The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory is hoping to organize a writing group for Unit-affiliated graduate students working at any stage of their dissertation (post-exams). This group will begin meeting every few weeks over the summer and will, it is hoped, carry over into the next school year. It will provide an opportunity for students writing dissertations with a significant theoretical or interdisciplinary component to meet with other students to share work and writing strategies and to be part of a community during an otherwise isolating period of graduate school. Originally coordinated by Unit director Michael Rothberg, the group will ultimately work autonomously. Contact Michael Rothberg (mpr@uiuc.edu) if you would like to be part of the group. A first meeting will probably be scheduled for late May.