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Dear Graduate Students,
This site is intended to augment the English Department's and the
Graduate School's websites by providing information more specific
to your work here at NDSU. This site was prepared and is maintained
by the Graduate Committee: Linda
Helstern, Gary
Totten, Andrew Mara, Seth Archer, Jennifer McKenzie, and M.
G. Aune.
Recommended Reading
Publication Opportunities
NDSU
Links
On-line Resources
Professional
Organizations
CV Resources
Graduate Student Conferences
NDSU
Links:
NDSU
Graduate School
The Graduate School has recently (Summer 2004)
revised some material on their site.
NDSU
Department of English
Department
of English Graduate Student Handbook
Department
of English Graduate Student Resources
Department
of English Graduate Student FAQs
Department
of English Graduate Course Descriptions
Department
of English Graduate Faculty
Professional
Organizations
MLA
http://www.mla.org
The Modern Language Association is the primary professional organization
for language and literature scholars and teachers in higher education.
NCTE
http://www.ncte.org/
The National Council of Teachers of English is another professional
organization devoted to teachers of English at all levels.
CCCC (4C's)
http://www.ncte.org/groups/cccc
The Confernece on College Composition and Communication is the professional
organization and annual conference for scholars and teachers in
composition and rhetoric.
ADE
http://www.ade.org/
The Association of Departments of English is another professional
organization, similar to the MLA. It publishes a journal on professional
concerns and maintains the MLA job search list.
On-Line
Resources
The Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/
The Chronicle is a weekly periodical that provides news,
book announcements, job announcements, advice and opinion pieces
about the profession. It is an invaluable resource for learning
what is happening in the profession. The department has a print
subscription, if you would like the access code, please contact
the Graduate Committee.
National Association of Graduate and
Professional Students (NAGPS) -
http://www.nagps.org/
A clearing house and advocacy group for graduate student organizations
across the country.
Association for Support of Graduate Students
http://www.asgs.org/
A more informal organization than above, with assistance and advice
on practical matters like paper writing.
Council of Graduate Schools: Resources
for Graduate Students
http://www.cgsnet.org/Default.aspx?tabid=160
A set of resources from the CGS. Material on fellowships, financial
aid, statistics, and support.
Graduate Career Consortium
http://www.grad.uiuc.edu/careerservices/
A group of advising resources at a variety of universities.
CFP List and Listserv
http://cfp.english.upenn.edu/
The Calls for Paper list and listserv is the most popular disseminator
of calls for papers for conferences, journals, and book projects.
The website is organized by subject (including graduate student
conferences) and searchable. Directions for subscribing to the listserv
are also available.
Grad Student Advice from Professor Suzanne
Kern
http://english.wlu.edu/program/gradschool.htm
Opinionated and thoughtful advice about going to graduate school,
for PhD and MA level students.
H-Net
http://www.h-net.org
The Humanities Net is a conglomeration of resources and listservs
that includes just about every imaginable manifestation of the humanities.
Helpful Links for Graduate Students
http://www.csusm.edu/mstoddar/helpful_links_for_graduate_stude.htm
A page of links compiled by a professor at California State University
San Marcos. Some helpful material, especially on conference papers.
Some links are dead.
The University of Michigan Career Center
http://www.careercenter.umich.edu/students/gradservices/masters/index.html
This site is primarily directed at PhD's, but has much helpful information.
Dartmouth Career Center
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gradstdy/careers/services/index.html
A variety of resources for graduates, including tips on writing
letters and CVs.
CV
Resources
Model
CV
This is a standard model that you may download, print and use.
Sample
CV
This is a sample, annotated CV prepared by the Chronicle.
The CV Doctor at the Chronicle of
Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2003/09/2003092601c.htm
Dartmouth College Guide to Writing
a CV
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gradstdy/careers/services/vita.html
A comprehensive guide with additional material on the academic job
hunt.
Guidelines on Completing an Academic
CV
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/personnel/jobsintro/apply/cv/
This is a British site, so the conventions are different. But the
general ideas are the same.
University of Michigan's Career Center
http://www.careercenter.umich.edu/students/cclibrary/careerguides/cvpub2000.htm
H-Net Job Guide
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/
H-net is an extensive on-line network of humanities resources. There
is no specific information about CVs here, but there is information
about the job search.
Recommended
Reading
"The Five 'Virtues' of Successful
Graduate Students"
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2003/09/2003090201c.htm
A terse essay by a pseudonymous professor who has written several
columns on being a graduate student.
Publication Opportunities
NB: Be sure to check if these journals are still publishing. If you are not certain, send a query via email.
Aroostook Review
http://aroostookreview.umfk.maine.edu/
This is a new (2006) journal from the University of Maine at Fort Kent. It publishes creative and scholarly work.
Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies
http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/
This is not specifically a graduate student journal. It publishes articles, book reviews, film reviews, and conference reviews.
Octopus
http://www.octopusjournal.org/
Octopus is an interdisciplinary journal published by the graduate students in the Program of Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. It is peer-reviewed.
Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas
http://home.earthlink.net/~shschroeder/2006jasatbooks.htm
The journal puts out a regular call for book reviewers. The link above is to a list of books they have received and would like to have reviewed. You may also suggest books not on the list.
Distraction: The Journal of Fan Fiction Studies
http://www.fanfiction-studies.net/
A journal devoted to th e study of fan fiction. They have a comprehensive description of the type of work that interests them.
Portals: A Journal of Comparative
Literature (1/15/05)
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~clsa/portals/
A graduate student journal published by the Comparative Literature
Association of San Francisco State University.
Agora
http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/agora/Documents.cfm?DocNo=101
Agora is an online, peer-reviewed journal that takes
submissions from a wide range of humanties and social science scholars.
Critical Sense
http://criticalsense.berkeley.edu/
This is an on-line graduate student journal from the Political Science
department at UC Berkeley. They have recently posted calls for submissions
and book reviews. Full details are available at their site.
Your Black Eye, an e-Journal for Critical Consciousness
(1/28/05; e-journal issue)
http://www.yourblackeye.org/
Exit 9
http://complit.rutgers.edu/exit9/
A graduate student journal from Rutgers. It’s emphasis is
comparative literature.
thirdspace
http://www.thirdspace.ca/journal.htm
This is a feminist journal focused on cultural studies and issues
of feminism in graduate studies and the academy.
Philament
http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/philament/index.htm
An online journal of the arts and culture. This journal seems
to be interested in critical and creative work.
Modern Language Studies (MLS)
Not specifically a graduate student journal, but MLS is always interested
in short and medium-length
reviews of significant, intriguing, or unusual primary source materials
For information contact: mls@susqu.edu
Postmodern Culture
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/
Not a graduate student journal, but they are often interested in
reviews of books from a variety of disciplines.
The Shawangunk Review
This journal is based at the graduate program at SUNY New Paltz It publishes articles, reviews, and scholarly notes.
contact: kemptond@newpaltz.edu for more information.
xchanges
http://www.americanstudies.wayne.edu/xchanges/xchanges.html
A graduate student journal based in the American Studies program at Wayne State Universty.
Literature Compass Online
http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/literature/
This site, from the academic publisher Blackwell, publishes articles from graduate students and faculty. They also have an annual essay contest.
Graduate
Student Conferences
The Red River Graduate Student Conference
Locally organized with a wide draw. Participate or listen, not to be missed.
Contact GTAO for more information.
Stony Brook English Graduate Conference
http://sbgradmag.org/node/164
The conference seems to have a fairly broad range of possible interets.
VISUAL CULTURE: IMAGE ICON IDEOLOGY
http://www.ksu.edu/english/symposium/index.html
The conference seems broadly aimed at visual culture. Scott McLeod
is one of the keynote speakers!
Merging Word & Image: Hybridity and
Reimagining (new) Literacy Through Media
http://english.lsu.edu/dept/orgs/egsa/BillConferencePage.html
The conference looks very ambitious and sophisticated.
Texas Tech University's Graduate English
Society Conference
http://english.ttu.edu/ges/07Conference/index.html
This year's focus is on world and comparative literature, and translation.
Annual Graduate Conference
http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/english/grad/gradsymp/index.html
This looks like a well-organized conference. 2007 marks its 13th year.
Louisianal Graduate Conference
on Language and Literature at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
http://english.louisiana.edu/gradconf/index.shtm
The English Graduate Student Association
(EGSA) of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
http://www.sco.uncc.edu/egsa/conference.htm
The Midwestern Conference on Literature,
Language, and Media
http://www.engl.niu.edu/mcllm/
Another well-organized conference. One of the past keynote speakers was
Jerome McGann, a favorite of Professor Brooks.
Southwest Graduate English Symposium
Panel
http://www.asu.edu/clubs/gsea/sw/
Arizona State University's annual graduate student conferece.
(dis)junctions: Annual Humanities
Conference
http://www.english.ucr.edu/gsea/disjunctions/
This conference may now be defunct.
This page was created by M.
G. Aune on 13 April 2004 for the use of Graduate Students in
the English Department at NDSU using Dreamweaver MX. Last updated:
10 January 2007.
NDSU Department of English
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