Call for Academic and Creative Proposals
The English Graduate Student Society at Florida Atlantic University 2022 Graduate Conference: Connections

Boca Raton, Florida (in person and Zoom)

April 15 and 16, 2022

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scholars, students, teachers, families, friends, citizens, and others across the globe have been grappling with what it means to connect in times of isolation. What does it mean to connect with others virtually? What does it mean to reconnect after a pandemic? How can we connect with each other as academics, as artists, and as humans? How do we connect ideas effectively across the means available during and post pandemic?

The English Graduate Student Society (EGSS) at Florida Atlantic University seeks academic, critical, creative, and expressive works that explore all the various implications of connections, as well as disconnections. What are the possibilities and limitations for connections? What connections can be made within or across academic disciplines? What connections might be made between critical works and creative works? How can teachers and students connect more effectively? How does an individual connect with colleagues, strangers, loved ones, or one’s environment more effectively?

Potential focus-areas include but are not limited to:
Affect studies
Archive studies
Comparative studies
Creative Nonfiction
Critical race theory
Cultural studies
Diaspora and migration studies
Digital humanities
Disability studies
Eco-criticism
Ethnic studies
Feminist studies
Gender studies
Globalization and cosmopolitanism
Indigenous studies
Literacy studies
Literary forms
Medical humanities
Memory studies
Pedagogy
Performance and media studies
Personal Essay
Poetry
Popular culture
Postcoloniality/decoloniality
Posthuman theory
Psychoanalytic studies
Queer studies
Religious studies
Rhetoric and composition
Scholarly work on connections
Short form fiction
Technology studies
Translations
Trauma studies
World literatures
The theme of “connections” is suitable to almost any area of study and interdisciplinary studies.

FAU’s EGSS invites academic and creative submissions from Florida graduate students to its 2022 conference that will engage these questions related to connections. Presentations of any type should not exceed 15-20 minutes.

This conference is sponsored by FAU’s EGSS, and we encourage participation from all Florida graduate students regardless of academic field.
 
Please submit proposals as well as your biographical and institutional information via this Google Form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSddCt18gp9a1I-xpHRwp5pIJB2M8Y5daiVyU2SMScQ6E-EZUQ/viewform?usp=sf_link) by March 14, 2022. For academic papers, please submit a 250-300 word abstract. For creative readings, please submit both (1) a 250 word synopsis/rationale of the work and (2) a 300-500 word excerpt from prose or poetry you will read.

Because we are not able to provide funding for travel or other expenses, the conference will take place both in person on the Boca Raton campus of FAU and via Zoom.

We plan on hosting all in-person sessions on Friday, April 15, and all Zoom sessions on Saturday, April 16. Scheduling is subject to change.

For any further questions or concerns, please email fauegss@gmail.com.