The CEA Forum

Winter/Spring 2005: 34.1

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Table of Contents

Articles

Earl Wilcox / A Tribute to Bill Sullivan

"Bill Sullivan's truncated life—he was barely 61---leaves everyone with memories of both the loveliness of his life and the cruelty that has robbed us of his sweet presence..." (read more)

John T. Shawcross / Works of Love or Enmity: Do Not Let Our Minor Poets Disappear

" There should be room in an English curriculum for attention to the aesthetics of literature, to the generic and the anti-generic, and sometimes it seems that the 'minor' author may be a better yardstick of what is happening culturally than the 'major' one..." (read more)

Barbara Stevenson / The Electronic Revolution and the Teaching of Literature

"Technology and hypertext theory provide students with a glimpse back to the original creation and reception of a text, thereby providing them with a history of literacy..." (read more)

Judy Hayden / Of Monsters, Muggles, and Pink Monkeys: The Crisis of Plagiarism in Academia

" How can academics today expect students to behave honorably, when the media regularly presents a number of well-educated adults, often in positions of trust and authority , who are setting some rather appalling examples of dishonesty?..." (read more)

Wendy Moffat / "Only Connect!": Departmental Community and the Alumni Network

" It is entirely natural, and entirely fair, that students who yearn toward the study of English have a good answer from us when they ask 'what can I do with my English degree?'...” (read more)

From the Classroom

Twila Yates Papay / Integrating the Tramps: A Senior Assessment Course on the Values of English

" In the end, students assess themselves as readers and writers, defining their own skills..." (read more)

Tamara Powell / The Play's the Thing: Using Tony Kushner's Angels in America as a Critical Thinking and Theory Teaching Tool

" I know that they want to make sense of Angels in America . They want to find a theme. And perhaps they are even thinking, 'There is no theme here!'..." (read more)

CEA 2004 Annual Conference

Dean Baldwin, Program Chair / Program Chair's Report on the Richmond Convention (read more)

Ed Wiltse and Leslie Reese / Report from the Robert Hacke Award Winners: "Do Not Pass Go": Student-Inmate Reading and Discussion Groups at Monroe Correctional Facility (read more)

Reviews

Sean O'Toole / Review of Beloved Boy: Letters to Hendrik C. Andersen, 1899-1915 (read more)

Editors' Note:

Bege Bowers of Youngstown State University, who served as CEA Web Manager and Editor of The CEA Forum for a number of years, has stepped down. The CEA Forum is now hosted and edited at Widener University under CEA Publications Editor Daniel Robinson and Associate Editor Janine Utell. We thank Professor Bowers for her invaluable service, and we thank the CEA membership and readers of The CEA Forum for their patience while this transition has been made.

We have had some catching up to do, but starting in 2006, we plan to maintain a twice-annually publication schedule. The CEA Forum will be published in January, including information about the upcoming annual conference in the spring, and in July, including reports from that immediately past conference. (Note that this issue includes a report from the 2004 conference, the forthcoming issue will include a report from the 2005 conference, and the next regular issue in July will feature reports from the 2006 conference.)

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