2017 Graduate Student Essay Award

SAMLA is pleased to accept nominations of outstanding graduate student presentations given at the previous year's SAMLA Convention (SAMLA 88 in Jacksonville). The Graduate Student Essay Award includes a $250 honorarium, publication in the South Atlantic Review, and complementary conference registration for SAMLA 89 in Atlanta (Nov. 3-5, 2017).

Nominations have closed. Thank you to everyone who participated. Awards will be announced by August 31, 2017.

Please contact Dan Abitz at samla@gsu.edu or 404.413.5816 with any questions.

2016 Graduate Student Essay Award Winner
Cheryl Emerson, University of Buffalo
"My skin is black upon me": Toni Morrison's A Mercy and the Question of a Female Job
Presented in Voices: Orchestration, Dissonance, and Double Discourse in Multi-Ethnic Literature
Chair: Gema Ortega, Dominican University

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2017 Dates to Remember

August 18^thDraft of SAMLA 89 Conference Schedule published to website for participant review.

August 31^st
Membership paperwork for panelists due. New and renewal information is available on the Membership Information page.

September 8^thDeadline for the Undergraduate Research Forum Session Information Form.

September 22^nd
Early Conference
Registration Deadline
All participants will be required to have a conference year (2017–18) SAMLA membership and to register for the conference. Membership information is available here, and conference registration here.

September 29^th
Proposal deadline for the Visual Representations of Scholarly Work session. Please send proposals to session chair Dan Abitz via email.

September 29^th
Schedule Correction Deadline
Please submit all corrections to the SAMLA 89 Schedule to the SAMLA office via email.