College English Association - Middle Atlantic Group
ANNUAL SPRING CONFERENCE 2016
Call for Papers
"Cultivation"
5 March 2016
Keynote Panel:
"Cultivating the English Major in the Digital Age"
Panelists: Chris Cain (Towson); Horacio Sierra (Bowie State);
Shirley Wilson Logan (UMD); Laura Yoo (Howard CC)

Location: Montgomery College, Rockville Campus

For this year's conference we hearken to Candide's advice and take "Cultivation" as our theme. We invite papers or panels on literature, language, cultural studies, composition, and pedagogy that contemplate this theme both within the discipline of English and in other areas of the humanities. We welcome interdisciplinary papers and panels, and we also encourage submissions from AP instructors and graduate students. Proposals may broadly interpret the conference theme along (but not confined to) the following lines:
Swords into ploughshares
Organic metaphors
Ya dig it? Counterculture
Fertility & bumper crops
Plowing through student papers
Planting, harvesting, sustainability
The greening of (almost) everything
Seeds of doubt? Rhetoric of climate change "debate"
Cultivating grammar/language/metaphors
Out standing in one's field
Sowing wild oats
Culture & anarchy
Pop culture & haute couture
Pedagogy & ecologies of scale
Georgics
Cultivating technology
Please email your paper abstracts (of 500 words or fewer) or panel proposals by Dec. 15 to Alex Howe, Program Committee Chair, at ceamagconference@gmail.com (202-274-5658). Acceptance letters will be sent out in mid- January. A conference registration/CEA-MAG membership fee of $40 ($30 for adjunct instructors and $20 for graduate students) will be required when you mail in your registration for the conference (includes lunch and subscription to the CEAMAGazine). Other questions about the conference may be directed to Charlie Ewers, CEA-MAG President, at cewers@frostburg.edu (301-687-4230). Website: www.umes.edu/CEAMAG.

Abstracts and panel proposals should include the following information: Name; institutional affiliation (if applicable; graduate students should identify themselves to be eligible to compete for the $100 Christopher Bell prize for best grad student paper); mailing address (including zip code); phone number and email address; title for the proposed presentation; abstract of no more than 500 words (papers at the conference should be limited to 15 minutes); A-V needs, if any; special needs, if any. Adjunct instructors are eligible to compete for a travel grant by submitting a full copy of the accepted paper to be presented at the conference by Feb. 26 to the Program Committee Chair; two such grants in the amount of $100 each will be awarded.