General Call for Papers

Diversity Committee Call for Papers

CEA Forums Calls for Papers

Patricia Harkin, All-Conference Luncheon Speaker
Saturday, April 6, 2002

All-Conference Luncheon speaker Patricia Harkin is the author of Contending with Words: Composition and Rhetoric in a Postmodern Age and of the popular textbook, Acts of Reading. Associate professor of language, literacy, and rhetoric at the University of Illinois in Chicago, she previously taught at Purdue University. 

Harkin has been active in professional organizations such as NCTE, and her work on rhetoric, cultural studies, and composition has appeared in collections and leading journals such as Pre/Text and the Journal of Advanced Composition. 

The topic of Harkin's luncheon address is "What's Wrong with This Picture? Teaching English in the Corporate Academy."

Epifanio San Juan, Jr., Diversity Luncheon Speaker
Thursday, April 4, 2002

The featured speaker for the CEA Diversity Luncehon is Epifanio San Juan, Jr., research fellow in the Center for the Humanities at Wesleyan University. Professor San Juan is the recipient of the 1994 Katherine Newman Award from MELUS, as well as distinguished book awards from the Association of Asian American Studies and the Gustavus Center for Human Rights. He is author of numerous books, including Hegemony and Strategies of Transgression (SUNY Press), Beyond Postcolonial Theory (St. Martin's Press), and Racism and Cultural Studies (Duke University Press). 

A noted scholar and CEA Board member, San Juan recently retired as chair of the Department of Comparative American Cultures at Washington State University.

David Laurence and John Shawcross, Special-Session Speakers
Friday, April 4, 2002

David Laurence, director of the Association of Departments of English, is the featured speaker for one of Friday afternoon's plenary sessions. 

Laurence has been director of the MLA's Office of English Programs and ADE since 1988. His main areas of responsibility include planning the two annual ADE summer seminars, editing the ADE Bulletin, coordinating such data-gathering projects as the surveys of PhD placement and the recent survey of staffing in English and foreign language departments, and overseeing the MLA Job Information Service, especially the Job Information List. 

In his presentation, ironically titled "The Latest Forecast," Laurence will use statistical information on such matters as staffing practices, bachelors and doctorate degree awards, and PhD placement as a context for thinking more speculatively about anecdotal evidence on the current and future state of the profession. Laurence asks "how do we reach a well-observed, articulate understanding of our community's current circumstances, problems, and opportunities?"--a significant question given that "how one describes a situation limits the responses one can imagine" to address the situation.

The second special-session speaker is distinguished scholar and former CEA President, John Shawcross. Professor Shawcross's most recent book is the acclaimed biography John Milton: The Self and the World (University of Kentucky Press). His topic will be "'Works of love or enmity':  Do Not Let Our 'Minor' Poets Disappear!"

Laura Mandell, Women's Connection Speaker
Friday, April 5, 2002

Laura Mandell, associate professor of English at Miami University of Ohio, will speak about "The Poetess Tradition" at the Women's Connection banquet on Friday evening.

Author of Misogynous Economies: The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1999), Mandell is currently co-editing a collection of criticism on the role of the poetess in British and American literature. A specialist in British eighteenth-century and Romantic literature, she has published articles on gender and class conflict, on capitalism, and on women writers such as Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Mary Leapor, and Felicia Hemans in ELH, Blake, Studies in Romanticism, and Nineteenth-Century Prose.

Riverboat Cruise
Saturday, April 6, 2002

CEA has chartered the riverboat Mark Twain for a 2-hour cruise on the Ohio following the All-Conference Luncheon on Saturday. The charge of $15 per person will include bus transportation to and from the landing in Convington, Ky., about a ten-minute ride from the Westin hotel. The bus will leave the hotel at 3:00 p.m. Tickets will be available at the conference registration desk.

Conference Meals

If you have not registered for the conference but would like to reserve tickets for any of the meals (Diversity Luncheon, All-Conference Luncheon, Department Heads' Breakfast, Affiliates' Breakfast, Women's Connection Dinner), please e-mail Bob Hoskins at hoskinrv@jmu.edu. He will be glad to reserve places for you. A limited number of unreserved tickets will be available at registration.

Change in Program

Sandra Gilbert, one of the featured speakers in the Special Sessions on Friday afternoon, has had to cancel her appearance. We are very fortunate, however, in having a distinguished scholar and former CEA President, John Shawcross, as the new speaker for that session. See Featured Conference Speakers, above. 

CEA/CEAO Presidents' Reception
Thursday, April 4, 2002

All conference participants and spouses or partners and family are invited to the Presidents' Reception on Thursday evening at 6:45 p.m., following the CEA and CEAO business meetings. Please join us for good food, drink, and collegiality.
 

Our discipline today faces challenges, simultaneously threatening and exciting, both in the way texts are read and in the way we present them to our students. Especially welcome are proposals for papers and panels that provide new ways of seeing texts or new teaching strategies addressing either the general student or the upper-level English major. In addition, proposals for papers and sessions on new ideas in the field of rhetoric and the teaching of writing; developments in the curriculum; and changes within the English department are encouraged. More general proposals will also be considered, but these should in some way engage the theme of the conference.

Proposals of 500 words are due by October 15, 2001. Notification of acceptance will be made by November 15, and all presenters must be members of CEA by December 15, 2001. Note:Deadline for proposals extended to February 15, 2002.

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

• 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, 2001. 

   Eleanor Green
    2002 CEA Program Chair
    Dean of Faculty
    University of Maine at Presque Isle
    Presque Isle, ME  04769-2888

    Queries: (207) 768-9431
    FAX: (207) 768-9608
    E-mail: greene@polaris.umpi.maine.edu

Send proposals for papers (including title and 500-word abstract) to:
Christine Cotton
Chair, CEA Diversity Committee
Columbia College
1001 Rogers St.
Columbia, MO  65216

Deadline: October 1, 2001

Phone Inquiries: (573) 875-7595
Fax: (573) 875-7209, ATTN C. Cotton
E-mail: mccotton@email.ccis.edu

The CEA conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, will feature a series of CEA Forums, or sessions on the following special topics:

Film and Literature
Coordinator:  Bonnie H. Braendlin
  Department of English
  Florida State University
  Tallahassee, FL  32306
  E-mail: bbraendlin@english.fsu.edu
  FAX: (850) 644-0811

Religion and Literature
Coordinator:  Robert F. Geary
  Department of English
  James Madison University
  Harrisonburg, VA  22807
  E-mail: gearyrf@jmu.edu
  FAX: (540) 568-2983

Women and Literature
Coordinator:  Ann R. Hawkins
  Austin Peay State University
  Clarksville, TN  37040
  E-mail: hawkinsa@apsu.edu
  Phone/FAX: (931) 920-4477

Literature and the Sea
Coordinator:  Jill B. Gidmark
  University of Minnesota, 140 Appleby Hall
  Minneapolis, MN  55455
  E-mail: gidma001@tc.umn.edu
  FAX: (612) 625-0709

Proposals should address the conference theme (see general call above); due dates and stipulations are the same as for the general call for papers, but proposals for these special sessions should be addressed to the coordinators listed above.