ESSAY COMPETITION
In the Humanities
in connection with the conference
to be held at Stanford University Ð Humanities Center
February 25-26, 2005
http://www.stanford.edu/group/allegory
Visiting scholars from around
the country and from Stanford will present original work and engage in exciting
discussions about new ways to think about the old trope of allegory. The organizers would like undergraduate
students to participate actively in this event. Students can sign up for lunch with the speakers by contacting
Brenda Machosky at machosky@stanford.edu
(no later than Thursday February 24).
The website provides a complete schedule of the conference which is
free. You can arrive and leave as
your interest and schedule allow. Students
will be offered the first opportunity to ask questions at the conclusion of
each panel.
To encourage student
involvement, the organizers of the conference are sponsoring an essay
competition for undergraduate students with a monetary prize and the promise of
publication in an undergraduate research journal (possibly the English
Department undergraduate journal Glosses). The essay needs to
address at least one complete session of the conference (see criteria below).
Submissions must be typed, double-spaced,
12-point font, 4-5 pages.
The essay should offer a
reflection on one or more of the conference sessions.
The paper can take the form
of analysis and critique of the work presented
OR
can engage directly with the
issues and topics of the panel and discussion.
Essays must be submitted by March
7, 2005 at 5:00 p.m.
The primary criteria for
evaluation will be the intellectual engagement of the author with the topic addressed
in the paper (a complete panel, a plenary session, or several sessions). The essay will also be judged on originality
of the argument and analysis, the clarity of presentation, and the cohesiveness
of the its structure. Essays
should also be carefully edited and proofread by the student.
Selected essays may be edited for publication.
Submit electronically
to: machosky@stanford.edu
Or in hard copy to Brenda
Machosky, Building 300 Ð Room 208
The essay should have a cover
page with the students name, class year, paper title and email address. The essay itself should not include the authorÕs name so that
the papers can be evaluated anonymously.
All submissions will be
acknowledged and winners will be announced on the Thinking Allegory Otherwise website.