Call for Papers, CEA 2009: Design
70th Anniversary Conference | March 26-28, 2009
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
“Why, there you touch’d the life of our design.” Troilus and Cressida 2.2.195
Program Theme: Design
We live in a world atomized into text messages and jump cuts, socially constructed snippets on networking sites, fragmented blogs and news bites, ones and zeroes. In such a context, is there still a role for conscious design – of literature, of art, of rhetoric, of learning? After the death of the author, who designs the texts we love to see, read, and study? Or do we make our own designations, sketching out the plot, shading in the design, creating meaning as we find it?
CEA invites you to submit abstracts for presentations on any aspect or permutation of design:
- Designing poetry, fiction, drama
- Designing curricula, courses, and programs
- Designing books and material culture
- Designing research projects
- Design as intentions, plans, and plots
- Design as deception, contrivance, and scheming
- User-centered design
- Design and composition
- Design and the writing process
- Poet as maker, poet as designer
- (De)signs and markers of identity, genre, literature, place
- Designation: the sign after structuralism
- The author/designer in the 21st century
Questions? Contact Miles Kimball at cea.english@gmail.com (please include the words “Program Chair” and the subject in the subject line).
General Program
In addition to our conference theme, CEA welcomes panels and proposals in any of the areas English departments typically encompass, including literature, creative writing, composition, technical communication, linguistics, and film. We also welcome papers on areas that influence our work as academics: student demographics, student/instructor accountability and assessment, student advising, academic leadership in departments and programs, the place of the English department in the university, and so on.
Online Submissions: August 15 – November 1, 2008
Submit 200-500 word proposals from August 15 and November 1, 2008, at the following web address: english.ttu.edu/cea.