This is our official Call for Papers for Sigma Tau Delta's annual English Studies Conference (ESC)!
The ESC is a yearly conference held by Sigma Tau Delta that celebrates student work in the field of English studies at WMU. Anything English related is fair game to submit, and we mean that very literally. That includes poetry (single poems or a collection), prose, creative non-fiction, linguistics papers, literary analysis, lit/cultural theory, poetry explications, English education and pedagogy (but not teaching tips or lesson plans, please), etc etc.
If you have a piece of English-related work but you're not sure if it fits as conference material, feel free to shoot us an email! Also, please tell all your literary-minded and creative friends! Presenters do not have to be members of Sigma Tau Delta in order to participate.
We also allow whole panel submissions - so if you and a couple students are in the same class or have written similar papers that would complement each other in one panel, please feel free to submit them all together!
Please keep in mind that works-in-progress are always welcome! As is the case with all professional conferences, we expect that you will further polish and improve upon drafts before presenting them at a conference.
We ask that no more than two submissions be sent in per person, and to keep these submissions in different genres. We all love to see a ton of variety and loads of new faces at our conferences!
More practical info: the conference will take place Friday, November 6th from 12:30-5:00PM in in various classrooms and meeting rooms in Brown Hall.
The deadline for submissions is October 23rd. Please send all submissions to escsub@gmail.com. Include your name, contact information, and a short biography for the program along with your submission.
Special note to faculty and graduate students: please encourage your students to submit! It's a great way to network with other English faculty and students, as well as practice important conference skills in a relaxed format.
Sound good? Of course it does. Tell all your friends and strangers on the street (but not the unsavory-looking ones) and get those submissions in! As always, if you have any questions please feel free to email us back!
We hope to hear from you by the 23rd!
Laura Citino
Communications Officer
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
Call for Papers: The Laureate
Fall 2009 Call for Submissions is underway for The Laureate! The Laureate is a creative writing journal produced by the Lee Honors College, featuring the work of undergraduate students at Western Michigan University. Along with creative writing pieces, we are also seeking photographic and hand-drawn art for inclusion in this year’s edition. For more information about the format for submissions, contact Caitlin Popa at laureate.2009@gmail.com. Submission deadline is December 1, 2009.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Jack Ridl at the Portage District Library
Losing Season: A Reading and Regaling with Jack Ridl Losing Season, Jack's newest book of poetry, explores the often unsettlingly central role that sports play in American life Location: Portage District Library, Austin and Sugarloaf Lake Rooms
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Contact Number: 329-4542 ext 600
"An unmatched collection bringing to high school basketball the nuance and detail the film Bull Durham brought to minor league baseball. Poems so compelling, so varied, so familiar to anyone who has felt the impact of high school sports that they may well introduce a new genre. This is a terrific book —there’s nothing like it."—Conrad Hilberry
JACK RIDL has authored collections of poetry including Broken Symmetry, and is co-author of several textbooks. CASE/Carnegie Foundation awarded him Michigan Professor of the Year.
MCEA conference
Michigan College English Association Conference
IN TIMES OF CRISIS
Eastern Michigan University
Student Center, 900 Oakwood St, Ypsilanti 48197
Friday, October 2, 2009
REGISTRATION: 8:30 to 9:30 and throughout the day
SESSION ONE – 9:30 to 10:45
Session 1A -- Poetry in Crisis Times (Room 302)
Presenters: David Settle, Grand Rapids Community College, “ ‘dear Jim:’ Poetry, Perspective, and Personalization”
Zenobia Joseph, U Texas at Austin, "Neverending Noose"
Martha Vertreace-Doody, Kennedy-King College, "Elizabeth Caldwell Duncan and Other Poems"
Moderator: Janet Heller, Western Michigan University
Session 1B – The Gothic and the Unconventional (Room 330)
Presenters: Robert Stevens, Eastern Michigan University, "Monstrous Persuasions: Uses of the Gothic in Frederick Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom"
Ahmed Bashi, Eastern Michigan University, "Mom, Baseball, Marianne Moore-- the Puella Aeterna as a Literary Project"
Moderator: Abby Coykendall, Eastern Michigan University
Session 1C – New Directions in Rhetorical Studies (Room 352)
Presenters: Phil Arrington, Eastern Michigan University, "A Saving Doubt - Exploring the Meaning of an American Anti-Religion Movement"
Caleb Brokaw, Eastern Michigan University, "Hell as Rhetorical Invention in Tertullian"
Beth Church, Bowling Green State University, “A Time of Crisis, A Time of Blame?
A Heuristic Model for Analyzing Rhetoric That Criticizes – and Builds Community”
Moderator: Phil Arrington, Eastern Michigan University
SESSION TWO – 11:00 to 12:15
Session 2A – Flexible Habits of Mind: First-Year Composition in a Changing America (Room 330)
Presenters:
Clarinda Flannery and Diane Benton, Eastern Michigan University
Moderator: John Dunn
Session 2B – Gender in Wartime (Room 300)
Presenters: Bernie Miller, Eastern Michigan U, "Helen and Peitho’s Prism: Reflections of Women and War"
Cassandra Miller, University of Michigan, "The Iliad and the Persistence of Tribalization: Analyzing Gender Roles in War"
Kathryn Christolear, CSU Northridge, "The Duality of Peter Walsh in a Moment of Crisis: Juxtaposing Intersection and Isolation in Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway"
Moderator: Elisabeth Daumer, Eastern Michigan University
Session 2C – Art in Times of Crisis (Room 302)
Presenters:
Lori May, "How Creative Writers Adapt to Technology in During Tough Economic Times"
Scott Still, Henry Ford CC, "If You Can Keep Your Head: The Steadying Hand of Art in Times of Crisis"
Lindsay Gorman, University of Michigan - Dearborn, "On The Crucible"
Moderator: Ed Demerly, CEA
Session 2D – Crisis and the Classroom (Room 352)
Presenters: Joyce Meier, U Michigan, "From Political to Personal- and Back: Negotiating Crisis in a Community-Based Writing Program"
Angela Hathikhanavala, Henry Ford Community College, “Real-World” Becomes Real: Problem-Based Learning and a Campus Shooting"
Robert Scott, Ohio Northern University, Assessing the Uneasy Use of Adjunct Faculty at One Small College
Moderator: Loretta Woolard, Marygrove College
LUNCH AND GUEST SPEAKERS – 12:30 to 1:45 (Room 310)
Featured Speakers: Sari Adelson and Mary Heinen, Coordinators, Prison Creative Arts Project, a project that collaborates with incarcerated youth and adults, Urban youth, and the formerly incarcerated to do creative expression, especially in theater, poetry, and art.
SESSION THREE – 2:00 to 3:15
Session 3A – “I’m Across the Hall”—Student Writing in the English Department: Tensions and Opportunities from the Perspectives of Composition, Literature, and the Writing Center (Room 330)
Presenters: John Dunn, Joseph Lieberman, Natalie Tomlin, Marlena Goodsitt, Eastern Michigan University
Session 3B – Radical Past, Radical Future (Room 352)
Presenters: Adam Mitchell, Eastern Michigan University, "Zamyatin's We and Technological Advancement: De-Railing the Progress Narrative"
Brad Romans, Eastern Michigan University, “Now We’ll Burst with All Our Greatness”: Utopian Labor in Karel Čapek’s Rossum’s Universal Robots"
Patrick Manning, Eastern Michigan University, "The Crisis of Double Consciousness and the Communist Party in Lloyd Brown’s Iron City"
Moderator: Charles Cunningham, Eastern Michigan University
Session 3C – Crisis and Culture (Room 302)
Presenters:
Matthew Cicci, Central Michigan University, “Adorno, the Base-Superstructure Model, and ISAs: A Map through the Culture Industry”
Arvid Sponberg, Valparaiso University, "Crises in Playwriting in Chicago 1950-2009"
Moderator: Ed Demerly, CEA
MCEA Brief Business Meeting – 3:30 to 4:15 (Room 302)
We welcome all MCEA members and conference participants to come and give us their ideas for future conferences.
IN TIMES OF CRISIS
Eastern Michigan University
Student Center, 900 Oakwood St, Ypsilanti 48197
Friday, October 2, 2009
REGISTRATION: 8:30 to 9:30 and throughout the day
SESSION ONE – 9:30 to 10:45
Session 1A -- Poetry in Crisis Times (Room 302)
Presenters: David Settle, Grand Rapids Community College, “ ‘dear Jim:’ Poetry, Perspective, and Personalization”
Zenobia Joseph, U Texas at Austin, "Neverending Noose"
Martha Vertreace-Doody, Kennedy-King College, "Elizabeth Caldwell Duncan and Other Poems"
Moderator: Janet Heller, Western Michigan University
Session 1B – The Gothic and the Unconventional (Room 330)
Presenters: Robert Stevens, Eastern Michigan University, "Monstrous Persuasions: Uses of the Gothic in Frederick Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom"
Ahmed Bashi, Eastern Michigan University, "Mom, Baseball, Marianne Moore-- the Puella Aeterna as a Literary Project"
Moderator: Abby Coykendall, Eastern Michigan University
Session 1C – New Directions in Rhetorical Studies (Room 352)
Presenters: Phil Arrington, Eastern Michigan University, "A Saving Doubt - Exploring the Meaning of an American Anti-Religion Movement"
Caleb Brokaw, Eastern Michigan University, "Hell as Rhetorical Invention in Tertullian"
Beth Church, Bowling Green State University, “A Time of Crisis, A Time of Blame?
A Heuristic Model for Analyzing Rhetoric That Criticizes – and Builds Community”
Moderator: Phil Arrington, Eastern Michigan University
SESSION TWO – 11:00 to 12:15
Session 2A – Flexible Habits of Mind: First-Year Composition in a Changing America (Room 330)
Presenters:
Clarinda Flannery and Diane Benton, Eastern Michigan University
Moderator: John Dunn
Session 2B – Gender in Wartime (Room 300)
Presenters: Bernie Miller, Eastern Michigan U, "Helen and Peitho’s Prism: Reflections of Women and War"
Cassandra Miller, University of Michigan, "The Iliad and the Persistence of Tribalization: Analyzing Gender Roles in War"
Kathryn Christolear, CSU Northridge, "The Duality of Peter Walsh in a Moment of Crisis: Juxtaposing Intersection and Isolation in Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway"
Moderator: Elisabeth Daumer, Eastern Michigan University
Session 2C – Art in Times of Crisis (Room 302)
Presenters:
Lori May, "How Creative Writers Adapt to Technology in During Tough Economic Times"
Scott Still, Henry Ford CC, "If You Can Keep Your Head: The Steadying Hand of Art in Times of Crisis"
Lindsay Gorman, University of Michigan - Dearborn, "On The Crucible"
Moderator: Ed Demerly, CEA
Session 2D – Crisis and the Classroom (Room 352)
Presenters: Joyce Meier, U Michigan, "From Political to Personal- and Back: Negotiating Crisis in a Community-Based Writing Program"
Angela Hathikhanavala, Henry Ford Community College, “Real-World” Becomes Real: Problem-Based Learning and a Campus Shooting"
Robert Scott, Ohio Northern University, Assessing the Uneasy Use of Adjunct Faculty at One Small College
Moderator: Loretta Woolard, Marygrove College
LUNCH AND GUEST SPEAKERS – 12:30 to 1:45 (Room 310)
Featured Speakers: Sari Adelson and Mary Heinen, Coordinators, Prison Creative Arts Project, a project that collaborates with incarcerated youth and adults, Urban youth, and the formerly incarcerated to do creative expression, especially in theater, poetry, and art.
SESSION THREE – 2:00 to 3:15
Session 3A – “I’m Across the Hall”—Student Writing in the English Department: Tensions and Opportunities from the Perspectives of Composition, Literature, and the Writing Center (Room 330)
Presenters: John Dunn, Joseph Lieberman, Natalie Tomlin, Marlena Goodsitt, Eastern Michigan University
Session 3B – Radical Past, Radical Future (Room 352)
Presenters: Adam Mitchell, Eastern Michigan University, "Zamyatin's We and Technological Advancement: De-Railing the Progress Narrative"
Brad Romans, Eastern Michigan University, “Now We’ll Burst with All Our Greatness”: Utopian Labor in Karel Čapek’s Rossum’s Universal Robots"
Patrick Manning, Eastern Michigan University, "The Crisis of Double Consciousness and the Communist Party in Lloyd Brown’s Iron City"
Moderator: Charles Cunningham, Eastern Michigan University
Session 3C – Crisis and Culture (Room 302)
Presenters:
Matthew Cicci, Central Michigan University, “Adorno, the Base-Superstructure Model, and ISAs: A Map through the Culture Industry”
Arvid Sponberg, Valparaiso University, "Crises in Playwriting in Chicago 1950-2009"
Moderator: Ed Demerly, CEA
MCEA Brief Business Meeting – 3:30 to 4:15 (Room 302)
We welcome all MCEA members and conference participants to come and give us their ideas for future conferences.
Federal Opportunities Day
Thursday, October 8 from 11 AM to 3 PM in the Brown and Gold Room of the Bernhard Center, there will be an opportunity for students to connect with federal employment opportunities. This event is hosted by the Society for Public Services and Career and Student Employment Services.
Students are encouraged to dress professionally and bring a resume with them. To RSVP visit BroncoJobs at www.wmich.edu/career
Also, on Tuesday, October 6 from 7-8 PM in room 212 Bernhard Center, there will be a preparation session hosted by the Society for Public Service and conducted by a USDA representative, who will talk about the most effective ways to obtain federal positions.
Students are encouraged to dress professionally and bring a resume with them. To RSVP visit BroncoJobs at www.wmich.edu/career
Also, on Tuesday, October 6 from 7-8 PM in room 212 Bernhard Center, there will be a preparation session hosted by the Society for Public Service and conducted by a USDA representative, who will talk about the most effective ways to obtain federal positions.
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