Subject: Call for Papers: War Literature and Trauma, at CEA 2018

Call for Papers, War Literature and Trauma, at CEA 2018

April 5-7, 2018 | St. Petersburg, Florida

Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront

333 1st St South, Saint Petersburg, Florida  33701 | Phone: (727) 894-5000

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on War Literature and Trauma for our 49th annual conference. Submit your proposal at: http://cea-web.org/.

The panel welcomes papers treating trauma and trauma theory in war literature. The conference theme is "Bridges"; potential contributors might consider approaching the theme metaphorically or geographically. All papers regarding trauma in war literature will be considered. Please send title and abstract to Prof. Andrea Van Nort at the USAF Academy, Colorado at andrea.vannort@usafa.edu.

Conference Theme

CEA welcomes proposals for presentations on the general conference theme: Bridges. The Sunshine Skyway Bridge crosses Tampa Bay from St. Petersburg, called the Sunshine City in honor of its Guinness Record for most consecutive days of sunshine (768). St. Petersburg is home to historic neighborhoods, distinguished museums, contemporary galleries, and a wide variety of dining, entertainment and shopping venues. St. Petersburg is also home to the College English Association’s 2018 national conference, where we invite you to join us at our annual meeting to explore the many bridges that connect places, texts, communities, words, and ideas.

CEA invites proposals from academics in all areas of literature, language, film, composition, pedagogy, and creative, professional, and technical writing. We are especially interested in presentations that build bridges between and among texts, disciplines, people, cultures, media, languages, and generations.

For your proposal you might consider:

• Bridges between disciplines, languages, or generations
• Bridges between races, classes, cultures, regions, genders, or sexualities.
• Cultural or ideological bridges in literary, scholarly, or theoretical works
• The bridge as construct, form, metaphor, motif, or icon
• Connections between text and images or sound
• Bridges between theory and practice, reading and writing, writer and audience
• Building bridges between teaching and scholarship; faculty and administrators; professors and students
• Bridges as physical artifacts and symbols of industry and technology
• Digital humanities as a bridge between worlds
• What bridges connect, support, and pass over

General Call for Papers

CEA also welcomes proposals for presentations in any of the areas English departments typically encompass, including literature criticism and scholarship, creative writing, composition, technical communication, linguistics, and film. We also welcome papers on areas that influence our work as academics, including student demographics, student/instructor accountability and assessment, student advising, academic leadership in departments and programs, and the place of the English department in the university.

Submission: August 15-November 1, 2017

For more information on how to submit, please see the full CFP at http://www.cea-web.org

Membership
All presenters at the 2018 CEA conference must become members of CEA by January 1, 2018. To join CEA, please go to http://www.cea-web.org

Other questions? Please email cea.english@gmail.com.

Sincerely,

Andrea Faris Trocha-Van Nort, PhD

Professor and Director of the Scholars Program

USAF Academy

2354 Fairchild Drive Ste 6D207

USAF Academy, CO 80840