Hello all,

I hope that everyone's semester is wrapping up well as we quickly approach summer! 

EGSO wants to extend an invitation for you to join our end of semester grading party on Thursday May 2 @10a in POT 1245. We will provide drinks and snacks and a quiet place to work, as well as some nice company!

We hope to see you there!

Best,
Andrew Thibaudeau
(he/him/his)
PhD Candidate
Graduate Instructor

Do you struggle to distill your argument into an abstract? Have you failed to place your papers at prestigious conferences? Do you sometimes feel that there are generic expectations, even a correct format, of which you haven’t been made aware?

Or perhaps you have questions about conferencing, and how to do it well: how do you use a conference to network? Which conferences should be prioritize?

Please plan to attend a Literature Division event on abstracts and conferencing. “How to Write a Conference Abstract” will take place on Tuesday, April 30 at 10:30 am in POT 1245. A panel of professors will share their best advice on the form of the abstract. There will also be a workshop component to the event: we’ll comment on anonymized student samples and suggest improvements.  

We hope to get a high number of people in attendance. Please RSVP in advance. https://forms.gle/XYstbCkaC327LSwY9.

If you’d like your abstract to be one of the student samples, then please send it along to Mike Genovese at Michael.genovese@uky.edu. It will be anonymized prior to the event by Mike. The abstracts can be accepted, rejected or yet-to-be-submitted; please specify which they are.

I want to invite you all to an EGSO Grad Talk event that focuses on the topic of “Forming Committees, Navigating Committee Dynamics, and Preparing for Exams and Writing” 

The talk will be Wednesday, April 17 at 2:30pm, in POT 1245. In addition to the event being in-person, a Zoom link will be sent out in a reminder email closer to the day of. I’ll also take notes of general themes/advice (leaving out identifying details, etc.) to share with anyone who was unable to attend and would like notes.

This event is for all MAs, MFAs, and PhDs who are working on forming committees and getting ready for exams and writing, so we’d love to have speakers from each program! If you’re available at this time and interested in participating and sharing your experiences forming your committee, etc., please feel free to shoot me an email! 

Roslyn