I thought this call for papers would welcome some uniquely Canadian and / or
cross-border perspectives, from those of you involved in English Studies.
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> Subject: call for papers: CONCERNS Journal
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> Call for Papers (Deadline Extended to January 15, 2002)
>
> Interdisciplinarity Transnationalism, and the Future of English Studies
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> The Spring issue of Concerns, journal of the Women's Caucus of the Modern
> Language Association, co-edited by Wendy Hesford and Laura
> Yow, will focus on the theoretical, practical, and institutional
> relationships and conversations between women's studies, gender studies,
> and various formulations of ethnic and area studies, particularly
> as these
> conversations shape institutional structures, alliances, curriculum, and
> pedagogy in Departments of English.
>
> We welcome 10-15 page essays that consider the kinds of productive
> political, intellectual, and pedagogical alliances possible among these
> interdisciplinary fields of knowledge, and/or their implications for the
> future of English Studies, Composition/Rhetoric/Literacy, Foreign
> Language,
> Folklore, or Comparative Literature Programs. While such
> alliances work in
> theory, they are harder to get off the ground in practice,
> especially in a
> university system that often pits "non-traditional" areas of inquiry
> against one another in the fight for meager resources. Some of the
> questions that contributors might consider include:
>
> How can we translate the insurgent pedagogical practices and
> interdisciplinary projects engaged by individuals in their
> classrooms into
> broader institutional changes? What is the relationship among these
> interdisciplinary fields and identity or area-based studies, and more
> traditional disciplines? To what degree have women and gender
> studies and
> area studies reconfigured the scholarship, teaching, and structures of
> English, Composition, Foreign Language, and/or Comparative
> Literature Programs?
>
> To what degree are disciplinary boundaries out of synch with transnational
> movements? What critical approaches move beyond certain nation and
> discipline bound teaching, department structures, and faculties? To what
> degree have teachers and scholars moved beyond restrictive frameworks of
> the nation-state as a unit for literary and cultural analysis?
>
> Deadline for submissions has been extended to January 15. Please email
> Wendy Hesford [log in to unmask] if you'd like to submit an essay.
> Copies of
> papers should be sent to both Wendy Hesford, Ohio State University,
> English, Columbus, OH 43205, and Laura Yow, Department of
> English, Indiana
> University, Ballantine Hall 442, Bloomington, IN 47405.
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> Wendy Hesford
> Associate Professor
> Department of English
> The Ohio State University
> 164 West 17th Ave.
> Columbus, OH 43210-1370
> Fax: 614-292-7816
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