March 26-28, 2020 | Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

Hilton Head Marriott Resort and Spa

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on “Multicultural and World Literary Tides” for our 51st annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

Conference Theme

CEA welcomes proposals for presentations on the conference theme of Tides, especially as they relate to global and multicultural literature. The College English Association’s 51st national conference will be held on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, where the tides shape the land and the culture, from food and drink to music and literature. Hilton Head’s fame as a vacation destination is paralleled by the island’s rich and diverse cultural history, with its still-vibrant Gullah/Geechee community and Lowcountry traditions of hospitality. Whether bolstered or battered by the tide, Hilton Head survives and thrives. The South Carolina Lowcountry has inspired literature by Edgar Allan Poe and contemporary fiction and poetry from writers such as Gloria Naylor, Pat Conroy, Anne Rivers Siddons, Dorothea Benton Frank, and Mary Alice Monroe, while the Lowcountry and Hilton Head have appeared in countless films.

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 feature topics relating to tides in texts, disciplines, people, cultural studies, media, and pedagogy. For your proposal you might consider these concepts related to Tides:

• inevitability: shifts and trends relating to race, class, cultures, regions, genders, sexualities
• mutability and mutation: poetry of loss, change, and death
• evanescence: reclaiming texts that have vanished and reevaluating the canonical
• liminality: shifting borders in genre and form
• ephemerality: popular culture and forgetting
• resistance: pedagogical theory and practice
• transcendence: magical realism 
• movement: avant gardeor experimental literature
• erosion and deposition: the new topography of instruction

Submission: August 15-November 1, 2019

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

For more information about the content area of Multicultural and World Literature, contact Moumin Quazi at quazi@tarleton.edu.