Voices Behind the Bars: Four Stories from Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy

Hungry Poets 2016 Contest Call for Submissions

Coming up much earlier than usual this year is the deadline for the Hungry Poets contest in memory of Gabe Friedberg. Usually a spring activity, the contest this year has been shifted to the fall. If you are a poet under 30 years old who would like to participate in a great event please see the flyer below for details. And if you teach creative writing classes (or any English or humanities classes) please distribute this information to your students as soon as possible. Don't be afraid to emphasize that there are cash prizes for first, second, and third place.

Please note that entries must be emailed in on or before 29 August, so the deadline is coming up quickly. See the flyer below for more information, and again, please distribute this flyer to your students.

Post Colloquium Report

Well, this past Saturday was the 2013 EGO Colloquium, and I think it went well overall. We decided to have the colloquium in Colson Hall this year, which (according to the survey monkey survey about colloquium reactions) seems to have garnered a mixed response. Some people liked being in our own space, but some people feel that the mountainlair is a more professional locale. But in general the responses to the keynote address, plenary session, and panels have been mostly positive, though there were complaints about low panel attendance (which seems run of the mill for the colloquium).

Anyway, here are some pictures from a couple of panels, the plenary session, and the keynote address:

2013 EGO Colloquium Poster and Schedule

Memory

Please join us for the 2013 English Graduate Organization Colloquium on the theme of Memory.

This year’s keynote address will be:

“The Novelist as Prophet: Memory in Don Delillo’s Falling Man”

Given by Daniel Shank Cruz of Westminster College

The Colloquium will also feature panels, roundtables, creative writing readings, and a plenary session of WVU faculty.

Saturday 13 Apr. 2013

8:30AM-5PM

Colson Hall (Registration outside 130)

West Virginia University English Graduate Organization

2013 Graduate Colloquium

Sat. 13 Apr. 2013

Memory

8:30-8:45: Meet & Greet, Coffee Time

8:45-9: Welcome & Official Opening of Colloquium, Colson 130

9-10:20: First Session

Colson 130—Something that Stands Still: A Creative Writing Panel of Collected Memories

            Moderator—Sadie Shorr-Parks

• Christina Seymour, West Virginia University
• Rebecca Childers, West Virginia University
• Morgan O’Grady, West Virginia University
• Sadie Shorr-Parks, West Virginia University

Colson G06—(Traumatic) Encounters

            Moderator—Crystal Harper

• Amanda Bailey, West Virginia University —“Ghosts from the Past: Memory-making and the Sensual Experience”
• Mallory Findlay, Georgetown University—“Bearing Witness: Trauma and Narration in Melmoth the Wanderer”
• Shaunté Montgomery, Howard University—“‘Look Closely on His [or Her] Body’: The Cycle of Trauma in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant”

Colson 223—Prosem Roundtable

            Moderator—Ryan Fletcher

10:30-11:30: Plenary Session, Colson 130

• John Jones
• Jim Harms
• Sarah Neville
• Lowell Duckert
• Kevin Oderman
• Catherine Gouge

11:30-1: Lunch Break, Morgantown

1-2:20: Second Session

Colson 130—Literary Memory

            Moderator—Valerie Surrett

• Ryan Fletcher, West Virginia University—“‘O Cursed Folk of Herodes al Newe’: Navigating the Anti-Semitism of Chaucer’s Prioress”
• Jeff Yeager, West Virginia University—“‘The Horses Share a Common Soul’: Myth, Identity, & Deep Ecology in John Steinbeck’s To a God Unknown & Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses”

Colson G06— Carried Countenances: Issues of Identity and Memory in the Work of Charles Dickens

            Moderator: Dominique Bruno

• Phillip Zapkin, West Virginia University—“‘Rewriting His Destiny’: Jack Maggs, Competing Writers, and Narrative Discourse”
• Dominique Bruno, West Virginia University—“‘As if I was your Doll or Puppet’: Ventriloquism and Identity in Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend”

• Kayla Kreuger McKinney, West Virginia University—“In that bony light: Museum and Marriage Networks in Our Mutual Friend”

Colson G18—Rhetoric and Style

            Moderator—Bonnie Thibodeau

• Andi Stout, West Virginia University—“Couch Burners Serving Pineapple Upside-down Cake: Talking about Disruption in the Composition Classroom”
• Amanda Berardi, Carnegie Mellon University—“Deconstructing the Urban Frontier: An Analysis of the Role of Media Discourse in the Revitalization of Braddock, Pennsylvania”
• Nita Shippy, West Virginia University—“Styling Your Space: The Influence of Cognitive Spaces on Style-Shifting”
• Jay Kirby, West Virginia University—“As We Think: Examining Memory in Electronically Mediated Work”

2:30-3:30: Keynote Address, Colson 130

• Daniel Shank Cruz, Westminster College—“The Novelist as Prophet: Memory in Don Delillo’s Falling Man”

3:40-5: Session Three

Colson 130—Film

            Moderator—Ryan Fletcher

• Autumn Athey, West Virginia University—“Black Power and Patriarchy in Singleton’s Boyz N the Hood”
• Maureen Pearson, Howard University—“‘The Exceptional Negro’: Phrenology and Cultural Memory in Django Unchained”
• Yvonne Hammond, West Virginia University—“‘Get Some’: Fact-Finding, History, and Waiting for Someday in Jarhead, Stuff Happens, & Generation Kill”

Colson G06—Creative Writing

            Moderator—Kelly Sundberg

• Jesse Kalvitis, West Virginia University
• Rebecca Thomas, West Virginia University
• Rebecca Doverspike, West Virginia University

Colson G18— The Novel Novel: Form, Discourse, and the Emergence of the Early Novel

            Moderator—Harrington Weihl

• Will Van Camp, Independent Scholar—“The Silent Language of Love: Silence and Satire in Oroonoko”
• Whitney Sandin, West Virginia University—“(Re)Defining the Novel: From Fantomina to Pamela”
• Harrington Weihl, West Virginia University—“The Shift from Epistolary to Gothic Novels in Colonial North America”

Colson 223—Recalling the Surveys: Various Approaches to Teaching the Literature Survey Course, Roundtable

·        Andrea Bebell, West Virginia University

• Jessica Queener, West Virginia University
• Teresa Pershing, West Virginia University
• Kate Ridinger, West Virginia University

"D.H. Lawrence, Misogynist?"--Dr. Erin Johns Speese's Current Thoughts Lecture

The English Graduate Organization

Proudly Presents:

“D.H. Lawrence, Misogynist?: The Possibility of Sublime Intersubjectivity in

The Rainbow”

By (the new) Dr. Erin Johns Speese

Spring 2013 Current Thoughts Series Lecture

18 Mar. 2013 at 4PM

Colson 130

Last Lecture Postponed

Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond mine, Lisa's, or Lowell's control, the Last Lecture will need to be postponed until an as yet undecided date in January.

When more info becomes available, I will keep you appraised of the situation.

Irish Lesbian Terrorists! Or, How I Stopped Worrying about Yeats and Learned to Love The Bomb--The Last Lecture, by Lisa Weihman

The English Graduate Organization Presents

The Fall 2012 Last Lecture, by Lisa Weihman:

Irish Lesbian Terrorists!

Or, How I Stopped Worrying about Yeats and Learned to Love

The Bomb

 

Friday, 7 Dec. 2012 at 7:30PM

Colson 130

Current Thoughts Series: Lives in Play

The Current Thoughts Series

Hosted by EGO Presents:

Lives in Play: Autobiography and Biography on the Feminist Stage

A Presentation Based on the Newly Published Book by Dr. Ryan Claycomb

Monday 17 Sept. 2012, at 7:30

Colson 130

BOWLING

Just in case you didn't see it on the listservs yet, consider yourself--you, you tenant you--invited to a department-wide end of the year party! EGO is hosting an event at Sycamore Lanes in Westover to congratulate our graduating grad students and to celebrate the end of the academic year.

Here is the original email with information about how to RSVP:

EGO invites all English Department Members, especially graduates, and any family or friends that would like to join, to the End of the Year Bowl-Tacular Graduation Party at Sycamore Lanes, in Westover on Tuesday, May 11 at 5:30.

For the first 45 people to RSVP we can guarantee shoe rental and one game. The rest is on a first come, first serve basis. Cake will be provided, and snacks and drinks are available for purchase in the snack bar. Please RSVP by Friday, May 7, off-list (tpershin@mix.wvu.edu) to reserve your spot in EGO's graduation celebration!

Need More Reasons?

1. We like you.

2. Nancy Drew wants you to go.

3. This is awesome:

Dance Rehearsals Commence Friday.