We’re having our monthly English Graduate Organization meeting this Friday, the 13th of November, starting at 3pm EST. We’ll be hearing from our officers, discussing follow-ups to the inter-group dialogue session, and learning the ins and outs of this year’s Secret Santa (among many other things!).
EGO meetings are open to all English department MA and PhD students. If you’ve never attended a meeting before this is a fine time to start!
Check your email for the Zoom link!
There’s an EGO meeting this very Friday! Tomorrow! Our meeting will start at 3pm EST and Jeffrey has already sent around the Zoom link.
Per Jeffrey’s email, we will hear the usual officer reports and also devote time to hearing about Chris Eng’s exit interview (shared with faculty and our reps this week in the Assembly meeting) and discussing the potential for a graduate student-chair listening session with Coran.
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend.
Oh wow, it looks like we have two important meetings coming up this very Friday, September 11th!
The first is a meeting we have been building up to since the end of last year. In our final in person English Graduate Organization (EGO) meeting of 2019-20, we discussed moving forward with talking to the MFA students and feeling out whether they would be interested in joining our organization. To that end, we will be meeting on Friday to discuss this with interested MFA students. You do not need to have been involved with EGO prior to this to attend this meeting, this meeting is open to you regardless of year or previous attendance.
Our meeting about MFA reintegration will start at 1pm this Friday and be held via Zoom. Please check your email for the link.
We will follow up this meeting with our first regular EGO meeting of the year!
This meeting is scheduled for after the MFA Reintegration Meeting, at 3pm, also via Zoom.
We will hear from our Graduate, Undergraduate, Agenda, and GSO representatives as well as discuss the First Year Representative position. Feel free to bring yourself, your questions, and your concerns about anything related to graduate life.
While officers are obliged to attend, all EGO meetings are open to all MAs and PhDs and your attendance is appreciated. You are welcome to dip in and out of the meetings as your schedule allows.
This Friday (4 Sept.) from 1-3pm we will have a follow-up to our previous Graduate Student orientation meet-and-greet event. This will occur over Zoom, check your email for the link!
This is part of the department orientation. If you’re a new student, please attend. Most of us don’t bite 🙂 If you’re a returning student, please drop in and say howdy to our incoming MAs and PhDs!
In previous years, this part of the department orientation occurred on one day and returning graduate students organized different panels on topics such as health and wellness, success in the program, how to write a seminar paper, and “what I wish I knew when entering the program.” This year, we’ll be spreading our orientation material over a few different Fridays and addressing questions and concerns that incoming students have while sharing tips and suggestions that those of us returning graduates have learned along the way.
Need to set aside some time to write and work?
Does working around others enable you to be more productive?
Just want to say howdy to some real live humans? (Or enjoy seeing cats interrupt their productive humans?)
Come to Write Now!
Write Now is a weekly get together where those interested can come and be productive around others. If you have writing you need to do or other coursework or grading, this is the place to be. You can get some work done and socialize with others simultaneously.
Starting this Monday, 24 Aug., Write Now will be held from 5-7pm Mondays on Zoom. Check your email for the link.
Howdy all!
The beginning of the academic year is upon us! That means it is time to meet a new cohort of MAs and PhDs, who have been busy with loads of orientations.
To that end, there is a Zoom meet-and-greet tomorrow, Thursday, 4-5pm, where we can introduce ourselves to the incoming graduate students and get to know them a bit.
Check your e-mail for the Zoom link and see y’all tomorrow!
We’re having a short EGO meeting on Friday August 14th from 1-2pm. This meeting is to discuss the possibility of reincorporating the MFAs back into EGO with a prospective MFA representative.
This meeting will be held over Zoom, please check your emails for the link.
All are welcome to attend.
Howdy y’all! I hope everyone is enjoying the summer months (to the best of our ability to do so). I wanted to say please feel free to reach out, whether you’re an incoming graduate student or a returning grad, if you need anything: someone to talk to, questions about the program or about teaching, and so forth.
Join your fellow grads for an English Graduate Organization meeting!
We’ll be having meetings on Thursday, for a few months at least, from 5-6:30pm. Our February meeting will happen tomorrow in HL 421.
Have concerns or questions about grad-related issues? Want to know more about department policies and procedures? Get bored around 5pm on Thursday? Join us! Everyone is welcome, everyone can attend any meeting and vote on issues that matter to us all.
Our first Theory Group meeting of the semester is rescheduled for 1pm Friday, February 14th in the English Library. Our focus for this meeting will be on Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake: On Blackness and Being.
Here’s what the publisher has to say about Sharpe’s work:
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the “orthography of the wake.” Activating multiple registers of “wake”—the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead, coming to consciousness—Sharpe illustrates how Black lives are swept up and animated by the afterlives of slavery, and she delineates what survives despite such insistent violence and negation. Initiating and describing a theory and method of reading the metaphors and materiality of “the wake,” “the ship,” “the hold,” and “the weather,” Sharpe shows how the sign of the slave ship marks and haunts contemporary Black life in the diaspora and how the specter of the hold produces conditions of containment, regulation, and punishment, but also something in excess of them. In the weather, Sharpe situates anti-Blackness and white supremacy as the total climate that produces premature Black death as normative. Formulating the wake and “wake work” as sites of artistic production, resistance, consciousness, and possibility for living in diaspora, In the Wake offers a way forward.
When I pitched reading this to the group, it was because the concept of the wake was coming up in different places. Not only in academic setting like one of the colloquia last semester, but also in a podcast discussing generational trauma in the new Watchmen tv series. So, whether you’re interesting in this for your scholarship or just your everyday media and life consumption, it should be a rewarding read.
Since this is a fairly short text, our original idea what to try and read all of it. But, if you can’t read the whole work, Chris F. has posted chapters 1 and 4 to the group’s Google site page (https://sites.google.com/g.syr.edu/english-theory-group/home).