Location: Montgomery College, Rockville, MD
We spin the rota fortunae at this year’s conference as we consider the often related themes of fortunes and misfortunes. We invite papers or panels on literature, language, cultural studies, composition, and pedagogy that contemplate these themes both within the discipline of English and in other areas of the humanities. We encourage interdisciplinary papers and panels. Proposals may broadly interpret the conference themes along (but not confined to) the following lines:
• getting and spending
• “Brother, can you spare a dime?”—education and un(der)employment
• representations of rags and riches, disaster and success
• comedy, tragedy, and other generic catastrophes and happy endings
• mining the disciplines
• literary fortunes
• Race to the Top and other educational initiatives
• healthy, wealthy, and wise
• breaking glass ceilings
• “Don’t ‘sperse me, bro!”: the human and environmental costs of doing business
• Print and electronic media fortunes and misfortunes
• (un)fortunate sons and daughters: immigrant success stories and nightmarish tales
• pedagogies of the oppressed
• fortunes and misfortunes of war
Please email your paper abstracts (of 500 words or less) or panel proposals by Dec. 1 to David Kaloustian, Program Committee Chair, at dkaloustian@bowiestate.edu, (301) 860-3685. Acceptance letters will be sent out Jan. 15. A conference registration/CEA-MAG membership fee of $40 ($30 for adjunct instructors and $20 for graduate students) will be required when you mail in your registration for the conference in the spring of 2010. Other questions about the conference may be directed to Linda DiDesidero, CEA-MAG President, at ldidesidero@umc.edu, (301) 251-7414. Paper Proposals should include the following information: Name; institutional affiliation (if applicable; graduate students should identify themselves to be eligible to compete for $50 prize for best grad student paper); mailing address (including zip code); phone number and email address; title for the proposed presentation; abstract of no more than 500 words (papers at the conference should be limited to 15 minutes); A-V needs, if any; special needs, if any.