EGSA
English Graduate Student Association (EGSA)
The EGSA, a student group officially acknowledged by the University, includes all graduate students in the English Department at Northeastern, but primarily functions as a small group of elected representatives. Its mission is to ensure and improve the quality of the graduate programs, promote the professional development of graduate students, develop policies and procedures that benefit graduate students, encourage faculty-student communication, and foster collegiality among members of the department through cooperation between graduate students, faculty and staff in the English Department.Elected representatives conduct monthly meetings, open to any and all graduate students, where announcements and reports are made by various subcommittees such as the Conference Planning Committee, the Job Market Research Committee, and the Event Coordinating Committee, as well as the PhD and MA representatives. The EGSA also works in conjunction with the Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA), the graduate student government that includes all departments at Northeastern. For more information, please contact the EGSA at egsa@neu.edu.
EGSA Officers, 2008-2009
- Jen Sopchockchai, President
- Alicia Peaker, Vice President
- Danielle Skeehan, Secretary
- Anne Kingsley, Publicity Manager
- Max White, Treasurer
- Brent Griffin, GPSA Rep
- Greg Cass, PhD Rep
- Josh Benson, MA Rep
3rd Annual EGSA Graduate Student Conference, Figuring Genre
Northeastern University, March 14-15, 2009
Key Note Speaker: Michael Lackey
"The Theological Origins of Totalitarianism in Sophie's Choice and Remains of the Day"& Professionalization Roundtable for Graduate Students: "On Methodology"
Call for Papers:
For this year's graduate student conference, we welcome diverse approaches to understanding what it means to give shape to, form, or figure genre. Papers might examine genres "in motion" as generating, transforming, or traveling cultural texts, or "in accumulation" as collecting, arranging, and appropriating historical, cultural, and aesthetic materials. How do we locate genres? How are they (or aren't they) situated by origin, nationality, culture or literary period? How might formal, textual, and visual arrangement extend to figure gender, ethnicity, or sexuality? How do conversations of genre and its boundaries extend to discipline, field, and professionalization? And, how can we answer Wai Chee Dimock's challenge "What exactly are genres?" —to which she ends, "There is much rethinking to do." We look at this conference as an open forum to share intellectual ideas and conversations across interest, disciplines, and universities and that draw from a broad range of scholarship including, but not limited to, literary studies, film studies, women's studies, cultural studies, visual studies, rhetoric, and composition.
Abstracts of around 200 words should be submitted via e-mail to neuegsa@gmail.com no later than January 15th.
**Michael Lackey teaches courses in twentieth-century American and African American literature at the University of Minnesota, Morris. A resident fellow of the University of Minnesota's Institute for Advanced Study (spring semester 2009) and a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (2001-02), he has published articles in numerous journals. University Press of Florida has recently released the paperback version of his book, African American Atheists and Political Liberation: A Study of the Socio-Cultural Dynamics of Faith, and his book has been named a "Choice Outstanding Academic Title" for 2007. He is currently working on his second book, which is titled: Modernist God States: A Literary Study of the Theological Origins of Totalitarianism.
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