"Community, Dissent and the Teaching of English in a Time of War."
A panel proposed for "Communities and Connections: The 2003 English
Association of the Pennsylvania State Universities (EAPSU) Conference,"
West Chester University of Pennsylvania, October 23-24, 2003, co-hosted
by WCU and Cheney University.
I am soliciting papers for a panel on the role of the literature or
composition classroom as a community during wartime, including but not
limited to the recent war in Iraq. Papers might consider the classroom
as a space for dissent from larger communities (local, national),
dissent within the classroom on the subject of war, the conflicting
roles of the teacher in building community and encouraging dissent
during war, the uses/abuses of the teacher's position in the classroom
community, or the specific relation of English studies to the topic of
war.
Please email proposals of no more than 500 words to Dr. Robert Fletcher
(Dept. of English, WCU) at rpfletch@fast.net by 6/28/03.
EAPSU is the English Department organization of the 14 universities in
Pennsylvania. Please see the web page at
http://www.ship.edu/~kmlong/eapsu/.
More information on the 2003 conference will be available soon at
http://www.wcupa.edu/_academics/sch_cas.eng/. Here is the CFP for the
conference as a whole:
CALL FOR PAPERS
2003 EAPSU Conference
COMMUNITIES and CONNECTIONS
West Chester University
West Chester, PA 19383
October 23-24, 2003
Fourteen universities in one system; fourteen English
departments, each with various curricula and programs that
serve major, minor, general education, and interdisciplinary
requirements; fourteen English department faculty who teach,
sit on committees, present papers at conferences, and publish:
The topic for EAPSU 2003 is, loosely speaking, communities
inside, outside, tangential to, either real or virtual, online
or off, that comprise an English department.
We invite proposals from faculty for presentations, roundtable
discussions, and workshops that address teaching and research
concerning the various communities that make up an English
department. We especially invite proposals that speak about
teacher-scholarly-community collaboration,
interdisciplinarity, service-learning, associations with
external organizations, and connections to global communities.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
· Effective teaching and pedagogical practices
· Curriculum design and course content
· Joint ventures in literature and composition; composition
and film; such pairings are limited only by the imagination
· Interdisciplinary courses and programs that focus on diverse
aspects of literary, rhetorical, cinematic, and linguistic
subject matter
· Original works of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, or drama
· Service-learning and other outreach programs
· We also invite suggestions for special interest roundtable
discussions. In addition to the above topics, other
possibilities include uses of technology; writing center
practices; evaluation of tenure-track faculty; and assessment
of major programs.
Conference cost will be $65 for faculty of the 14 state universities,
and $75 for faculty from other
institutions. Student and alumni reduced fees will also be available.
Please visit the university website: http://www.wcupa.edu.
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