Detailed Description Examples

Ideas of Form in Twentieth-Century Poetry: What We Talk about When We Talk about Form (Example of a proposal organized by a graduate student) Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: New Approaches to African American Literature and Culture, 1877-1919 (Example of a proposal with three graduate student panelists) Reconsidering Robert Creeley (Example of a proposal that is also a tribute) Saintly Women and Priestly Poets: The Fifteenth-Century English Poetry of Osbern Bokenham, John Capgrave, and John Audelay (Example of a proposal with a good rationale and history) Revision as Writing, Writing as Revision (Example of a roundtable proposal) Peter Weiss's Aesthetics of Resistance at Twenty Five (Example of a proposal focussing on one work)