The UNCW Graduate English Association to hold first conference
Katy Luquire
Issue date: 3/30/06 Section: News
The UNCW Graduate English Association will be holding its first conference this weekend. In the association's groundbreaking conference, graduate students will get a chance to present their work based around "Title Effects: Writing through Watershed." Although the conference does not officially begin until Saturday, April 1, the event begins Friday, March 31 at Rebel Books featuring "creative writing and a mixer from conference attendees, friends, our keynote speaker, and our colleagues," said Melinda Hollis, the GEA co-chair, in an email interview.
Dr. Wagas A. Khwaja, the keynote speaker, a creative writer and postcolonial scholar from Agnes Scott University, will highlight the ending of the conference on Saturday. UNCW English professors Anthony Atkins, Sue Richardson, Michael Ruwe and Barbara Waxman will be introducing students at the conference as well.
Before Khwaja's presentation, graduate students will present their scholarship in the University Union with food and drink breaks in between each presentation. Each student will present for around 15 minutes, followed by a question and answer session.
Hollis encourages everyone to come out and "see what your students have been working on both in their scholarship and raising the bar for graduate english studies at our fine university."
Dr. Wagas A. Khwaja, the keynote speaker, a creative writer and postcolonial scholar from Agnes Scott University, will highlight the ending of the conference on Saturday. UNCW English professors Anthony Atkins, Sue Richardson, Michael Ruwe and Barbara Waxman will be introducing students at the conference as well.
Before Khwaja's presentation, graduate students will present their scholarship in the University Union with food and drink breaks in between each presentation. Each student will present for around 15 minutes, followed by a question and answer session.
Hollis encourages everyone to come out and "see what your students have been working on both in their scholarship and raising the bar for graduate english studies at our fine university."