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Call
for Papers CHILDREN'S LITERATURE at CEA 2010

The 41st
Annual College English Association Conference

Sheraton Gunter Hotel; 209 East
Houston Street, San Antonio, TX 78205

March
25-7, 2010 – San Antonio, Texas

www2.widener.edu/~cea

 

The
College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English
studies, welcomes  proposals for presentations on Children's Literature  for our 41st annual conference.  Please join our collegial community in gorgeous
South Texas this Spring.  Below, read
more about our THEME for this year's
conference as well as our GENERAL PROGRAM.

 

Conference Theme:
Voices

"And
in my voice most welcome shall you be." As You Like It 2:4.87

 

San
Antonio. Images of the River Walk merge with the memories of its most famous
location, the Alamo. Remember it, the voices from the past call out, and we do.

 

Those
voices on opposing sides of its walls, representing Santa Anna and Sam Houston,
spoke for two distinctly diverse cultures. And within those cultures were
voices and texts that influenced the actions during that struggle – significant
cultural markers of time, place, and being.

 

Before
and after the struggle there, writers everywhere have reflected and influenced
the events of their day, and from their experience, the great writers have
created texts that have become ageless connections to what is past, or passing, or to come.

 

Their voices also call for us to acknowledge or recognize
beauty or to realize or remember significant lessons – perhaps via a character
like Professor Farber from Fahrenheit 451 or a place like a raft on a
river in Huckleberry Finn – with an urgency no less than the Alamo's. This correspondence we find
within ourselves is our human condition – but it is the capacity to listen for
and to those whose message or memory is unlike our own that makes us scholars. Our
voices blend with those we admire or abhor – creating a text, which (if it
stands the test of taste and time) will blend with still other voices, like
those of our students, newly discovering "a peak in Darien" – all wishing
to be heard and remembered.

 

In
the shadow of San Antonio's famous symbol of voices that call for attention and
allegiance, College English Association asks you to submit papers on any aspect
of the following topics:

 

Native
Voices                                                             Giving
Voice

Voices
in Poetry, Fiction, Drama                  Voice
in Oral Literatures

Voices
from the Center                                  Poet
as Sayer; Poet as Voice-giver

Voice
(lessness) as Power                              Vox
Populi

Composition
and Voice                                 Voices
of the Home

Oral
Interpretation of literature                    Voice
as Speech

Digital
Voices                                                             Voices
of Deception

Voices
in the Wilderness                                Voices
of Joy

Voice
studies                                                  Voices
as Vocalizations

Voices
of the Folk                                           Voices
in Material Culture

Voices
of Praise                                              Voices
of Protest

Voice
in Curricula, Courses, & Programs

 

General
Program

 

In
addition to our conference theme, we also invite scholars, teachers, and
graduate students to submit papers that address any topic relevant to our
profession, including English, American, or World literature; film studies,
women's studies, and multicultural studies; pedagogical approaches: class
discussion, online courses, computers and technology, teacher education, ESL;
composition and rhetoric; creative writing; popular culture; as well as those
topics that relate to our lives as academics: student advising,; grade
inflation; assessment techniques (for student and teacher); administrative
posts and service positions; or anything relating to the changing identity of
the English department: how it is perceived, appreciated, or utilized by the
university.

 

Submission
Instructions

 

Submit
proposals online at www2.widener.edu/~cea

 

Electronic
submissions open on August 21 and close on November 1, 2009. Abstracts for
proposals should be between 200 and 500 words in length and should include a
title.

 

If
proposing a panel with multiple speakers, organizers must create user IDs and
submissions for each participant. If
you are willing to serve as a session chair or respondent for a panel other
than your own, please indicate so on your submission.

 

Though
we prefer to receive proposals through the conference database, CEA will accept
hard copy proposals postmarked starting August 21, 2009, but no later than
October 21. Include the following information for each proposed participant:

 

Name
and institutional affiliation

Mailing
address

Email
address

Title
and abstract of 200-500 words

Audio-visual
equipment needs

Special
needs

 

Address
paper submissions to:

Karen Lentz Madison, CEA Program Chair

331 Kimpel Hall

Department of English

University of Arkansas

Fayetteville, AR 72701          

 

Important
Information for Presenters

·        
If
you need audio-visual equipment, please specify your needs as clearly as
possible. CEA can provide overhead projectors, DVD players, audio tape/CD
players, and computer data projectors (presenters must bring their own laptop
computers to run data projectors.). CEA cannot provide Internet access.

• To preserve time for
  discussion, CEA limits all presentations to 15 minutes.
• Papers must be presented
  in English
• Notifications of proposal
  status will be sent around December 5th.
• All presenters must join
  CEA by January 1, 2010, to appear on the program.
• No person may make more
  than one presentation at the conference.
• Each presenter must make
  his or her own presentation; no proxies are allowed.
• CEA does not sponsor or
  fund travel or underwrite participant costs.

 

Questions?

• For
  CEA 2010 program questions, contact Karen Madison, CEA 1st
  VP, at cea.English@gmail.com (put "Program Chair" on the subject line).
• For
  membership questions, contact Joseph Pestino, CEA Treasurer
  –Membership Center, Department of English, Nazareth College of Rochester,
  245 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618; phone (585-389-2645); cea.english@gmail.com
  (put "Treasurer" in the subject line).
• For
  general conference questions, contact Charles A.S. Ernst,
  Executive Director –CEA Headquarters, Department of Arts and Sciences,
  Hilbert College, 5200 South Park Avenue, Hamburg, NY 14075; phone
  (716-649-7900, ext. 315); cernst@hilbert.edu

• For
  technical questions, contact Miles Kimball, CEA President at cea.english@gmail.com
  (put "Technical" in the subject line).

CEA Awards
Conference presenters may be eligible for awards, such as the James R. Bennett Award for
Literature and Peace or the Robert Hacke Scholar-Teacher
Award.
 
Special
Topics

Academic
Leadership During the "Big" Squeeze: The Budget Vice

Academic
Leadership: Open Topic

Afro-Caribbean
Literature

American
Lit: early, 19th-century, 20th-century, African-American

Anatomy
of Violence in Literature: Examining Conflict (NYCEA)

Anglophone
Literature

Anniversaries
& Commemorations

The
Blackfriars Panel (American Shakespeare Center)

Book
History and Textual Criticism (Rare Book School)

British
Lit.: Medieval, Renaissance, 18th-century, 20th century

Children's
and Adolescent Literature

Close
Reading [all issues around it] (NYCEA)

Composition
and Rhetoric

Creative
Writing: Fiction, Poetry, Non-fiction

Film
and Literature

Food
and Literary Imagination

Graduate
Student Concerns

Literature and Medicine and the Healing Arts       

Hispanic,
Latino, and Chicano Literature

Interdisciplinary
Approaches to Writing and Literature (NYCEA)

Literature
and Law/Literature and Criminal Justice (NYCEA)

Literature
Pedagogy

Multicultural
Literature

Native
American Literature

Peace

Pennsylvania
CEA

Pop
Culture

Reconciliation
in/and Literature (NYCEA)

Religion
and Literature

Representing
the Struggle for Human Rights in Literature (NYCEA)

The
Sea at CEA

The
Short Story

Teacher
Education

Technical
Communication (Association of Teachers of Technical Writing)

Thomas
Merton (International Thomas Merton Society)

Trauma
and Literature

War
and Literature

Women's
Connection

World
Literature

 

Note
to Graduate Students

Graduate
students must identify themselves in their proposals so we may later send
information about CEA's Best Graduate Student Paper Award (which carries a
small prize). Submission instructions will be sent to accepted panelists
after the membership deadline.