CALL FOR
PAPERS
2003
Fourteen universities in one system;
fourteen English departments, each with various curricula and programs that
serve major, minor, general education, and interdisciplinary requirements;
fourteen English department faculty who teach, sit on committees, present papers
at conferences, and publish: The topic for
We invite
proposals from faculty for presentations, roundtable discussions, and workshops
that address teaching and research concerning the various communities that make
up an English department. We especially invite proposals that speak about
teacher-scholarly-community collaboration, interdisciplinarity, service-learning, associations with
external organizations, and connections to global communities. Topics include,
but are not limited to:
·
Effective
teaching and pedagogical practices
·
Curriculum
design and course content
·
Joint ventures
in literature and composition; composition and film; such pairings are limited
only by the imagination
·
Interdisciplinary
courses and programs that focus on diverse aspects of literary, rhetorical,
cinematic, and linguistic subject matter
·
Original works
of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, or drama
·
Service-learning
and other outreach programs
·
We also invite
suggestions for special interest roundtable discussions. In addition to the
above topics, other possibilities include uses of technology; writing center
practices; evaluation of tenure-track faculty; and assessment of major
programs.
The deadline for
proposal submissions is June 30, 2003. Please submit a one-page proposal for a
presentation or a panel session or a brief statement of interest in leading or
participating in a roundtable discussion to:
Professor Jane E. Jeffrey
Department of
English
eapsu@wcupa.edu