2007 CCCC Annual Conference "Representing Identities"
New York, March 21-24, 2007
Panel Proposal: “Thinking Against the Grain:” Situated Student Writing and Basic Composition”
In “Inventing the University” David Bartholomae remarks that “every time a student sits down to write, he has to invent the university”: in other words, the student must utilize the discursive practices that are recognized as legitimate for the effective and credible communication of knowledge. As teachers working with basic writers, this leads us to ask: Which students are successful in inventing the university and what lies behind this success? Specifically, how does the student’s lived experience help or hinder her in “inventing the university?” This last question will be the focus of this panel; in our discussion we will explore the hypothesis that students whose lived experience encompasses a particular discipline*such as military, or health professionals*are more able to “invent the university” precisely because of their immersion in activities which necessitate a unique epistemology*one which trains the mind to look at “the wider world” within a particular paradigm!
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Papers are invited that investigate the intersection of basic writing skills and participation in a profession (business, music, art, dance, etc.); we are especially interested in papers which examine how immersion in a discipline, such as music, art, or medicine affects basic student writing (in the freshman/sophomore years). Please note that we are proposing this panel for the conference; we can not guarantee acceptance into the conference.
Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words by April 24 to
Jennifer Rich
English Department
Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY 11549
or
Please write abstract proposal on subject line.
Call for Papers
Two Year College English Association - Southeast Branch (TYCA-SE)
2007 Conference: 2/22/07-2/24/07 at Crowne Plaza Hotel, Jacksonville, FL
Deadline for proposal submissions: 10/12/07
The 2007 TYCA-SE conference will accept paper/presentation proposals regarding teaching English in two year colleges. Topics may include: assessment, creative writing, advanced writing, composition, developmental English, ESL, innovative teaching and learning strategies, learning communities, service learning, literature, online teaching, mentoring, coaching, professional writing, technical writing, and storytelling. We welcome proposals from graduate students, instructors, adjuncts, and professors. We encourage a variety of sessions including workshops, audience involvement, technology, etc.
The conference will be hosted by Florida Community College at Jacksonville. Please contact Dr. Susan Hill at FCCJ for the proposal form and/or more information: .
Call for Papers
Special Issue on Visual Culture. In celebration of its 30th anniversary and its commitment to exploring the intersection of literary and visual art, Callaloo will publish an issue that focuses on visual culture and collaboration in the African American context. This special visual culture issue will feature visual and written works that examine the important crossroads=97where literary and visual = art meet=97that Callaloo provides. We seek, then, creative responses, = critical reflections, texts, prose fiction and nonfiction, poetry, and/or critical essays that: look historically, analytically, or musingly at how visual images function within the pages and on the covers of previous issues of Callaloo; reflect on the role the journal has played in the careers of artists, writers, and artist- writers; and/or consider how artistic identity is portrayed, represented, and performed textually and visually in the space of the = journal. We also seek creative and critical tracts that think philosophically about collaborations and interactions among artists, authors, and visual culture sites; relationships between visual and literary art; the challenges of bridging disciplines when writing about visual and/or literary art; and/or the similarities and differences in conjuring and interpreting images in different media. Texts that contemplate the making and/or experiencing of art, exhibitions, and visual culture; the roles of arts education or pedagogy in the development of literary and visual art; the written descriptions and interpretations of visual culture, sites, and phenomena; the memorialization of African American people, art, and culture in museums and other visual culture sites; and the collecting = of art of/by African American or African Diasporic artists, among others, will likewise be considered. We also appreciate projects that = assess ways that race, gender, sexuality, class or ability inflect or = influence the above or other related topics. Paper submissions should be 3000-5000 words and follow MLA format. Poetry, creative and/or curatorial responses may be significantly shorter. Artist proposals should include text and electronic images. Please include a 200-word bio and abbreviated curriculum vitae with your submission. Submit in triplicate, along with contact information =
by November 1, 2006, to:
Callaloo/ Visual Culture
Department of English
Texas A&M University
4227 TAMU
College Station, TX 77483-4227
Direct questions and any other correspondence to guest editors,
Meta DuEwa Jones:
Cherise Smith: cherise_smith@ mail.utexas.edu
B. Stephen Carpenter, II: =
CALL FOR PAPERS
DaVinci to Derrida: Breaking Codes Across Disciplines ***Open to faculty,
graduates, and undergraduates
Texas A&M University - Commerce will hold the 15th Annual English Graduates
for Academic Development (EGAD) conference on October 27, 2006. Submissions
should be made by August 16, 2006.
This year's keynote speaker is George Getschow, Mayborn Writer-in-Residence at the University of North Texas. He is also former bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal for Dallas and Houston. In 1983, he was runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in the national reporting category for a series of stories about labor camps of the Southwest.
Now accepting proposals for papers and panels dealing with contemporary issues in academia. We welcome submissions from all areas of academic discourse including, but not limited to: English, History, Journalism, Political Science, Education, Psychology, and Sociology.
Suggested areas of interest: Panels will be organized by topic.
Critical Theory
Academia/Professional Issues
Pedagogy
Graduate Student Issues
Technology in the Classroom
Foreign Language Studies
Composition & Rhetoric
Pop Culture
Creative Writing
Film Studies
Science Fiction
Linguistics/ESL
Writing Center Theory & Practice
Literary Studies
To apply, send an abstract of 250-500 words. Electronic submissions encouraged. Panel proposals and workshops are welcome. Notification of acceptance and conference registration materials will be mailed electronically by September 8, 2006. Conference registration is $20. If you wish to attend the conference
luncheon, the cost is an additional $15.
Please send inquiries and abstracts to:
EGAD
c/o Andrea Miller
Department of Literature and Languages
PO Box 3011
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Commerce, TX 75429-3011
RSA 2007 Call for papers
Dissecting Renaissance Anatomies
We invite paper proposals for an RSA conference panel on early modern anatomy and performance. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed a proliferation of anatomies, both physical and metaphorical, in England and on the Continent. Anatomical dissection staged the production of knowledge in that the body became a site for students to explore (and not merely to witness) the structure of the human body, leading to what Jonathan Sawday has called "a confrontation between an abstract idea of knowledge, and the material reality of a corpse" (Sawday 1995). Anatomies in Latin and in the vernacular, as well as surgical guides on the treatment of wounds, dissected in text and image the body into its parts, turning the familiar into the uncanny. Metaphorical anatomies tested the boundaries of analogies drawn between the body and its material and spiritual worlds by finding new ways to "stage" the body, altering thinking about the body and its relation to God, the universe, and culture.
Possible paper topics include, but are not limited to:
-Theatrical performance of anatomical gestures
-Embodiment and sensory experience
-Gender and sexuality in the anatomy
-Early modern renderings of Anatomia
-Intellectual or religious anatomies
-Cross-genre comparisons of anatomical work
-The anatomy in alternative discourses
-Transfers in practice and theory from the Continent to England
-Early modern stagings of Ancient anatomical practices
Kindly send abstracts and proposals, maximum 250 words, to Allison K.
Deutermann () and Lianne Habinek
() by 15 May, 2006. Please remember that in
order to present a paper, you must be a member of the RSA by the time of the convention.
CFP: Literature after 9/11 (6/15/06; collection)
Detailed abstracts sought for a collection of essays on literary
representations of 9/11. Essays may treat specific texts, including novels (e.g., Ian McEwan's Saturday, Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jay McInerney's The Good Life, etc.), poems (particular poems, single-authored volumes of poetry, or anthologies such as Poetry After 9/11: An Anthology of New York Poets), drama (The Guys, Omnium Gatherum, Homebody/Kabul, etc.), graphic novels (Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers; 9-11: Artists Respond, etc.), and memoirs (Lisa Beamer's Let's Roll, Marian Fontana's A Widow's Walk, etc.) as well as hybrid or noncanonical texts (internet writings, oral history, flyers, visual artifacts, the New York Times "Portraits of Grief," and journalistic responses insofar as they can be conceived in literary terms). Essays may also consider large aesthetic, political, and cultural questions raised by post-9/11 literature, including those related to the effect of 9/11 on notions of genre, textuality and literary production; the formation of a 9/11 literary canon; the difference between literature about 9/11 and literature after 9/1; the relation of literature about 9/11 to literature about other historical events (e.g., the Holocaust); the relation of post-9/11 literature to postmodernism, notions of memorialization, trauma studies, and other contemporary literary/theoretical trends, including attempts to theorize 9/11 itself (by Slavoj Zizek, Jean Baudrillard, and others), etc. Essays should focus on literature although they can interrogate literature as a category; essays on film, political rhetoric, news reports, architecture, etc will not be considered.
Please email an abstract (as MS Word attachment and pasted into the email)
of approximately 500 words and a 3-page vita to Ann Keniston
() and Jeanne Follansbee Quinn () by June
15, 2006.
Ann Keniston
Assistant Professor
Department of English/098
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, NV 89557
ph 775 784-6689 x 247
fax 775 784-6266
Call for Papers: Puppetry International special issue on puppet scripts
For a special issue of Puppetry International dedicated to scripts for puppet theatre, the editors invite submissions including examples of historical and contemporary puppet scripts from all parts of the world and from all eras.
In addition, for the peer-reviewed section of this issue we invite submission of short articles (2,000 words, including bibliography and notes) analyzing the nature of puppet scripts, text as an element of puppet performance, or the development of genres in puppet dramaturgy.
Contributors will receive a copy of the magazine and may retain the copyright to their work; minor publication expenses can be covered as well. Use of images is encouraged. Submissions should be in MLA format.
Please send submissions as Microsoft Word attachments in RTF format to John Bell: and Andrew Periale: . Please include contact information and a brief biography. The deadline for submissions is July 25, 2006.
Puppetry International is the bi-annual publication of UNIMA-USA, the United States chapter of the Union International de la Marionette, the world’s oldest theater organization
(www.unima-usa.org/publications/index.html).
Proposals are being sought for an edited collection of essays on the theme of Zombies in Literature and Film. Essays should address both literature and film as subjects and be aimed at an interdisciplinary academic audience. Interest has been shown by Cambria Press for a 2007 publication date, as part of their series in Literature, Film and Theory.
The following topics may provide thematic focus but should not be taken
as limitations:
= Zombies and the Sacred/Profane - addressing elements of the Sacred, the Holy, or other religious elements and iconography in literature and film.
= Zombies and the Law - addressing the relation between zombies and authority or government. Destruction/Creation of the Law and/or laws,
connections to apocalyptic narratives, etc.
= Zombies and the Family - addressing the zombie's relation to family narratives, including the threat to the family and/or breakdown of the
family order, but also childbirth (i.e. monstrous children), and the formation of “family” enclaves in response to external threat.
= Zombies and Master/Slave narratives - Zombies and loss of control/freedom. Voodoo, themes of Slavery, etc. = Parodic Zombies - Zombie comedies, camp, and or ironic representations of zombies.
This collection situates itself in the growing body of what critic Jeffrey Cohen terms “monster theory,” an academic genre employing multiple critical perspectives. While we are primarily concerned with traditional zombie narratives, a plurality of works could be considered appropriate as primary texts. Standard zombie narratives may include the following: plague accounts such as Boccacio’s _Decameron_ and Defoe’s _Journal of the Plague Year_; gothic era texts such as the anonymous “Life in Death”; contemporary biological horror tales such as Matheson’s _I Am Legend_; Lovecraft’s tales of de-evolutionized cultic worshipers; zombies in contemporary comics; Bela Lugosi’s _White Zombie_, 1960s-80s standards such as Romero’s _Night of the Living Dead_ or B-movie works such as _Virgin Among the Living Dead_, _Night of the Comet_ or the recent movies, _28 Days_, et al., that have revived the genre. Essays may also reconsider typically non-monstrous films from a zombie-perspective (Tolkien’s “Ringwraiths” as zombies, _Fight Club_ as a zombie narrative, etc.)
Please send abstracts (500-1000 words in length) or completed essays (4000-8000 words in length), preferably as an e-mail attachment, in Word.
Deadline for Abstract submission: July 3rd, 2006.
Send materials or questions to the editors:
Kevin Meaux, MFA, and Dr. Steven J. Zani, Associate Professor of English
e-mail: and
Kevin Meaux and Steven J. Zani
English and Modern Languages
P.O. Box 10023
Lamar University
Beaumont, TX 77710