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Dear Members, <div><br></div><div>Just a quick reminder that the deadline for submitting abstracts for the NJCEA Spring Conference is fast approaching - <b>Jan.11, 2010. We will be accepting abstracts up until midnight of Jan.11. </b> Please see below the Call for Papers. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Conference registration is now open, and the registration form can be downloaded from the NJCEA website - <a href="http://njcea.org/conference/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186); ">http://njcea.org/conference/</a>.</div>
<div><br clear="all">Graduate students are cordially invited to submit papers for the NJCEA annual <b>Graduate Student Award</b>. More details in CFP.</div><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to hearing from you.</div><div>
<br></div><div>Sincerely, </div><div>Nira Gupta-Casale<br>-- <br>Assoc. Prof./Dept.of English<br>Kean University<br>Coordinator, NJCEA Spring Conference 2010<br><br>Tel. (908) 790-1422 (h)<br> (908)737-0389 (w)<br></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; "><b><span> </span></b></span><span style="font-size: 22pt; "><b>CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; ">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; "><b>33<sup>rd </sup></b></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; ">Annual NJCEA Conference</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; ">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; ">Saturday, March 27, 2010</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; ">Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ 07079</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; "><b><i>Keynote Speaker</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><i>: Elizabeth Nunez</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">
CUNY Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and acclaimed author of several award winning novels.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Winner of the 2006 Novel of the Year Award for <i>Prospero’s Daughter.</i></p>
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The New Jersey College English Association is soliciting panels and papers considering a broad range of literary and composition topics for its annual conference.<span> </span>Paper proposals are now being accepted for the following panels (contact session convener listed below), <b>but other panel suggestions are welcome:</b></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; "><b><i>New Directions in American Literature. </i></b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Convener: Mary Balkun, <a href="mailto:mary.balkun@shu.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186); ">mary.balkun@shu.edu</a></span></li>
</ul><ul type="disc" style="margin-top: 0in; "><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><b><i>Vampires and Zombies</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">, Convener: Nira Gupta-Casale, <a href="mailto:ncasale@kean.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186); ">ncasale@kean.edu</a><span> </span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><b><i>Medieval Literature</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">. Convener: Susannah Chewning, <a href="mailto:chewning@ucc.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186); ">chewning@ucc.edu</a></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><b><i>World Literature.</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> Convener: Dan Gover, <a href="mailto:dgover@kean.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186); ">dgover@kean.edu</a></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><b><i>The Electronic Word: Auditory, Visual, Kinetic.</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> Convener: Burt Kimmelman, <a href="mailto:kimmelman@njit.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186); ">kimmelman@njit.edu</a></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><b><i>Directions in American Poetry since <u>The New American Poetry </u>Anthology of 1960.</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> Convener: Burt Kimmelman,<a href="mailto:kimmelman@njit.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186); ">kimmelman@njit.edu</a></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><b><i>Sexual Contexts of Victorian Literature.</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> Convener: Crystal Coble, <a href="mailto:cacoble@andromeda.rutgers.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186); ">cacoble@andromeda.rutgers.edu</a></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><b><i>New Approaches to Teaching Freshman Composition.</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> Convener: Crystal Coble, <a href="mailto:cacoble@andromeda.rutgers.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186); ">cacoble@andromeda.rutgers.edu</a></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><b><i>Ethics and Literature.</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> Convener: Dean Casale, <a href="mailto:dcasale@kean.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186); ">dcasale@kean.edu</a></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><b><i>Caribbean Literature</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">. Convener: Simone Alexander, <a href="mailto:Simone.alexander@shu.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186); ">Simone.alexander@shu.edu</a></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><b><i>Gender Differences in Shakespeare.</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> Convener. Rachael K.Warmington, <a href="mailto:Rachael.warmington@shu.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186); ">Rachael.warmington@shu.edu</a></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><b><i>Micro-Fiction/Flash Fiction,</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> Convener: Nathan Oates, <a href="mailto:noates@shu.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186); ">nathan.oates@shu.edu</a></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><b><i>Teaching Generation 1.5 and ESL Students.</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> Convener: Gitanjali DasBender, <a href="mailto:gitanjali.dasbender@shu.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186); ">gitanjali.dasbender@shu.edu</a></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><b><i>Teaching Reading and Writing About Literature.</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> Convener: Sarah Ducksworth, <a href="mailto:sducksworth@kean.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186); ">sducksworth@kean.edu</a></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><b><i>Trauma, Memory, and Language in War Narratives.</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> Convener: Maria C. Zamora, <a href="mailto:mzamora@kean.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186); ">mzamora@kean.edu</a><span> </span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><b><i>Creative Writing – Poetry</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">.<span> </span>Convener: John Wargacki, <a href="mailto:wargacjo@shu.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186); ">wargacjo@shu.edu</a></span></li>
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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 <b>any </b><span style="font-weight: normal; ">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" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186); ">ncasale@kean.edu</a>.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; color: black; "></span></p>
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<b>GRADUATE STUDENTS: </b><span style="font-weight: normal; ">You are cordially invited to submit papers for the NJCEA annual </span><b>Graduate Student Award</b><span style="font-weight: normal; ">.<span> </span>The winner of this award will receive a $50.00 Barnes and Nobel gift certificate and have her or his paper published in <i>College English Notes</i></span>, the official publication of the NJCEA.<span> </span><b>Send complete paper and paper abstract to the conference organizer in ELECTRONIC FORM ONLY by January 11, 2010.<span> </span></b><span style="font-weight: normal; ">Papers should be </span><b>8-10 pages in length.</b><span style="font-weight: normal; "><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">N.B.: In order to be eligible to win the graduate student award, students must present their paper at the conference.</p>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; "><b>DEADLINE: January 11, 2010</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">
For submission guidelines, membership information, registration forms for conference, and updates, visit our website<b><a href="http://www.njcea.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186); ">http://www.njcea.org</a>.</b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; "></span></p>
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Coordinator, NJCEA Spring Conference 2010<br><br>Tel. (908) 790-1422 (h)<br> (908)737-0389 (w)<br>