Call for Papers, Latinx Literature at CEA 2026

March 26-28, 2026 | Charlotte, NC

Hilton Charlotte University Place

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on special topic in Latinx Literature for our 55th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

Papers on Latinx Literature are especially welcome on our conference theme of "Declarations," 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:  Declarations

For CEA 2026, we are especially interested topics related to DECLARATIONS in texts, disciplines, people, cultural studies, media, and pedagogy. Consider such topics as the implications of political declarations across time and place, cultural declarations of identity, declarations in the media (including social media) and how they impact society, pedagogical declarations of teaching philosophy and their implementation, or personal declarations through autobiography and memoir.

General Topics: As always, our CEA conference welcomes submissions on a wide range of areas, including literary studies, creative writing, rhetoric, composition, technical communication, linguistics, and film. We further encourage papers on areas that influence our work as academics, including student/instructor accountability and assessment, student advising, academic leadership in departments and programs, and the place of the English department in the university.

CEA 2026 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 are especially interested in presentations that incorporate topics related to DECLARATIONS in Latinx literary 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:

• Declarations between disciplines, languages, or generations
• Declarations regarding races, classes, cultures, regions, genders, or sexualities.
• Cultural or ideological declarations in literary, scholarly, or theoretical works
• Declarations as construct, form, metaphor, motif, or icon
• Connections between text and images or sound
• Declarations regarding theory and practice, reading and writing, writer and audience
• Academic freedom in teaching and scholarship; faculty and administrators; professors and students
• Declarations and materiality
• Digital humanities

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, 2025

For more information on how to submit, please see the full CFP at www.cea-web.org

Membership
All presenters at the CEA 2026 conference must become members of CEA by January 1, 2026. 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