This month's GEA Happy Hour is at Sugar Mom's, a basement bar in Old City (225 Church St.). Sugar Mom's is kitschy and casual, with a great selection of beers and comfort food snacks. Come early for a cozy, quieter atmosphere, and stay a few hours as the energy picks up to kick off your … Continue reading November Happy Hour at Sugar Mom’s
The Student-Faculty Theory Reading Group will meet at a new date and time this week to accommodate a wider audience that has expressed interest in. The group will continue to discuss Derrida this week, turning to his seminal essay "Différance." If you cannot make this time or would like to make suggestions about where the … Continue reading Student-Faculty Theory Reading Group
On Thursday, the GEA will be hosting our second works-in-progress workshop. Lindsay Bartkowski will be presenting a conference length paper entitled “Silence and Violence in Tillie Olsen’s Yonnodio: From the Thirties.” If you plan to attend this meeting, please email a request for the paper to templeGEA@gmail.com. Lindsay has provided the following abstract of her paper: “Silence and Violence in … Continue reading Works-In-Progress workshop
Please join the GEA for a February Happy Hour at 4:00 PM this Friday, February 21 at the South Philadelphia Tap Room (1509 Mifflin St). From campus, via the Broad Street line, South Philly Tap Room is two blocks north and one block west of the Snyder stop. Happy hour runs from 4-6 and includes great food and drink specials. Hope to see you there!
Please join the GEA and Professor Carissa Harris for a CV and Professional Documents Workshop. We are excited to use this opportunity to welcome Professor Harris to the English Department at Temple University. Earning her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2012, and joining Temple in the Fall of 2013, she is eager to share tips … Continue reading CV and Professional Documents Workshop
The Graduate English Association would like to invite you to our first Professionalization Workshop of the Fall 2014 semester. Our topic will be Conferencing as a Graduate Student, featuring a panel of graduate students including Beth Seltzer, Daniel Nutters, and Ted Howell. The panel will address many aspects of conferencing, including how to find important conferences … Continue reading GEA Professionalization Workshop: Conferencing as a Graduate Student
The Student-Faculty Theory Reading Group will have its first meeting of the semester on Tuesday, September 23rd, from 11:00am - 12:00pm in Anderson 1006. The reading for the first meeting, Susan Buck-Morss' "Democracy: An Unfinished Project", has been distributed via the graduate student listserv. New and returning members are welcome to join the group for what … Continue reading Student-Faculty Theory Reading Group convening this week
Abstracts for the 2015 Temple Graduate English Symposium are due on Monday, March 9. Send abstracts for your proposed papers to templeGEA@gmail.com for review. We look forward to your proposals! See the attached flyer for more information: GEA Graduate Student Research Symposium CFP 2015
The Graduate English Association will be hosting a discussion-based workshop for graduate students and faculty in Temple University's English Department. The topic is non-tenure-track job opportunities. We will cover application deadlines, CV writing, and interviews, in addition to a general discussion of the job market. The workshop will be held on Wednesday, March 11th at … Continue reading Professionalization Workshop: NTT Jobs