GSU English Major

03/24/2026

Tomorrow, Dr. Qadir will be giving short talk as part of the OII hosted ​FIRE Lecture series (w/ co-panelist Dr. Ghulam Nadri, an economic historian). Each speaker has 15 minutes, leaving room for ample conversation with audiences.

Supported by a 2025 grant, Dr. Qadir traveled to Kenya and Qatar last summer as part of her monograph research on cultural histories of Indian Ocean slavery and capitalism. She'll be speaking about how literary and cultural studies scholars engage the museum space for the study of narrative and historical memory.

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01/25/2026

Last Fall 2025, English lecturer Anna Barattin turned downtown Atlanta into an immersive research lab for writing! Students in her Advanced Composition (English 1103) course explored the city through walking, observation, and multimodal ethnography. By grounding their writing in place-based inquiry, they transformed abstract ideas into impactful, lived experiences. Read CETLOE's recent interview with Barattin here: https://t.gsu.edu/4qYz8Af

GSU English Major

01/06/2026

12/02/2025

If you’re free on Friday, check out this showcase organized and hosted by student interns who spent this semester putting their writing and communication skills to work learning the business of arts & entertainment promotion at the Masquerade!

Dec. 6 | 7 pm | Purgatory | $10 cover/$5 tarot readings

Masquerade is just a 5 minute walk from campus! Come support our majors in the internship program and celebrate the end of the semester!

11/12/2025

Attn. GTAs: You are invited to join us for this semester’s last meeting of the Pedagogy Reading Group this Friday, 11/14, at 11 am, in person, in the 24th floor conference room.

During this week’s meeting, we’ll be covering selected essays from a special issue of the Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, titled “Teaching Beyond Dread.”

Check your email for more details. Hope to see you there!

11/12/2025

The weather outside is frightful, so come spread some pre-holiday cheer with the GEA at our Winter Read Book Swap/Donate and Bake Sale:

Tuesday December 9
12pm-1pm
Troy Moore Library, 25 Park Place 23rd Floor

Free hot beverages! Baked goods for sale; bring your unwanted books for swapping or donation. Proceeds will support the GEA’s 2026 New Voices conference.

Anyone who would like to donate homemade baked goods for the bake sale, please contact Marian Russell directly for coordinating: [email protected].

And look for our CFP for the 2026 GEA New Voices Conference, February 19-20, 2026. This year’s theme is “The Border Is a Sentence: Writing Across Diaspora, Empire, and Erasure”- inviting creative and critical work that investigates the boundaries between language, nation, and identity.

10/30/2025

We hope you’ll join us for this important conversation! Majors and prospective majors at all levels can benefit.

10/23/2025

Attn. GTAs: You are invited to join us for the second meeting of this year’s Pedagogy Reading Group tomorrow!

In case you’re new to the group, we meet monthly to discuss a series of common texts on writing pedagogy and to share our teaching and learning experiences with one another. It involves a little bit of homework but also the potentially big payoff of building community and becoming more confident, compassionate, and effective teachers. You’re all welcome to participate, and I hope to see you there!

Here are the details:

Logistics

We’ll meet for an hour once a month on Fridays (schedule attached). Some meetings will take place in person, in the 24th floor conference room. Others will be held on Webex to help accommodate as many schedules as possible. I’ll send monthy reminders with readings attached to help you get ready.

Our upcoming meeting will be on Webex at 11 am on October 24th. Here’s the link to attend:
https://gsumeetings.webex.com/meet/sfinck1

Reading

The idea is to start with some classic works of composition and pedagogy theory and then move on to more contemporary texts about teaching that draw on this earlier scholarship. I’ve chosen some readings that I think work well together to get us started, but we’ll be approaching these meetings as a community of learners, which means that this reading schedule is open to modification based on the input of everyone who participates.

Most of this year’s texts are available via the GSU Library as ebooks, but you can access the designated chapters and excerpts from each text we’ll discuss here as well: Support for Pedagogical Innovation.

New GTAs are required to participate in two of these sessions, but we’ll be covering topics of interest even to experienced teachers. You don’t have to attend every meeting to be a part of the group, but I recommend attending as many as possible to get the full benefits of a scholarly and intellectual community.


If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to email me at [email protected]. Otherwise, check out John Warner’s More Than Words (short, selected chapters attached) and think about joining our first meeting tomorrow!

10/23/2025

Hope to see you all tomorrow for Spotlight: Scary Stories featuring GSU graduate creative writers weaving spooky tales.

Costumes encouraged (but not required).

Friday October 24th at 6pm (doors open at 5:30 for wine tastings)
Press Shop ATL
72 Georgia Ave SE

Poetry by:
Megan Hall
Rachel Pittman

Fiction by:
Anna Lachkaya
Eve Clark
Kelly Kurtzhals

10/22/2025

Scavenger hunt! Do you know where this guy is?

10/19/2025

Apply for the Spring Break Study Abroad in Newcastle upon Tyne with Dr. Caison! Extended deadline for scholarships is Oct 25!