The English Department will host the English Studies Conference starting April 2 in on the third floor in Coleman Hall.

The conference will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and will showcase student work including essays, stories, poems, plays, projects and slideshows.

T.J. Martinson, an Eastern alum, will be the keynote speaker this year. His talk will be at 11 a.m. in the Coleman Hall Auditorium and is titled, “Reading the Human Genome: Metatextual Bodies in the Age of the Gene.”

According to a press release, his talk will look into the Human Genome Project through postmodern metafiction and speculative realism.

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