[Njcea] NJCEA Spring Conference - Deadline Approaching to Submit Abstracts

[Nira Gupta-Casale]

Dear Members,

Just a quick reminder that the deadline for submitting abstracts for the
NJCEA Spring Conference is fast approaching - *Jan.11, 2010.  We will be
accepting abstracts up until midnight of Jan.11. *  Please see below the
Call for Papers, as well as download from the attached file.

Conference registration is now open, and the registration form can be
downloaded from the attached file, as well as printed from the NJCEA website
 - http://njcea.org/conference/.

Graduate students are cordially invited to submit papers for the NJCEA
annual *Graduate Student Award*.  More details in CFP below.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,
Nira Gupta-Casale
-- 
Assoc. Prof./Dept.of English
Kean University
Coordinator, NJCEA Spring Conference 2010

Tel. (908) 790-1422 (h)
     (908)737-0389 (w)

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*                **CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS*

*33rd *Annual NJCEA Conference

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ 07079



*Keynote Speaker**: Elizabeth Nunez*

CUNY Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and acclaimed author of several
award winning novels.

Winner of the 2006 Novel of the Year Award for *Prospero’s Daughter.*



The New Jersey College English Association is soliciting panels and papers
considering a broad range of literary and composition topics for its annual
conference.  Paper proposals are now being accepted for the following panels
(contact session convener listed below), *but other panel suggestions are
welcome: *



   - *New Directions in American Literature. *Convener: Mary Balkun,
   mary.balkun at shu.edu


   - *Vampires and Zombies*, Convener: Nira Gupta-Casale, ncasale at kean.edu
   - *Medieval Literature*. Convener: Susannah Chewning, chewning at ucc.edu
   - *World Literature.* Convener: Dan Gover, dgover at kean.edu
   - *The Electronic Word: Auditory, Visual, Kinetic.* Convener: Burt
   Kimmelman, kimmelman at njit.edu
   - *Directions in American Poetry since The New American Poetry Anthology
   of 1960.* Convener: Burt Kimmelman, kimmelman at njit.edu
   - *Sexual Contexts of Victorian Literature.* Convener: Crystal Coble,
   cacoble at andromeda.rutgers.edu
   - *New Approaches to Teaching Freshman Composition.* Convener: Crystal
   Coble, cacoble at andromeda.rutgers.edu
   - *Ethics and Literature.* Convener: Dean Casale, dcasale at kean.edu
   - *Caribbean Literature*. Convener: Simone Alexander,
   Simone.alexander at shu.edu
   - *Gender Differences in Shakespeare.* Convener. Rachael K.Warmington,
   Rachael.warmington at shu.edu
   - *Micro-Fiction/Flash Fiction,* Convener: Nathan Oates,
   nathan.oates at shu.edu <noates at shu.edu>
   - *Teaching Generation 1.5 and ESL Students.* Convener: Gitanjali
   DasBender, gitanjali.dasbender at shu.edu


   - *Teaching with Technology.* Convener: Kelly Shea, Kelly.shea at shu.edu
   - *Teaching Reading and Writing About Literature.* Convener: Sarah
   Ducksworth, sducksworth at kean.edu
   - *Trauma, Memory, and Language in War Narratives.* Convener: Maria C.
   Zamora, mzamora at kean.edu
   - *Creative Writing – Poetry*.  Convener: John Wargacki, wargacjo at shu.edu
   - *Creative Writing – Fiction*.  Convener: John Wargacki,
   wargacjo at shu.edu
   - *Literature of and by the Disabled*. Convener: Michael Basile,
   mbasile at njcu.edu



Full and part-time college instructors, graduate students, and other
professionals within the field of English are invited to send panel
proposals and 250 word abstracts for papers on *any *topic related to
college English to: Nira Gupta-Casale, NJCEA Conference Organizer,
Department of English, Kean University, 1000 Morris Avenue, Union, NJ 07083;
or electronically as an attachment to ncasale at kean.edu.



*GRADUATE STUDENTS: *You are cordially invited to submit papers for the
NJCEA annual *Graduate Student Award*.  The winner of this award will
receive a $50.00 Barnes and Nobel gift certificate and have her or his paper
published in *College English Notes*, the official publication of the NJCEA.
*Send complete paper and paper abstract to the conference organizer in
ELECTRONIC FORM ONLY by January 11, 2010.   *Papers should be *8-10 pages in
length.*

N.B.: In order to be eligible to win the graduate student award, students
must present their paper at the conference.



*DEADLINE: January 11, 2010*

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For submission guidelines, membership information, registration forms for
conference, and updates, visit our website *http://www.njcea.org.*
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