Awards
Outstanding Paper Presented by a Graduate Student (for the annual conference)
The College English Association invites graduate students who will be presenting papers in San Antonio to submit their work for consideration for the CEA Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award. The submission process opens once acceptances have been sent out in December. Members will be notified by email invitation some time in January AFTER conference acceptances have been determined.
Here's what you need to know:
1) You must be a graduate student, currently enrolled in a graduate program.
2) Once invitations have been sent out, send your completed paper electronically to Janine Utell (jmutell@mail.widener.edu) by FEBRUARY 25, 2010 for consideration. Please do not send drafts, abstracts, etc. You must send your completed, presentation-ready paper. NOTE: You must send the paper you will be presenting. Article-length essays that you plan on editing for presentation later are not acceptable and will be disqualified. Please remember that all presentations at CEA are limited to 15 minutes, which would consist of about 8-10 pages of text (double-spaced, 12-point font, Times New Roman). When you send your paper, please indicate the program in which you are currently a student.
3) You must physically present your paper at the conference. People who do not present at the conference the same paper submitted prior to the conference will be disqualified.
Papers will be read in advance of the conference by members of the CEA Board; these readers will then hear and see the papers delivered at the conference. Thus the written version of the paper AND the presentation itself are both factors in the awarding of the prize.
Papers must be sent to Janine Utell at jmutell@mail.widener.edu by February 25, 2010 . All questions should also be directed to this address as well.
James R. (Dick) Bennett Award for Literature and Peace (for the annual conference)
This award is given to a paper presented at the CEA annual conference. A prize of $250 dollars may be awarded annually for a paper or project that contributes significantly, through action or understanding, to the prospect of living in harmony with the Earth and humankind. Papers must conform to CEA conference submission deadlines. Submissions may be nominated by the presenter in advance of the conference or by any session chair by providing by Friday evening of the conference a copy of a paper to the CEA Peace Panel organizer. Each submission will be read by a panel of three judges: the panel organizer, the current CEA president, and the CEA Critic editor or one representative selected by each. The prize-winning entry will be considered for publication in the CEA Critic, and self-nomination presumes submission. If no entry is deemed exceptionally noteworthy, the judges may refrain from naming a recipient. Although papers or projects must be presented at the CEA annual conference, the recipients need not be present at the All-Conference Luncheon to receive the award.
Robert Hacke Scholar-Teacher Award
The Robert Hacke Scholar-Teacher Award provides $550 to help support a CEA junior member who is involved in a scholarly or pedagogical project related to English studies. Those persons who are adjuncts or who hold the rank of instructor or assistant professor in a post-secondary institution, including community colleges—and who are members of the CEA at the time of application—are eligible to submit project proposals. The recipient of the $550 award will be announced at the CEA's annual spring conference. Applications must provide the following materials to the Awards Committee:
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A detailed rationale (maximum of five pages) for the project, including title, purpose and goal, methodology, proposed results, and work schedule;
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A complete vita;
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One letter of recommendation.
The $550 award is available to each year's winner at the conference or by May 1. By March 15 of the following year, the recipient will submit a brief report of the progress of his or her project to the Executive Director, who will present it to the Board of Directors at their annual spring meeting. Application of no more than five pages should be sent to the attention of the Awards Committee at cea.english@gmail.com. The application deadline is February 2, 2010.
2009 Winners
THE JOE D. THOMAS CEA DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD Walter Levy, Pace University and Dean Baldwin, Penn State Behrend
THE CEA HONORARY LIFE MEMBERSHIP Scott Borders, Anderson University
THE CEA PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Wendell Aycock, Texas Tech University
THE ROBERT A. MILLER MEMORIAL PRIZE for the year's best article in The CEA Critic Barbara Mather Cobb, Murray State University, "'Excribe'-ing, Esteem, and Estimation: Jonson as Window to the 'Soule of the Age." The CEA Critic 71.1 (Fall 2008): 1-11.
THE ROBERT HACKE SCHOLAR-TEACHER AWARD Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, Indiana University-Purdue University, "Student Performance and Retention in Basic and First-Year Writing Courses"; Claire Counihan, Nazareth College, "The Distractions of Desire: Genre Experimentation and Southern African Women's Literature"
OUTSTANDING PAPER PRESENTED BY A GRADUATE STUDENT at CEA's Annual Conference Heidi Bollinger, University of Rochester, "Inherited and Imagined Traumas in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated"
THE JAMES R. (DICK) BENNETT AWARD FOR LITERATURE AND PEACE Jacob Stratman, John Brown University, "The Reconciled Classroom: Teaching Justly and Seeking Justice in a Freshman Composition Course'