Call for Papers
The Ohio University English Department invites scholars, writers, and instructors in English Studies to submit individual or panel abstracts for presentations at our third biennial conference on humor, to be held Saturday, October 4, on Ohio University’s campus in Athens, Ohio. We encourage submissions in pedagogy, creative writing, rhetorical theory, composition, literary studies, critical theory, cultural studies, or linguistics. Grounding all submissions should be an interest in exploring the role(s) of levity in work that gets counted–or might get counted–as “disciplinary.” Submissions might touch on any of the following topics:
Humor and classroom practices
Play with representation/identity
Carnival/Carnivalesque
Trickster figures
Work, play, and social change
Jouissance
Comedy as genre
The politics of the comedic
Really funny jokes (just kidding)
Keynote Speaker: Poet George Bilgere, John Carroll University. Dr. Bilgere’s poetry has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. He has also published four books of poetry: Haywire (2006), The Good Kiss (2002), Big Bang (1999), and The Going (1995).
Presentations should last approximately fifteen minutes. Graduate student presentations are encouraged.
Abstract Deadline: July 10, 2008
Send contact information and a 250-word abstract to:
Ohio University
English Department
360 Ellis Hall
Conference Box A
Athens, OH 45701
Or
Submit electronically
c/o Nathan Shepley
ns327905@ohio.edu
Conference Registration: $25.00 (check payable to the Ohio University English Department)
Includes a copy of Quarter after Eight: A Journal of Experimental Prose and Commentary
For more information and updates, contact Megan Lobsinger (ml177904@ohio.edu) or Brian Elliott (be119205@ohio.edu), conference coordinators. |