English GSAC at IU

The Graduate Student Advisory Committee for Indiana University Bloomington's English department.

[English GSAC at IU @engsac]

Happy Friday Instructor Spotlight! This week, we showcase Brian Pulverenti's unique baseball composition assignment which uses the "everyday, ephemeral, lowbrow” form of the baseball card to analyze bigger ideas of mythmaking and elisions within the historical record.”

[English GSAC at IU @engsac]

Mark your cals for this Friday and Saturday: IU's 21st Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, this year themed "Goblin Modes: Pleasure, Care, & Disobedience," is virtual, open to the public, and free! See our website for more details and Zoom links-- link in bio!

[IU Libraries @iulibraries]

We are sorry to announce that the 2023 @IULillyLibrary Ngũgĩ Lecture, scheduled for October 26, has been postponed due to illness. We expect to reschedule this important lecture for a future date and will share the new date when we are able to do so.

[English GSAC at IU @engsac]

Come out to our Halloween party this Saturday, and bring your best-costumed selves! Partners and friends are extremely welcome.

For location details, please see Hoon's email to englgrad ("English Social Ep. 3. Get Spooky!"). Wonderful flyer by the wonderful Grace Miller.

[English GSAC at IU @engsac]

HUGE congratulations to our own Sam Chirtel and Lydia Nixon for their acceptance into the @HASTAC Scholars program, a one-year program focused on Digital Humanities work! If you see Sam or Lydia around on campus this year, congratulate them and ask about their work!

[English GSAC at IU @engsac]

BOOK SALE! BOOK SALE! Come get our books, $1/book or $10 for a whole tote's worth of books!

When: Thursday and Friday (8/24-8/25), 9am-5pm
Where: Ballantine 438
How: cash only

These are books with a history, come bring a tote and rescue them from dusty oblivion!

[MLA News @MLAnews]

We’re accepting applications for the Edward Guiliano Global Fellowship until 12 July. The fellowship will provide PhD students in MLA-related disciplines awards up to $2,000 to support travel and research. Learn more about the fellowship and how to apply: https://t.co/wQEnSJIAge

[Dr. Zoë L. Henry @ZoeLaHenry]

Got to meet one of my idols tonight, the brilliant ⁦@namwalien⁩. She read from “The Furrows,” and afterward we talked Gayl Jones, affective ambivalence, and the pleasures of breaking (interrogating?) narrative expectation. Thank you, Namwali! 🙏🏾 🔥 ✨

[English GSAC at IU @engsac]

Other Rhetoric grad student presenters and attendees included @SarahfromNoDak, Fain Riopelle, Joe Vuletich, @millieh27, @Chaimmcn, @joannagordy, @meganhmccool, and Jason Michálek! 4/4
For more on their interests: https://t.co/3CPg1iF0VI

[English GSAC at IU @engsac]

Earlier this semester, a virtual gaggle of students and faculty in our Rhetoric concentration attended and presented at @NCTE_CCCC in Chicago 🫘 (get it? beans?) 1/4

[English GSAC at IU @engsac]

Grad students @AC_Carls and @_sarah_fischer_ joined them during the Q&A portion to discuss their experiences as grad instructors in the pilot semester of W171, a version of first-year writing that introduces students to digital literacy, problem solving, and creativity💻🤓3/4

[English GSAC at IU @engsac]

Many earnest thanks to @UTKnoxville English, Africana Studies, Humanities Center, and Office of Research, Innovation and Economic Development for hosting!

[English GSAC at IU @engsac]

While not attending and presenting on panels at #INCS2023 this past weekend, three of our graduate students enjoyed exploring lovely Knoxville, TN! @incsscholars

[English GSAC at IU @engsac]

We are excited to have @christymtidwell delivering the Keynote address: "Inviting the Other In: The Promise and Threat of the Strange Child"

Join us for this and other hauntologies & heterotopias, monsters & multiverses, alterities & alternatives, this Friday and Saturday!

[English GSAC at IU @engsac]

The 20th Annual IU English Interdisciplinary Conference "Strange Things: Alternatives, Imaginaries, and Other(world)s" is happening virtually in just a couple of days! See the link below for a full program:

https://t.co/u8R0mXP9cH

[ty? raso? @spaghettiutopia]

Hello, I have a poem in @poetrymagazine on this day, which is so surreal. And if you’d like to read it, you can (CW: reclaimed use of the f-slur). Grateful for the lovely folks on the editorial team, and butterflies, and you. https://t.co/2Z5nV7FX3K

[Sarah Lawler @SarahfromNoDak]

Tourists in Chicago; rhetoricians at #4C23

[English GSAC at IU @engsac]

Victorianists, heads up! The NAVSA2023 conference has a new Twitter account. Give them a follow to keep up to date with conference news until NAVSA comes to Bloomington next November!

[NAVSA 2023 @Navsa2023]

Our NAVSA 2023 website is live! See the CFP and other conference info here:

https://t.co/sU4wR3yfYA

[Kinsey Institute @kinseyinstitute]

Congrats to our 2022 Kraft-Kinsey Award Winners! This award supports a writing project by an @IUBloomington #MFA student using the Kinsey Institute’s materials and archives. @engsac #creativewriting

More Info at https://t.co/Ejt763qs1g