pedagogy

The MLA Committee on Community Colleges announces the following call for papers on the topic of Justice and Equity in the Classroom: How classrooms engage the immigrant story: as text, as student narrative, as a chapter in the story itself. 250-word abstracts to Heather Ostman (heather.ostman@sunywcc.edu) by 6 March 2017 for consideration for this panel at the MLA Annual Convention in New York City on 4-7 Jan. 2018. Must be a current MLA member to submit a proposal.

University of Idaho Graduate English Conference: "Post-Humanisms in the Anthropocene: Opening Digital and Ecological Spaces"
April 15, 2017

Call for Critical or Creative Work

"New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing" is open for submissions for Volume 15 (15.1, 15.2, 15.3)

New Writing is an internationally A+ rated journal publishing critical work relating to creative writing practice (i.e. work in Creative Writing Studies). Creative work (in any genre) is also very welcome.

The New Writing Peer Review Board includes, among others:

Proposed session for the annual convention of the American Studies Association (theme: “Pedagogies of Dissent”) in Chicago, Nov 9-12, 2017

Reading and Writing in the Twenty-First-Century Literary Studies Classroom: Theory and Practice

The University of Queensland

Brisbane, Australia

6-8 July 2017

Deadline for submissions: Extended to 10 February 2017

Contact for general queries: Judith Seaboyer j.seaboyer@uq.edu.au

Confirmed speakers:

David Aldridge, Reader in the Philosophy of Education, Brunel University London

Dr Tully Barnett, Flinders University

Professor Karen Manarin, Mt Royal University

Professor Helen Sword, University of Auckland

The editors of Textshop Experiments invite submissions via essays and video essays, reviews, conference reports, and multimodal projects for its forthcoming Open Issue to be published in May 2017.  Works can be submitted on any topic related to the following:

As we head toward the 150th anniversary of Catharine Sedgwick's death and the 20th anniversary of the CMS Society in 2017, we invite proposals for the following panel for ALA 2017:

Session #1: TIME, MEMORIALS AND ANNIVERSARIES (3 or 4 15 to 20-minute papers):

Talks on any aspect of the session topic are welcome: models, tips, strategies for teaching literature (English, American, world, other). Come share what's working in your classroom. This is a fun panel with great energy and enthusiasm.

Please send a 250 word proposal and a brief bio by March 1 to Dr. Eric Meljac at emeljac@wtamu.edu.

For more information about the conference, check out the general CFP http://www.rmmla.org.

The 2017 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference will be held in Spokane, Washington, on October 12-14, 2017.

Call for Articles

Divergent Learning Methods

Concept Note and Call for Articles for E-QUAL News Issue 14 ( January 2017)

Send your submissions to: projectequal2014@gmail.com by 20th January, 2017.

See below for details!

E-QUAL News: Bi-Monthly Online Newsletter-Magazine of EU-India Project E-QUAL :

Link: http://www.projectequal.net/equal/index.php/newsletter

Queen City Writers is a refereed journal that publishes essays and multimedia work by

undergraduate students affiliated with any post-secondary institution. We seek faculty

reviewers to complement our current staff. Graduate students, contingent faculty, and

tenured faculty are welcome. Reviewers for our journal need two characteristics: 1. A

commitment to undergraduate writing, digital composing, and publication; 2. A

professionalism that means submitting thorough reviews that meet our journal’s guidelines by

deadlines. We ask that our reviewers offer rigorous feedback aimed at facilitating

publication-quality work, but also show sensitivity and an encouraging attitude toward

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: 1st Submission Deadline February 15, 2017                

2nd Submission Deadline March 15, 2017

Equity, Equality and Reform in Contemporary Public Education

A book edited by Marquis C. Grant (Grand Canyon University)

Call for Papers: Trends in Teaching College Composition

Collin College

Collin Higher Education Center

McKinney, Texas

Friday, March 31, 2017

Collin College, a two-year institution serving Collin County, is hosting its fourth annual conference on trends in the teaching of college composition. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Bruce Ballenger, Professor of English at Boise State University.

Submission deadline: Currently ongoing until full

Creative writing found a home in universities in the United States in the early part of the twentieth century and grew in popularity in the postwar era. Hundreds of creative writing programs now exist across the nation, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as writers earn any one of a number of degrees: BAs, BFAs, MAs, MFAs, and Ph.Ds.

Shakespeare scholars regularly encounter social justice issues in the material that we study and teach. Most often in the classroom our engagement with such issues takes the form of thematic identification and critical parsing. Yet we struggle to form more direct, material connections between coursework and social justice work. This book is for professors of early modern literature who want to heighten the intellectual impact of their courses by thoughtfully using their classrooms as laboratories for social formation and action.