Department of English
UofM English Graduate Organization
UMEGO supports the advancement of the academic and professional goals of its members and provides opportunities for networking with other graduate students and faculty in the Department of English. UMEGO proudly provides quality services to the English major graduate students. What differentiates UMEGO from other organizations is the ability to truly connect with our graduate students, faculty, and the University of Memphis. Any person taking a graduate course in the English department is eligible and encouraged to be a member of UMEGO. UMEGO does not require any dues at this time. Please reach out to any of the UMEGO officers if you are interested in joining!
2025-26 Officers and Contact Information
President: Korbyn Peebles | 
kpeebles@memphis.edu
Vice President: Ifeoluwa Awopetu | pawopetu@memphis.edu
Treasurer: Ashton Alexander | aashton@memphis.edu
Secretary: Heather Eudy | heudy@memphis.edu
Media Coordinator: Emily Gillo | epsmith2@memphis.edu
Staff Advisor: Sarah Ellis | smellis@memphis.edu
Click here to view the English Department's Graduate Student Directory
Resources for Graduate Students
Campus & Community Resources houses various resources across campus, from academic calendars to mental health resources to educational support and more!
Academic Conferences 101 provides English Department faculty and graduate student-curated tips and tricks on finding a conference, writing a proposal, attending a conference, and presenting at a conference.
Graduate Courses: Every semester, about a month before registration, this page is updated to provide information on upcoming graduate courses, including detailed course descriptions provided by the professor. You can also click on the "two-year course rotation template" to see what's coming up for the next two years.
What other resources would you like to see? Email your suggestions to the English Department Marketing Coordinator, Emily Gillo (epsmith2@memphis.edu).
English Department Graduate Student Conference: Multiliteracies, Multimodality, and Genre
We invite proposals for a one-day in-person conference focused on multiliteracies, multimodality, and genre, broadly construed.
Literacy and language practices have long been multilingual, multimodal, embodied, and material. What is new is the extent to which scholars now foreground these dimensions as central to meaning-making, pedagogy, and participation in academic, professional, creative, and public genres. This conference creates space for empirical research, pedagogical reflection, and creative exploration that take these realities seriously. The conference celebrates and explores the complexity of literacy practices and literacy learning, particularly through the lens of multiliteracy. We welcome scholars, teachers, students, and practitioners working in applied linguistics, writing studies, rhetoric and composition, communication, literacy studies, and TESOL, and literary studies, as well as creative and interdisciplinary contributors whose work meaningfully engages the conference theme. Click here for more information.
Conference Date: April 25th, 2026
Call for Papers Deadline: March 13th, 2026 by 5pm CST