Deadline extended to 11/30/06:
We are seeking contributions for a collection of essays (to present forpublication in 2007) which will address the status of the workshop model increative writing and composition. The workshop model has been around for along time. Has it become static or is it alive and well in our writingclasses? What's working and what's not? What is its aim, purpose, andfuture? How do teachers keep workshops fresh and productive? What innovativetechniques are used in conjunction with the workshop model?
Contributors should send completed essays to Dianne Donnelly-Smith .
Deadline for submission is now 11/30/06.
Call for Submissions: Practical Approaches for Teaching Culture in theComposition Classroom
Seeking 500-word abstracts for potential chapters in an essay collectionwhich offers diverse, practical, and innovative approaches for teachingculture in the college composition classroom. The collection as a wholewill serve as a practical references for teachers who currently teachelements of culture in their classroom and want to further develop thoseapproaches or for newer teachers who seek aid in the area of compositioninstruction. While I have a particular interest in digital/hypertextapproaches, I am open to and excited about submissions that discussintegration techniques for any type of culture, from traditional culturessuch as Native American to American subcultures or cyber cultures; moreover,I embrace equally diverse approaches for teaching about these cultures,ranging anywhere from pen and paper traditional approaches to ethnographicor hypertext compositions. If accepted, abstracts will be formed intochapters ranging from 5000 to 6000 words.
Please submit your 500-word abstract, name, current vita and affiliation to:
Joanna Paull
Email: .
Due by November 15, 2006
Do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.
Joanna Paull
113B Davis Hall
ClarionUniversity of Pennsylvania
840 Wood Street
Clarion, PA16214
(814) 227-2717
The *Association of Advisors of English* invites submissions for panels tobe conducted at the College English Association annual meeting in NewOrleans, April 2007. Suggested presentation topics include: ProfessionalDevelopment ;Advice to Graduate Students; Viability of the English Major;Writing Programs and the Traditional Major; Internships and their ValueDistance Learning Outcomes for the English Major; English in the CommunityCollege; Designing Learning Outcomes for the English Major; Problems withPublishing; Community-Based Service Learning in English; Problem-BasedLearning and Student Engagement. Contact: Walter Levy at
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A Violent (Re) turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications and Situations”
13th Annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium
February 15-17, 2007
ArizonaStateUniversity
Ethics and Identity in the Composition Classroom
The conference entitled “A Violent (Re) turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications and Situations” invites you to submit papers on ethics and identity in the composition classroom. We are looking for papers that explore how ethics shapes identities (personal, community, familial, etc.), how certain ethics act and react to one another, how ethics amongst students and between students/ teacher are negotiated, how certain ethics are valued over others, and ultimately how this all plays out in the environment of the classroom. What are the pedagogical implications? Complications? Situations?
Panel proposals should be no more than 500 words and submitted by November 30th, 2006.
Panel proposals should be no more than 350 words and submitted by November 30th, 2006.
Please include home and office numbers, complete mailing address, e-mail address, professional affiliation, and AV requirements with your submissions.
Please direct questions to:
Please direct submissions to:
Composition and Rhetoric (Theory)
We invite individual papers and panels on Rhetoric and Composition forthe 38th Annual Meeting of the CEA. Papers for this area will draw onthe conference theme "Empathy and Ethics." Proposals may conceive theconference theme broadly. Possible topics include, but are not limitedto the following possible areas:
1st Year Writing
Basic Writing
Bilingual Education
Classical Rhetoric
Computer Mediated Rhetoric
Cultural Rhetoric
ESL
Gendered Writing
Minority Rhetoric
Multimedia Rhetoric
Political Rhetoric
Popular Culture Rhetoric
Post-Colonial Rhetoric
Virtual Rhetoric
Submission Instructions
New submissions policies apply this year. No longer will proposals inspecial panel areas be submitted directly to special panels chairs.Instead, CEA prefers to receive all submissions, including those forspecial panels, electronically through our conference managementdatabase:
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Electronic submissions open September 15 and close on November 1
Abstracts for proposals should be between 200 and 500 words in lengthand should include a title
Submitting electronically is a two-step process: (1) setting up a userID, then (2) using that ID to log in-this time to a welcome page whichprovides a link for submitting proposals to the conference. Ifsubmitting a panel, panel organizers should create user IDs for allproposed participants.
Though CEA prefers to receive proposals through the conference database,we will accept hard copy proposals, postmarked no later than October 15,via regular mail. Hard copy proposals should include:
* Name
* Institutional affiliation, if applicable
* Mailing address
* Phone number
* E-mail address
* Title for the proposed presentation
* Abstract of 200-500 words
* A-V equipment needs, if any
* Special needs, if any
If you are willing to serve as a session chair or respondent, pleaseindicate this in your cover letter
Address hard copy submissions and all other conference correspondence tothe Program Chair: Ed Demerly, English Division, HenryFordCommunityCollege, 5101 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, MI48128-1495, 313-645-9659,
CEA Membership is required for all presenters. Conference registrationmaterial will arrive in January and will indicate registration feepayment deadlines. CEA membership dues must be paid by January 1, 2007for presenters' names to appear on the program
Special Panels
As with conference-theme proposals, new submissions policies apply thisyear to special topic panel proposals . No longer will proposals inspecial panel areas be submitted directly to special panel chairs.Instead, CEA prefers to receive all such submissions electronicallythrough our conference management database housed at
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Special panels will be organized in the following areas. If yourproposal addresses one of these areas, submit your proposal to thedatabase by November 30. Note : Hard copy proposals will also beaccepted, but must be sent through U.S. mail by October 15 to EdDemerly.
Note to Graduate Students:
Graduate Students may submit their conference presentation for the CEABest Graduate Student Paper Award, which carries a small prize.Information on how to submit a paper will be sent to accepted panelistsafter the membership deadline. Graduate students are asked to identifythemselves in their proposals so that information may be sent.
Coretta M. Pittman
BaylorUniversity
Department of English
One Bear Place #97404
Waco, TX76710
(254) 710-6980
You are invited to submit papers for a panel on "Food and LiteraryImagination" at the 38th annual meeting of the CEA in New Orleans Suggestedtopics for this panel should discuss aspects of food imagery, symbol, andmetaphor in fiction, non- fiction, poetry, drama, or film. Contact isWalter Levy, .
Call for Papers #2: Roundtable discussion of LangstonHughes’s Politics after 1953
American Literature Association
Memorial Day Weekend 2007
Westin in Copley Square
Boston, Mass.
“Langston Hughes: Politics after 1953.” For this
roundtable discussion, we invite short position papers (of approximately 4-5 pages) that address Hughes’s enduring commitment to political aesthetics, broadly construed, in the wake of his persecution by both the F.B.I. and Senator Joseph McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee. Although the session will focus primarily on Hughes’s later work, it aims to analyze comprehensively the ramifications to Hughes’s art of the political and critical fallout from his radical Depression Era poems (such as “Good Morning, Revolution” and “Goodbye, Christ”). The patriotic populism of the 1940s is therefore also available for consideration within this historical framework.
The roundtable format provides a forum in which four to six scholars will first analyze the broader topic from individual perspectives, then engage in a synthesizing discussion for the balance of the session. We also encourage participants to submit more fully articulated versions of their contributions to the Langston Hughes Review for possible publication.
350 word abstract and short cv by 12/15/06;Submit materials via e-mail to Matthew R. Hofer
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All presenters must be members of the Langston HughesSociety by 1/15/07
For more information on the LHS, see
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Matthew R. Hofer
Assistant Professor
Department of English
University of New Mexico
505/277-3712 (o)
505/277-0021 (f)
13th Annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium
The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
February 15-17, 2006
ArizonaStateUniversity—TempeArizona
Off the Map: Ecocriticism Beyond Borders
“Ecological thinking about literature requires us to take the nonhuman world as seriously as previous modes of criticism have taken the human realm of society and culture. That, it seems to me, is ecocriticism’s greatest challenge and its greatest opportunity.”
- Glen A. Love, “Ecocriticism and Science”
This panel seeks papers and presentations that examine local, national, and global border politics through an ecocritical lens. With the passing of NAFTA and WTO, the formation of the European Union (EU)—among other organizations—we have had to rethink our interaction with the world and the places we inhabit. How have these various political and economic agreements affected borderlands and border localities, not only in the notions of place, but also in people’s participation in that place?
A variety of perspectives are encouraged for this panel, including (but not limited to): literary, theoretical, social/cultural, economic, political, and philosophical.
Please plan a 15 minute presentation. Submit title and 300 word abstracts, with name, university affiliation, address, phone number(s), and email address to: attention Cindi
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special issue of Dichtung Digital:
Abstracts are now invited for the 2007 special issue of Dichtung Digital(), one of the leading internationaljournals on digital literature and aesthetics. As the title 'NewPerspectives on Digital Literature: Criticism and Analysis' suggests, thefocus of this issue is on how examples of digital narrative, poetry anddrama may be close-read and analysed in such a way as to show thatelectronic forms of literature can and indeed must be examined by means ofboth conventional and innovative analytical heuristics, to give exemplary evidence that digital 'literature' deserves to becategorised as such, less on the grounds of introspective subjectivity thantheoretically well-argued, systematic textual investigation, and to contextualise digital literature with previous, non-digital forms of'written art' in such a way as to demonstrate intertextual canonicity. Recent developments in the domain of digital literature include, forinstance, fan and slash fiction, blogs, computer games, interactivenarrative, as well as hybrid, multimodal forms of hypertext, hypermedia andcybertext. On the theoretical side, hypermedia theorists such as Marie LaureRyan, Espen Aarseth, Roberto Simanowski, N. K. Hayles, George Landow, J.D.Bolter, Michael Joyce and Stuart Moulthrop have been developing approachesin Text World/Possible Worlds Theory, Game Theory, Poststructuralism,Deconstruction, Postcolonialism, Post/Cyberfeminism and Media Theory moregenerally to establish a critical debate suitable for such hybrid andliminal literary forms as digital narrative, poetry and drama. Similarly,efforts have been made both bottom-up and top-down to take aesthetictexts-on-screen in a distinctly user-/reader-friendly direction.
The forthcoming Dichtung Digital issue is situated in the context of thosenew developments, and we warmly invite contributions that take (some of)them into account as well as provide (monofocal and comparative) analyses ofindividual texts.
We are asking that potential authors express their interest by replyinginformally to Dr. Astrid Ensslin [ or Dr.Alice Bell [.
The deadline for abstracts (ca. 250 words) is 30th November, 2006.
The deadline for full papers (3,000-5,000 words) is 28 February, 2007.
We look forward to your reply.
Best wishes,
Dr. Astrid Ensslin and Dr. Alice Bell,
The Editors
CFP: Ghosts, Gender, History (12/10/06; collection)
Essays sought for an interdisciplinary edited collection on ghosts as literary figures in the context of gender and history. The collection will be published by Cambridge Scholars Press in 2007. (I am adding a chapter to an already finished manuscript.)
Completed essays will be 7,000-8,000 words in length and duein February 2007.
Please send 1-2 page proposals and a short biography by December 10, 2006 to the editor
Sladja Blazan
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Dr. Sladja Blazan
Institut f=FCr Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Amerikanistik
Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
Tel.: 030/2093 2318
Fax: 030/2093 2244