Hello all,
Attached (and pasted below) is the Call for Papers for this year's graduate student student conference. The theme for this year's conference is Move!: Conversations in Motion. The conference is engaging movement in the broadest sense, including mobilizations, migrations, gestures, emotions, and the ways that fields of knowledge move and shift.
The deadline for proposals is Monday, March 10. We hope that you will submit a proposal. The conference not only offers a great opportunity to share your work, but also a chance to connect with others in the program.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me or Professor Hong.
Best,
Bill
CALL FOR PAPERS
Seventh Annual Queens College English Graduate Conference
MOVE!
Conversations in Motion
Conference Date: April 29, 2020
Keynote Speaker: Cristina Pérez Jiménez (Manhattan College)
Submission Deadline: March 10, 2020
Are you moving? Moving on? Moving up? Moving forward? Are you pushing? Pushing boundaries? Pushing limits? Pushing buttons? Or are you pulling? Pulling things apart? Pulling them together? Pulling away? At the seventh annual Queens College English Graduate Conference, we want to know what you think it means to move.
We invite papers that consider the different ways that people move and are moved. How is literature responding to migration, displacement, and other mass movements of people? How is literature implicated in mobilizations and movements for social change? How do scholars move the boundaries of their field as they try to answer urgent questions for the present? How do we interpret the body’s movements, whether in dance, performance, or everyday gestures? How is physical and social mobility affected by the types of bodies we possess? How do emotions move toward what it is important when reason fails us? We want you to tell us what moves you, how it moves you, and why it moves you.
Let’s engage in the critical conversation about movement, a concept crucial to the struggles of the current moment. Movement is being actively impeded, and is no longer a right, but a luxury. The definition of movement is being rewritten to include those who don’t move in traditional ways. We are learning a new language of movement, finding new ways to define how and why we’re moved. We’re being moved by the world around us. Sometimes by circumstances outside of our control. At the Queens College English Graduate Conference this year, we want to be moved by you.
Possible submission topics include but are not limited to:
Migrations
· Literature of Migration
· Refugees and Mass Displacement
· Migrations within Nations
Gesture
· Performance Studies
· Body and Expression
· Bodily Movement and Power
Mobility/ Mobilizations
· Literature and Social Movements
· Disability Studies
· Popular Literature and Mass Culture
Emotions
· Affect Theory
· Sentimentalism
· Emotions and Social Change
To Submit a Proposal
Please send proposals of 250 words max to QCEnglishMAconference(a)gmail.com<mailto:QCEnglishMAconference@gmail.com> by Monday, March 10, 2020. Proposals should be pasted in the body of the email. Please include your full name and the name of your program and school.
All Queens College MA, MFA and MS Ed students are welcome to submit, as well as master’s students from other CUNY schools and New York-area universities.
Keynote Speaker Biography
A recipient of the 2019-2020 Ford Postdoctoral Fellowship, Cristina Pérez Jiménez is an assistant professor of English at Manhattan College. She specializes in U.S. Latinx and Hispanic Caribbean literature and culture. Specifically, she is interested in critical race theory, Transnational and Diaspora studies, and ethnic histories in the United States. She is the co-editor of the bilingual edition of Guillermo Cotto-Thorner’s Manhattan Tropics/Trópico en Manhattan, one of the first novels to focus on the influx of Puerto Rican immigrants to New York after World War II. Ms. Jiménez’s work appears in publications such as Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, and Diálogo: An Interdisciplinary Studies Journal. She is currently hard at work on her book, Here to Stay: The Making of Latinx New York, which “weaves labor and ethnic history, sociocultural analysis, and literary criticism to show the construction of a distinct New York Latinx cultural imaginary during the embattled decades of the 1930s and ’40s.”
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