Graduate Groups and Publications

Groups

English Graduate Student Association

The English Graduate Student Association is an organization devoted to developing a vibrant graduate presence within the English department. It serves as a liaison between faculty and students, and is an important mouthpiece for student concerns, both informally and in departmental meetings. It is a key source of funding for graduate student activities, organizations and facilities. Each year the EGSA holds elections both for EGSA officers and for members of the 16+ graduate student/faculty-run committees within the English departments. All graduate students in the English Department belong to the EGSA and are encouraged to take advantage of the many services the organization offers.

Graduate British Studies Group

The Graduate British Studies Group is committed to promoting and enhancing the intellectual community of scholars working on British and Commonwealth literature and culture here at the University at Buffalo. In addition to monthly meetings, the group regularly sponsors distinguished outside speakers and graduate student colloquia. In April 2000 we also hosted a larger conference that drew graduate student speakers from across North America. We are currently working on developing a faculty works-in-progress series, as well as continuing to expand our regular intellectual and social activities.

The Graduate Americanist Group

The Graduate Americanist Group (GAG) represents an intellectual community of graduate students who, despite an impressive array of inter and intradisciplinary interests, are nonetheless yoked together by a common investment and interest in Americanist studies. We have a long tradition of addressing topical issues in American literature, literary theory and culture through a series of unique events. Historically, GAG has attempted to meet this goal by sponsoring both a vibrant single speaker series - which has featured scholars such as Emma Perez, Edgar Dryden, Mitchell Breitweiser and Wai Chee Dimock - and a string of conferences on figures such as William Gaddis and Samuel Delany (with Delany in attendance). Our most recent event, a symposium on 21st century historiographic fiction (Spring 07), featured a variety of faculty papers, a lively roundtable discussion and a keynote address by eminent postmodern scholar, Brian McHale. In addition to these external events, GAG also provides a venue for graduate student work by hosting an annual Works-In-Progress Symposium (WIP) and by offering members the chance to test-drive ongoing work through informal presentations at our meetings. GAG is also in the process of reviving the Buffalo Americanist Digest (BAD), an annotated review of major journals.

Publications

Buffalo Americanist Digest

The Buffalo Americanist Digest compiles annotations of chiefly literary and historical journals, and can thus be used as a guide to new scholarship. The Digest favors American journals, such as American Literature, American Studies, African American Review, etc., but also accepts submissions on subjects that link to America is some significant fashion. It is published quarterly. The next issue will mark its transition from hard copy and web to completely web.

Damn the Caesars


DAMN THE CAESARS is an occasional journal committed to supporting the language arts in all its forms. Our invariable aim is to encourage an active dialogue among established and emerging figures which might enrich cultural production across the boundaries of categories such as nation, race, class and gender. Founded in New Jersey in 2005, the journal has enjoyed generous support from the English Department at the University at Buffalo since relocating. Previous issues have included work by Jerome Rothenberg, Christopher Middleton, Jen Hofer, Penny Rimbaud, Kristen Prevallet, Kit Robinson, Devin Johnston, Anamaría Crowe Serrano, Dale Smith, Leslie Davis, Attila the Stockbroker, and Duncan McNaughton.

P-Queue

P-Queue is a journal of poetry, poetics, and innovative prose, dedicated to investigations of hybridity and cross-genre work.  We’re supported by the Poetics Program and the English Department at large, and—in keeping with the interdisciplinary interests of the Poetics Program—we also enjoy the support of various other sources in the Humanities at Buffalo.  We’ve had a brief but exciting history of publishing innovative, unclassifiable works from a variety of authors both at Buffalo and across the nation, including Rosa Alcala, Eula Biss, Barbara Cole, Michael Cross, Mathew Goulish, Meredith Quartermain, Stephen Ratcliffe, Jennifer Scappettone, Kyle Schlesinger, Sasha Steensen, and Elizabeth Treadwell.  Volume 5, first in the second four-year series of P-Queue, is scheduled to feature a number of collaborative works continuing the journal’s investigations of genre and convention.  We can be found on the web at www.pqueue.blogspot.com and through the EPC under “@Buffalo” at “Current Student Publications.”

theory@buffalo

Now in its seventh year, theory@buffalo is an interdisciplinary journal of graduate student writing supported by the English Department and the Department of Comparative Literature at UB. We are committed to publishing provocative submissions from young scholars in the international academic community. Theory@buffalo also features reviews of current books in the fields of Literary Theory, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and Philosophy. For more information please contact the editors Antoine Polgar and Temenuga Trifonova or visit our website at http://wings.buffalo.edu/theory.

Umbr(a)

A Journal of the Unconscious is an annual journal produced by the graduate students of the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture. Our first issue, "On Badiou," was published in 1996 and since then we have done special issues "On the Drive" (1997), "Identity and Identification" (1998), "Aesthetics and Sublimation" (1999), "Science and Truth" (2000), and last year's "Polemos" (2001). These issues have featured work by Jacques-Alain Miller, Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Ernesto Laclau, Elizabeth Grosz, Bruce Fink, and Juliet Flower MacCannell among many others. Our upcoming 2002 issue will focus on the question of sameness and is scheduled to include articles by Leo Bersani, Tim Dean, Lauren Berlant, Lee Edelman, and others. Our website can be found at: http://wings.buffalo.edu/student-ife/graduate/gsa/lacan/umbra.html

Rif/t

Rif/t is a now-defunt e-zine - it was a bit of a rage in the poetics community back in the day. You'll find its archives here: http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/rift/. (UB's Electronic Poetry Center has links to many publications related to contemporary poetics, past and future.)