Program:
You may download a searchable program/schedule in pdf format: pdf.

Registration and Hotel Information:
To go directly to registration and hotel information, see the registration packet at the following link: <http://www.as.ysu.edu/~english/cea/conf_2006_registration.html>.

Online Registration:
To go directly to online-registration instructions, see <http://www.as.ysu.edu/~english/cea/conf_2006_online_registration.html>.  However, you will still need to consult <http://www.as.ysu.edu/~english/cea/conf_2006_registration.html> for the most current hotel information.

Graduate Student Award:
CEA each year offers a cash award for the best paper presented by a graduate student at the annual meeting. 

Papers will be assessed according to the following criteria:

1. Originality of content.
2. Quality of scholarship.
3.  Clarity of the organization and the writing of the paper.
4.  Suitability of the paper to oral delivery.
5.  Length--that is, the paper must not exceed 15 minutes' reading  time--approximately 2200-2700 words (roughly 8-9 pages).

Papers are not required to speak directly to the conference theme.

For your paper to be considered for this year's competition, please submit your paper electronically (as a .doc or .rtf attachment) in an e-mail to cea.english@ttu.edu by midnight, March 10, 2006. 

Papers should be formatted in MLA style and include appropriate citations and Works Cited page.

If you have questions, please direct them to this e-mail address: cea.english@ttu.edu.

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(The program, registration, and other conference links mentioned above are current. The information below is up-to-date through September 26, 2005.)

How do we construct and understand our geographical, historical, cultural, and ideological regions? How do those understandings inform what we write, read, and teach?

We invite papers or panels on literature, languages, film, composition, pedagogy; creative writing, business/technical writing, and book history that explore—and celebrate—all aspects of the conference theme. Proposals may interpret the CEA theme broadly; including—but not limited to—the following “regions”:

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

• Geographical Regions: The Frontier, The South, The North-East, Urban/Wilderness
• Historical Regions: The Past, The Golden Age, The Renaissance, The Regency
• Cultural Regions: High vs Pop Culture, canonical vs alternative
• Generic Regions: American English, The Russian Novel, Postcolonial Literature
• Ideological Regions: Gender, Class, Black English, Working Class Fiction, "Chick Lit"

• Region as Archetype: The West
• Region as Boundaries: Diaspora Literature
• Region as Definition: Genres, Minority Literature
• Region as Ideology: The Agrarians, The Bloomsbury Group
• Region as Legend: The Alamo, The Sea
• Region as Limitations: Working Class Literature, Southern Writing, Western Literature
• Region as Margins: Captivity Narratives, Resistance Literature
• Region as Myth

• Anti-Regionalism: Essentialism, etc.
• Surreal Regions: Science Fiction, Hallucinations
• Gendered Regions: Feminist, Masculinist, Gay and Lesbian, etc.
• Racial Regions
• Psychological Regions: Madness, Sanity, Bi-Polar, Depressive

• Crossing, Blending, and Blurring Regions: Epcot & Euro Disney
• Transgressing Regions: The Non-Fiction Novel, etc.
• Reinterpreting Regions: Creative Nonfiction, New Historicism
• Imagining Regions: Utopias and Dystopias
• Deconstructing Regions: Revising and Rewriting "Classics"
• Editing Regions: Inclusion and Exclusion

• Textual Regions: the Page, the Margin, the manuscript, the fair copy
• Regions over Time: Medieval and Modem London
• Regions and Simulacra: The Matrix, Sin City
• Regionalism and Diasporas: Jewish, African, Hispanic, Irish
• Regionalism and the Visionary Imagination: Blake’s London, Magical Realism
• Regional Food in Literature: Chitlins, Grits, Crab Cakes, Barbeque

• Regionalism and Art: Graphic Novels
• Regionalism and Identity
• Regionalism and Globalism
• Regionalism and Nationalism
• Regionalism and Film
• Regionalism and Fantasy

• Regionalism and Cultural Hegemony
• Regionalism and Meaning
• Regionalism and Integration
• Regionalism and Politics
• Regionalism and Diversity
• Regionalism and Physical, Emotional, and Psychological Boundaries
• Regionalism and Religion
• Regionalism and Economics
• Regionalism and Architecture

• Regional Clothing and Literature/Writing
• Regionalism and Critical Method
• Ecocriticism as a Critical and Theoretical Tool
• Ecocriticism and Its Connections
• Ecocriticism and Its Discontents
• Teaching the Regions: Strategies, Tactics, and Topic

Proposals—due by November l, 2005—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:
Maurice O'Sullivan
CEA 2006 Program Chair
Box 2671
Rollins College
Winter Park, FL 32789
E-mail: mosullivan@rollins.edu

Proposals should be submitted online at the following link: <http://english.ttu.edu/CEA/index.html>.  However, if that is not possible, proposals may also be submitted by post, fax, or e-mail (include abstract in message body).

If you are willing to serve as a session chair or respondent, please indicate this in your cover letter.

Important Information:

• To preserve time for discussion, CEA limits presentations to 15 minutes. 
• Notifications of proposal status will be sent around December 5, 2005.
• All presenters must join CEA by 1 January; 2006, to appear on the program. 
• No one may read more than one paper at the conference.
• CEA does not sponsor or fund travel or underwrite participant costs.

Note to Graduate Students:
Graduate Students may submit their conference presentation for the CEA Best Graduate Student Paper Award, which carries a $100 prize. 

For consideration, submit a copy of your paper electronically via the submission database at <http://english.ttu.edu/CEA/index.html> by March 1, 2006 (after prior submission and acceptance of your initial proposal, due November 1, 2005). 

Send correspondence about submissions to CEA President Ann R. Hawkins (ann.hawkins@ttu.edu).
Please identify yourself as a graduate student in your proposal.

Affordable Primary Costs:

The conference registration fee, which includes all panel/plenary sessions and the president’s reception, is $69.  (Optional conference luncheons have their own price schedules.)  The St. Anthony-Wyndham offered CEA conference-goers a special competitive room rate of $125 per night. That hotel is now sold out, but rooms are available for the same price at the Crowne Plaza for April 5-8. The Crowne Plaza is a five-minute walk from the St. Anthony-Wyndham. When you call for reservations, indicate that you are attending the College English Association conference to obtain the special rate. For reservations, call 1-210-354-2800.

Queries?

For program scheduling questions, contact Maurice O’Sullivan, CEA 2006 Program Chair, Department of English, P.O. Box 2671, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL 32789; phone (407-646-2662); fax (407-628-6309); e-mail <mosullivan@rollins.edu>.

For information on our new online submission page, contact Ann R. Hawkins, CEA president, Department of English, Texas Tech University, 3614 37th St., Lubbock, TX 79409; phone (806-742-2500, ext. 296); e-mail <ann.hawkins@ttu.edu>.

For general conference information, contact Charles A. S. Ernst, Executive Director—CEA Headquarters, Department of Arts and Sciences, Hilbert College, 5200 South Park Avenue, Hamburg, NY 14075 (716-649-7900, ext. 315), <cernst@hilbert.edu>.

For CEA membership, contact Joseph Pestino, CEA Treasurer—Membership Center, Department of English, Nazareth College of Rochester, 4245 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618; phone (585-389-2645), <jpestin5@naz.edu>.

To contact The St. Anthony-Wyndham, the address is 300 East Travis Street, San Antonio, TX 78205; phone: 210-227-4392.

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 College
• 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?

Please send proposals for papers or panels to Walter Levy, Department of English, Pace University, 1 Pace Plaza, New York, NY 10038; wlevy129@aol.com.

The Florida CEA invites paper or panel proposals on any aspect of Florida literature, Florida culture, or Florida Studies. Please e-mail proposals for papers or panels to Steve Brahlek (Palm Beach Community College); brahleks@pbcc.edu.

The New York CEA invites paper or panel proposals on the following topics:

• Doors of Perception: Vision, Imagination, and Reaction in/to Literature.
• Literature and Law
• Literature and Criminal Justice
• Literature and Work
• Depicting Contact: Encounters among Peoples, Places, and Things
• Anatomy of Violence: Examining Conflict
• The “I” of the Beholder
• Crossing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Studies in Writing and Literature
• Cartographies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Writing and Literature
Please send proposals for papers or panels to Lauren De La Vars, Department of English, St. Bonaventure University, St. Bonaventure, NY 14778-0015; ldelavar@sbu.edu.

Special-Topic Sessions:

Some panel chairs accept submissions only electronically.  If sending to one of those chairs, please include the proposal in the body of the message (rather than as an attachment) or use the CEA submission database (http://english.ttu.edu/CEA/index.html).

• African-American Literature: Shelia Collins (Texas Tech University); sacoll2@uky.edu or CEA submission database
• American Literature (19th Century): Peter Kratzke (University of Colorado); Peter.Kratzke@colorado.edu
• Anglophone Literature (World Literature in English): Ed Demerly, English Language Institute, Henry Ford Community College, 5101 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, MI 48128-1495; Edemerly@aol.com
• Book History, Bibliography, and Textual Criticism: Ann R. Hawkins (Texas Tech University) ann.hawkins@ttu.edu or via the CEA submission database

• British Literature (Medieval and Renaissance): Alan Nordstrom (Rollins College); anordstrom@rollins.edu
• British Literature (17th Century): Emily Smith (Dillard University); martynandemily@earthlink.net or via the CEA submission database
• British Literature (Restoration and 18th Century): Maurice O’Sullivan (Rollins College); mosullivan@rollins.edu
• British Literature (19th Century): Staci Stone, Department of English and Philosophy, Faculty Hall, Murray State University, Murray, KY 42071; staci.stone@murraystate.edu

• Chairing the English Department of the 21st Century: Critical Issues, Critical Challenges

“We invite paper and panel proposals about new and unresolved challenges that face our English Departments as we forge ahead into a new century filled with internal and external political, economic, and ideological forces that are reshaping the ways we define our missions, compete for resources, plan our curricula, mentor our faculty, implement our pedagogies, meet our students’ evolving needs, and interact with the world outside the academy.”
Joseph Pestino, Department of English, Nazareth College of Rochester, 4245 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618-3790; FAX 585.586.2452; jpestin5@naz.edu
 
• Children’s and Adolescent Literature: Jeraldine Kraver (University of Northern Colorado); jeraldine.kraver@unco.edu or CEA submission database
• Composition, Rhetoric, & Grammar: Exploring New Regions: Bonnie S. Devet, Department of English, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424-0001: devetb@cofc.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): Carol Ellis (Claremont Graduate University); writercellis@earthlink.net; and Scott Sandlin, Department of English, Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX 79409; william.s.sandlin@ttu.edu.  Please send the proposal or 5-10 pages of creative work to one of the coordinators.
• Cuisine and the Literary Scene: Walter Levy, Department of English, Pace University, 1 Pace Plaza, New York, NY 10038; wlevy129@aol.com

• Historical Fictions: Richard Adicks (University of Central Florida); radicks@bellsouth.net
• (M)Othering the Regions: Regional Mothers and Motherhood: Constructing and Resisting Regional Allegories through the Maternal Body: Lisa Bernstein (University of Maryland University Campus); lbernstein@umuc.edu
• Native American Literature: Ben Carson (Bridgewater State College); Benjamin.Carson@gmail.com or CEA submission database
• Reading, Writing, & Teaching English on the Web: Kevin Morgan (St. Petersburg College); morgank@spcollege.edu
• Religion and Literature: Monica Weis, Department of English, Nazareth College, 4245 East Avenue, Rochester, NY  14618; mweis9@naz.edu

• Sea at CEA: Long Ago and Far Inland: Robert Madison, Department of English, U.S. Naval Academy, 107 Maryland Avenue, Annapolis, MD 21402-5044; madison@usna.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 (University of Northern Colorado); jeraldine.kraver@unco.edu or CEA submission database
• Technical Communication: Miles Kimball, Department of English, Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX 79409; miles.kimball@ttu.edu or CEA submission database
• Women’s Connection: Robin Hammerman (Stevens Institute of Technology); BoatswainB@aol.com or CEA submission database

• 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 equipment needs, if any
• Special needs, if any

Proposals for special topics or affiliated panels may be submitted by post or e-mail (include abstract in message body rather than as attachment) or, if noted, via the CEA submission database at <http://english.ttu.edu/CEA/index.html>. To preserve time for discussion, CEA limits all presentations to 15 minutes.