New: Revised Program for the Conference (PDF Version)

Registration Form:

Please print out the registration form (Microsoft Word version or pdf version) and mail it with your check—made out to the College English Association—to CEA Treasurer Joseph Pestino (contact information is on the form).  The form comes in two parts on a single page:  (a) fill out the top half, checking off all items that apply; (b) the bottom half will be filled out by the treasurer as a verifying receipt, to be returned to you at the conference when you appear for registration at the Omni Severin. 

The only check-off sum required is the registration fee itself, which entitles you to attend all sessions, including the Thursday plenary session (keynote speaker); the Thursday President’s Reception; the general CEA business meeting (Friday, April 1); and one of two optional Friday evening entertainments (see events section below) at the hotel (until all seats are filled). 

However, there is a separate fee schedule for optional listed meal events, the Women’s Connection Reception, and a local excursion tour, with a fee refund for any such event that fills up, so  you are encouraged to fill out the registration form and submit it promptly  to the CEA Treasurer.

Hotel Contact Information:

To accommodate the large number of conference-goers, room reservation blocks have been reserved at two downtown Indianapolis hotels:  the Omni Severin Hotel and, several blocks away, the Courtyard by Marriott Downtown. 

On a first-come, first-served basis, the Omni will provide singles, doubles, and suites for a $119 (plus tax) per person cost through March 9, 2005; the Courtyard by Marriott Downtown will provide singles and doubles for the same $119 (plus tax) per person cost through March 7, 2005.  Contact information is offered on the hotel attachment (Microsoft Word version or pdf version).

When calling one of these two hotels, remember to identify the CEA Conference as your reason for booking the hotel to be eligible for the reduced rate.

Note:  Most conference events will be held at the Omni Severin.  However, panel sessions will be held at both hotels throughout the day on Friday, April 1. 

Speakers, Entertainment, Special Events, and Excursion:

The events attachment (Microsoft Word version or pdf version) lists speakers, titles, topic descriptions, and a brief bio-bibliographical statement.  In addition, the two Friday evening entertainments are described and also the conference tour, to help you make informed choices, especially for those events involving the fee schedule on the registration form. 

Travel Plans:

If you plan to travel by plane, you are encouraged to make reservations early, in the hope of obtaining favorable rates.

CEA Membership:

All conference-goers are obliged to be CEA members.  If you are presenting a paper at the conference or serving as a session chair, you will have submitted a membership fee to the CEA Treasurer.

If you are attending, but not presenting, and have not yet been queried about membership status, please e-mail Charles Ernst at cernst@hilbert.edu for a membership form, and he will e-mail one to you as an attachment.

We invite papers or panels on literature, languages, film, composition, pedagogy, creative writing, business/technical writing, and book history responding to the conference theme of Space(s).

Proposals may interpret the conference theme broadly, including—but not limited to—the following “space(s)”:

• Academic spaces:  the library, the classroom
• Colonial spaces:  the colony, the post-colony, the plantation, the slave ship
• Contested spaces:  the battlefield, the war zone, the refugee camp
• Cultural spaces:  the theater, the stage, the gallery, the concert hall, the screening-room
• Cyberspace:  the Web, hypertext, the cyborg 

• Disciplinary spaces:  cross-disciplinary, trans-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary 
• Diseased spaces:  the hospital, the asylum
• Domestic spaces:  the bedroom, the hearth, the kitchen 
• Economic spaces:  the shop, the mall, the exchange, the supermarket, the workplace, the cubicle 
• Environmental spaces: the moor, the sea, the national park 

• Gendered spaces 
• Inner and outer spaces 
• Liminal spaces: the margin, the border, the frontier, diaspora 
• Mythic spaces: the dreamscape, shamanistic spaces, fairyland 
• National spaces: the voting booth, the protest, the congress 

• Negative space 
• Political spaces: the media, the land, the state, the nation 
• Private spaces: the boudoir, the bedroom, the study 
• Psychic spaces: the memory, the dream-world 
• Public spaces: the monument, the gallows, the assembly room, the club, the garden 

• Recreational spaces: the game field, the ballpark 
• Ritual spaces: the church, the cathedral, the cemetery, the monastery, the convent, the confessional, the pilgrimage site, the stone-circle 
• Rural spaces: the countryside, the mountain, the wilderness 
• Space and community
• Space and ideology

• Space and identity
• Space and subjectivity
• Space and surveillance: the prison 
• Space and the body 
• Technological spaces: the laboratory, the computer desktop, the webpage

• Temporal spaces: childhood, college, old age 
• Textual spaces: the page, the column, the margin, the binding, the print shop 
• Traumatic spaces: the emergency room, the operating table, the witness-stand, the cell 
• Urban spaces: the street, the park, the restaurant 
• Virtual spaces: the video game, the Web, the web-page
• Writing spaces: the desk, the study, the page

Submit proposals, including an abstract of no more than 500 words, by e-mail, fax, or post by 1 November, 2004. If you e-mail a proposal, please paste it into the body of the e-mail message, rather than attaching a separate file.

Proposals should include the following information:

• Name
• Institutional affiliation (if applicable)
• Mailing address (including zip code)
• Phone number
• E-mail address 
• Title for the proposed presentation
• Abstract of no more than 500 words
• A-V needs, if any 
• Special needs, if any.

If you are proposing a panel, the panel organizer should include the above information for all proposed participants.

Address all conference correspondence to the Program Chair:
Ann R. Hawkins
CEA 2005 Program Chair
Department of English
Texas Tech University
Lubbock TX 79409

Phone:  806 742-2500, ext. 296
Fax:  806 742-0989
E-mail: ann.hawkins@ttu.edu

Important Information:

• To preserve time for discussion, CEA limits presentations to 15 minutes.
• Notifications of proposal status will be sent by December 5th.
• All presenters must join CEA by 1 January 2005 to appear on the program.
• No one may read more than one paper at the conference.
• Presenters are encouraged to serve as a chair or respondent. If you wish to be considered for a chair or respondent, please contact the program chair.
• CEA does not sponsor or fund travel or underwrite participant costs.

Note to Graduate Students:
Graduate students may compete for the CEA Best Graduate Student Paper Award, which carries a $50 prize. For consideration, submit three copies of your paper to the Program Chair by 1 March 2005 (after prior submission and acceptance of your initial proposal, due November 1, 2004).

This competition is also available to special topics/affiliate panels listed below, except that the initial submission deadline for such proposals is October 15, 2004.

Special Sessions & Sponsored Panels

We also invite proposals for the following special session topics or affiliated panels.  Proposals should be directed to the panel chair listed.  Although the proposal deadline for the main conference theme—“Space(s)”—is November 1, 2004, the deadline for proposals on any of the special topics listed below is October 15, 2004, unless otherwise noted in the description.

Special Sessions

African American Literature: Shelia Collins, Department of English, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53201; sacoll2@uky.edu

Technical Writing: Miles A. Kimball, Department of English, Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX 79409; miles.kimball@ttu.edu. Will consider submissions for presentations or panels on any topic related to technical, business, or scientific communication, but since the CEA's conference-wide theme is "Space(s)," we encourage proposals that complement that theme.  The deadline for submitting proposals in this category is November 15, 2004.

Benjamin Franklin and his World: Peter Kratzke, Program for Writing and Rhetoric, 1B60 ENVD, 317 UCB, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309; peter.kratzke@colorado.edu

Medieval & Renaissance Spaces: Mark Mitchell, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin TX, 78712; exit12@mail.utexas.edu

Book History, Bibliography and Textual Criticism: Ann Hawkins, Department of English, Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX 79409; ann.hawkins@ttu.edu

British 19th Century: Staci Stone, Department of English and Philosophy, Faculty Hall, Murray KY 42071; staci.stone@murraystate.edu

British Romanticism: Brian Bates, Department of English, University of Denver, Denver, CO, 80208; bbates@du.edu

Children's and Adolescent Literature: Jeraldine Kraver, Department of English, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO 80639; (email submission preferred) jeraldine.kraver@unco.edu

Creative Writing (Fiction and Poetry): Barbara Wiedemann, Department of English, Auburn University, Montgomery, P.O. Box 244023, Montgomery, AL 36124-4023; bwiedema@mail.aum.edu. Please include 5-10 pages of creative work.

Creative Writing (Nonfiction): Scott Sandlin, Department of English, Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX 79409; william.s.sandlin@ttu.edu

Cuisine and the Literary Scene: Walter Levy, Department of English, Pace University, 1 Pace Plaza, New York, New York, 10038; wlevy129@aol.com

Managing the English Department: Problems, Opportunities, Best Practices: Joe Pestino, Department of English, Nazareth College, 4245 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618; jfpestin@naz.edu

Religion and Literature: Monica Weis, Department of English, Nazareth College, 4245 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618; mrweis@naz.edu

Rhetoric and Composition: Coretta Pittman, Department of English, Baylor University, Waco, TX, 76798; coretta_pittman@baylor.edu

Sea at CEA:  Handsome Sailors and Ancient Mariners—Characterization and the Maritime Imagination: Jill Barnum, 274 Appleby Hall, U. of Minnesota, General College, Minneapolis, MN, 55455; gidma001@umn.edu

Short Story:  Dean Baldwin, Department of English, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, Erie, PA 16563; dxb11@psu.edu

Teacher Education & Pedagogy: Jeri Kraver, Department of English, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO 80639; jeraldine.kraver@unco.edu

Vonnegut: Dennis Williams, Department of English, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, 29424; williamsd@cofc.edu

Women's Connection: Haley Fishburn, email submission only, haley.f.fishburn@ttu.edu. Please note the following change in contact information as of October 21, 2004: All correspondence related to Women's Connection sessions/proposals should go to the general program chair, Ann Hawkins, at ann.hawkins@ttu.edu.

Affiliate-Sponsored Panels

The Association of Advisors of English invites presentations on the following topics:
• Professional Development in the Small College
• Advice to Graduate Students: Preparing for Positions in Liberal Arts Colleges
• Viability of the English Major
• Internships and their Value
• Distance Learning Outcomes for the English Major
• English in the Community College
• Designing Learning Outcomes for the English Major
• Life of the Scholar in English
• Value of Community-Based Service Learning in English
• Does Problem-Based Learning Hold Promise for Engaging Students?
  Contact: Ned Laff, Loyola University Chicago, 6525 N. Sheridan Rd., Chicago, IL 60626, nlaff@uic.edu, 
  or Walter Levy, Department of English, Pace University, 1 Pace Plaza, 
  New York, New York, 10038, wlevy129@aol.com

The Florida CEA invites presentations on the following topics:
• Reading the Regions/ Writing the Regions
• Editing the Regions
• Eating the Regions
  Contact: Maurice O’Sullivan, Department of English, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL, 
  mosullivan@rollins.edu

The New York CEA invites presentations on the following topics:
• Literature and Criminal Justice: 
• Literature and the Law
• Literature of Trauma / Literature and the Healing Arts
• Literature and Work
• Depicting Contact: Encounters Among Peoples, Places, and "Things”
• Anatomy of Violence:  Examining Conflict
• Doors of Perception:  Vision, Imagination, and Reaction in/to Literature
  Contact: Joe Pestino, Department of English, Nazareth College of Rochester, 4245 East Avenue, 
  Rochester, NY 14618, jfpestin@naz.edu

Proposals—due by 15 October 2004—should include the following information:
• Name
• Institutional affiliation (if applicable)
• Mailing address (including zip code)
• Phone number
• Email address 
• Title for the proposed presentation.
• Abstract of no more than 500 words
• A-V equipment needs, if any
• Special needs, if any

Proposals for special topics or affiliated panels may be submitted by post, fax, or email (include abstract in message body).  To preserve time for discussion, CEA limits all presentations to 15 minutes.