"Don't You Have Anything Better to Do?":
Work, Play, and Humor in English Studies
The Department of English at Ohio University invites writers, teachers,
and scholars in English Studies to Athens, Ohio, Saturday, November 6th,
2004 for a one-day conference on the negotiation between work and play in
our professional and public lives. We are interested in how this space is
mediated in classrooms, literature, theory, and art. We encourage the
submission of papers, presentations, creative writings, and panels from all
aspects of the discipline: creative writing, critical theory, cultural
studies, literature, rhetoric and composition, linguistics, etc.
Possible topics to "play" with might include:
The Politics of Laughter
Comic Spirit
Humor as a Subversive Tool
The Joker vs. the Authoritarian
Humors of the Academy vs. Humors of Popular Culture
Comics in the Classroom
Carnival/Carnivalesque
Trickster Student, Trickster Text, Trickster Teacher
Underlife/Subtext in Classrooms, on the Job, in Literature
The Art of Performance in the Writing Classroom
The Value of Word Play, Irony, & Sarcasm in Private and Public
Emotions in the Workplace
Art & Memory, Truth & Lies
The Writer at Work
DEADLINE: May 1, 2004
Send 250 word abstracts with SASE to:
English Department
Conference Box A
Ellis Hall
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
Graduate Student Presentations Encouraged
Acceptances will be sent by June 30, 2004.
$25.00 Registration Fee for the conference, which includes a copy of
"Quarter After Eight: A Journal of Experimental Prose and Commentary."
Keynote Speakers: To Be Announced
For more information & updates visit:
http://www.english.ohiou.edu/conference/
or call 740-593-2837.
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