english-education

Investigating Identities in Young Adult (YA) Narratives

Symposium on the 13/12/2017 at The University of Northampton UK

From JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series to Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight, Young Adult (YA) narratives have grown exponentially over the past twenty years. Adopting a range of genres and platforms including the Bildungsroman and the coming of age teen drama, YA narratives represent a significant cultural means to explore the formation of identity in all its varied aspects. This one day symposium at the University of Northampton will investigate the representation of identity constructions in relation to narrative form in YA narratives both past and present.

Over the last several years, the issue of “fake news” – misleading or outright deceptive reporting designed to advance a particular agenda – has become a prominent feature of our media ecology. The Oxford Dictionary chose “post-truth” as its Word of the Year for 2016, Time Magazine ran a full-cover headline in 2017 asking the question “Is Truth Dead?,” and the term “fake news” has been employed liberally by both spokespeople for the Trump administration and its critics. The debate has particular ramifications for higher education, and particularly for instructors of Composition and Humanities classes, which generally provide college students with their most explicit training in how to evaluate sources of information.

deadline for submissions: July 25th 2017Guest Editors: Sandra Cox and James M. Greene, Department of English and Modern Languages at Pittsburg State University

Contact E-mail: jmgreene@pittstate.edu and/or smcox@pittstate.edu

Call for Submissions:

The Contingent Labor in the Profession Committee is now accepting submissions for the Contingent Blog. At a minimum, we are seeking two bloggers per week for approximately 10 weeks, beginning the week of September 25. Proposals will be accepted from any area relating to contingency, history and campus culture.  Potential topics could include, but are not limited to:

Dear colleagues,

We would like to invite proposals for articles for an international blind peer-review scientific journal (30 CFP)

“Problems of Education in the 21st Century”

ISSN 1822-7864 (Print), ISSN 2538-7111 (Online)

http://www.jbse.webinfo.lt/Problems_of_Education.htm

http://www.scientiasocialis.lt/pec/