pedagogy

Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing publishes work addressing linkages between critical thinking and writing, in and across the disciplines, and it is especially interested in pieces that explore and report on connections between pedagogical theory and classroom practice. The journal also invites proposals from potential guest editors for specially themed volumes that fall within its focus and scope.

Advisory Board

Michele Eodice

Anne Geller

Suzanne S. Hudd

Neal Lerner

Sally Elizabeth Mitchell

Tim Moore

Robert A. Smart

Kathleen Blake Yancey

MAPACA (Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association) 2017

28th Annual Conference

Philadelphia, PA

November 9-11, 2017

Medieval and Renaissance (formerly called “Beowulf to Shakespeare”)

The wealth of material found in the Middle Ages and Renaissance continues to attract modern audiences with new creative works that make use of medieval and/or early modern themes, characters, or plots. This is a call for papers or panels dealing with any aspect of medieval or Renaissance representations in popular culture.  Topics for this area include, but are not limited to:

Fostering Global Competence: Teaching Language and Culture Through Film

Abstract:

The session aims to reimagine the fundamental pedagogical role of foreign language and culture courses in the college curriculum in the era of globalization. Providing students with cultural experience is the objective and challenge in beginners’ language and culture courses. Films can provide the narrative of our fast-changing time, allowing reflection on global issues as well as cultural values. This session will explore whether it is possible to add relevant content to our instruction to help students reflect on the global era. 

Capstones are an established part of undergraduate curricula. Often a requirement in degree programs, these investigative and research-based projects stress relevance and practicality. They are, thus, often promoted as necessities; they demand critical thinking, clear analytic writing, methodological application, and for those projects collaborative in their structure, teamwork and negotiation. Capstones encourage inventive and imaginative thought, reinforcing activities we associate with what we might call the ideal “humanist” – philosophically and ethically engaged, socially aware, and community minded.

For 152 years, H.G. Wells has been part of our literary cannon in science fiction, criticism and utopian projections. Fiction writers have the latitude to focus on current issues of their time, often in the guise of fictional places and/or unusual characters. H.G. Wells did exactly that in his science fiction as well as his fiction stories. Wells’ vision of an “open conspiracy of intellectuals and willful people” to build Cosmopolis occurs regularly in most of his fiction, and appears prominently in his major prophetic writings before 1914: in Anticipations, in A Modern Utopia, and elsewhere (W. Warren Wagar 40-42). The focus of this roundtable is to discuss the techniques H.G.

CFP: Global Studies of Childhood

Special Issue: Children and Popular Culture

Guest Editor: Patrick Cox, Rutgers University

MEARCSTAPA Call for Papers/Presentations

Make/Risk/Work

BABEL 2017 Biennale

NEW DEADLINE! 

Organizers: Asa Simon Mittman of California State University Chico: asmittman@csuchico.edu; Thea Tomaini of The University of Southern California: tmtomaini@gmail.com

 Make/Risk/Work

BABEL 2017 Biennale, Reno, NV

The deadline for paper proposals has been extended to June 26.

The PAMLA 2017 Conference will be held at the lovely Chaminade University of Honolulu (with the official conference hotel being the Ala Moana) from Friday, November 10 to Sunday, November 12.

The “Composition and Rhetoric” session welcomes proposals on any topic related to the crafting of critical thinking and written expression in the classroom.  However, we are particularly interested in papers that engage this year’s conference theme "The Sense of Sight: Visuality, Visibility, and Ways of Seeing." 

Individual paper presentations will be between 15 and 20 minutes long. Please submit proposals via the online system by June 26, 2017. 

This session will explore the practice of teaching, on the K-12 level, at community colleges, or at universities, as a tenure track faculty member, visiting professor, or adjunct professor, as a distinct culture, subculture, or cultural milieu. We welcome interdisciplinary papers that address the profession from psychological, structural, ethnographic, folkloric, historical, or cultural studies perspectives. Presentations on literary, filmic, or other cultural representations of teaching are also welcome.

We're looking for papers that demonstrate tools, techniques, or actual assignments that increase student success, enhance students' critical thinking, or encourage student involvement through unusual teaching methods (this can include flipping the classroom, interdisciplinary modes of rhetoric, or simply other types of ideas, projects, and assignments that have proved effective). We are interested in papers focused on means of engaging students in different ways of thinking about their own position in society and in understanding other communities.

This is a last minute extended call for papers.  The roundtable below has already been approved, but a panelist unexpectedly dropped out at the last minute and I would like to fill the spot.   

The College English Association solicits abstracts on the special focus of the 89th SAMLA conference from November 3-5 in Atlanta: “High Art/Low Art: Borders and Boundaries in Popular Culture.” From the selection of singer and songwriter Bob Dylan as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature last year to the election as President of a former reality-television star, the topic could not be more timely nor seminal.

More information on the conference may be found at https://samla.memberclicks.net/.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to: 

We are currently seeking writers, editors, and contributors of all kinds to The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature, an Open Educational Resource (OER) textbook under development with the Rebus Community. Rebus is a non-profit organization that works with faculty, librarians, students, and staff to build tools and resources in support of free and open textbook publishing.