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Robert Hacke Scholar-Teacher Award  Deadline for Applying for 2002 Award:  November 15, 2001

What Is the Award?
CEA is accepting applications for the annual 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 begin May 1, 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, 2001:

1.  A detailed rationale (maximum of 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.

The recipient will be expected to attend the annual spring meeting to receive the award. By March 15, 2003, the recipient will submit a report on the progress of his or her project to the Executive Director, who will present it to the Board of Directors at their spring meeting.

Address applications or inquiries to

Robert V. Hoskins, Executive Director
College English Association
Department of English
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA  22807

The Robert Hacke Award is available every year on a similar schedule, so pass the information along to your junior colleagues. Robert Hacke served as Executive Secretary of the CEA from 1978 to 1981. The award honors his commitment to the profession and CEA.

The guest editors invite essays that address pedagogical strategies, resources, and examples of travel literature used successfully in the classroom.

Some areas of special interest are the following:

•  Pairings (gender, colonized/colonizer, etc.)
•  How to contextualize travel literature
•  Problems encountered in teaching or designing courses that include travel literature
•  Assignments that worked well
•  Teaching travel literature in the “standard” curriculum
•  Teaching travel literature to composition students, undergraduates, or graduate students.
•  Theory in the travel literature classroom
•  Teaching diversity in the travel literature classroom

The guest editors emphasize that the possibilities in this list are illustrative and should not be considered as the only possible topics for essays. All thoughtful, well-conceived essays pursuing any approach to any topic related to teaching travel literature will be considered.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: March 15, 2001

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

Please enclose a Word, 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 bibliography 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:

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: March 15, 2001

Send papers (15-minute reading time) or 500-word abstracts by post or e-mail to

Lori Kanitz
Oral Roberts University
English Department GC 5C06
7777 S. Lewis Ave.
Tulsa, OK  74171

lkanitz@oru.edu
Phone: 918-495-6064

For conference information, go to http:www-english.tamu.edu/scmla/tulsa.html

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