Grad News

Three grad students earn fellowships to the Obermann Graduate Institute on Engagement and the Academy

A group of graduate students in the department of English has successfully bid to host the British Women Writers Conference at University of Iowa in the Spring of 2009. The BWWC is a national conference attended by faculty and graduate students. Over the past 15 years, this graduate-student-run conference has drawn greater attention to and generated exciting scholarship on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British women authors that have been historically and critically overlooked.

BWWC 2009, tentatively entitled Critical Intersections: Exploring the Unexpected, will explore surprising connections in the study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British women writers including spatial, temporal, social, textual, and critical connections.

2007 incoming graduate students