CEA Annual Conference, Special Topics: War Literature and Trauma
Subject: Call for Papers, Special Topics: War Literature and Trauma at CEA 2025
Call for Papers, War Literature and Trauma 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 War Literature and Trauma for our 54th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org
The panel welcomes papers treating new topics in war literature as well as trauma and/or trauma theory in war literature. The conference theme is "Freedom"; potential contributors might consider approaching the theme metaphorically or through, for example, just war theories. All papers regarding trauma and war literature will be considered.
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 your Special Topic] 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 discussing War Literature and Trauma through multiple lenses:
- 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,
Andrea F. Trocha-Van Nort, Professor, USAF Academy