Post-Colonial Literature at CEA 2025
Call for Papers, Post-Colonial Literature at CEA 2025
March 27-29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square
1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Post-Colonial Literature for our 54th annual conference. Submit your proposal electronically by November 1, 2024, at www.cea-web.org
The conference theme for CEA 2025 is FREEDOM And, in the spirit of Philadelphia, for this area, we are especially interested in presentations that incorporate topics related to FREEDOM in Post-Colonial Literature in texts, disciplines, people, cultural studies, media, and pedagogy.
For your proposal you might consider Post-Colonial Literature in terms of
- Freedom between disciplines, languages, or generations
- Freedom regarding races, classes, cultures, regions, genders, or sexualities.
- Cultural or ideological freedom in literary, scholarly, or theoretical works
- Freedom as construct, form, metaphor, motif, or icon
- Connections between text and images or sound
- Freedom regarding theory and practice, reading and writing, writer and audience
- Academic freedom in teaching and scholarship; faculty and administrators; professors and students
- Freedom and materiality
- Digital humanities and freedom
As the location of CEA 2025, Philadelphia is perfect for the present moment. Here, the spirit of the American Revolution and the ideals that would drive it were born. The Declaration of Independence, penned and ratified in Philadelphia, argued that “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” were “inalienable rights.” As a nation, we continue to wrestle with the words of the Declaration and the men who signed it. However, our commitment to liberty is unwavering, even in the face of multiple challenges to our freedoms, our autonomy, and our choices. At the CEA, we hold close especially the belief in academic freedom.
General Call for Papers
CEA 2025 welcomes papers and panels that address our discipline from multiple perspectives and across a wide range of areas, including literary studies, creative writing, rhetoric, 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.
CEA also extends a special invitation to graduate students not only to attend the conference but to submit their presentations to the CEA Outstanding Graduate Student Paper competition. Submissions will be solicited via email in January 2025 from those whose papers have been accepted.
Submission: August 15-November 1, 2024
Proposals should be between 250 and 500 words in length and should include a title. Please note that only one proposal may be submitted per participant. Notifications of proposal status will be sent in early December. For more information on how to submit, please see the full CFP at www.cea-web.org
Membership
All presenters at the CEA 2025 conference must become members of CEA by January 1, 2025. To join CEA, please go to www.cea-web.org
Other questions? Please email Elizabeth Battles at ebattles@txwes.edu.