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"Don't You Have Anything Better to Do?":
Work, Play, and Humor in English Studies
The Department of English at Ohio University invites writers, teachers, and scholars in English Studies to Athens, Ohio, Saturday, November 6th, 2004 for a one-day conference on the negotiation between work and play in our professional and public lives. We are interested in how this space is mediated in classrooms, literature, theory, and art. We encourage the submission of papers, presentations, creative writings, and panels from all aspects of the discipline: creative writing, critical theory, cultural studies, literature, rhetoric and composition, linguistics, etc.
Possible topics to "play" with might include:
- The Politics of Laughter
- Comic Spirit
- Humor as a Subversive Tool
- The Joker vs. the Authoritarian
- Humors of the Academy vs. Humors of Popular Culture
- Comics in the Classroom
- Carnival/Carnivalesque
- Trickster Student, Trickster Text, Trickster Teacher
- Underlife/Subtext in Classrooms, on the Job, in Literature
- The Art of Performance in the Writing Classroom
- The Value of Word Play, Irony, & Sarcasm in Private and Public
- Emotions in the Workplace
- Art & Memory, Truth & Lies
- The Writer at Work
DEADLINE: June 12, 2004
Send 250 word abstracts with SASE to the address below.
Graduate Student Presentations Encouraged
Acceptances will be sent by June 30, 2004.
$25.00 Registration Fee for the conference, which includes a copy of "Quarter After Eight: A Journal of Experimental Prose and Commentary."
Keynote Speakers: To Be Announced
For more information & updates visit our website or call.
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