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.