CEA News and Announcements

What Is the Award?
CEA is accepting applications for the Robert Hacke Scholar-Teacher Award. The award provides $500 to help support a CEA junior teacher who is involved in a scholarly or pedagogical project related to English studies. The recipient of the $500 award will be announced at the annual CEA meeting in April. The grant will run from May of 2001 to June of 2002.

Who Can Apply?
Those persons who are adjuncts or who hold the rank of instructor or assistant professor in a post-secondary institution, including community colleges, and who are members of the CEA at the time of application are eligible to submit project proposals.

When Is the Deadline and How Does One Apply?
Applicants must provide to the evaluating committee through the office of the Executive Director the following documentation by November 15, 2000:

1.  A detailed rationale (maximum length five pages) for the project, including title, purpose and goals, methodology, proposed results, and work schedule.
2.  A complete vita.
3.  Three letters of recommendation, including at least one from a CEA member.

Address applications or inquiries to

Bob Hoskins, Executive Director
College English Association
Department of English
MSC 1801
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA  22807

Guest Editor:     Jill B. Gidmark
                           University of Minnesota, General College
                           140 Appleby Hall
                           128 Pleasant St. SE
                           Minneapolis, MN 55455
                           Phone: (612) 625-0855
                           Fax: (612) 625-0709
                           E-mail: gidma001@tc.umn.edu

The guest editor invites essays devoted to the analysis of the sea as theme, symbol, or setting within any genre and period of literature: prose (fiction, creative nonfiction, science, history), poetry, drama. With a topic as vast as the briny deep, the guest editor encourages submissions on any aspect of maritime literature, including but not restricted to the following:

• teaching literature of the sea in any setting
• works/authors traditionally associated with the sea
• works/authors seldom associated with the sea
• gender, ethnicity, or environmental  issues
• multi-disciplinary adaptations or representations

Address inquiries to the guest editor at the address above. Submit completed essays to the guest editor in care of the CEA Publications editors at the address below. Special guidelines:

• Please enclose a Word 6, WordPerfect 6.0, or RTF file on an IBM-preformatted (not DOS formatted) disk.
• Type endnotes at the end of the manuscript.
• Do not use the automatic endnote or reference function of your word-processing program.
• Send disk and two copies of the completed essay (10-20 typed pages, including endnotes and works cited in current MLA style) to the following address:

President:  Bonnie Braendlin, Florida State University

First Vice-President:  Wendell Aycock, Texas Tech University

Second Vice-President:  Eleanor Green, University of Maine, Presque Isle

New Board Members:

    Lawrence Berkove, University of Michigan, Dearborn

    Gwen Gresham, North Arkansas College

    Terry Stewart, Austin Community College

2000 Robert Hacke Award:  Joseph Viera, Nazareth College
Best Graduate Student Paper at the 2000 National CEA Conference:  Rose Metts, University of South Carolina, for "Antony's Women: Victim or Victor?"

Arlene Wilner of Rider University won the 2000 Robert Miller Prize for her article "Teaching The Rape of the Lock," in the CEA Critic 62.1 (Fall 1999). The Robert Miller Prize recognizes the best article appearing in the CEA Critic in the past year.

In the first year of the new millennium, CEA, like Walt Whitman, wishes to be inclusive and invites papers from all aspects of study found in English departments. Papers involving literature, composition, pedagogy, film, technical writing, popular culture, and other topics that interest teachers and students are welcomed.  Just as Whitman looked backward over past events and forward to the future, papers may concern both past eras and current or future subjects.

Proposals of 500 words are due by October 15, 2000. Notification of acceptance will be made by November 15, and all presenters must be members of CEA by December 15, 2000.

Proposals for single-focused sessions or forums (60 minutes) should include:

• curriculum vitae for the organizer;
• phone number, e-mail, and address of organizer and all participants;
• an overview of the planned session; and
• a description of the target audience.

• Presenters must be members of CEA and must register for the conference. Presenters must wear conference badges during their sessions.
• Only one paper per person will be accepted.
• Presenters and other members are eligible to serve as chairs and respondents for sessions. Notify the program chair if you wish to serve as a chair or respondent.
• Any paper read at regional CEA meetings should be so identified and revised before the October 15 deadline.
• A $50 award will be given for an outstanding paper presented by a graduate student. Individuals must identify themselves as graduate students to the program chair when submitting the paper and include three copies of the paper. To be eligible, papers must be postmarked by October 15, 2000.

   Wendell Aycock
    2001 CEA Program Chair
    Department of English
    Box 43091
    Texas Tech University
    Lubbock, TX  79409-3091

    Queries: (806) 742-2500, ext. 261
    FAX: (806) 742-0989
    E-mail: w.aycock@ttu.edu

Call for Papers: The Fourth Annual “SEA at CEA”

Waters from Itasca to the Gulf of Mexico have inspired writers with a sense of motion, fluidity, transience, and opportunity. Given our inland locale this year, SEA at CEA is opening the venue to include, in addition to our traditional sessions on the sea, presentations celebrating rivers as theme, symbol, or setting, within literary or artistic representation:

Papers are encouraged on (but not limited to) the following: Melville, Twain, Stowe, Lewis & Clark, Southwest humorists and other Mississippi River writers, multicultural perspectives.
 

Send proposals of 300-500 words to:

    Jill B. Gidmark
    University of Minnesota, General College
    140 Appleby Hall
    128 Pleasant St. SE
    Minneapolis, MN 55455

    Phone: (612) 625-0855
    Fax: (612) 625-0709
    E-mail: gidma001@tc.umn.edu

DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT:  October 15, 2000
Notification November 15

Dr. Linda J. Flowers died Friday, January 21, 2000, at Duke University Medical Center after a long struggle with cancer. As immediate past-president of the North Carolina/Virginia College English Association, Linda organized an excellent conference on Randall Jarrell in October 1999, held on the campus of her institution. A professor of English at North Carolina Wesleyan College, Flowers had also served as Jefferson-Pilot Professor, director of the Visiting Writers Series, department chair, director of the 1990 self-study, a Folger Scholar, and a member of the North Carolina Humanities Council. Scholarship memorial contributions are being accepted by the following organization:

Faison United Methodist Church
Flowers Scholarship
P.O. Box 417
Faison, NC  28341

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John A. Dern. Martians, Monsters & Madonna: Fiction and Form in the World of Martin Amis.  New York:  Peter Lang, 2000.

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