PUBLISH IN THE CEA CRITIC
To kick off this New Year, we at the The CEA Critic—the flagship journal of the College English Association—would like to you to submit your work to us. The CEA as born in 1938, when a group of young professors had in mind when they broke away from the MLA because they wanted to emphasize the importance of teaching in their scholarship.
Throughout its uninterrupted history of publication (starting in 1939), the journal has featured the thoughts of writers and teacher-scholars about topics across genres, periods, and places. For example, we support colleagues early in their careers. Writers like Mark Van Doren was not yet a full professor at Columbia when he appeared in the then-called The Newsletter of the CEA. Cleanth Brooks was 34 and Howard Nemerov a decade prior to his being named US Poet Laureate when each published with the journal. Toby Fulwiler was still an assistant professor at Michigan Tech and touting writing workshops when he contributed to the Critic’s pages. The list goes on.
The CEA Critic has long been an ideal venue for well-established writers and professors to take their work in less traditional and sometimes unexpected directions. In the 1940s, Willa Cather and Pearl S. Buck engaged in discussions of what counts as literature and how it should be taught. In 1974, Philip K. Dick sought to define exactly what is an “SF Writer.” In 1978, 14 years after the publication of his classic The Machine in the Garden, Leo Marx considered the “writing crisis” in higher education. And, in 2003, famed Miltonist (and at that point retired) John T. Shawcross shared his reflections on the music of John Coltrane.
Consider submitting your latest work—or even something that they’ve all but abandoned as adrift without a suitable publishing “home.”
Read more about The Critic HERE: https://cea-web.org/the-cea-critic