2011 CFP: Professional
See also under:
Creative Writing: “Poetry and the Academy”
Pedagogy: “Rethinking Teaching in Lean Times”
Women’s and Gender Studies: “The Outsider Within: Women as Contingent Faculty in the Academy”
- College ‘Dropouts’: Teachers’ Journeys From the Ivory Tower to the Trenches (Roundtable)
- Ph.Ds who have made the transition from the college/university to the high school classroom are invited to submit 250-500 word proposals, sharing their experiences (good, bad, surprising) navigating some of the following issues: the job search, adapting to the high school schedule, the transition to high school students and colleagues, workload, autonomy, and seeing college differently, ‘though the looking glass’ of a high school teacher’s perspective. Please send proposals to Siobhan Kelly, kelly@rutgersprep.org.
- Diversity, Identity and Graduate School (Roundtable)
- The Graduate Caucus of the Northeast Modern Language Association invites proposals for a roundtable on issues of diversity and identity that graduate students face during their academic training. We are interested in hearing from individuals who can speak to how to balance the personal, professional and political while in graduate school. Please send a statement of interest to Maureen Gallagher, Graduate Caucus Communications Director, mogallag@german.umass.edu.
- Publishing Articles in Academic Journals (Roundtable)
- Participants will include two journal editors, two reviewers and two-three authors. They will demystify the process of publishing academic articles, explain why good articles are rejected, and elaborate on what reviewers look for in publishable articles. They will share their experiences regarding the feedback they received from reviewers who evaluated their submissions, and will give examples of the revisions they were asked to make to their papers before they were published. Participation in this panel is by invitation.EXTENDED TO 10/10
- Traditional, Alternative and Successful Approaches through Academe (Roundtable)
- Sponsored by the Graduate Student Caucus. This roundtable welcomes a discussion of both traditional and alternative paths to successful careers after graduate school. Talks might include anything from how to develop a traditional CV to how to cater your letter of interest for a two-year institution to how to translate your academic skills into desired criteria for a non-academic trajectory. Send abstract to bspence@complit.umass.edu. EXTENDED TO 10/10
- Translation: The ‘Next Big Thing’ to Revitalize the Humanities? (Roundtable)
- Are translation studies the ‘next big thing’ to revitalize the Humanities? Where should they be housed within the academy? This roundtable will discuss these issues and will try to devise a way ‘to create a presence and a respect for the work of translation as a widely recognized and regarded field of professional academic endeavor.’ (Martin Riker, Inside Higher Ed, January 6, 2010)Submit 250-word proposals which address these issues and the growing importance of translation studies to Mary Sisler at rti@langlab.rutgers.eduEXTENDED TO 10/10
- Who Will Advocate for Our Part-Time Faculty? (Roundtable)
- This roundtable will address the situation facing part-time faculty in our colleges and universities today. It asks of its participants, who will advocate on behalf of the part-time, contingent and adjunct faculty who currently make up a great percentage of our professiorate and who lack sufficient compensation, benefits and respect? Can unionizing improve their situation, or are administrators, department heads or the part-timers themselves responsible for helping part-timers improve their situations? Abstracts to <chenderson@clcillinois.edu>
