rhetoric and composition

Pedagogy, Practice and Philosophy

Edited Collection CFP: Teen Childbearing and Young Parenthood: Rearing, Rhetoric, and Representation

Collection Editors
Rochelle Gregory, Ph.D.
North Central Texas College, Corinth, Texas

Ann-Marie Lopez, Ph.D.
McMurry University, Abilene, Texas

Ben Sword, Ph.D.
Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas

Marc Azard, Ph.D.
Collin College, McKinney, Texas

Call for Proposals—Affect and Emotion in the Writing Center

Janine Morris (jmorris2@nova.edu) & Kelly Concannon (km1319@nova.edu), editors

Deadline for Chapter Proposals: December 15, 2018

CFP: Virginia Woolf Miscellany Issue #97 Spring 2020
Submissions Due: 29 Septmeber 2019

Special Topic:
Virginia Woolf: Mobilizing Emotion, Feeling, and Affect

Guest Editor: Celiese Lypka

Call for Papers: “Addressing Readers”

Venue: University Paul-Valéry Montpellier III

Date: 28-29 November 2019

Research lab: EMMA, Etudes Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone (https://emma.www.univ-montp3.fr/fr/evenements/addressing-readers-pragmatics-communication-first-printed-novels-english)

Conveners: Virginie Iché & Sandrine Sorlin

Conference website: https://addressingreaders.wordpress.com/

Submission deadline extended to December 1, 2018.

Please note also the requirement of AN ABSTRACT with submissions!

The Journal of South Texas English Studies is now welcoming submissions for its Winter 2019 issue, themed “Archival Research: Discovery, Truth, and Imagination.” Submission deadline extended to December 1, 2018.

CEA 2019: New Orleans

Call for Papers
Closing date: November 1, 2018

Special Topic: Old Dogs, New Tricks

50th Annual Conference | March 28-30, 2019 | New Orleans
  
Vision/Revision

“If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.” —George Eliot

“And time yet for a hundred indecisions/And for a hundred visions and revisions/Before the taking of a toast and tea.” —T. S. Eliot

NeMLA 

Washington D.C.

March 19-23

From Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg” to Rosie Bradiotti’s “Vitruvian woman,” posthuman studies and feminist studies have both used images of the female body as tangible metaphors in order to disrupt and critique boundaries and binaries. This roundtable will explore 20th and 21st century literature that illuminates the entanglement and correspondence between posthuman and feminist discourses, specifically in the notion of the female or post-gender body.

Papers for this roundtable are invited to reflect the following questions through literary readings:

Spark: A 4C4Equality Journal

Published by Working & Writing for Change/New City Community Press

The economic realities facing today’s undergraduate population have led to a proliferation of enrollments into PhD programs. The unfortunate reality is that the majority of these neophyte graduate students are waiting for jobs that are either no longer available or never existed in the first place. Concurrently, for right or wrong, in US colleges and universities at all levels, adjunct and contingent faculty members are no longer in the minority. These part-time and non-tenure track (NTT) instructors outnumber their tenured and tenure-track counterparts at many two-year and four-year institutions.

We are currently seeking proposals for a 5,000-word essay specifically focused on kink and graphic texts: graphic novels, comics, manga, etc. Proposals should explore both the kink and the graphic text(s) by engaging theoretical frameworks such as psychoanalysis, queer theory, rhetoric, and/or feminist theory.

Culture, Community, and Change: The 6th Annual 21st Century Englishes Graduate Student Conferenc

The 21st Century Englishes Graduate Student Conference is hosted by the Rhetoric Society of the Black Swamp, Bowling Green State University’s Student Chapter of the Rhetoric Society of America & BGSU Rhetoric & Writing Ph.D. Program. It is sponsored by BGSU English Department, BGSU General Studies Writing, and BGSU Student Organizations.

Conference Date: November 10, 2018

Location: Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH

It is hard to exaggerate the novelty of English Treasurer Richard fitz Nigel’s Dialogue of the Exchequer, completed c. 1179. Often considered Europe’s first administrative manual, it required the invention of a new genre, the systematic thinking-through of collected bureaucratic knowledge and its categorization and organization. Successive generations of historians have mined this text for data about England’s taxation office and common law, but it has more to offer researchers of bureaucratic and institutional culture, medieval identity formation, and intertextuality. 

While scholars often note that Hoccleve’s and Langland’s poetic personae each make the other more understandable, rarely have these poets been analyzed together in great detail. Thus, with this session, The International Hoccleve Society and International Piers Plowman Society seek to provide an occasion to do so. The Societies invite paper submissions that examine the ways interpretive discourses around Hoccleve’s and Langland’s works overlap and intersect.