Calls for Papers/Fellowships/Employment Opportunities

 

• Position Announcement: Director of Howe Center for Student Writing, Miami University, Ohio

  Miami University is pleased to invite applications for the first Director of the Howe Center for Student Writing. This appointment includes a tenured position as professor or associate professor in the English Department.

  The Howe Center for Student Writing is a major component of the Roger and Joyce Howe Center for Writing Excellence, an innovative and generously endowed administrative unit that combines programs and services for students, both undergraduate and graduate, with initiatives that help faculty and departments design additional and more effective writing assignments.

  In a Director for the Center for Student Writing, we are seeking a leader who can help us re-imagine the scope and nature of a university's support for students and be a member of the Howe Center for Writing Excellence's overall leadership team. In particular, we wish to hire a colleague who will develop programs that encompass all the writing that Miami students do, including not only their course-based assignments but also their extracurricular, self-sponsored, and community-based writing. As part of this effort, the Director will establish new partnerships and collaborations with various university programs and student organizations as well as strengthen ones we already have with such groups as the Center for American and World Cultures, Office of Student Engagement and Service Learning, Students for Peace and Justice, and Women's Center. We want our student programs to support all forms of writing, including both print and digital communications. The Director will provide vision and direction to our thriving student writing center, which is located in the center of the first floor of Miami's main library. However, the Director will not be responsible for day-to-day supervision of the writing center. We will provide an administrative assistant to fulfill that responsibility so the Director can concentrate on the larger project of developing programs that encourage, support, and highlight all student writing. This position offers a unique opportunity for combining visionary development of campus-wide initiatives in support of student writing with a research program that contributes in important and lasting ways to the scholarship on writing in college.

  The Director's appointment will be for a renewable, five-year term in the Howe Center for Writing Excellence. During this term, the Director will devote most of his or her energies and creativity to the Center. The Director's only teaching requirement will be to offer the course that prepares new student writing consultants for their duties. However, as a valued member of our composition and rhetoric faculty, the Director will be welcome to serve on master's and doctoral committees and teach occasional courses in the English department, including graduate seminars on topics of his or her choosing and undergraduate courses in the technical and scientific communication major and the writing and rhetoric minor. At the end of five years, the Director may request renewal of his or her appointment to the Howe Center for Student Writing or elect to devote his or her talents to the English department.

  Required Qualifications: Terminal degree; record of teaching, research, and service that merits appointment as a tenured associate or full professor in the English department at Miami; ability to interact with a wide range of constituencies and collaborators, including faculty, students, and staff. Desirable qualifications : knowledge and experience with student writing center theory and practice, writing in the disciplines, writing program administration, assessment, grant writing, and fundraising.

  Application: To apply, send a letter, vita, names of four references, and a statement discussing your interest in the opportunities afforded by this position to Paul Anderson, Chair, Search Committee, Howe Center for Writing Excellence, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056. Screening of applications begins October 1, 2009 and continues until the position is filled. Miami is an EOE/AA employer with smoke-free campuses. The campus crime and safety report can be found at www.muohio.edu/righttoknow; hard copy upon request. Information about the Howe Center for Writing Excellence is available at www.muohio.edu/Howe.

 

• Valley Humanities Review: A New Journal for Undergraduate Research in the Humanities: Call for Papers

  The Valley Humanities Review is currently seeking essays in the humanities for publication in its Spring 2010 Issue.  We seek essays of high quality, intellectual rigor and originality that challenge or contribute substantially to ongoing conversations in the humanities.  Topics may include but are not limited to: literature, history, religion, philosophy, art, art history and foreign languages.  VHR is committed to undergraduate research and scholarship in the field; therefore, we only accept submissions by current or recently graduated undergraduate students.  Our reading period runs from September 1 to December 1 of each year.  All submissions received outside of these dates will be returned unread.  All submissions should adhere to the Chicago style in formatting, footnoting and bibliography.  Essays should be between 3,000 and 6,000 words in length, be free of errors and have an original title.  Submissions may be emailed to submissions-vhr@lvc.edu .  Please visit www.lvc.edu/vhr for more information.

 

• Call for Papers: MCEA Conference on Friday, October 2, 2009

Theme: In Times of Crisis

• Speakers: Sari Adelson & Mary Heinen, Coordinators, Prison Creative Arts Project, a program that collaborates with incarcerated youth and adults, urban youth, and the formerly incarcerated to do creative expression, especially in theater, poetry, and art
• Location & Co-Sponsor: Eastern Michigan University Student Center at 900 Oakwood St., Ypsilanti, MI 48197

We all face crises from time to time: personal, professional, political. Whether job instability, family trauma or personal illness, how is crisis shaped, constructed, resolved? How do larger crises—war, vulnerable economies, global warming, the specter of terrorism—filter down into our lives? How have creative writers in the past coped with crisis; how is crisis presented and resolved in literature? How do we/others recognize/cope with the challenges and crises revealed in fiction, poetry, non-fiction prose professional expectations/evaluation, classroom management teaching composition, preparing students for the work world English departments, research the lives of our students, curriculum development the creative process, computer or on-line instruction union/administration differences.

The Michigan College English Association invites proposals for individual papers and for complete or open panels for our Fall 2009 meeting. We welcome proposals from experienced academics as well as from young scholars and graduate students. We encourage a variety of papers, including pedagogical and scholarly essays. We also welcome poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction from creative writers. We will award a prize for the best scholarly paper and for the best creative writing by a graduate student.

Although we are calling for papers and panels that reflect the conference theme, we also welcome proposals in the variety of areas English and Writing departments encompass: composition and rhetoric; computers and writing; creative writing; critical pedagogy; critical studies in the teaching of English; cultural studies; film studies; developmental education; English as a second language; linguistics; literary studies; multicultural literature; on-line English courses and the virtual university; popular culture; race, class, and gender studies; progressive education; reading and writing across the curriculum; student demographics; student/instructor accountability and assessment; student placement; study skills; technical writing.

Proposals are due by Friday, September 11, 2009. Early submissions are welcome. Please submit proposals to Charles Cunningham and Ed Demerly, Program Chairs, via email at ccunnin2@emich.edu and edemerly@aol.com. Please specify your needs for audio-visual equipment and the best time of day for your presentation.

 

Members are encouraged to submit items of interest for posting.

Links

English Studies Forum -- an online journal edited by Trey Strecker, Ball State University

NOTE: Notes on Teaching English -- the online journal for the Georgia-Carolinas College English Association

AAUP Report on "Academic Freedom and National Security in a Time of Crisis"

Other Items in the Archives

( 9-14-04 Letter to Affiliates and 2-18-04 Letter to Affiliates from Scott Borders)

Cincinnati (2002) Conference Program
Memphis (2001) Conference Program
Positions Open for CEA Executive Director and Treasurer
Proposal for 2nd Volume of CEA History

Letter from Ann Hawkins, Immediate Past President (2006)

Call for Nominations for Executive Director, Treasurer, and National Director of Affiliates (2008)

For more information about archived issues, contact former CEA Forum editor, Bege Bowers .