Special Topic in Latinx Literature at CEA 2025 (CEA 3/27-3/29/2025) (College English Association Conference)
Philadelphia, PA
Organization: College English Association
Event: College English Association Conference
Call for Papers, Special Topic in Latinx Literature at CEA 2025
March 27-29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square
1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
215.561.7500
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on special topic in Latinx Literature for our 54th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org
Papers on Latinx Literature are especially welcome on our conference theme of "Freedom," although papers on other concepts are also welcome. Topic suggestions include Latinx literary production, migration, diaspora, exile, resident statuses, liminal spaces, memory, history, borderlands, and identities, among many other topics.
Conference Theme: Freedom
As the location of CEA 2025, Philadelphia is perfect for the present moment. Here, the spirit of the American Revolution and the ideals that would drive it were born. The Declaration of Independence, penned and ratified in Philadelphia, argued that “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” were “inalienable rights.” As a nation, we continue to wrestle with the words of the Declaration and the men who signed it. However, our commitment to liberty is unwavering, even in the face of multiple challenges to our freedoms, our autonomy, and our choices. At the CEA, we hold close especially the belief in academic freedom.
CEA 2025 welcomes papers and panels that address our discipline from multiple perspectives and across a wide range of areas, including literary studies, creative writing, rhetoric, composition, technical communication, linguistics, and film. And, in the spirit of Philadelphia, we are especially interested in presentations that incorporate topics related to FREEDOM [as it relates to your Special Topic] in texts, disciplines, people, cultural studies, media, and pedagogy. We also welcome papers on areas that influence our work as academics, including student demographics, student/instructor accountability and assessment, student advising, academic leadership in departments and programs, and the place of the English department in the university.
For your proposal you might consider:
Freedom between disciplines, languages, or generations
Freedom regarding races, classes, cultures, regions, genders, or sexualities.
Cultural or ideological freedom in literary, scholarly, or theoretical works
Freedom as construct, form, metaphor, motif, or icon
Connections between text and images or sound
Freedom regarding theory and practice, reading and writing, writer and audience
Academic freedom in teaching and scholarship; faculty and administrators; professors and students
Freedom and materiality
Digital humanities and freedom
General Call for Papers
CEA also welcomes proposals for presentations in any of the areas English departments typically encompass, including literature criticism and scholarship, creative writing, composition, technical communication, linguistics, and film. We also welcome papers on areas that influence our work as academics, including student demographics, student/instructor accountability and assessment, student advising, academic leadership in departments and programs, and the place of the English department in the university.
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2024
For more information on how to submit, please see the full CFP at www.cea-web.org
Membership
All presenters at the CEA 2025 conference must become members of CEA by January 1, 2025. To join CEA, please go to www.cea-web.org
Other questions? Please email cea.english@gmail.com.
Sincerely,
Joseph M. Viera, PhD
Professor of English
Nazareth University
Email: jviera1@naz.edu
https://cea-web.org/call-for-papers
Joseph Viera