student Research Prize. Authors should register with the website , and follow the instructions for posting their submission (authors may submit no more than 1 article for consideration). Those interested in serving as editors and peer-reviewers should consult the job descriptions posted on the website .

Congratulations to Joseph Hoffman for receiving the Graduate Studies Service Award for his work as co-editor of the Graduate student journal CONCEPT! We add our thanks to that of Dean Adele Lindenmeyr for Joseph's contributions to the intellectual community here at Villanova. Click here to view CONCEPT's website.

Congratulations to Joseph Hoffman for receiving the Graduate Studies Service Award for his work as co-editor of the Graduate student journal CONCEPT! We add our thanks to that of Dean Adele Lindenmeyr for Joseph's contributions to the intellectual community here at Villanova. Click here  to view CONCEPT's website.