Seminar for Graduate Students on Research and Writing
- Sponsor
- English Department's Committee on Inclusive Excellence
- rparker1@illinois.edu
For interested graduate students from all areas of study (not just American Literature). All are equally welcome.
Participants are invited to read a Selection from The Literature of Extreme Poverty on the Great Depress (Oxford UP, 2025) and then gather For a wide-ranging discussion with Parker about this particular book and the process and methods behind it, with the goal of encouraging graduate students to think about the processes and methods of their own current and potential research and writing, including course papers, articles, dissertations, and—potentially, eventually—books of literary criticism We encourage graduate students to bring questions and responses of any kind about The Literature of Extreme Poverty in the Great Depression and about their own Scholarly research, process, and writing.
An electronic version of The Literature of Extreme Poverty in the Great Depression is available for free on the UIUC Library website. Suggested reading for the seminar participants: Chapter 1 and if time permits, any parts of Chapters 2,3,4 or 5.
If you hope to attend, it will help if you can drop a note to rparker1@illinois.edu, just so we can plan how much pizza to order (all are welcome whether you dop a note or not).