FSS - Amy Villarejo

The first lecture in this year's EGO Fall Speaker Series will be delivered by Amy Villarejo from Cornell University. This event, held on Tuesday September 25 at 5pm in the Killian Room (500 HL) will inaugurate Professor Villarejo's lecture is entitled "Tales of the City: Television and Queer Urbanity" and explores the role of television in constructing social spaces for the queer denizens of contemporary cities. A small reception will immediately follow the lecture. Save the date and support your grad student colleagues who've made this series such a success in recent years!

The EGO Fall Speaker Series is designed to foster new connections between the Syracuse English Department and other esteemed programs in the region, to showcase our graduate program in English, and to provide an opportunity for members of the SU community to engage with accomplished scholars working outside our own university.

The series is sponsored, planned, organized and funded entirely by our graduate students, which makes it a very exciting and valuable learning experience for all involved. If you haven't already, please get in contact with us to lend a hand!

Meeting Minutes, etc

The minutes from our last meeting can be viewed here.

In the continuing efforts to keep better records and make our decision making processes more transparent, we've attached a Google Documents account to the EGO Blog, which will allow us to easily save documents, letters, correspondence, and interesting items of department history.

Our next meeting's agenda should include discussion on policies regarding this storage system (who should be able to access it, what sort of password protection and/or editing priveleges should be arranged, etc). In the short term, anyone wishing to access this account can email me for the password (mddwyer at syr dot edu).