Departmental Activities for Graduate Students

English Department graduate students actively participate in academic and social activities with their faculty mentors and student peers.  Through the English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) and the Graduate Student Association in TESOL (GSATESOL), funds are allocated to support a variety of special departmental events each semester.  These may include workshops or a speaker's bureau.  Visiting scholars or writers lecture or deliver readings in a variety of areas: literary criticism, the genres (drama, fiction, or poetry), history and the arts as they relate to literary production, TESOL, or applied linguistics. In addition to EGSA, graduate students in the M.A. program can also participate in the local chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the English honor society.
 

EGSA and GSATESOL are administered through the university-wide Graduate Student Association.