The CSUN Department of English Annual Conference
18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330
April 16-17, 2016
Sponsored by the Associated Graduate Students of English (AGSE) and Sigma Tau Delta Iota Chi Honors Society (STDIC)

"Archi-textuality: Interventions of Text & Textuality in Historical, Economical, Sociopolitical, and Psychological Space"

AGSE and STDIC are seeking submissions for the CSUN Department of English Annual Conference that focus on bridging the intersections of text and textuality within historical, economical, sociopolitical, and psychological spaces. Submissions are accepted for both creative writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and drama) and critical work and are open to undergraduate as well as graduate, doctoral, and post-doctoral scholars.

In particular, we seek papers that consider the following categories:
• African American Studies
• Asian American Studies
• American Literature
• Chicano/Chicana Studies
• Children & Young Adult Literature
• Colonial & Post-Colonial Studies
• Comics & Graphic Novel Studies
• Creative Writing
• Cultural Studies
• Gender Studies
• Material Studies
• Medieval Studies
• Modernist Studies
• Nineteenth-Century Studies
• Renaissance & Early Modern Studies
• Rhetoric & Composition
• Romantic Studies
• Twentieth-Century Studies
• Twenty-First & Contemporary Studies
• Victorian Studies

Opportunities are also available for submissions to the following specialized panels:
• Critical Theory (sponsored by the CSUN Critical Theory Club)
• Digital Humanities (sponsored by 4Humanities@CSUN)
• Long Eighteenth-Century Studies (sponsored by The 18th-Century Scriveners)

Please send your proposal submissions to agsestdicconference@gmail.com and include the following information:
Abstract (300-400 words)
Name
Institution
Department & major
Undergraduate/Graduate standing
Email address
Audio-visual needs (if applicable)

Presentations will be 10-15 minutes long.
Deadline for submission: Friday, February 19, 2016