Call for Essay Proposals
A Delicate Balance: Teaching, Scholarship, and Service in the 21st
Century English Department
A proposed collection edited by
Joe Marshall Hardin (Northwestern State University of Louisiana)
Ray Wallace (Troy State University Montgomery)
We seek proposals related to the balance (or lack thereof) between the
elements of teaching, scholarship, and service in contemporary college
and university English departments. All, or any, of these three areas
can be discussed in a proposed essay; we seek a wide distribution of
essays from research, comprehensive, and teaching departments.
We are interested in receiving essay-proposals from established English
professionals (faculty, composition program directors/WPAs, English
graduate studies directors, tenure/promotion committee chairs/members,
department heads, deans, VPAA's, new faculty, and those involved in
preparing graduates for their roles as future English faculty). We
envision this edited collection as a necessary addition to the English
studies library, one that will collate several divergent strands of
dialogue and debate on the importance of teaching, scholarship, and
service in our departments. While we do not limit the scope and
direction of proposed essays, we especially welcome essay proposals that
examine:
a.. how departments and tenure and promotions committees currently
establish criteria, weight, and reward for these areas;
b.. how these expectations are spelled out to new faculty;
c.. how these three elements are deemed to have been accomplished
acceptably or satisfactorily in English departments;
d.. how graduate programs are preparing (or are not preparing) the
next generation of English professionals in terms of these three areas,
or, how graduate programs can more adequately prepare new faculty for
work in these three areas;
e.. how faculty members' individual graduate preparation did or did
not prepare them for work in these areas in the professional careers;
f.. how well English departments work with newly hired faculty to
define expectations;
g.. how these expectations change as English departments and academic
institutions' missions change;
h.. how the post-tenure review processes evaluates these elements in
working with already established faculty, "burnt out" faculty, or
faculty who have changed their primary emphasis from that of teacher, or
scholar, or primarily service-oriented professional;
i.. how "well-rounded English professionals" are defined, developed
and encouraged;
j.. how new faculty can develop a professional profile that accents
these three areas;
k.. how new and establish faculty would like to see these three areas
weighted in their careers;
l.. how what we say we want our "well-rounded faculty" to look like
and then what we actually reward in contemporary English departments
varies.
Proposals for essays must include: a 350-500 word abstract, a 100-word
bio for each author, and all necessary contact information (snail-mail
and e-mail addresses). Essays must be previously unpublished and should
not be under consideration elsewhere.
Please snail mail proposals, bio(s), and contact information to either
co-editor at:
Joe Hardin; Dept. of English; 318 Kyser Hall; Northwestern State
University; Natchitoches, LA 71497
Ray Wallace; Dean of Arts and Sciences; Troy State University,
Montgomery; Montgomery AL 36103-4419
Or e-mail proposals, bio(s), and contact information (as a Microsoft
Word attachment) to either Joe Hardin at joeh@nsula.edu or Ray Wallace
at rwallace@tsum.edu
Deadline for Proposals is February 1, 2002.
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