In addition to hosting distinguished visiting professors and its annual conference, the Graduate Center for Literary Research (GCLR) also actively supports graduate student writing and research by conducting quarterly roundtables for students' work. These GCLR roundtable workshops, comprised of graduate students from across the humanities, offer selected graduate students a prime opportunity for extended feedback from an interdisciplinary perspective as well as possible financial support for conference travel. 

Graduate students are eligible to present in these Roundtables up to two times throughout their graduate career at UCSB. Eligible papers for the roundtable workshops will vary in form, content, and disciplinary approach but they must be related to the Humanities in some form. Works-in-progress, such as field exam research and dissertation chapters, will be considered and are encouraged!

Finalists from the roundtable workshops will also be invited to adapt their work into a spotlight article to be published in the annual GCLR responsive journal Exchanges. For more information on the roundtable workshops, please visit our Roundtables and Travel Grants Application page. 

If you are interested in presenting your work at a future roundtable workshop, please check back around the beginning of each quarter. All graduate students in the Humanities are encouraged to apply as well as to attend and support the panelists! 

Please Stay Tuned for the Announcement of our 2026 Roundtable Workshop!

To be announced in January 2026!