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category: rhetoric and compositionIf We’re Writing about Writing, Then What Kind of Writing Do We Assign? (NEMLA; April 7-11 2010; Montreal, Canada)full name / name of organization: Heather Urbanski contact email: urbanskihea@ccsu.edu The recent focus within Composition Studies on the Writing About Writing approach (introduced by Elizabeth Wardle and Doug Downs) has raised important questions regarding many elements of Composition
John Updike and Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick: In Memoriamfull name / name of organization: Packingtown Review: A Journal of Arts and Scholarship from the University of Illinois at Chicago contact email: ljohns56@uic.edu The editors of Packingtown Review, published by the University of Illinois Press, invites creative and critical submissions on the life, work, and influence of John Updike and/or Eve Kosofsky Sedgewic
Women in Higher Education (October 01, 2009)full name / name of organization: Studies in the Humanities contact email: stilwell@iup.edu; mcdevitt@iup.edu The December, 2009 issue of Studies in the Humanities is seeking essay submissions for a special issue on the subject of "Theoretical Perspectives on Women in Higher Education.” The editors will cas
Training “Late Adopter” Educators to Use Multimodal Composition (Oct 15, 2009)full name / name of organization: Christine Denecker/The University of Findlay contact email: denecker@findlay.edu CALL FOR PAPERS
(Re)Writing Anaïs Nin and Her Diaries (April 7-11, 2010, Montreal)full name / name of organization: Northeast Modern Language Association contact email: rspear1@tigers.lsu.edu ---
THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS: Povocative Epigraphs and Subtitles; 2010 MLA Proposed Special Session, Jan 6-9, 2011full name / name of organization: Stephen E. Severm / West Texas A&M University contact email: ssevern@mail.wtamu.edu Request paper proposals for a proposed special session at the 2010 MLA convention in Los Angeles, CA.
Spring 2010 (March 31-April 3) PCA/ACA Conference --Women's Studies Areafull name / name of organization: Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association contact email: lscoleman@eiu.edu All topics relevant to Women's Studies are appropriate for placement in this area and at this conference.
Rhetorics of New Mediafull name / name of organization: Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association contact email: gurleya@sbcglobal.net 2010 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association
CFP: Rhetoric/Composition/Play: How Electronic Games Mediate Composition Theory and Practice (and Vice Versa) (1/15/2010)full name / name of organization: Matthew S. S. Johnson / Southern Illinois University Edwardsville contact email: matjohn@siue.edu Call for Papers: Rhetoric/Composition/Play: How Electronic Games Mediate Composition Theory and Practice (and Vice Versa)
Peer English 5 - Call for Papersfull name / name of organization: Ben Parsons/ University of Leicester contact email: bptutor@yahoo.co.uk Peer English (ISSN 1746-5621) is a refereed academic journal, now in its fifth year, published by members of the School of English at the University of Leicester.
[UPDATE] CFP Call for Editors for Red Feather Journalfull name / name of organization: Red Feather Journal (www.redfeatherjournal.org) contact email: debbieo@okstate.edu UPDATE: Call for Editors: Red Feather Journal: an International Journal of Children’s Media Culture (www.redfeatherjournal.org)
Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture - February 10-13, 2010 - Abstract Deadline December 15, 2009full name / name of organization: Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Association contact email: hiphopcfp@hotmail.com CFP: Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association 31th Annual Conference
[Update] Footnotes: New Directions in David Foster Wallace Studiesfull name / name of organization: CUNY Graduate Center contact email: footnotesconference@gmail.com REMINDER DEADLINE 8/15 “These academics' arguments seem sound as far as they go...” –Infinite Jest
[UPDATE] Personal Narrative and Political Discourse. Spec. Issue of _Biography_ 9/15/2009full name / name of organization: Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly contact email: biograph@hawaii.edu Call for Papers. Special Issue of Biography 32.1 (Winter 2010). Deadline Extended to September 15, 2009. “Personal Narrative and Political Discourse.” Guest Editor: Sidonie Smith.
Responding to traumatic narrative in the context of the college writing classroomfull name / name of organization: Jeanie Tietjen contact email: jtietjen@massbay.edu Despite significant instructional counsel against disclosure of personal trauma, students in writing classrooms regularly choose to represent traumatic experiences in composition.
[REMINDER OF DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS ] Crossing the Line: Affinities before and after 1900full name / name of organization: University of Liverpool 28-29 January 2010 contact email: organisers@crossing-the-line.org.uk Crossing the Line is a student-led postgraduate conference that will explore and interrogate the multifarious affinities between Victorian and Modernist cultures.
Becomings, Misplacements, Departures: Butler & Whiteheadfull name / name of organization: Whitehead Research Project contact email: deena@whiteheadresearch.org Call for Student Papers
[UPDATE] “Global Citizenship for the 21st Century” Interdisciplinary Conf. Nov. 15-16, 09full name / name of organization: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona contact email: bkinder@csupomona.edu “Global Citizenship for the 21st Century” Interdisciplinary Conference
CFP: Bring it! Activating the Writing Center for Tutors 10/10/2009 College of Woosterfull name / name of organization: Northeast Ohio Writing Centers Association contact email: wmacauley@wooster.edu Bring it! Activating the Writing Center for Tutors The 3rd Annual Northeast Ohio Writing Centers Association Conference
CFP: eclogafull name / name of organization: University of Strathclyde contact email: levelsix@strath.ac.uk ecloga, a peer-refereed journal run by English Studies postgraduates at the University of Strathclyde, invites papers for the next issue.
REGISTRATION OPEN -- Conference: "Utopian Spaces of British Literature and Culture, 1890-1945"full name / name of organization: English Faculty, University of Oxford (UK) contact email: utopianspaces@ell.ox.ac.uk "Utopian Spaces of British Literature and Culture, 1890-1945", 18 September 2009, University of Oxford
CALL FOR PAPER FOR PARSOMEN'S RETURNING AND RENEWED ISSUEfull name / name of organization: PARSOMEN - THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE IN ISTANBUL BILGI UNIVERSITY contact email: bilgiparsomen@gmail.com Parsomen, the quarterly periodical of the department of Comparative Literature in Istanbul Bilgi University, seek submissions of papers for its returning issue in November, 2009 after its interval of
Re-Orienting English: Paradigms in /of Crisis; date 2009/12/05; deadline 2009/09/01full name / name of organization: Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University contact email: htjian@ntu.edu.tw What is English studies in the early decade of the 21st century, when the national boundaries are being crossed and redrawn thanks to the international flight, the Internet and people flows, when the
Xchanges online journal Senior theses/final research projects undergraduate Technical Communication/Writingfull name / name of organization: Xchanges online journal, New Mexico Tech contact email: jnewmark@nmt.edu CFP: Xchanges online journal issue featuring Senior theses or final research projects of undergraduate Technical Communication and/or Technical Writing students
Participatory Popular Culture and Literacy Across Bordersfull name / name of organization: Bronwyn T. Williams / University of Louisville contact email: bronwyn.williams@louisville.edu Bronwyn T. Williams Participatory Popular Culture and Literacy Across Borders Call for Proposals
UPDATE: In Derrida's wake: a Symposium on Deconstruction After Jacques Derridafull name / name of organization: La Trobe University, Australia contact email: Derrida2009@latrobe.edu.au In Derrida's Wake ANNOUNCING: Keynote Speaker ANDREW BENJAMIN: ‘JUSTICE, LAW AND PLACE: DERRIDA AND THE UNCONDITIONAL’
Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry (Call for Papers on Literature, Philosophy and the Arts)full name / name of organization: Philosophical Society of Nepal contact email: philosophical_journal@yahoo.com The Philosophical Society of Nepal, and its reviewed Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry, seeks articles in a wide range of philosophical topics and from a wide range of perspectives,
[UPDATE] Enterprising Creativity: Innovation and the Future of Arts and Humanities Research (Graduate Conference)full name / name of organization: University of Leeds contact email: innovationconference@me.com **Abstract Deadline extended to 15 August 2009**
The Work of Neil Gaiman SW/TX PCA/ACA (11/15/09; 10-13/02/10)full name / name of organization: Ximena Gallardo/ Southwest Texas PCA/ACA contact email: ximena_gallardo_c@yahoo.com Call for Papers: The Work of Neil Gaiman, SW/TX PCA/ACA
The Work of Terry Pratchett SW/TX PCA/ACA (11/15/09; 10-13/02/10)full name / name of organization: Ximena Gallardo/ Southwest Texas PCA/ACA contact email: ximena_gallardo_c@yahoo.com Call for Papers: The Work of Terry Pratchett, SW/TX PCA/ACA
The Glamour of Grammar (Kalamazoo 2010)full name / name of organization: Irina Dumitrescu contact email: idumitrescu - at - smu.edu If conventional, twenty-first-century thinking holds that grammar is a dull set of descriptions and prescriptions consisting only of skeletal schemes of morphology and syntax, it is worth remembering
[UPDATE] CFP Colporteurs, Spaces, places, landscapes.full name / name of organization: Irina Marchesini, Luca Pasquale, Luca Vancini - University of Bologna, Italy. contact email: colporteurs2009@libero.it The group “Colporteurs” is pleased to announce their annual conference, which will be held on Wednesday, 23 September 2009 at the Department of Italian Studies in Bologna University, Italy.
[UPDATE] New deadline Theories and Forms of Allegory from Middle Age to Modernity international conference Contributors needed!full name / name of organization: Carlo Tirinanzi de Medici - Università di Trento contact email: allegoria.trento@gmail.com --English version below -- Lʼallegoria: teorie e forme tra medioevo e modernità
Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry (Call for Papers on Literature, Philosophy and the Arts)full name / name of organization: Philosophical Society of Nepal contact email: philosophical_journal@yahoo.com The Philosophical Society of Nepal, and its reviewed Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry, seeks articles in a wide range of philosophical topics and from a wide range of perspectives,
"Queering the Classics: Desiring the Past in Medieval Latin Literature" Kalamazoo 2010full name / name of organization: Emily Blakelock/Centre for Medieval Studies (Toronto) Latin Working Group contact email: emily.blakelock@utoronto.ca Kalamazoo 2010 CFP Queering the Classics: Desiring the Past in Medieval Latin Literature
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