Graduate English Organization (GEO)

• Dissertation Chapter Event--13 April 2016
• Presentation on Ph.D. Qualifying Exams--14 October 2015
• Ph.D. Completion Workshop: How a Writing Group Can Change Your (Graduate) Life--5 November 2015
  • To start or join a writing group, see the Graduate School Writing Center page. 

• Know Your Rights, How to Use Them, and How to Fight for More of Them--23 February 2016
• UAM GA Employee Rights.pdf
• The Graduate Student Legal Aid office provides free legal advice to graduate students and can be good advocates for you. 

The GEO Professionalization chair hosts several events each semester.  Other professionalization events occur through ARHU, the libraries, and other centers on campus.  

Archive of GEO events:

• Professionalizing English Graduate Degrees--6 April 2016
  • Terp Career & Internship Guide 2016.pdf
  • UMD Lynda.com: Online skill training courses offered free to UMD students & staff
• Alternative Careers for English PhDs--5 May 2015
• MA Alumni Panel: What do you do with an MA in English?--24 April 2015
• Making the Most of Conference Presentations--9 Mar. 2015
• Benefits of Event Attendance for Graduate Students --13 Oct. 2014
• Preparing for and Navigating the Academic Job Market--5 Nov. 2014

Archive of other events on campus: 

• Library guide to Author Rights for publication
• Professional Pathways After Graduate School: Careers outside the Academy--ARHU panel, 5 Nov. 2014

Two sites that often list grant and fellowship opportunities are ARHU's Graduate Fellowships and Grants page and the Graduate School's Student Fellowships and Awards page. 

• For help writing the grants, see the ARHU Grant Writing Resources page.

ARHU Research Development and Grant Writing Workshop, Cara Kennedy (Grants Development Coordinator)--28 April 2015

• See also the accompanying handout with example documents. 

Travel & Research Support:

When funds are available, the English Department offers travel support for students presenting at professional conferences, conducting archival or other special research, and attending the MLA conference for academic job market interviews. You must apply through the English Department as well as to ARHU. Make sure you start your application in enough time to meet the deadlines for both!

• Here's an FAQ about the ARHU Travel Awards. 

The Teaching and Learning Transformation Center (TLTC) (formerly the Center for Teaching Excellence) also runs several events each semester, including speakers, a brown bag lunch discussion series, workshops, webinars, and more.  Here's also a link to the old CTE website.  

There are a number of CTE pedagogy books on the bookshelf in the Graduate Lounge that are free for anyone to use in planning or to scan content for posting on ELMS. 

Archive of GEO events:

• Campus Safety (hosted by AWP)--5 November 2015
  • BETA Team Handout on Responding to Concerning Situations
• Event on Teaching Assignments--7 October 2015 (a discussion with schedulers Michele Drummond & Theresa Coletti)
• Using VoiceThread--1 October 2015 (includes instructions on how to add VoiceThread to ELMS)

The office of Graduate Student Life runs the Graduate Student Lounge in Stamp, offers a monthly social series, and offers this handbook of resources.  

See the new Off-Campus Housing page, with links to apartment finders and roommate finders. 

If you have moved to Maryland, follow the directions on this page to apply for a reclassification of your residency.  You need to complete this process before the first day of the semester in which you wish in-state residency to apply. 

See the Business Office page. See the Open Enrollment benefit packets distributed to your mailbox for more information about the various health plans offered, or review the documents online.

• The Career Center's guide to finding Graduate Assistantships
• The office of Graduate Student Life also sends out a weekly email with GA positions currently being posted. 

UMD has just launched an online financial literacy tool called iGrad that offers personalized mini-courses, articles and videos, financial calculators, and online advising options.  It also allows you to create a personal financial plan, track your student loans, and search for scholarships.  Sign up is free!

The Graduate School has posted the videos from a series of workshops called "Make $ense of your Money: Financial Literacy Workshop Series", covering pensions and investments, credit, and repaying student loans.   

UMD also provides tax resources such as Graduate School's Tax Assistance Program (TAP), especially for international students. 

• Managing Parenthood and Graduate Study in the UMD English Department
• Tawes has a lactation room on the 3rd floor.  For information about how to access the room, see here.

• Departmental Assembly GEO rep notes, 04.18.16.docx

Cohort entering Fall 2016

• Aftab, Aqdas 
• Bramlett, Mary 
• Daley, Liam 
• Good, Joe 
• Moro, Jeffrey 
• O'Connor, Sammy 
• Reed, Kristofer 
• Roberts, Nicole 
• Thompson, Justin 
• Young, Dominique 

Cohort entering Fall 2015

• Allen, Claudia
• Holmes, Gerard
• Libhart, Garth
• Pozoukidis, Konstantinos
• Stroh, Jennifer C.
• Vlahovici-Jones, Gabriela
• Yeh, Andy
• Yokoyama, Setsuko

Cohort entering Fall 2014

• Bickoff, Kyle
• Costello, Maura-Kate
• Decamillis, Justine
• Faradji, Sara
• Gonch,  William                 
• Griffin,  Danielle
• Hawkes, Delisa                 
• Hijazi, Nabila
• O'Neil, Lindsey
• Plante, Jacqueline
• Roegelein, Hillary

Cohort entering Fall 2013

• Beaulieu, Steve
• Bruno, Timothy
• Edwards, Norrell
• Griswold, Jeffrey
• Harr, Kayla
• Kocis, Amanda
• Leroy, Tamar
• Osorio, Ruth

Cohort entering Fall 2012

• Albright, Lauren
• Bonnie, Sarah   
• Butler, Virginia
• Cobb, Collier
• Compton, Susanna
• Davis, Brian
• Farley, Audrey
• Kaczmarek, Kathryn
• Morgan, Abbey
• Mozafari, Cameron

Cohort entering Fall 2011

• Auvil, Elise
• Brearey, Oliver
• Colson, Michael                
• Durand, Emilee
• Ellis, Elizabeth
• Kason, Daniel
• MacIntosh, John
• Ross, Jennifer
• Slaughter, Nicholas
• Williams, Jonathan

Cohort entering Fall 2010

• Cooper, Isabella
• Depriest, Elizabeth
• Gleich, Lewis
• Hearn, Janet
• Lindenman, Heather
• Neff, Adam
• Vorona, Rachel
• Perez, Emily
• Stanutz, Katherine
• Visconti, Amanda
• Wakeman, Robert

Cohort entering Fall 2009

• Cote, Paul
• Okereke-Beshel, Uchechi
• Stewart, Nancy

Cohort entering Fall 2008

• Kelber, Nathan
• Morillo, Kara
• Olsen, Porter
• Underland, Nathaniel

Cohort entering Fall 2007

• Fontenot, Kara
• Higby, Sharon
• Horton, Seth
• Kirch, Lisa
• Lape, Kisa
• Merritt, Amy
• Phillips, Natalie
• Singleton, Kelly
• Steed, Anna

Cohorts entering Fall 2006 & before

• Lloyd, Adam
• Maffuccio, Christine
• Marks,  Jodean

Cohort entering Fall 2016

• Ballard, Brittni 
• Bonney, Sarah 
• Burgard, Robert 
• Burghardt, Nora 
• Cochran, Nicole 
• Colclough, Christopher 
• Liling, Dara 
• Liu, Shuang 
• Lucci, Robert 
• Parker, Alexandra 
• Riehl, Allison 
• Rovito, Maria 
• Moix-Rogers, Savannah 
• Suarez, Christopher 
• Szybisty, Dominika 
• Worku, Rahel 
• Worrell, Vincent 

Cohort entering Fall 2015

• Estelle, Kara 
• Feichtl, Brooke   
• Frankos, Rick   
• Freeland, Vincent   
• Harrington, Jessica    
• Li, Leah    
• McDonald, Trent   
• Monin, Mitchel    
• Park, Kimberly    
• Petersen, Kate   
• Reichertz, Margaret   
• Reing, Brian    
• Russell, Shaun    
• Schrodt, Melissa    
• Smith, Emily   
• Smith, Jasmine    
• Stepler, Daniel    
• Stewart, Lenaya    
• Talbott, Tyler    
• Thompson, Will   
• Wood, Georgia    

Cohort entering Fall 2014

• Calado, Filipa   
• Carpenter, Ruth
• Graves, Alexander
• Halvorsen, Morgan         
• Hart, Erin
• Hopkins, Jessica
• Hutchison, Allison           
• Labrecque, Arielle
• O'Brien, Daune
• Pleasants, Kara
• Rizzo, Caitlin      
• Schulz, John
• Slack, Gary          
• Smedley, Matthew
• Thompson, Justin            
• Tobin, Jenna      
• Tooma, Kayla

Cohort entering Fall 2013

• Dodson, Denis
• Gogarty, Amanda
• Lam, Collin
• Lyons, Sara
• Marotta, Molly
• Richman, Ashleigh
• Whitlock, Larry

Cohort entering Fall 2016

• Allan, Keisha 
• Azam, Fatima 
• Vera, Nancy 
• Wei, Miranda

Cohort entering Fall 2015

• Domnick, Martina   

Cohort entering Fall 2014

• Edrei, Chen
• Soulet, Manon
• Tillman, Nathan

Cohort entering Fall 2013

• Knowles, Andrea
• Rojcewicz, Stephen
• Sarabi, Niloo

Cohort entering Fall 2012

• Pratsovyta, Nataliya
• Rivera, Ines Pastora

Cohort entering Fall 2011

• Fabricant, Noah

Cohort entering Fall 2009

• Farach, Ana
• Metz, Jeremy

Cohort entering Fall 2008

• Jamshidi, Abbas

2016-2017

• Brown, Pierce 
• Chism, Carlos 
• De Bel, Heather 
• Ellis, Derek 
• Goodson, Anna 
• Hill, Kiyanna 
• Hunter, Martha 
• Islam, Sabrina
• Jicha, Ariel 
• Kennedy, Kelly
• Komar, Ravenna
• Kun, Tara 
• McCormally, Anna 
• McCracken, Quinn
• McDonald, Leigh 
• Myrick, Emily
• Neal, Laura 
• Philpot, Christopher 
• Polek, Nicolette 
• Pratiwi, Theresia 
• Reid, Caitlin 
• Sevick, Jacob 
• Smith, Jason 
• Witte, Peter  
• Zitta, Anthony