Call for Papers: Composition & Rhetoric: Practice at CEA 2025
Call for Papers, Composition & Rhetoric: Practice 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 Composition & Rhetoric: Practice for our 54th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org
The special topics chair for Composition & Rhetoric: Practice invites submissions on a range of topics exploring writing pedagogies and practices focused on the conference theme of Freedom. Proposals may address the following topics:
- How can instructors encourage students to explore the concept of freedom in their writing?
- What strategies can instructors use to help students take ownership of their writing?
- How can writing courses and programs support students as they make informed choices that are meaningful to them?
- Other topics related to teaching writing
Conference Theme: 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.
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. And, in the spirit of Philadelphia, we are especially interested in presentations that incorporate topics related to FREEDOM as it relates to Composition & Rhetoric: Practice in texts, disciplines, people, cultural studies, media, and pedagogy. 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.
For your proposal you might consider:
- 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
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, 2024
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 cea.english@gmail.com.
Sincerely,
Catherine Capineri, ccapineri@rwu.edu