Conference in New York State

[Tybalt]

Hi folks, 

 

I just wanted to pass along some info about a great conference in the NY state area for anyone who might be interested.  I've been going to the NYCEA (New York College English Association) conference for going on five years now, and it has been a great experience every year (the national CEA conference is a blast as well).

 

Here is the CfP for this year's conference:  http://nycea.org/New_York_College_English_Association/Upcoming_Conference.html

 

NYCEA is a one day, regional conference which is usually held in central or Western NY (every now and again they hit the eastern part of the state).  It tends to be on the smaller side, which allows for some great conversations across the panels.

 

Part of the reason NYCEA is a great conference is that they have always had an interest in helping out graduate students, and they have recently sought to expand that emphasis.  Starting with the upcoming conference, they are adding regular panels on grad student professionalization (the job market, publishing, etc).  And they even added a graduate student to their board of directors (ie- me, hence the posting and gushing and such, haha).

 

There are a lot of practical benefits to NYCEA, particularly for folks who have never presented at a conference before and for those approaching application season.  Because it is a smaller conference, the odds of winning the grad student paper prize (a great CV line and 200 bones) are higher than they would be at larger conferences.  Plus, since the conference is in the Fall, the presentation itself, and any accolades earned there would be able to go on the application CV.  For folks already attending a PhD program, the big draw of NYCEA is the fact that it is composed almost entirely of scholars from state schools, community colleges, smaller liberal arts schools and "teaching" centered schools.  As such, these folks have a wealth of information about what those kinds of schools (ie- the ones the vast majority of us will be applying to when we earn our degrees) look for in a candidate.  In the last few years, I have learned a LOT from these folks, as their job market is quite a bit different from the R1 job market that most of our programs are preparing us for.

 

I've probably already exceeded the TLDR threshold, so I'll stop there, haha.  Please message me or ask here if you have any questions, and I hope to see some Grad Cafe-ers at the next NYCEA!

[Tybalt]

Hi folks,

 

Bumping this old post of mine, as the abstract deadline for NYCEA 2016 is coming up soon (though it might be extended).  This year's conference theme is "The Value of the Humanities and Writing in the 21st Century," and the conference will be held at Suffolk County CC-Ammerman in Selden, NY (Long Island).

The brief version--great small conference.  Particularly useful for grad students (grad professionalization panel, good odds of winning the grad paper prize/cv line, great networking opportunities, etc).  All the stuff from the original post still applies, so I won't repeat it in this follow up, haha.

You should totally submit something!  If you are new to conferencing and wary of submitting something, we have a new grad student attendee rate where you can do all the conference-y things to get your feet wet in a low stakes (and low cost) environment. 

 

Hope to see you there!

Scott

 

http://www.nycea.org/fall-2016-conference.html