Friday brown bag: March 6

Writing a Successful Proposal
Friday, March. 6th
12:00-1:30
Ham-Smith 101

Professors Cristy Beemer, Robin Hackett and Sean Moore will speak to graduate students on what elements contribute to a successful proposal for conferences, journals, seminars, and fellowships. Examples of various proposals will be available for review and discussion.

Bring your lunch and your questions!

EGO discussion this Thursday!

SO YOU WANNA BE A PhD STUDENT??
(because you’ve given up on being a rock n’ roll star)

EGO invites you to join a discussion with PhD students!
THURSDAY, Feb. 5th, 11:30-12:30

Get the low-down on

• the application process
• your first year as a PhD student
• exams
• requirements
• scholarship
• conferences
• publishing
• the difference between being an MA and a PhD and making the transition

Bring your questions and your lunch to Ham Smith 101!

Guest panel members include Lin Nulman (1st year, 18th century British studies), Jim Webber (3rd year, Composition and Rhetoric), Nicola Imbracsio (4th year, Early Modern British drama), and MA student James Finley (who recently applied to PhD programs).

Present your work!

As part of EGO's mission to support and encourage one another while we pursue our academic careers, we are inviting graduate students in both literature and composition programs to volunteer to read their current academic works in progress, in a mini-conference setting.

Do you have an article that you're working towards publication? A seminar paper that you'd like to revise into a conference paper? Let Nicola Imbracsio know (nmj4@unh.edu) what you have and when you'd be willing to read. A Friday afternoon will be arranged in which you (and other graduate students) may present their work in front of an audience of supportive graduate students. This is a low-pressure event!

EGO meeting #1

Dear fellow graduate students,

Join us for the first English Graduate Organization (EGO) meeting of the year, Tuesday, September 16, 12:30 - 1:30 pm (Ham Smith 101). We'll discuss future professional development workshops, elect a social chair (!) and a Graduate Student Organization (GSO) representative, and discuss projects we're working on. Bring your ideas for what you'd like to do with EGO this year. If you can't come, please contact us anyway with your interests and concerns.

We'd love to see you there!