English Graduate Student Association @ UB

Established in 1997, the University of Buffalo Gender Institute exists to promote scholarly research on women and gender, and to enhance the university curricula. Programming, networking and small grants encourage the development of gender-inclusive interdisciplinary research and teaching. Biannual graduate conference and film festival activities round out offerings for grad students. Complete calendar and career resources for grad students can be found here.

Graduate Americanist Group (GAG)
The Graduate Americanist Group 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.