Conference in October at U of Rochester

[Tybalt]

Hi all,

 

I'm on the board for a regional branch of the College English Association (a great conference that has equal emphasis on both lit crit and pedagogy).  This October, I'll be running the conference here at the U of Rochester.  It's an interdisciplinary conference, so all subfields are welcome!  The New York College English Association (NYCEA) has a great reputation for being welcoming to graduate student, and the last few years, they've reserved a round-table session for graduate student professionalization topics.   Let me know if you have any questions.

 

The CfP is on the UPenn site, and here it is on our website:  http://www.nycea.org/fall-2017-conference.html

 

 

NYCEA 2017 Conference

Call for Papers

Marking the Margins and Setting the Center

 

October 20-21, 2017     University of Rochester, Rochester NY.

In partnership with the University of Rochester's Writing, Speaking, and Argument Program

 

"Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art.  Only on the margins does growth occur." --Joanna Russ.

 

            As the quotation from Joanna Russ--a prominent science fiction author and feminist--indicates, this year's New York College English Association conference is concerned with exploring art, literature, and pedagogy on or around the margins.

But what do these terms “margin” and “center” mean, and why have they been so tightly associated with one another? How have their meanings – and the relationship between their meanings – changed in different historical and cultural contexts? Who has determined these meanings and relationships? Who has benefitted and who has suffered from them?  At this year's conference at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, we will connect these more general questions about issues of marginality to some of the specific challenges faced by researchers and teachers.

 

Please send 250 word abstracts to NewYorkCEA@gmail.com

Abstract deadline is August 15th 2017

See www.nycea.org

 

Paper topics may consider, but are certainly not limited to, any aspect of this theme, including:

 

-The role of adjunct and itinerant teachers in academia.

-Under-represented authors and characters.

-Effective ways to reach marginalized student populations.

-Queer/Feminist/Race/Gender/Disability Theories.

-Manuscripts and marginalia.

-Marginal comments and peer review in the composition classroom.

-Digital Humanities, technology access, and digital divides.

-Cultural appropriation

-Social justice debates--Occupy, BLM, University origins and racism, etc.

-The campus experience (trigger warnings and safe spaces)

-Monsters and monstrosity in literary texts

-Roma art, literature, and culture

-Great books and the canon

-After the "Theory Wars"--the current state of critical theory

-Addressing the unique needs of the military veteran student population

-International students and cultural considerations

-Interdisciplinary scholars as [institutional drifters]

-Pop culture, comic books, children's literature and the quest for academic

            legitimacy

-Utopias, Dystopias, and speculative science fiction