Kemp Symposium

The Department of English and Linguistics is dedicated to undergraduate research and creativity–and to a collaborative sharing of our students’ work. Our strongest venue for this is the annual William Kemp Symposium (a name honoring a former department chair), which is scheduled each Spring semester and which showcases critical, creative, original work by the department’s students and classes.

The Kemp Symposium is open to the public.

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Spring 2024

Nineteenth Annual William Kemp Symposium

April 25-26, 2024

In order to make sure that everybody can participate (i.e., present some of your work and/or attend presentations by your fellow majors), all upper-level daytime English and Linguistics classes will be cancelled on these two days.

The 2024 symposium will take place in-person on April 25-26, Thursday and Friday.

For more information about this year’s event, contact Dr. Shumona Dasgupta (sdasgupt at umw.edu).