The full schedule for the upcoming Graduate Student Colloquium is available online now.

Don’t forget that there are two Brown Bag Lunch events left for this academic year:

This Thursday, March 22nd, students from the first year of the MA-Creative Writing program will be presenting their work in the MA-CW Showcase. In the first hour, students in the first year of the MA Creative Writing program will read stories, excerpts, or poems which they are currently working on. The second hour will include a Q&A and a reception with snacks and coffee. Please join us for what is sure to be a wonderful event!

Next Thursday, March 29th, Professor Larry Switzky will be giving a talk entitled “Bad Beckett?”: This talk examines Samuel Beckett’s reputation as a bad theatrical collaborator and his later plays as a calculated refusal of the stage director and the twentieth-century division of theatrical labour more broadly. By harvesting music, painting, sculpture, and the (relatively) new media of radio, film, and television as models for dramatic notation, Beckett launched a radical inquiry into what a play-text is and who gets to author its sensuous materialization.  Examples from orchestration, the visual arts, and the history of opera will situate the recalcitrant inventiveness of Beckett’s scenic writing.

Both of these events will begin at 12 p.m. in JHB 719. We hope to see lots of you there!

The deadline for submissions to the First Annual Graduate Student Colloquium has been extended to April 2nd, 2012. A copy of the revised CFP is below. MA and first-year PhD students are especially encouraged to apply. Please contact Rachel McArthur (rachel.mcarthur@utoronto.ca) with any questions.

ENG GRAD CFP Extended Deadline

Below please find a copy of the CFP for the upcoming English Graduate Student Colloquium put on by the Department of English at the University of Toronto.

Eng Grad Colloquium CFP

Hello everyone,

Here are the results of the elections held at the GEA meeting last Friday. As you can see, we still need one (or possibly two) MA-CW Reps, so please get in touch if you are interested in representing your cohort. A description of the position is available on this page. Thanks to everyone who came out and stood for a position!

MA Reps: Lianne Fonseca and Alyssa Charestina

MA-CW Reps: Position vacant

PhD 1 Reps: Claire Duncan and Katherine Magyarody

International Student Rep: Dave Wilton

GSU Reps: Megan Harris, Michael Donnelly, Lianne Fonseca

CUPE 3902 Stewards: Megan Harris, Matt Risling, Jonathan Abresch

Pub Night Committee: Alyssa Charestina, Lianne Fonseca, Karen Whitaker

Coffee Hour Committee: Cristina D’Amico, Alyssa Charestina, Ben Paris, Claire Duncan, Jonathan Iverson

ACCUTE Rep: Alex Eastwood

GEA Webmaster: Dave Wilton

As I mentioned at last Friday’s GEA Meeting, I am looking to put together a departmental colloquium to be held in May 2012 (date TBA, but most likely at the beginning of the month). At this point, I am just hoping to put together a list of interested people. I will then schedule a planning/organizing meeting in early October. If you are interested in helping with this (in whatever capacity), please contact me by email (rachel.mcarthur@utoronto.ca). Please also feel free to email me if you have any questions.

This is just a reminder to new students (and any returning students who may not have subscribed) to make sure you have been added to the GEA mailing list, so that you don’t miss out on any of the exciting things coming up this term and year!

To subscribe to UTGEA-L send an e-mail message addressed to:
LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA (no subject header is necessary). In the body of
the message, write on one line: SUBSCRIBE UTGEA-L YourFirstName YourLastName. You will then receive a welcome message with further details about the list. You MUST send this email using your utoronto email account to subscribe–you will not be added to the list if the email is sent via your gmail or hotmail account. If you have any problems or questions relating to this list, contact me, Rachel (rachel.mcarthur@utoronto.ca).