College English Association - Middle Atlantic Group

ANNUAL SPRING CONFERENCE 2015

Call for Papers

“Imagination and Creation”

7 March 2015

Keynote Speaker: David Miller, Allegheny College

Location: Montgomery College, Campus TBA

Imagination and Creation are the linked themes of this year’s conference. We invite papers or panels on literature, language, cultural studies, composition, and pedagogy that contemplate this theme both within the discipline of English and in other areas of the humanities. We welcome interdisciplinary papers and panels, and we also encourage submissions from AP instructors and graduate students. Proposals may broadly interpret the conference theme along (but not confined to) the following lines:

Re-imagining public education

Inspiration and writer’s block

Romantic imaginations

Creation myths

Fabrications and realizations

Ex nihilo

Creative pedagogies

Creativity, Style, and Grammar

Athena and lightbulbs: metaphors of creation and imagination

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet

Re-imagining the real: Magic realism, surrealism, etc.

Natural and artificial creations

Imagined spaces

Big bang theory

Creation and destruction

Imagine peace

Imagination as a literary theme

Imagining the Other

Imago mundi

Beautiful creations

Canon Creation

Please email your paper abstracts (of 500 words or fewer) or panel proposals by Dec. 15 to Alex Howe, Program Committee Chair, at [log in to unmask] (202-274-5658). Acceptance letters will be sent out in mid- January. A conference registration/CEA-MAG membership fee of $40 ($30 for adjunct instructors and $20 for graduate students) will be required when you mail in your registration for the conference (includes lunch and subscription to the CEAMAGazine). Other questions about the conference may be directed to Charlie Ewers, CEA-MAG President, at [log in to unmask] (301-687-4230).

Abstracts and panel proposals should include the following information: Name; institutional affiliation (if applicable; graduate students should identify themselves to be eligible to compete for the $50 prize for best grad student paper); mailing address (including zip code); phone number and email address; title for the proposed presentation; abstract of no more than 500 words (papers at the conference should be limited to 15 minutes); A-V needs, if any; special needs, if any.