Call for Papers from Graduate Students
Reinventing Orality: Oral Tradition and Textuality
English Graduate Student Association Conference
Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan
February 28, 2004
Sponsored by: English Graduate Student Association
Chair: Sharon Studenka (stude1sm@cmich.edu)
Our conference seeks to focus on the ways in which the oral
tradition is reinvented through text. Through classroom
discussions, film, music, and within academic discourses we
reseed the oral tradition through the externalization of
internal conversation (the text). In other words, we use the
materials available in order to construct meaning and
interpretation.
The English Graduate Student Association welcomes proposals
(250 word abstracts) dealing with Reinventing Orality: Oral
Tradition and Textuality. This conference will include
sessions with a variety of disciplinary areas: language and
literature studies, women’s studies, history, and sociology,
and is open to all graduate students in all areas of study.
Possible Topics:
·To what extent are current forms of technology, such as
email, text messaging, creating a new oral tradition?
·How is orality used within poetry, drama, and the novel?
·What is the impact of music within literary texts?
·How is storytelling used in the classroom?
·How is oral rhetoric used within both oral and written
language?
·To what extent does orality contribute to our understanding
of textuality?
Keynote Speaker: Linda Woodbridge “Patchwork: Piecing the
Early Modern Mind in England’s First Century of Print
Culture” Linda Woodbridge is a Distinguished Professor of
English at Penn State University. She has currently published
a book entitled Vagrancy, Homelessness, and English
Renaissance Literature.
Awards: One $250 prize for the best paper and four $75 prizes
for honorable mentions will be awarded. Deadline for full
paper submissions for prizes is February 15, 2004.
Procedures and Deadlines
Proposals:
·Deadline for proposals is December 15, 2003.
·Email to Sharon Studenka (stude1sm@cmich.edu) or mail them
to:
EGSA c/o Sharon Studenka
215 Anspach, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI
48859
·Proposal information must include your name, e-mail address,
telephone number, institutional affiliation, area of study
for your presentation, technology requests (not guaranteed),
presentation title, and a 250 word abstract for a 15-20
minute presentation.
Acceptance Procedures:
·Acceptance will be e-mailed by January 6, 2004
·You must reply via e-mail by January 27, 2004 to confirm
your attendance.
·Registration deadline is February 20.
·If you have questions about the conference or your proposal,
please contact Sharon Studenka at stude1sm@cmich.edu.
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