hiring grad student

I need to hire a grad student to do some careful scanning of a few back issues of Western American Literature.  We’ll have to do them off campus or perhaps we could pay the department for them.  I’ll pay $10/hour.  Get in touch with me at melody.graulich@usu.edu. 

 

Melody Graulich

Professor of English and American Studies

Director, Graduate American Studies

Utah State University

3200 Old Main Hill

Logan, UT 84322

Notice about Travel Funds:

We were just notified that the Office of Research and Graduate Studies is saying that, “All of our funds allocated for travel Aug-Dec 2013 have been exhausted at this time.”  This refers to the matching funds students may apply for through ORGS, so if you have recently applied to travel to a conference this fall, you are only eligible to receive the department’s share of funding.  If you applied earlier and you have gotten a message from ORGS that they will fund you, don’t worry.  Check the department policies manual for how to apply for ORGS matching funds in the future (Robin Wheelwright is in charge of travel). ORGS will have a new allocation of student travel funds in the Spring, and if you have a submitted to a Spring conference, we suggest applying as early as you have been accepted.  

American Folklore Society Women’s Section

Call for Submissions 2013
Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prizes

Each year, the Women’s Section of the American Folklore Society awards two
prizes in honor of pioneering scholar Elli Köngäs-Maranda. The prizes
recognize superior work on women’s traditional, vernacular, or local
culture and/or feminist theory and folklore.

Student Prize
• for an undergraduate or graduate student paper (up to 30 pages in length)
• entrants must either be currently enrolled in a degree program as of the
submission deadline or have been enrolled in one during the 2012-2013
academic year
• carries an award of $100
• submission deadline is September 30th, 2013
• may be submitted as either email attachment (preferred) or as hard copy

Professional/Non-Student Prize
• eligible work includes: publications, films, videos, exhibitions or
exhibition catalogues, or sound recordings
• materials should have been published/produced no more than two years
prior to the submission deadline
• carries an award of $250
• submission deadline (postmarked) is September 30th, 2013
• please submit three copies of books, videos, etc.

The awards will be announced at the American Folklore Society Annual
Meeting in Providence, RI, October 16-19, 2013. Prize recipients need not
be members of the Society.

Please direct all submissions and questions to:

Brittany Warman
℅ The Ohio State University English Department
421 Denney Hall
164 West 17th Ave
Columbus, Ohio 43210

brittanywarman@gmail.com

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About Elli Köngäs-Maranda:

Internationally renowned feminist folklorist Elli Kaija Köngäs-Maranda was
born in Finland in 1932. She studied Finnish folklore at the University of
Helsinki and did her doctoral dissertation at Indiana University (1963) on
Finnish-American folklore. She held various research positions, and taught
at the University of British Columbia (1970-1976) and at Laval University
from 1976 until her premature death in 1982. She was elected a Fellow of
the American Folklore Society in 1978. Academically, she was known for her
structural analysis of traditional culture, demonstrating precision and
mathematical intellect, but also for her eloquent writing. She published
extensively and in English, French, Finnish, German, and Russian. Her
feminism was particularly evident in her research and writing on the Lau
people, based on fieldwork conducted between 1966 and 1976. In 1983, the
American Folklore Society Women’s section inaugurated two prizes in her
memory, one for student work and one for professional work, funded by
highly successful auctions, T-shirt sales, the making and raffling of a
quilt, and, most recently, the sale of note cards commemorating that quilt.

Barbro Klein’s obituary gives the most personal feminist view of Elli (see
Folklore Women’s Communication, fall-winter 1983 (30-31):4-7). For an
example of Elli’s work, see “The Roots of the Two Ethnologies, and
Ethnilogy.” Folklore Forum 15 #1 (1982):51-58, at <
http://hdl.handle.net/2022/1765>. See also Felix J. Oinas, “Elli Kaija
Köngäs Maranda: In Memoriam.” Folklore Forum 15 #2 (1982):115-123, at <
http://hdl.handle.net/2022/1778>. A full bibliography of her work in French
and English (as well as several example studies, a longer biography, and an
introduction to her contributions to folkloristics) is in Travaux et
Inédits de Elli Kaija Köngäs Maranda, Cahiers du CELAT 1, 1983. A later
consideration of Elli’s intellectual contributions, particularly her
unusual uniting of fieldwork and structural analysis, can be found in Leila
K. Virtanen, “Folklorist Elli Kaija Köngäs Maranda: A Passionate
Rationalist in the Field.” The Folklore Historian 17 (2000):34-41.

From: CAREER SERVICES

Krystn Clark is the new CHaSS Representative in Career Services. As the CHaSS career coach, please encourage our students to meet one-on-one with her to: explore academic majors and careers; obtain internships; prepare for graduate school; and succeed in their first career position. Her email is: krystn.clark@usu.edu and she is located at the University Inn, rom 102. For the past six years, Krystn has worked as the Associate Director of Career Management and the Internship Director with the Huntsman School of Business.

Five Things MA/MS Grads Need To Do in Their 3rd Semester

1. Make sure you have established residency within the state of UT. Click here for the checklist and application.

2. Complete your Supervisory Committee form. Click here for directions and form.

3. Complete your Program of Study form. (This form must first be cleared with Evelyn before submitting to the Grad School). Click here for directions and form.

4. Complete your Language Requirement form for ALL MA students. Click here for directions and form.

5. All Plan A and Plan B students must complete a Thesis Proposal form. Please click here for directions and form.

Great Gatsby Literary Ball

The Great Gatsby Literary Ball will take place on September 21 at 6:00 p.m. at  The Junction on campus! We will have 20s dancing, a screening of the 2013 version of The Great Gatsby, refreshments, craps, poker, and commemorative photos! Please come in 20s or semi-formal dress. Costumes are available to rent at the USU Costume Shop for only $10. Learn how to do the Charleston here and here and the Black Bottom here! In addition to tickets, a secret password is required to enter the Gatsby Speakeasy. Figure out the clues to the password by liking USU English on Facebook or following us on Twitter! Tickets available here. Sponsored by the USU English Department and Sigma Tau Delta.

Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section

2013 Don Yoder Graduate and William A. Wilson Undergraduate Paper Prizes--Call for Submissions

The Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of the American Folklore Society invites submissions for TWO student prizes: The Don Yoder Prize for the Best Graduate Student Paper in Folk Belief or Religious Folklife, with an honorarium of $500; and NOW a second prize, the William A. Wilson Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Undergraduate Paper Prize; with an honorarium of $250.

Past graduate student recipientsand  their paper titles have included:

2012: Benjaimin Gatling, The Guide after Rumi: Tradition in Tajik Sufism

2011: Charlotte-Rose Millar, The Witch's Familiar in Sixteenth-Century England

2010: Theresa Preston-Werner, The World in a Bottle: The Use of Testimonials to Negotiate the Medical Marketplace in Costa Rica.

2009: Jodi McDavid,The Fiddle Burning Priest of Mabou

Submissions: All research papers by undergraduate or graduate students, in English, written after January 1, 2011, published or unpublished at the time of submission, and written on a folk belief or religious folklife topic, broadly construed, are eligible.

Interested applicants must submit the following materials for consideration:
1. A cover letter specifying the date when the paper was written; the conference, colloquium, or course where the paper has been or will be submitted; or the publication in which it will be published.
2. Entries must be fully footnoted for a reading audience, using Journal of American Folklore citation style.
3. Electronic submissions are preferred, sent to the address below; however, if submitted by mail, please send three copies of the paper, which should be a minimum of 8 pages, and a maximum of 40 pages, double-spaced, with one-inch margins. PLEASE NOTE: To ensure blind judgment of papers, please remove the author's name from the paper.
4. A short (100-word) biographical statement about the author, including the author's current graduate or undergraduate status, and about the research.
5. A letter or e-mail from a faculty sponsor endorsing submission of the paper.

Deadline: The online and postmark deadline for submissions is September 15. Any materials received after this deadline will not be considered.

Electronic submissions of papers are preferred; papers and supporting documents should be sent as Microsoft Word
document attachments or pdf. Printed copies may be sent to the address below; please do not submit faxed items.

Confirmation of receipt for electronic submissions will be sent. One submission per person, please. Previous winners of
the Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Student Prizes are not eligible; except for winners of the undergraduate student
prize, who may later submit a new research paper for the Don Yoder Prize. The papers will be evaluated by three
judges who are members of both the American Folklore Society and the Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section. The
winner will be announced at the Section's business meeting at the Society's annual meeting.

Application materials should be sent to:

Leonard Norman Primiano

Professor and Chair
Department of Religious Studies
Cabrini College
610 King of Prussia Road
Radnor, PA 19087 USA
E-mail: <primiano@cabrini.edu>

Section conveners are:

Maggie Kruesi
American Folklife Center
Library of Congress
101 Independence Avenue SE
Washington, DC 20540-4610 USA
E-mail: <mkru@loc.gov>

Leonard Norman Primiano
Department of Religious Studies
Cabrini College
610 King of Prussia Road
Radnor, PA 19087 USA
E-mail: <primiano@cabrini.edu>

Graduate Student Research Training

Mark your new calendars!

The School of Graduate Studies is initiating a Graduate Student Research Training Series.  All graduate students on campus are invited these events, and I’m hoping that students from our department will take advantage of these.  The goals are to get graduate students to feel part of a larger graduate community on campus and to offer some skills and tips for making life as an academic more manageable.  The SGS has asked me to do the January presentation on the defense process. I also think that the “elevator pitch” session could be especially useful for our graduates.  If you have question about the series, you can contact Carlie Pennington at the ORGS.  

Graduate Student Research Training Series:

Kickoff with the SGS Deans
Date: September 5
Time: 1:00
Location: Library 101

Qualtrics Training: Never Settle for SurveyMonkey Again
Date: October 10
Time: 1:00
Location: Library 154

Giving an Elevator Pitch About Your Research
Date: November 14
Time: 1:00
Location: Library 101

Demystifying the Thesis/Dissertation Defense
Date: January 16
Time: 1:00
Location: Library 101

Giving the Best Research Presentation: Part I
Date: February 20
Time: 1:00
Location: Library 101

Giving the Best Research Presentation: Part II
Date: March 20
Time: 1:00
Location: Library 101

Closing Social
Date: April 9
Time: 1:00
Location: Library 101

2013-2014 Calendar

Grad calendars for the 2013-2014 year will be available August 21, 2013.  Come see Candi for your copy!!