Here at the NASSR Graduate Student Caucus Blog, our writers have been knocking it out of the park. They have been working hard since the start of the academic term to bring you sophisticated and thought-provoking articles, and I want to sum up some of what our exceptional writers have achieved in just six weeks, and the new directions in which we’re excited to take this publication. Continue reading “Mid-Autumn Editorial Report”
NGSC at ICR
Support the NGSC at ICR2014 in Minneapolis! The following is a list of NASSR Graduate Student Caucus Members presenting this week:
Thursday, September 25:
2.30-3.45p–Romanticism Confronts Slavery Panel (Hall of Avenues I Room)
Deanna Koretsky (Duke U)–“Habaeas Corpus and the Politics of Freedom: Slavery, Sentiment, and Romantic Suicide” Continue reading “NGSC at ICR”
Call for Papers: NASSR 2015
The topic for this year’s conference, in Winnipeg, Canada, is “Romanticism and Rights.” See the full call for papers here: http://nassr2015.wordpress.com/cfp/. Proposals for individual papers are due on January 17, 2015.
Call for NGSC Bloggers 2014-2015
Dear NASSR Graduate Students and Advisers of Romantic Studies Graduate Students:
The NASSR Graduate Student Caucus (NGSC) invites applications for new bloggers for the 2014-2015 academic year. We ask that NGSC bloggers commit to contributing about 1 post per month (or about 8-10 total per year) and to serving through September 2015. Continue reading “Call for NGSC Bloggers 2014-2015”
Welcome New Co-Chairs
The NASSR Graduate Student Caucus (NGSC) is pleased to announce the election of 3 new Co-Chairs:
Laura Kremmel (Lehigh U)
Jacob Leveton (Northwestern U)
Teresa Pershing (West Virginia U)
Laura, Jacob, and Teresa are excited to begin collaborating to support graduate students studying romanticism by developing our online community and resources as well as organizing events at the annual NASSR conference. Please join me in thanking them, in advance, for their work and time.
Best holiday wishes!
Kirstyn Leuner, outgoing Chair
Jill Heydt-Stevenson, NGSC Faculty Mentor
Call for Nominations for NGSC Co-Chairs
The NASSR Graduate Student Caucus (NGSC) invites nominations for 2 Co-Chairs to serve on its Board. Nominations should be emailed to the current Chair, Kirstyn Leuner, by Wednesday, October 23. Following nominations, a ballot will be available for electronic voting. Ballots will be collected and results tallied by the Chair and NGSC Faculty Mentor, Prof. Jill Heydt-Stevenson (CU-Boulder).
Self-nominations are welcome. NASSR membership is not a requirement to run as a Co-Chair, but it is a requirement to serve as a Co-Chair. All nominees must be graduate students studying Romanticism.
Nominees (if nominating yourself) should provide a brief bio and statement of interest and agree that, if elected, they will be willing to serve for one year. (CV is not required for nominations.)
Co-Chair responsibilities include:
- Organizing and chairing the NGSC professional roundtable at the annual NASSR conference
- Organizing a graduate student pub night at the annual NASSR conference
- Serving as a liaison for graduate students in the field to the NASSR Board and for NASSR events
- Working with NGSC Faculty Mentor (Currently, Prof. Jill Heydt-Stevenson)
- Working with NGSC blog editors to maintain and grow web presence
- Overseeing and revising by-laws, as needed, under supervision of the NGSC Faculty Mentor.
Furthermore, we encourage nominations of graduate students who are driven, creative, and who would contribute innovative ideas for how this organization can grow and evolve to meet the needs of our changing field.
Email nominations to: Kirstyn.Leuner@colorado.edu.
Service is an opportunity to help the NGSC grow and serve graduate students studying Romanticism. If you have ideas about how to make the NGSC stronger or can help it do a better job, please nominate yourself! Or, if you know someone who you think could contribute to the NGSC, please nominate him or her. If you have questions about the position or the organization, please email us and we would be delighted to address them.
NGSC Mission Statement: The NASSR Graduate Student Caucus (NGSC) is intended as a venue, under the aegis of NASSR (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism), for graduate students interested in the study of Romanticism to make contact with one another and to share intellectual and professional resources. We are committed to working together to further the interests, not only of the graduate student community in Romantic studies, but also of the broader profession, by helping to train active and engaged scholars who will continue to strengthen and advance themselves and the discipline. All graduate student members of NASSR are invited to attend caucus meetings and to participate in elections and panels. This is an opportunity for you, the future professional scholars of Romanticism, to take part in an organization designed to address your concerns as student-scholars, to attend to your needs as pre-professionals, and to celebrate your and your peers’ triumphs.
Thank you,
Kirstyn Leuner, Chair
Jill Heydt-Stevenson, Faculty Mentor
Call for NGSC Bloggers 2013-2014
NASSR Graduate Students and Advisors of Romantic Studies Graduate Students:
The NASSR Graduate Student Caucus (NGSC) invites applications for new bloggers for the 2013-2014 academic year. We ask that NGSC bloggers commit to contributing about 1 post per month (or approx. 8-10 total per year) and to serving through September 2014.
To apply, please submit a short statement of interest, along with a current academic CV to: JacobLeveton2017@u.northwestern.edu. Applications are due on 23 September 2013. Applicants will be notified by 1 October 2013.
As always, we welcome posts on a wide range of topics and issues of importance to our authors that represent their range of expertise, scholarly experiences, institutions, research interests, and issues relating to student life.
Importantly: Posts need not be works of honed researched scholarship and sustained argument (though, admittedly, this can be a tough habit to break!). Posts can be as brief as a paragraph or as long as a few pages. Posts can also be a collage of images as well as thought experiments, original poetry, or a recently read poem or literary excerpt, or artistic piece or performance that you would like to share. Collections of links, reports on travel, or summaries of scholarly talks attended related broadly to the field of Romanticism are likewise warmly invited.
We hope this space is one where we can enjoy writing fun, lighthearted reflections or humorous quips as well as serious contemplations about our field. Fostering a supportive and meaningful community of graduate students is at the heart of this successful enterprise; we hope you will choose to take part!
If you have any questions about blogging for the NGSC, please send us an email and we’ll get right back to you.
Sincerely yours,
Kirstyn Leuner (Dept. of English, CU-Boulder), Chair, NASSR Graduate Student Caucus, and Co-Editor of NGSC blog
Jacob Leveton (Dept. of Art History, Northwestern U), Managing Editor, NASSR Graduate Student Caucus Blog
Meet Our New Co-Editor, Jacob Leveton
Dear all,
I am extremely happy to introduce the NASSR Graduate Caucus Blog’s new co-editor, Jacob Leveton.
Jacob (B.A., English Literature, Arizona State University: 2010; M.A., Art History, University of Oregon: 2012) is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University. He has served as a writer for the NASSR Graduate Student Caucus blog since 2011. His historical interests center upon eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British visual culture, generally, and the visual artist and poet William Blake, specifically—with wider conceptual interests in critical theory, animal studies, and ecocriticism. His current major project orbits around a social-critical engagement with British equestrian portraiture at the beginning of the Romantic period in England, and is concerned with the class struggle and domination of horses as nonhuman animals.
On a more personal note, I think Jacob has been perhaps the most enthusiastic member of and contributor to our blogging group besides myself. I remember when I first met him at the Park City NASSR in 2011 at the NGSC sponsored event on the job market: his excitement and friendliness made a lasting impression. He has already started to apply his positive energy to improvements for our blog and I’m convinced that we will be a great team of co-editors.
Back to work! 🙂
– Kirstyn
Welcome New Bloggers!
We’d like to welcome our new NASSR graduate student bloggers:
Kaitlin Gowan, Arizona State University
Laura Kremmel, Lehigh University
Kimberly Kaczorowski, University of Utah
Carmen Mathes, University of British Columbia
Aaron Ottinger, University of Washington
Randie Sessler, NYU
Cesar Soto, California State University
Mary Ellen Williams, University of California, Davis
As you can see, our new bloggers come from a variety of institutions.
They also have diverse research interests. All of them, of course, have a passion for Romanticism, and we’re looking forward to posts about everything from research resources and new digital tools to pedagogy and writing a prospectus.
Watch this space soon for new posts from new voices!
Call for New Bloggers
The NGSC is currently seeking applications for five new bloggers for 2012.
We ask that NGSC bloggers commit to writing at least one blog entry a month.
If you visit the blog often, you’ll know that our bloggers post about a variety of topics, including reflections about individual research, reviews of research tools and resources, information about libraries/collections/archives, updates about conferences, etc. More general posts about about graduate school and pedagogy are also welcome. It’s not formal, and it’s a great way to engage with a large community of people interested in Romanticism.
In order to apply, please email a one-page letter of intent along with a CV to: nassgrad@colorado.edu. Applications are on due on February 1, 2011. Applicants will be notified by February 10.
We look forward to hearing from you!