Georgetown EGSA

from our recent trip to planet word, planned by EGSA's Professional Development Chair, Halle Trang!

PRIZE NEWS! Congrats to our @GU_ENGL @CASGeorgetown colleague Prof. Patrick O'Malley on his honorable mention in the @ACIrishStudies @acis2024 book awards!

2024 @GU_ENGL graduates at commencement!!! [L to R: Kavita Premkumar, Isabel Harmet, Miles Cooper, Zoe Giglio, Caroline Hannum (graduating this summer), Kilmeny Chernys, Desi Isaacson, Sarah Licht and Halle Trang]

Soon-to-be graduates Vy Hoang, Halle Trang, and Kavita Premkumar at Multicultural Graduation, organized in part by another @GU_ENGL student, Kyra Green!

Won the exceptional masters student (in the humanities) award for this year!!! Thrilled to receive it the same night Halle Trang won the TA award, since in so many ways we started the journey to this degree together. Thank you to everyone who nominated me <3

Four soon-to-be graduates presenting their thesis work at the Best of English symposium last Friday! Miles Cooper, Halle Trang, Kavita Premkumar and Sarah Licht.

Prof. Peggy K. Lee will give a talk titled, "Holding Myself Together:" On Mereology, Institutional Violence, and Exhaustion, hosted by the Georgetown Humanities Initiative on April 8, 2024 from 4-5:30pm at ICC 462. Prof. Soyica Colbert will join as discussant.

@GU_ENGL student Kyra Green, also the Assistant Director for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at GSAS, will be on a panel discussing diversity in the workplace later this month!

new egsa board just dropped: Chair: Chase Kupinsky Co-Chair: Rose Grosskopf Treasurer: Sam Straessle Librarian: Olivia Hernandez Academic Development Chair: Isaiah Washington Professional Development Chair: Jamira Richardson Outreach Chair: Maya White Conference Chair: June Yoon

The Paul Muldoon exhibition is coming together and will be opening soon! Thanks for @AlanGilsenan1 for coming to check it out, and of course to @JoeHassett1 for the gift of so many beautiful books. Pictured with curator Chris Kenny, @GU_ENGL MA ‘23

our graduate students at the @GradGov graduate gala at the national building museum

submit to predicate 2024 🤨🤠🫡 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/02/14…

- word doc or googledoc only, no pdfs - word limit of 5000 words - cited in accordance with MLA, Chicago, or APA guidelines Submission Deadline: March 22th submit to: Caroline Hannum (cmh385@georgetown.edu) or Sarah Licht (sbl60@georgetown.edu; @sadslidewhistle)

our graduate student journal's call for papers is out now: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/02/14… same theme as our conference, Malady!

got to talk about my thesis with some incredibly smart and unfailingly kind Irish Studies scholars & two of my friends from @wheaton (who drove fifty minutes!) this weekend at #Comhfhios2024 !!!

"i can die inside the / cicada, the two of us bloatin’ up with / necrotic gas, invitin’ the maggots / to watch the last / picture show." "cicada/corpse picture show" by @paynemal_ bleachlitmag.com/iss2-mallorypa…

the spiders here hunt people for sport, draggin’ em back to hell and lettin’ em rot. "cicada/cigarette sludge song" and "cicada/person/spider funeral song" by @paynemal_: bruisermag.com/payne_twopoems

edit for predicate! email us at egsa@georgetown.edu and kg842@georgetown.edu to tell us why you'd be the best fit for this year's editorial board. <3

Thanks so much to @GU_ENGL and @cndls for supporting a student outing to @Solasnuacht’s play The Honey Trap @AtlasPACDC. And thanks especially to playwright Leo McGann, actor Jonathan Holmes, and producer Rex Daugherty for the talkback with the students.