Conference of College Teachers of English Call for Papers

by Dr Davis on July 12, 2008

The conference is taking place in Austin and is being hosted by UT. It will take place March 5-7, 2009. The deadline for submissions is October 1, 2008. They prefer the full paper, but will accept a 500-word abstract.

I’d really like to put a panel together for this conference too, but I have no idea what it would be on.

I have a paper on using fairy tales to introduce literary analysis that I would like to put together. But I don’t know if that is a literature paper or a composition paper. I’m having trouble finding this year’s program. That might tell me a little more about what they are looking for.

There’s a creative writing section. I wonder if life writing/blogging counts as “creative nonfiction.” Could I work that out?

Of course, there is the state of the profession forum. I could write about adjuncting. They said the topics could cover any aspect of the English profession. I really think I should work up a proposal/paper on adjuncts. I’ve been one at two schools, three by the time the paper is due. Surely I could write about the things I have dealt with there in an interesting way. Nope. That’s last year’s topic. Drats.

For some reason I can’t get the site to come up.

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