Category: Other Announcements

English Graduate Student Association

orientation!

Dear People, It’s time to plan the EGSA New Student Orientation!! On Tues, Aug 18, we will hold an afternoon-long orientation (it does not conflict with the GSA, TA, or WC orientations) in order to introduce the incoming first-years to all of our secret handshakes, etc. !! And anyone who’s anyone will be there!!!! A.)…
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August 12, 2009 0

State of EGSA address

Dear EGSA, The next EGSA meeting will not be until the beginning of next semester, but Steve and I wanted to share a few things with you all that have been happening this semester. Drs. Losey and Vitanza have been committed this semester to being as open and communicative as possible with graduate students about…
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December 9, 2008 0

academia.edu might be a good idea

Hi all. Through H-net’s Southern Lit listserve, I heard about academia.edu, and I think it would be a good idea for us grad students to look into it.  Academia.edu is a big-deal, new, global-I-think website on which you can enter your university affiliation and research interests, and you can use it to find other scholars working…
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November 11, 2008 0

Aeolian Harpings Announcement

If you attend a conference or publish a scholarly work, please send an announcement to Julie Sherrod. This announcement will appear in the Aeolian Harpings to inform professors and students affiliated with the English department of graduate student involvement in professional development. This heightened awareness will help to ensure university support for professional opportunities in…
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September 8, 2008 0

Degree Requirements

Ph.D. in English 2 foreign languages Beyond BA (66 hours): 18 seminars (54 hours)— *Old English language *Bibliography and Research *Literary Theory (Literary Criticism) or Linguistics or Rhetoric and Composition 1 course chosen from “English 1” (Old English, Middle English, Renaissance, Seventeenth Century, Restoration and Eighteenth Century) 1 course chosen from “English 2” (Romantic, Victorian,…
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August 1, 2008 0