http://www2.truman.edu/~jhatala/gradconf.html
ENGLISH GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY
APRIL 19-21, 2001
Call for Papers:
Who The Heck Are We: The Graduate Teacher's
Dilemma
We are looking for papers from English Graduate
Students, Faculty, and Undergraduates, but
focusing on the formulation of graduate student
identity.
We will be formulating panels in the following
categories, seeking three papers per panel, at fifteen
minutes each.
1) Why are more non-traditional students returning to
graduate school? Are we entering the fourth wave
of feminism, where stay-at-home mothers are returning
to school for intellectual stimulation?
Why are the men returning? Is it for financial
reasons, or to find a sense of community?
And how do non-traditional students reconcile
their new/old identities as students with their identities
in the real world as spouses, employees, and parents?
2) How do graduate student teachers navigate their
departmental identities? On the one hand, we're
instructors giving grades at accredited institutions;
on the other, we're students who are being graded on
the papers we write. How do we deal with these
conflicting identities?
For faculty, how do you feel about having graduate
student teachers in your classes, versus
undergraduates?
3) Is there room for men in English departments
anymore? What with the predominance of cultural
studies, feminism, and women's studies, how do men
find a place they belong without feeling the
marginalization that these specialties are seeking to
eliminate?
4) What do you do if you hate literary critical theory
and love the canon? How do you teach and how do
you learn? Where is your place in the field?
5) How do linguistics students find a place for
themselves in English graduate programs? How can they
continue to write papers from a linguistic point of
view, even if they are pursuing English degrees?
Abstracts for presentations will be accepted online
ONLY. Follow this link for instructions. Abstracts are
due no later than January 15, 2001. Presenters will be
notified by email by February 16.
There will be a $15 conference registration fee, due
by March 15. Make checks payable to Sigma Tau
Delta and send to:
Jennifer Hatala or Regina Cross, Graduate
Student Conference Chairs
Division of Language and Literature
Truman State University
310 McClain Hall
Kirksville, MO 63501
For more information, or if you have any questions,
please contact Jennifer Hatala or Regina Cross,
conference co-chairs.
Registration will be held from 3:30-5:00 in The
Spanish Room of the Student Union Building on Truman
State's campus. Truman State campus is located in
Kirksville, in Northeast Missouri. We have a block of
rooms reserved at The Days Inn with a rate of $50 a
night for April 19-20, 2001. Call and ask for the
Graduate Student Conference by April 4, 2001 to get
this rate. Conference attendees are responsible for
their own meals, transportation, and lodging (though
it may be possible to arrange for transportation
between the hotel and the campus).
Check out The Missouri Folklore Society's webpage!
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