Call for Papers: Film Studies at CEA 2016
Call for Papers: Film Studies at CEA 2016
CEA 2016 | CREATION
47th Annual Conference | March 31- April 2, 2016 | DENVER, COLORADO
Grand Hyatt Denver, 1750 Welton Street, Denver, CO, 80202.
Phone: (303) 295-1234
Submission deadline: November 1, 2015 at http://cea-web.org/
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations for our 47th annual conference.
While we welcome essays pertaining to any area of film studies, we are particularly interested in explorations of cinematic "creation": both the creation of movies as will as depictions of creation on film.
Submission: August 15 - November 1, 2015
Please see the submission instructions at http://cea-web.org/
Conference Theme: Creation
For our 2016 meeting, the College English Association invites papers and panels that explore the literary, the rhetorical, the pedagogical and the professional "creations" of our fields.
To create, to study the creation of others and thus re-create in various manifestations of potential meaning, to be a creator of a text or meaning or environment, to stimulate creativity or creation in others—creation is at the heart of what we do. That perhaps wondrous act or process or phenomenon of bringing something into being that did not exist before, creation may be recognized in writing, in analysis, in the coming together of disparate elements in a class discussion during which the lecturer sees the lights come on or hears a student's perspective remarkable in its profundity and originality. The creations of evolving conceptions of text, publication and authorship are changing so rapidly that the profession struggles to provide meaningful definition. What do we create, hope our students will create, see or reconstruct in the creations of others?
General Call for Papers
In addition to our conference theme, CEA also welcomes proposals for presentations by teachers, scholars, and graduate students in any of the areas English departments typically encompass, including literature, creative writing, composition, pedagogy, technical communication, professional writing, computers and writing, languages, linguistics, digital humanities, and film. We also welcome papers on areas that influence our work as academics, including student demographics, student/instructor accountability and assessment, student advising, academic leadership in departments and programs, and the place of the English department in the university overall. Proposals may interpret the CEA theme broadly, including but not limited to the following areas:
Special Topics
CEA also welcomes proposals addressing the following special topics. Please specify topic areas when submitting your proposals.
▪Academic Administration Leadership
▪Accommodating Disability in the English Classroom
▪African American Literature
▪American Literature: early, 19th‐century, 20th & 21st‐century
▪Blackfriars (American Shakespeare Center)
▪Book History and Textual Criticism
▪British Literature: Medieval, Renaissance, Restoration & 18th‐century, 19th‐century, 20th & 21st‐century
▪Byron Society of America (BSA)
▪Caribbean Literature
▪Children's and Adolescent Literature
▪Closing the Loop Through Assessment in Composition and Literature Courses
▪Composition and Rhetoric
▪Creative Writing: fiction, poetry, non‐fiction
▪Digital Humanities
▪Disability Studies
▪Film and Literature
▪Film Studies
▪Food and the Literary Imagination
▪Grammar
▪Graphic Novels
▪Hispanic, Latino(a), and Chicano(a) Literature
▪Irish Literature
▪Law and Literature
▪Learning Outcomes and Assessment
▪Linguistics
▪Literary Theory
▪Literature and the Healing Arts
▪Literature Pedagogy
▪Metacognition, Active Learning, & Supportive Technology in the Literature or Composition Classroom
▪Multicultural Literature
▪Native American Literature
▪Peace Studies
▪Popular Culture
▪Post-Colonial Literature
▪Religion and Literature
▪Romance
▪Scottish Literature
▪Service Learning in English Courses—Composition and Literature
▪Short Story: Criticism
▪Teacher Education
▪Technical Communication
▪The Profession
▪Thomas Merton (International Thomas Merton Society)
▪Transatlantic Literature
▪Trauma and Literature
▪Travel and Literature
▪True Crime
▪War and Literature
▪World Literature
Online Submissions
CEA prefers to receive submissions electronically through our conference management database housed at the following web address: http://www.cea-web.org
Electronic submissions open 15 August and close on 1 November 2015. Abstracts for proposals should be between 200 and 500 words in length and should include a title.
Submitting electronically involves setting up a user ID, then using that ID to log in – this time to a welcome page that provides a link for submitting proposals to the conference. If you are submitting a panel with multiple participants, please create a user ID for each proposed participant. If you have attended CEA before and are willing to serve as a session chair or respondent for a panel other than your own, please indicate so on your submission.
Important Information for Presenters
▪ A-V equipment and any form of special accommodation must be requested
at the time of proposal submission.
▪ CEA can provide DVD players, overhead projectors, data projectors, and CD/cassette players, but not computers or Internet access.
▪ To preserve time for discussion, CEA limits all presentations to 15 minutes.
▪ Notifications of proposal status will be sent around 5 December 2015.
▪ All presenters must join CEA by 1 January 2016 to appear on the program.
▪ No person may make more than one presentation at the conference.
▪ Presenters must make their own presentation; no proxies are allowed.
▪ CEA welcomes graduate student presenters, but does not accept proposals from undergraduates.
▪ CEA does not sponsor or fund travel or underwrite participant costs.
▪ Papers must be presented in English.
Note to Graduate Students
▪ Graduate students may submit their conference presentation for the CEA Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award (see below), which carries a small prize.
▪ Information on how to submit that paper will be sent to accepted panelists after the membership deadline.
▪ Graduate students are asked to identify themselves as such in their proposals so we can send information about the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award when it is available.
Join the College English Association
To join the College English Association or to find out more information about the conference, please see the CEA website at www.cea-web.org
Membership
All presenters at the 2016 CEA conference must become members of CEA by January 1, 2016. To join CEA, please go to http://cea-web.org/
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Sincerely,
Jamie L. McDaniel, Ph.D.
jmcdaniel@pittstate.edu
Associate Professor of English
Director, Technical / Professional Writing
Co-Director, Interdisciplinary Film and Media Studies Minor
Editor, The CEA Forum
Pittsburg State University