Beginning Wednesday, October 2, the GEA will be hosting monthly open meetings with graduate students and faculty to discuss professional development and job market preparation. We will use the first meeting to plan future workshops, brainstorming topics and issues we would like to discuss with each other and with faculty. In past semesters, the GEA has … Continue reading Professionalization Workshop
Beginning Wednesday, October 2, the GEA will be hosting monthly open meetings with graduate students and faculty to discuss professional development and job market preparation. We will use the first meeting to plan future workshops, brainstorming topics and issues we would like to discuss with each other and with faculty. In past semesters, the GEA has … Continue reading Professionalization Workshop
Temple's Graduate English program welcomes Charles Altieri as the keynote speaker for the upcoming Phenomenology of Reading conference on Friday, October 11 and Saturday, October 12. On Thursday, October 10, Professor Altieri will be joining the department's Student-Faculty Theory Reading group to discuss his work and current issues in the field. At 2:30pm, the theory reading … Continue reading Theory Reading Group and Open Forum with Charles Altieri
Sponsored by the Temple University Creative Writing Program's Poets & Writers Series
The Phenomenology of Reading: Experiencing Literature Today is a two-day conference bringing together scholars from diverse disciplinary and topical fields to explore how and why we read in the humanities today. Speakers will engage diverse authors, media, and methodologies to interrogate the relationship between theories of reading and past, present, and future directions for … Continue reading Phenomenology of Reading Conference
"Erving Goffman: Social Stigma and Disability Studies" - Presented by Dr. Heather Love, Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania Dr. Love will speak on the utility of Erving Goffman’s foundational work on social stigma for the field of disability studies. Goffman’s 1963 book Stigma: On the Management of Spoiled Identity is both loved … Continue reading Disability Studies Mini Course Lecture with Heather Love
The GEA would like to invite all English graduate students to the second professionalization workshop of the semester Wednesday 10/16/13 at 11:00am in Anderson 1006. The focus of this workshop will be writing seminar papers. Seminar papers present a daunting task to new students who are likely encountering this kind of writing for the first time. We will … Continue reading GEA Graduate Student Professionalization Workshop
The GEA would like to invite all English graduate students to the second professionalization workshop of the semester Wednesday 10/16/13 at 11:00am in Anderson 1006. The focus of this workshop will be writing seminar papers. Seminar papers present a daunting task to new students who are likely encountering this kind of writing for the first time. We will … Continue reading GEA Graduate Student Professionalization Workshop
The Student-Faculty Theory Reading Group will reconvene on Wednesday, 10/23 @ 11:30 in AH 1006. With Altieri behind us we will move on to a real philosopher: Husserl. We will be focusing on a lecture that introduces his later thought and explains the importance of his philosophical project to the future of "western civilization." For our convienance, we will also … Continue reading Student-Faculty Theory Reading Group
The Student-Faculty Theory Reading Group will reconvene on Wednesday, 10/23 @ 11:30 in AH 1006. With Altieri behind us we will move on to a real philosopher: Husserl. We will be focusing on a lecture that introduces his later thought and explains the importance of his philosophical project to the future of "western civilization." For our convienance, we will also … Continue reading Student-Faculty Theory Reading Group
The GEA would like to invite you to our fall graduate student outing, a visit to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for the October 25 Art After Five. On October 25th, the Art After Five series will feature some short films of Charlie Chaplin, live music by Brian Carpenter’s Ghost Orchestra, and performances by Vaudevillian … Continue reading FRIDAY: Art After 5 Graduate English social outing