UPDATE: Disciplining the Disciplines: Inter-, Trans-, Anti-Disciplinarity (grad) (3/15/05; 4/22/05-4/24/05)

*DEADLINE EXTENSION: MARCH 15, 2005*
...to welcome additional paper and panel submissions!

Disciplining the Disciplines: Interdisciplinarity, Anti-Disciplinarity,
and Transdisciplinarity in English Studies

Students of English Studies Association
California State University, Fresno
6th Annual Graduate Student Conference
April 22-24, 2005.
sesaconference_at_hotmail.com

The keynote speaker this year will be the distinguished American Studies
scholar Dr. Tricia Rose of University of California at Santa Cruz.

We seek 500 word abstracts for papers and panels that call into question
or demonstrate a critical engagement with the notion of disciplinarity
in English Studies.

We seek submissions that extend the disciplinary discussion in English
studies by focusing on questions, such as:

-- What theoretical and historical analyses attempt to rethink English
studies, and what research in traditional areas of English studies can
take an interdisciplinary focus?
-- How can we imagine English studies in light of contemporary
challenges to disciplinary orthodoxies?
-- How has interdisciplinarity reshaped the type of work we do in
so-called traditional areas of English studies?
-- What new avenues are available for work that moves beyond these
traditional areas?

Through our engagement with these questions participants in this
conference will have the opportunity to contribute to the ongoing
discussions that continue to shape what counts as knowledge in English
Studies.

Specifically, we welcome interdisciplinary approaches that question or
contest subdisciplines in English studies (i.e. Victorian and other
historical periods/periodization, Composition and Rhetoric, Creative
Writing) from a variety of theoretical perspectives. In addition, we
welcome submissions in scholarship that extend and even move beyond the
study of English across a wide variety of interdisciplinary perspectives
that include, but are not limited to:

* Art and Art History
* History
* Women’s, Gender, and Gay and Lesbian Studies
* Chicano/a, African American, and Asian American Studies
* Anthropology
* Foreign Language and Comparative Literature
* Psychology, Criminology, and Victimology
* Communication Studies
* Ecological and Environmental Studies
* Science and Technology Studies
* Education and Literacy
* Writing Education, Literature Education, Creative Writing Education,
Pedagogy, Teacher Education, and School Reform
* Rhetoric of Law and Social Science and the Law
* Music and Ethnomusicology
* Performance Studies, Theatre and Dance
* Religious Studies
* Sociology and International Studies

The Introduction in Rose’s book, Black Noise, describes an analytical
approach to examining rap music and black culture that complicates
notions of disciplinarity:

“I have merged multiple ways of knowing, of understanding, of
interpreting culture and practice in _Black Noise_. I hope that this
polyvocal approach will encourage other students of culture to deal
head-on with the deeply contradictory and multilayered voices and themes
expressed in popular culture; to use theoretical ideas in enabling and
creative ways; and to try to occupy as many subject positions as
possible. The future of insightful cultural inquiry lies in those modes
of analyses that can account for and at the same time critique the
raging contradictions that comprise daily life.”

Conference participants will have the opportunity to attend Rose’s
keynote address on this theme and exchange insights with peers from the
graduate student community.

Abstracts of up to 250 words will be accepted until *March 1, 2005*.
Please submit electronically to sesaconference_at_hotmail.com and include a
brief bio.

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