Fall 2014 Course Description
EGSA, Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Attached is the Fall 2014 Course Description Booklet. Lucky you. Jeremy Leatham EGSA Secretary Fall 2014 course description booklet
EGSA Digest 03.07.14
EGSA, Feel free to sleep in an extra ten minutes next week before tackling those 1,500 pages of reading and fretting over your seminar paper topics. You’ve been a long time coming, spring break. Announcements  Beall Poetry Festival, 26-28 Mar. This is a thing. In fact, it’s kinda the thing. You don’t…
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EGSA Digest 02.28.14
EGSA, I’m afraid I don’t have time to comment on or persuade you to attend the events listed below. They are probably outrageously funny. They will certainly be delightful. I can, however, tell you about a completely irrelevant teaching moment that will help you waste ten seconds of the five minutes you had resigned…
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EGSA Digest 02.21.14
EGSA, Thank you to everyone who helped make last weekend such a success. Your reward is a short Digest. Announcements Call for Papers: Rocky Mountain MLA Conference Jordan Carson writes: Looking for some way to use those seminar papers and presentations you have clogging up your computer? Â A few of us are chairing panels this…
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EGSA Sip
EGSA, Just when you thought it was time to get working this semester, the EGSA Social Chairs bring you Bad Wine, Bad Poetry. Seminar papers and dissertations, of course, will just have to wait. Sarah Rude and Elizabeth Fredericks say: Well played, Social Chairs. And thank you. Jeremy Leatham EGSA Secretary
EGSA Digest 02.14.14
EGSA, The wait is over. It’s finally here. It will be a weekend to remember. Just you, that special someone, that prospie you agreed to let sleep on your couch, and men’s figure skating. Announcements English Program Preview Weekend (formerly, and maybe still unofficially, the Prospective Student Weekend) This is (probably) your last invitation to…
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EGSA Menu
EGSA, Important stuff first: There is an important schedule change for the Prospective Student Preview Weekend. The dinner tomorrow evening (2/14) will be at Panera at 5:30pm (not at La Fiesta at 5:15, as previously indicated). Any English graduate student is welcome, and it will be a great opportunity to meet and chat with the prospective students. If…
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EGSA Feast
EGSA, There’s something special about 14 February. The anticipation. The nervous excitement. The dinner. The subtle gestures. The treats. The prospects and potential. As Cupid draws his bow, we throw open our metaphorical arms to prospective students. Join us in the figurative embrace by attending any of the events listed in Sarah Clark’s message below:…
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EGSA Digest 02.07.14
EGSA, For some reason I feel obligated to fill the blank space between the salutation and the announcements. Please ignore this and the previous sentence. Announcements Prospective Student Weekend New Student Orientation Co-Chairs Sarah Clark and Elizabeth Travers write: Attention Current Baylor Bears: The prospective student preview weekend is Feb. 14-15. Check out the attached…
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EGSA Digest 02.03.14
EGSA, What a weekend. The drama. The pageantry. The controversy. The shock. The disappointment. The parties, of course. Oh, Punxsutawney Phil, you ol’ rascal. And on top of it all, there was the suspense of not having a Friday Digest, which was delayed as we awaited the official results of the New Student…
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