Dallas 2006 Special Session Call for Papers
The following Special Sessions have been proposed, but not yet approved, for the 2006 SCMLA Convention to be held in Dallas, Texas, October 26-28. The 2006 theme is "Cultural Roundup." Send papers or abstracts to the addresses below by the deadline dates listed. Direct questions about these proposed sessions to the session organizers. Complete panels, whether or not they are listed here, must be submitted on an SCMLA Special Session form by February 20, 2006. Forms are available from the SCMLA office; scmla@ou.edu. Proposals related to the convention theme are encouraged but not required. All proposed sessions will be refereed by the Program Committee, and accepted proposals will be notified in March 2006. Please note: Detailed proposals with full descriptions of each paper are strongly encouraged.
Special Session proposals need not be listed in the Call for papers in this Newsletter to be eligible for consideration, and you can still post a Call on our website: print out and return the Dallas "Call" form from the website, or contact Piers Frazier at scmla@ou.edu for details.
A Re-engagement with the Past: Revisions of History and/or Reconfigurations of Art and/or Music in British Literature
This is a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary topic, closely related to the theme of the conference, Cultural Roundup. Please send abstracts by February 1, 2006 to: Sophia Andres, Univ. of the Permian Basin, Humanities Dept., 4901 East University Boulevard, Odessa, TX 79762-0001. Email: andres_s@utpb.edu
Changing Landscapes: The Late Works of Texas Playwright Horton Foote
Papers are invited on the plays of Texas' only Pulitzer Prize winning dramatist, Horton Foote. Of Particular interest are papers on Foote's late plays, which suggest a shift to a darker vision and changing inner landscapes. Abstracts due on November 18, 2005. Dr. Laurin Porter, English Department., University of Texas - Arlington, Box 19035, Arlington, TX 76019; Email:lporter@uta.edu
Citizens of the World: Teaching Globalization in the English Classroom
Papers are invited on how teachers have brought globalization into the English classroom to enhance students' understandings of race, ethnicity, gender, national identity, and politics in a global context. Please send abstracts by February 1, 2006 to: Donna Dunbar-Odom, Dept. of Literature and Languages, Texas A&M Univ.-Commerce, Commerce, TX 75429 Email:donna_dunbar-odom@tamu-commerce.edu
Communicating Culturally: Writing and Teaching International Technical Communication
We are asking that 500 word abstracts be written about any topic concerning International Technical Communication. Some ideas include: teaching ITC, translation, cross cultural communication and experiences, and/or research. Send abstracts via email by February 3, 2006. Elizabeth A. Monske, English department, Louisiana Tech Univ., P.O. Box 3162, Ruston LA 71270 Email:emonske@latech.edu
Creative Nonfiction Roundup: Exploring the Cultural Frontiers of Voice and Vision
This session welcomes papers investigating CNF as a frontier of gender, religion, race, ethnicity, and/or sexuality, a landscape where popular/canonical cultures intersect as vision and culture. Please email abstracts to: Stella Thompson, Department of Languages and Communications, Prairie View A&M University;Email:stella_thompson@pvamu.edu and jthompson39@houston.rr.com
Diversity in Texas
Seeking papers about the experiences of groups of people who live in Texas but are not "traditional Texans": Germans, Mexicans, Native Americans, etc. Similarities - differences - intersections? Autobiographical - fictional - biographical. Abstracts to be sent by February 3, 2006 to Karin Schestokat, Oklahoma State Univ., 329 Gundersen, FLL, Stillwater, OK 74078-1052; Email:kschest@okstate.edu
Exploración artístico-literaria de la transición española (1975-1982)
El período de transición democrática que sigue a la muerte de Franco es uno de constantes vaivenes en la sociedad española reflejados en los diferentes medios de comunicación. José L. Morillo, Department & School Modern Languages, Marshall University, One John Marshall Drive; Huntington, WV 25755; Email: Murillo@Marshall.edu
Exploring Culture and Identity on Stage
This session welcomes papers investigating theatre and/or performance events (from any period or region) in relation to issues of culture and identity. Please email abstracts by February 3, 2006 to: Christopher Krejci, Dept. of Theatre, Louisiana State Univ., 212 Hatcher Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email:ckrejci2000@yahoo.com
Magical Realism: American Monopoly or International Cultural Roundup?
Originally exploding within Latin America, magical realism leaked out American seams, making this postmodern paradigm, forged through postcolonial ideologies, a functional site to wrestle with cultural heritages and cosmopolitan futures. Abstracts required. Please send to: Kim Sasser, English Dept., Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Box 19035, Arlington, TX 76019 Email:kimdsasser@hotmail.com
Minificciones, minirelatos, minicuentos
Papers welcome on the characteristics, the trajectory and trends of the short-short story in Latin America. (Recent generations of writers of the genre and influential well known authors of the 20th-Century). Please send abstracts by February 1, 2006 to: Lucero Tenorio-Gavin, Oklahoma State Univ. Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literature, Stillwater, OK 74078 Email:glucero@okstate.edu
Pedagogical Frontiers of the Cyberspace
Creative use of virtual spaces and issues related to electronic creation, routing, and submission of course work. Specific details about the necessary hardware and software and the strategies of aligning pedagogy with course goals. Abstracts required by January 30th, 2006 to: Diljit K.Chatha,Dept. of Languages & Communications, Prairie View A&M Univ., Prairie View, TX 77446; Email: dkchatha@pvamu.edu
Reinventing Her Story: Cultural Legacies Reinterpreted through Mother-Daughter Relationships in the Plays of August Wilson in James Joyce's "Eveline" and "Nausicaa," and in the Young Adult Novels of Jane Yolen, Lois Lowry, and Bette Greene.
This panel problematizes representational mother-daughter conflicts in literature and drama, considering remembered traditions and atrocities as vehicles for rejecting/rebelling against the oppressive and inescapable reality of three cultural legacies. Dr. Julie Gates, Dept. of English, Angelo State University, 2601 West Ave, N. San Angelo,TX 76904; Email: julie.gates@angelo.edu
Teaching Literature in the Community College: A Roundup of Approaches and Methods
Papers invited that address approaches to and methods of teaching literature in the community college. Consideration of how literary studies best advance the unique goals of the community college encouraged. Abstracts due by February 17, 2006. Matthew DeVoll, Dept. of English, St. Louis Community College at Forest Park, 5600 Oakland Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110-1393; Fax: 314-951-9416; Email: mdevoll@stlcc.edu
The Cosmopolitan Self: How Medieval European Women Transformed the Gendered Soul
This panel invites papers on medieval religious women whose texts and lives transgress boundaries between body and soul as well as male and female identity, refiguring the self and defying the patristic tradition. Please send abstracts by January 21, 2006 to: Dr. Brad Herzog, Dept. of English & Foreign Languages, Southern Arkansas Univ., P.O. Box 9345, Magnolia, AR 71754; Email: bdherzog@saumag.edu
The Culture(s) of George Eliot
Papers are welcome that seek to develop new understandings of George Eliot's relationship to nineteenth-century aesthetics, medicine, theology, science, economics, politics, or consider her theories of identity formation. Please email abstracts to Kara Marler-Kennedy: kmarken@rice.edu or Kevin A. Morrison: kevinam@rice.edu by January 20, 2006. Rice Univ. Dept. of English, 6100 Main Street, MS-30, Houston, TX 77251
The New Truman Capote: Re-evaluating an American Icon(oclast)
Taking the recent film of Truman Capote's life as an example of the public's awakened interest in his work, this session invites papers on the relationship between Capote's biography and his creative non-fiction. Please send abstracts by February 1, 2006 to: Jeffrey Cass, Language and Literature, Texas A&M International Univ., 5201 University Blvd., Laredo, TX 78041-1900; Email: jcass@tamiu.edu
The Novel and the End of Republican Idealism
Rather than celebrating Republicanism, the Early Republic novel was deeply critical, even pessimistic. In "rounding up" the period's literature, what pattern of criticism emerges from the Early Republic novel, 1789-1828? Abstracts or papers to be sent by February 1, 2006 to Richard S. Pressman, Dept. of English, St. Mary's Univ., San Antonio, TX 78228-8535. Email: rpressman@stmarytx.edu
The Spaces of Slavery
Papers invited which examine the material geographies of slavery: the frontiers, changing landscapes, boundaries, and hiding spaces which map the slavery experience in American literature (all periods and genres). (Please submit via email). Desiree Henderson, English Department, University of Texas at Arlington, Box 19035 Arlington TX 79019; Email: dhenderson@uta.edu
The Vision(s) of America in Literature and Literary Criticism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
The session seeks interdisciplinary and/or cross-genre papers on individual figures who have constructed visions of America (Utopian, Reformist, Multitudinous, Traditional, Revolutionary, etc.). Please send 1 page abstracts by January 31, 2006 to: Herbert Richardson and John Gery, The Edwin Mellen Press, 415 Ridge Street, Lewiston, NY 14092. Send email inquiries and/or abstracts to John Gery. Email: jgery@uno.edu