Call for Papers: Caribbean Literature at CEA 2025
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Organization: College English Association
Call for Papers, Caribbean 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 Caribbean Literature for our 54th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org
Conference Theme: 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 Caribbean literature.
We welcome individual and panel presentation proposals that address Caribbean literature in general, including—but not limited to—the following possible themes:
- 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
Submission deadline: November 1, 2024. Only one submission per individual, please. Notifications of proposal status will be sent in early December. 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,
Dr. Laura Barrio-Vilar
Associate Professor of English
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Laura Barrio-Vilar