category: rhetoric and composition

Popular and Current Art Submissions and Criticism Wanted: Open Deadline

full name / name of organization: 
Anna Faktorovich, Ph.D./ Anaphora Literary Press
contact email: 
director@anaphoraliterary.com

While great works of literature were written in the 19th century and prior, we live today in an age with major problems and solutions in the realm of art and communication that should be addressed by

Apollon eJournal - Undergraduate Submissions deadline 6/15/2013

full name / name of organization: 
Apollon: eJournal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities
contact email: 
apollonejournal@gmail.com

Check the website, apollonejournal.org, for submission details on publication, or for an application to work with us

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

CFP: Aloha at Risk: Education in Hawaii (Edited Collection)

full name / name of organization: 
Interstitial Press
contact email: 
editors@interstitialjournal.com


Since the release of “A Nation At Risk” in 1983, public education has been subjected to increased scrutiny from political officials, parents, and concerned citizens.

(Re)thinking Global Connectedness: Critical Perspectives on Globalization

full name / name of organization: 
Texas A&M University at Qatar, Liberal Arts Program
contact email: 
LAIC2014@qatar.tamu.edu

Proposals Due: 15 September 2013
Conference Dates: 26-28 January 2014
Location: Doha, Qatar

SAMLA Special Session on Creating or Expanding a BA Program in English During Uncertain Times (June 20th- Abstract Deadline)

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA Special Session- November 8-10, Atlanta
contact email: 
SOrtolano@edison.edu

This panel invites participants from any college or university where there is an interest in building a B.A. in English or establishing a new programmatic track within the discipline.

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching: General Studies Learning Communities in a Post Humanities World; April 3-6, NeMLA

full name / name of organization: 
Anthony Dotterman/Adelphi University
contact email: 
Dotterman@Adelphi.edu

While the rising cost of college education, spiraling student debt, and a changing global job market have impelled university administrators to redefine and/or remodel the core curriculum in the inter

Instrumental Reason/Constellational Form: The Frankfurt School Now

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA (Atlanta, Nov. 8-10, 2013)
contact email: 
clavill@emory.edu, ebbisho@emory.edu

In “The Essay as Form,” Theodor Adorno writes that the essay (in Montaigne’s sense of an ‘attempt’) presupposes a reader who “does not think, but rather transforms himself into an arena of

Call for Creative Writing Articles

full name / name of organization: 
Writing Commons -- a global, peer-reviewed, open-education resource for college students
contact email: 
dianne@writingcommons.org

Award-winning Writing Commons (http://writingcommons.org/), a global, peer-reviewed, open-education resource for college students invites the submission of creative writing articles intending to help

SAMLA 85 Call for Papers. Deadline June 1, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
contact email: 
banerjeesuchi@gmail.com

Transnationalizing the Digital

[NeMLA 2014] Critical Feelings: Redefining Cultural Agency in Affect Theory

full name / name of organization: 
Tyler Bradway
contact email: 
tyler.bradway@gmail.com

Conference: Northeast Modern Language Association Convention (2014)
Date: April 3-6, 2014
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

[UPDATE] Writing and Rhetoric in Popular Culture Area Deadline Extended

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
contact email: 
c.n.blankenship@gmail.com

Call for Papers

Contemporary American Creative Non-Fiction

full name / name of organization: 
Diana Eidson, South Atlantic Modern Language Association
contact email: 
deidson@gsu.edu

The genre of creative nonfiction—exemplified both by engaging, intellectual essays and by narratives with attention to literary style—has received increasing scholarly and public attention.

Intersecting Gender - 22nd - 23rd November 2013, Queen's University Belfast

full name / name of organization: 
Sibéal Postgraduate Gender and Feminist Studies Network
contact email: 
sibealbelfast@gmail.com

The idea of intersectionality in the field of feminist and gender studies has increasingly been used to facilitate deeper understandings of contemporary gendered identity and experience.

Translation and Transcendence conference: 25-26 October, 2013, Toronto

full name / name of organization: 
Modern Horizons journal
contact email: 
editors@modernhorizonsjournal.ca

Modern Horizons CFP – Translation and Transcendence

The Medium, Before and After Modernism (EXTENDED: 13 May)

full name / name of organization: 
College Art Association annual meeting 2014 (Chicago)
contact email: 
roland.betancourt@yale.edu

The medium and its specificity have oriented the discourse on the arts throughout various historic and historiographic periods.

UPDATE: Academic Exchange Quarterly Special Issue on Leadership and Writing Programs

full name / name of organization: 
Academic Exchange Quarterly
contact email: 
cl830@nova.edu

Focus: This issue will examine effective leadership practices in college and university writing programs, including first-year composition, basic writing, and ELL/ESL writing programs; undergraduate a

Writing Ireland: Identity, Memory, and Place

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association)
contact email: 
sdyne1@gsu.edu

"Writing Ireland: Identity, Memory, and Place"

The Phenomenology of Reading: Experiencing Literature Today, Keynote: Charles Altieri, Oct. 11-12, Philadelphia, PA

full name / name of organization: 
Temple University: Graduate English Association
contact email: 
templegeaconf@gmail.com

The Phenomenology of Reading: Experiencing Literature Today
October 11th-12th, 2013
Temple University: Philadelphia, PA
Keynote: Charles Altieri (Berkeley)

Women, Work, and the Web: How the Web Creates Entrepreneurial Opportunities

full name / name of organization: 
Carol Smallwood
contact email: 
smallwood@tm.net

Book Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Writing After Retirement: Tips by Successful Retired Writers

full name / name of organization: 
Carol Smallwood
contact email: 
smallwood@tm.net

Book Publisher: Scarecrow Press

‘Bibliography in the Digital Age’ conference: Sydney, Australia, 20–22 November 2013 [CFP deadline 26 July]

full name / name of organization: 
Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand (BSANZ)
contact email: 
mpatton@sl.nsw.gov.au

The annual conference of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand will be held at the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 20–22 November 2013 on the theme of ‘Bibliography

[Update] AEQ Winter 2013 Issue: Writing Center Theory and Practice Deadline August

full name / name of organization: 
Kellie Charron/ Academic Exchange Quarterly
contact email: 
kajr10@comcast.net

A reminder that the deadline for Academic Exchange Quarterly's Winter 2013 special section on Writing Center Theory and Practice is approaching!

Forms of Reading, Forms of Life

full name / name of organization: 
Benjamin Mangrum / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill AND Benjamin Sammons / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
contact email: 
bmangrum@email.unc.edu

Forms of Reading, Forms of Life

CREATING MYTHS AS NARRATIVES OF EMPOWERMENT AND DISEMPOWERMENT

full name / name of organization: 
LDC of the High Institute of Human Sciences of Jendouba, University of Jendouba, Tunisia and the Institut de Recherche en Langues et Littératures Européennes, ILLE of the University of Haute Alsace, Mulhouse, France
contact email: 
myth.creation2014@gmail.com

Call for Papers: CREATING MYTHS AS NARRATIVES OF EMPOWERMENT AND DISEMPOWERMENT from 10 to 12 March 2014.

Apollon eJournal - Undergraduate Submissions deadline 6/15/2012

full name / name of organization: 
Apollon: eJournal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities
contact email: 
apollonejournal@gmail.com

Check the website, apollonejournal.org, for submission details on publication, or for an application to work with us

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Telling Stories: Personal Narrative in Writing Instruction

full name / name of organization: 
Duncan Koerber
contact email: 
dkoerber@yorku.ca

CALL FOR PAPERS
(Proposal deadline: June 15, 2013)

Telling Stories: Personal Narrative in Writing Instruction
Editors: Duncan Koerber (York University); Robert G. Price (University of Toronto)

Basic Writing, Community Engagement, and Interdisciplinarity; submission by 12/28/13; publication 10/14

full name / name of organization: 
Thomas Peele, Long Island University Brooklyn
contact email: 
thomas.peele@liu.edu

For the Fall 2014 issue of BWe, we seek articles that investigate the uses and effects of community engagement in basic writing coursework.

NEPCA Conference - Comics & Graphic Novels Area

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA)
contact email: 
lance.eaton@gmail.com

The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA) is pleased to issue a call for papers for its fall conference.

Fairy Tales Retold due 5/20/13

full name / name of organization: 
Christine Garbett
contact email: 
cnfairytales@gmail.com

The new millennium has born witness to a multitude of reinventions. Fairy tales also have been recreated in an ever increasing number in recent years.

Producing Public Memory: Museums, Memorials, and Archives as Sites for Teaching “Writing”

full name / name of organization: 
Jane Greer and Laurie Grobman, editors
contact email: 
leg8@psu.edu

We invite proposals from teachers, scholars, and researchers in composition, literacy, and rhetorical studies for an edited collection that investigates museums, memorials (permanent, temporary, and s

Call For Papers - Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture

full name / name of organization: 
Cameroon English Language and Literature Association
contact email: 
journal@cella-cameroon.org

JELLiC: Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture is currently accepting manuscripts for publication in its next issue – July 2013.

UPDATE: Contemporary Studies Area

full name / name of organization: 
MPCA/ACA
contact email: 
jhines7@knights.ucf.edu

Call for Papers:
Contemporary Studies
2013 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference
Friday-Sunday, October 11-13, 2013
St. Louis, MO
St. Louis Union Station Hotel, A Doubletree by Hilton

ACIS Midwest Regional Conference (Deadline: August 1, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
The American Conference for Irish Studies
contact email: 
acismidwest@gmail.com

The 37th annual ACIS Midwest Regional Conference in Iowa City (October 10-12, 2013) welcomes proposals for papers on any and all topics related to Irish studies – from new and existing ACIS members,

Reconstruction 13.1, How Did I Write That?

full name / name of organization: 
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
contact email: 
reconstruction.submissions@gmail.com

Announcing Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture Issue 13.1 “How Did I Write That? Reflections on Singularity in the Creative Process”

edited by Alan Clinton and Angela Flury

UPDATE: Extended CFP Deadline PAMLA Conference (11/1-3, 2013, Bahia Resort, San Diego): Now May 12

full name / name of organization: 
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
contact email: 
svonkin@netzero.net

Forty approved sessions for the November 1-3, 2013 PAMLA Conference (at the Bahia Resort Hotel, San Diego, California) have extended their paper proposal deadline until May 12.

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