EGSA meetings are typically held Wednesdays at 3:00PM  in the English department conference room, unless otherwise noted.

Upcoming Events: Spring 2009
Friday 1/30/08 10:00AM to 6:00PM	The Machine in the Garden 2.0 EGSA's 9th Annual Conference Come support your fellow students and network with students and faculty from UNCC and other schools. The 2007-2008 Professor of the Year will also be announced at this event. Event Location: UNCC Barnhardt Student Activity Center (salons)
Upcoming Events: Fall 2008
Wednesday 10/29/08 3:00PM to 5:30PM PROFESSIONALISM SEMINAR	Continuing your education with a Master’s Degree or PhD? Not sure what’s involved beyond the coursework? Join us for EGSA professionalism seminar, where you can get great food, advice on CV’s, Applications, conferences, and publishing. Speakers: Dr. Jennifer Munroe Dr. Pilar Blitvich Dr. Tony Scott Dr. Alan Rauch  Location: Fretwell 107
Previous Events/Meeting Minutes: Fall 2007
Wednesday 10/22/08	Update on who has sent out the CFP. Menu and budget planned an approved for the Spring Conference. Website to be updated by Friday. Design submission for conference logo for next meeting-Danielle and Ashlyn. Manish/Adam-contact webmaster about CFP.
Wednesday 10/29/08 3:00PM	October 29th, 2008 from 3:30 to 5PM: Professionalism Seminar with Scott, Blitvitch, Munroe, and Rauch ·         100 dollars for food ·         Food discussion: pizza, chicken tenders ·         Danielle to handle the food event forms ·         Advertising: email sent out to the listserv, and fliers (Ashlyn: October 20th, 2008 to send out fliers in professors’ boxes) Each of them given 5 minutes to explain where their at in their research presentations: ·         Rauch: CV’s ·         Munroe: Applications ·         Blitvitch: Conferences ·         Scott: Publishing Tax status is still pending Divide the states up to send personal emails to grad programs at the universities Adam: GA Manish: NC Katie: WV Ashlyn: SC, VA SLSA Conference
Wednesday 10/1/08 3:00PM	Website Update: Ashlyn to get passwords Directory Update: Adam and Manish Professionalism Seminar Discussion: Check about the dates for October, may need to move to November depending on the schedule with the participating professors.  Food?  $100 for the food/snacks.  4-4:30 slot for people to drop in.  4-5:30 time block on October 29th (Wednesday) and Wednesday October 27th.  Katie is going to email Dr. Rauch, Dr. Blitvitch, and Dr. Munroe about confirming dates for the professionalism conference.  Dr. Scott as backup for Dr. Blitvitch. Update about tax status.  When getting donations from organizations, EGSA must explain that we don’t have a tax status, but we would be able to provide advertising.  New project: Get a bank account for EGSA. Event budgeting: 20 dollars a head; guess-timated for 150 people which is greater than last year. College of Arts and Sciences-1000 dollars each year for EGSA Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 Website password will be given and updated by Friday Upload the CFP Upload the grad student directory Meet and greet with Dr. Carroll next Friday, October 17th, 2008 at 10AM ·         Located in faculty lounge ·         PhD advice ·         Good professor to talk to on how to get into programs in any field not just literature
Wednesday 9/17/08 5:00PM to 7PM	EGSA Game Night: Get to know your English Department faculty, introduce our new WRC Director, Mark Hall, and engage in some friendly competition!  Food will be provided at 6PM in the WRC.
Wednesday 9/10/08 3:00PM	Welcome Houskeeping: Need to update the website Add new officers to the website Upload the photos and profiles of the new grad students Game night with the Professors: Next Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Meet at 4:30 to set up Game Night Actually begins at 5-7PM Food at 6PM moving into the WRC Need to do decorations-WELCOME sign Responsibilities: Adam-decorative committee chair for game night Light Refreshments: Adam: 2Liter Fanta Orange, Chips and Salsa Danielle: Variety of cookies, Diet Coke Katie: Cups, plates, napkins, Queso, and ice Ashlyn: Cheese doodles, Doritos, Cheerwine Manish: Sprite and pretzels Lindsay: Water, lemonade, Queso, White Trash Arabia: Popcorn and Bowl Manish: Makes flyer for Game Night to hang around the English building
Wednesday 9/3/08     3:00 PM	Welcome-Date for having the meet and greet with professors.  5-7:30 the 15th or the 17th October-Professional conferences; PhD planned with Dr. Munroe, Dr. Blitvitch, and Dr. Rauch: 3:30PM Wednesday, October 27th, 2008 (tentative date) 1000 dollar donation from College of Arts and Sciences each year English Department Money? Do we get that money yearly? A Call for Papers: (Ashlyn): 12PM Friday to meet for a review “Machine in the Garden” “Avatars of the World” “Tech-nopoly” “The Grapes of Wrath” Address clearly each discipline—examples or subdivisions that may be included under each; linguistics might consider these questions, rhet/comp might consider these questions Discuss the shift from farming to industrial to digital-techno age Explain history behind this area to what we are changing into Kate Hayle-possible keynote speaker via Dr. Rauch; Duke University Dates of the Conferences: Friday, January 23rd Friday, January 30th
Wednesday 9/27/08 3:00 PM	Danielle read the minutes for last week’s meeting. Lindsay and Katie were late by fifteen minutes and they too rude to bring us any food. Game night with the professors in the WRC:  “Get to know your professors.”  It can also be a “Welcome Dr. Hall” event.  Ideally the night would start at 5PM and end around 7PM.  Discussion of times; we need to choose a time where the most professors would show up for the event.  Suggest two times during the week and also maybe a Friday night. Monthly events: Any events for us to come to every month?  Seminar with professors on how to get into the field.  Advice on conferences and publishing.  What can I do with a MA if I don’t want to go into a PhD? (Arabia) PhD and breaking into the field seminar? List of professors for these seminars Call for papers and themes: From rural labor force to new biotechnical age:             Use the new research campus in Cannon Village in comparison to the mill culture that has been destroyed.  Transformation from agrarian to industrial now to information systems. Literature: Bootstrap narratives, caught in between classes and moments.  Shift in literary criticism. (Danielle Weber; Lindsay Cobb) Rhet/Comp: Shift educational needs based on society.  Specialization of the job world and what the demands are put on the writing classroom. (Ashlyn Williams) Linguistics: New lexicon in technology; shift in the dialects because of the need of a professional jargon. (Katie Greene) Technical Writing: How technical writing has developed in the field?  How is the field being defined in terms of the development of information systems? Technologies are driving communication needs and so we need to discuss this and the impact that tech are having on communication.  Fast capitalism.  (Ashlyn Williams) Creative Writing: Personal narrative, one’s own struggles with technology. (Adam Scheir)