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) is an interdisciplinary, student run organization devoted to the study of all things American. GAG attracts its members from numerous departments including English, Comparative Literature, Anthropology, American Studies, and the School of Law. Our activities include Works in Progress Symposiums, low-stakes discussion panels at which graduate students and faculty members “test drive” papers prior to taking them to national conferences or submitting them for publication; a speaker series (last year’s speaker was Valerie Smith); and the publication of the Buffalo Americanist Digest (BAD).
The Graduate Group in Marxist Studies
The Graduate Group in Marxist Studies is a multidisciplinary graduate group with students and faculty in American Studies, Anthropology, Art History, Comparative Literature, Economics, English, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology. The group's purpose is to promote the understanding of Marxism as a theoretical and methodological framework for study. Our activities have recently included an Annual Conference in Contemporary Graduate Research in Marxism, a film series, discussion groups, hosting outside speakers, and a forum for presenting members' work in progress.

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.
- 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 (polgar@acsu.buffalo.edu) and Temenuga Trifonova (tdt1@acsu.buffalo.edu) or visit our website at http://wings.buffalo.edu/theory.
- ñ ("enye"): poesía, crítica, y arte en la SUNY-Búfalo (a non-unilingual series) showcases Latino writers and artists, as well as critics and translators working on Latino literature and art. While the series title, "ñ," indicates a common interest or relation to the Spanish language, a deliberate variety of events aims at providing a platform for interdisciplinary, interlingual (indigenous, African, English, etc.), and intercultural possibilities. ñ was founded in September 2000 by Kris Dykstra and Rosa Alcalá, PhD students working directly with poetry and translation. The series also aims at including local talent and organizing events in the downtown Buffalo area, as well as on campus.
- 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.)
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