Special Topic in Latinx Literature at CEA 2025 (CEA 3/27-29/2025)

deadline for submissions: 
November 1, 2024
full name / name of organization: 
College English Association
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Call for Papers, Latinx Literature at CEA 2025

March 27-29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square
1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

215.561.7500

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Latinx Literature for our 54th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

Papers on Latinx Literature are especially welcome on our conference theme of "Freedom," although papers on other concepts are also welcome. Topic suggestions include Latinx literary production, migration, diaspora, exile, resident statuses, liminal spaces, memory, history, borderlands, and identities, among many other topics.

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 the Special Topic of Latinx Literature 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 deadline: 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 [insert year] 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,

Joseph M. Viera, PhD

Professor of English

Nazareth University 

Email:  jviera1@naz.edu