ERAH Graduate Student Conference

Name: ERAH Graduate Student Conference
Start: 2024-10-26T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-10-27T14:00:00-05:00
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Academic/Educational/Learning Academic Fellowship Educational and Awareness Graduate Research Lecture/Presentation

Sat, Oct 26, 2024 8:00 AM –

Sun, Oct 27, 2024 2:00 PM CDT (GMT-5)

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In collaboration with the SMU Department of English, the graduate students of the English, Religious Studies, Anthropology, and History Departments have come together to create the ERAH Graduate Conference, to be held on the campus of Southern Methodist University. This conference, which will bring together graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in the humanities from Texas and surrounding state universities, will prioritize the development of interdisciplinary connections and the fostering of an environment not only friendly to junior graduate students but actively tailored to those with little to no conference experience and with opportunities for regional networking and skill-building. Not confined to one weekend, the conference will have ongoing programming which provides participants with opportunities for continued networking and with a venue for polishing a conference paper into a publishable piece. Please join us!

Food Provided (All meals and snacks provided. )

Speakers

Kristina Downs

Tartleton State University

Kristina Downs is the Executive Director of the Texas Folklore Society and Assistant Professor of English at Tarleton State University. She holds a PhD in Folklore from Indiana University and an MA in Folklore from George Mason University. She was managing editor of the Journal of Folklore Research for five years and is coeditor of the edited volume Advancing Folkloristics (Indiana University Press, 2021). Her research focuses mostly on legends, particularly the ways legends interact with history, literature, true crime, and digital culture. She has appeared as a folklore expert on the History Channel’s The UnXplained and the Tubi documentary Scariest Monsters in the World. She is currently working on a book that examines vernacular discourse on serial killers as contemporary monster legends.

Marta Figlerowicz

Yale University

Marta Figlerowicz teaches comparative literature at Yale University. She is a theorist of literature from the eighteenth century to the present and of contemporary visual media. Working in over ten languages, she studies how aesthetic objects depict and mediate interpersonal and transcultural communication. Her first two books, Flat Protagonists (2016) and Spaces of Feeling (2017) reflect on trans-personal and transcultural communication within the purview of literary studies. Her current book in progress, It Must Be Possible: Modernity and Transcultural Knowledge, offers an intellectual history of the entanglements of anthropology and comparative literature at the beginning of the twentieth century from the perspectives of ethnically, racially, or (geo)politically marginalized writers. Alongside her academic writing, she comments on contemporary American and Eastern European literature, film, and politics in venues such as Foreign Affairs, Jacobin, The Paris Review, and Boston Review. She is a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows and a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow.

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