Bridging The Gap

What constitutes a research gap? And what do we–as scholars, artists, activists, and communities–do with these gaps? The English Graduate Student Association and Religious Studies Graduate Association are excited to present Bridging the Gap: A Graduate Research Symposium, a virtual symposium that welcomes papers and artistic expressions that celebrate intertextuality, pastiche, and the interdisciplinary nature of academic research. This symposium is open to all UNC Charlotte graduate students who are interested in unearthing, reworking, visibilizing, and moving within gaps. We invite presentations from all disciplines for an engaging and productive conversation. Possible research topics include but are not limited to:

• Gender, sexuality, and identity politics in local, global, neoliberal, and/or transnational spaces, places, and temporalities

• Symbols, rituals, performances, and movements within, across, and between religious, cultural, historical, literary, visual, and/or digital traditions

• Virtual and/or recorded drag performances

• Ecocriticism

• Children’s literature

• Ethnicity and race studies; Disability studies

• Creative writing; Technical writing; Linguistics; Rhetoric

• Education

• Digital studies

• Topics in History

• Topics in Anthropology

• Topics in Psychology

The virtual symposium will be held virtually on Friday, January 28, 2022 from 9am-1pm. If interested in participating in this symposium, you must submit an abstract (about 250 words) for your paper and/or performance to egsa@charlotte.edu by Monday, December 20, 2021. Papers and/or presentations need not be entirely finished or publishable. We are looking for “works-in progress” where we can come together and present our work in the stage it is at. For any questions related to the event, please contact either David Flaherty (dflaher1@charlotte.edu) or Sarah Whichello (swhicel@charlotte.edu).