Established to promote community among the English graduate students and interaction with other campus organizations, the Graduate English Organization (GEO) works to encourage the professional growth of its members, and improve working conditions for those associated with the organization. With approximately 100 members, all graduate students, GEO does not collect dues from members; we need financial support from outside organizations to maintain our proud and rigorous intellectual tradition.
The conference, modeled on professional academic conferences, will provide graduate students with opportunities for professional development. For this reason, we solicit and review submissions from students in various departments at the University of Maryland including English, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, American Studies, Women’s Studies, Classics, History, Art History, Dance, Theatre, Foreign Language, and STEM. We also invite graduate student submissions from English and other programs in colleges and universities locally and nationally. Our goal is to provide a friendly, supportive, and intellectually engaging atmosphere in which graduate students can share their research and gain critical feedback.
For this year’s event, the conference will focus on the notion of departures as both a physical or geographical category, as well as a thematic concept. With this theme, we aim for the conference to encompass questions ranging from transnational identities and travel narratives, to shifts in genre or breakages in form, to reconstructions of race, gender and sexuality, to ruptures in history and temporality. Overall, we seek to explore ways in which representations of departure mark a shift in ways of seeing, thinking, and being.
The conference, modeled on professional academic conferences, will provide graduate students with opportunities for professional development. For this reason, we solicit and review submissions from students in various departments at the University of Maryland including English, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, American Studies, Women’s Studies, Classics, History, Art History, Dance, Theatre, Foreign Language, and STEM. We also invite graduate student submissions from English and other programs in colleges and universities locally and nationally. Our goal is to provide a friendly, supportive, and intellectually engaging atmosphere in which graduate students can share their research and gain critical feedback.
For this year’s event, the conference will focus on the notion of departures as both a physical or geographical category, as well as a thematic concept. With this theme, we aim for the conference to encompass questions ranging from transnational identities and travel narratives, to shifts in genre or breakages in form, to reconstructions of race, gender and sexuality, to ruptures in history and temporality. Overall, we seek to explore ways in which representations of departure mark a shift in ways of seeing, thinking, and being.