Dear Members, <div><br></div><div>Greetings of the holiday season! I know this is a pretty hectic time of the semester for everyone, but as you scramble to finish up courses, grade papers and administer finals, please keep in mind the upcoming deadline for the NJCEA conference submissions - <b>Jan, 11, 2010 </b>- and consider submitting abstracts and/or panel proposals. Details to be found in the CFP below. I look forward to seeing many of you at the conference. Also, please feel free to encourage your colleagues and graduate students to participate as well. We welcome new members! </div>
<div><br></div><div>Sincerely, </div><div>Nira Gupta-Casale</div><div>Convener</div><div>33rd Annual NJCEA Conference</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT; font-size: 27px; font-weight: 800; ">2<sup>nd</sup>
CALL FOR PAPERS AND<span style="mso-spacerun:
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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT"><b>33rd </b></span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">Annual NJCEA Conference</span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"></span></p>
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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">Saturday, March 27, 2010</span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-align:center;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">Seton Hall University,
South Orange, NJ 07079</span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT"><b><i>Keynote
Speaker</i></b></span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT"><i>:
Elizabeth Nunez</i></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">Distinguished
Professor, City University of New York and acclaimed author of several award
winning novels.</span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">Winner
of the 2006 Novel of the Year Award for </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT"><i>Prospero’s Daughter.</i></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">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), </span><span style="font-size:
16.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT"><b>but other panel suggestions are
welcome: </b></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"> </span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT"><b><i>New
Directions in American Literature. </i></b></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;
font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">Convener: Mary Balkun, <a href="mailto:mary.balkun@shu.edu"><span style="color:#0020F6">mary.balkun@shu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT"><b><i>Vampires
and Zombies</i></b></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">,
Convener: Nira Gupta-Casale, <a href="mailto:ncasale@kean.edu"><span style="color:#0020F6">ncasale@kean.edu</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT"><b><i>Medieval
Literature</i></b></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">.
Convener: Susannah Chewning, <a href="mailto:chewning@ucc.edu"><span style="color:#0020F6">chewning@ucc.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:
16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT"><b><i>World
Literature.</i></b></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">
Convener: Dan Gover, <a href="mailto:dgover@kean.edu"><span style="color:#0020F6">dgover@kean.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;mso-text-indent-alt:
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</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT"><b><i>The
Electronic Word: Auditory, Visual, Kinetic.</i></b></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT"> Convener: Burt
Kimmelman, <a href="mailto:kimmelman@njit.edu"><span style="color:#0020F6">kimmelman@njit.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;mso-text-indent-alt:
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</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT"><b><i>Directions
in American Poetry since <u>The New American Poetry </u>Anthology of 1960.</i></b></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT"> Convener: Burt
Kimmelman, <a href="mailto:kimmelman@njit.edu"><span style="color:#0020F6">kimmelman@njit.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;mso-text-indent-alt:
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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman">.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT"><b><i>Sexual
Contexts of Victorian Literature.</i></b></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;
font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT"> Convener: Crystal Coble, <a href="mailto:cacoble@andromeda.rutgers.edu"><span style="color:#0020F6">cacoble@andromeda.rutgers.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;mso-text-indent-alt:
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</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT"><b><i>New
Approaches to Teaching Freshman Composition.</i></b></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT"> Convener: Crystal
Coble, <a href="mailto:cacoble@andromeda.rutgers.edu"><span style="color:#0020F6">cacoble@andromeda.rutgers.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT"><b><i>Ethics
and Literature.</i></b></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">
Convener: Dean Casale, <a href="mailto:dcasale@kean.edu"><span style="color:#0020F6">dcasale@kean.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:
16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT"><b><i>Caribbean
Literature</i></b></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">.
Convener: Rachael K. Warmington, <a href="mailto:Rachel.warmington@shu.edu"><span style="color:#0020F6">Rachael.warmington@shu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;mso-text-indent-alt:
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</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT"><b><i>Gender
Differences in Shakespeare.</i></b></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;
font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT"> Convener. Rachael K.Warmington, <a href="mailto:Rachael.warmington@shu.edu"><span style="color:#0020F6">Rachael.warmington@shu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT"><b><i>Micro-Fiction/Flash
Fiction,</i></b></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">
Convener: Nathan Oates, <a href="mailto:noates@shu.edu"><span style="color:
#0020F6">noates@shu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:Times-Roman"></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT"><b><i>Teaching
Generation 1.5 and ESL Students.</i></b></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;
font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT"> Convener: Gitanjali DasBender, <a href="mailto:gitanjali.dasbender@shu.edu"><span style="color:#0020F6">gitanjali.dasbender@shu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT"><b><i>Teaching
with Technology.</i></b></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">
Convener: Kelly Shea, <a href="mailto:Kelly.shea@shu.edu"><span style="color:#0020F6">Kelly.shea@shu.edu</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT"><b><i>Teaching
Reading and Writing About Literature.</i></b></span><span style="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT"> Convener: Sarah Ducksworth, <a href="mailto:sducksworth@kean.edu"><span style="color:#0020F6">sducksworth@kean.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT"><b><i>Trauma,
Memory, and Language in War Narratives.</i></b></span><span style="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT"> Convener: Maria C. Zamora, <a href="mailto:mzamora@kean.edu"><span style="color:#0020F6">mzamora@kean.edu</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT"><b><i>Creative
Writing – Poetry</i></b></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">.
Convener: John Wargacki, <a href="mailto:wargacjo@shu.edu"><span style="color:#0020F6">wargacjo@shu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:
16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT"><b><i>Creative
Writing – Fiction</i></b></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">.
Convener: John Wargacki, <span style="color:#0020F6"><a href="mailto:wargacjo@shu.edu">wargacjo@shu.edu</a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"> </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">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 </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT"><b>any
</b></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">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 <a href="mailto:ncasale@kean.edu"><span style="color:#0020F6">ncasale@kean.edu</span></a>. </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT"><b>GRADUATE
STUDENTS: </b></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">You
are cordially invited to submit papers for the NJCEA annual </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT"><b>Graduate Student
Award</b></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">.
The winner of this award will receive a $50.00 Barnes and Nobel gift
certificate and have her or his paper published in </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT"><i>College
English Notes</i></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">,
the official publication of the NJCEA. </span><span style="font-size:
16.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT"><b>Send complete paper and paper
abstract to the conference organizer in ELECTRONIC FORM ONLY by January 11,
2010. </b></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">Papers
should be </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT"><b>8-10
pages in length.</b></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT"> </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">N.B.:
In order to be eligible to win the graduate student award, students must
present their paper at the conference.</span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:Times-Roman"> </span></p>
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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT"><b>DEADLINE:
January 11, 2010</b></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">For
submission guidelines, membership information, registration forms for
conference, and updates, visit our website <a href="http://www.njcea.org/"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;color:#0020F6"><b>http://www.njcea.org</b></span></a></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT"><b>.</b></span></p>
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