Call for PapersThe 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: 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 Or 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. |