CFP: Caribbean Literature at CEA 2018

deadline for submissions: 
November 1, 2017
full name / name of organization: 
Laura Barrio-Vilar / College English Association
contact email: 

Call for Papers, Caribbean Literature 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 Caribbean Literature for our 49th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

The general conference theme is “bridges,” so we are especially interested in presentations that build bridges between and among texts, disciplines, people, cultures, media, languages, and generations.

We welcome individual and panel presentation proposals that address postcolonial Caribbean literature in general, including—but not limited to—the following possible themes:

* Bridges in Caribbean literature

* Bridging racial, ethnic, gender, sexual, class, and national identities

* Colonization and empire

* Nationalism and citizenship

* Hybridity, transculturation, creolite, and mestizaje

* Resistance and resilience

* Migration, exile, transnationalism, and/or globalization

* Travel and tourism

* Orality and the spoken word

* Intertextuality

* Diasporic theory and Caribbean literatures

* Postcolonial studies and Caribbean literatures

* Comparative literary, historical, political, or cultural analyses of Caribbean literatures

Conference Theme

CEA welcomes proposals for presentations on the general conference theme: Bridges. CEA invites proposals from academics in all areas of literature, language, film, composition, pedagogy, and creative, professional, and technical writing. 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 deadline: November 1, 2017

 

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

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

 

Sincerely,

 

Dr. Laura Barrio-Vilar

Associate Professor of English

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

English Department

2801 S. University Avenue, 501 Stabler Hall

Little Rock, AR 72204

501.569.3161 | lxbarrio@ualr.edu | http://www.ualr.edu/english