[ecrea] CFP: New Directions 2017 in Critical Theory Graduate Conference 2017:,Transgressions: Performance, Practice & Code

Call for Papers
New Directions in Critical Theory Graduate Conference 2017:
Transgressions: Performance, Practice & Code

The University of Arizona’s Department of English
April 21-22, 2017
Tucson, Arizona

“[T]here are times when even the most potent governor must wink at 
transgression in order to preserve
the laws inviolate for the future.”—Herman Melville, Mardi
The graduate students of the University of Arizona’s Department of 
English invite proposals for the
annual New Directions in Critical Theory Graduate Conference. Held every 
spring, New Directions is an
interdisciplinary conference organized for and by graduate students as a 
way of drawing together student
scholars across diverse fields.

This year’s conference, entitled “Transgressions: Performance, Practice 
& Code,” will concern itself with
interrogating the idea of “transgressions” in and around performances, 
practices, and codes—all broadly
defined. These inquiries may take the form of critical theory, creative 
writing, or that which falls inbetween.
We are interested in pieces that investigate the consequences, both 
generative and regressive, of
intellectual and creative thought that rejects what is permitted.
We are privileged to announce our keynote speakers, who perform and 
interrogate transgressions across
disciplinary boundaries: Dr. Nancy Koppelman of the Evergreen State 
College and Dr. David Hawkes of
Arizona State University.

Dr. Koppelman, a professor of American Studies and Humanities, will give 
a talk entitled “Performing
Mastery: The Significance of the American Velocipede, 1868-1869.” Nancy 
Koppelman creates and
team-teaches interdisciplinary undergraduate programs that combine the 
humanities, the physical
sciences, and the social sciences. She consults with U.S. colleges to 
bridge disciplinary boundaries and
strengthen faculty colleagueship. For four years, she was Lead Faculty 
for the Teaching American History
Project in western Washington state, and for two years she was a member 
of the Speakers Bureau for
Humanities Washington. Dr. Koppelman also helped to found the Evergreen 
Student Civic Engagement
Institute, now in its fourth year. Her scholarship focuses on historical 
intersections of everyday
technologies, living energy, and ethical questions in American life, and 
on the challenges and aims of
liberal education.

Dr. Hawkes, a professor of English, will give a talk entitled 
“Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot and Financial
Derivatives.” Professor Hawkes is the author of six monographs, most 
recently Shakespeare and
Economic Theory (2015). His work has appeared in a wide range of 
scholarly and popular journals,
including The Nation, the Times Literary Supplement, Studies in English 
Literature, and English Literary
History. Dr. Hawkes is currently researching a book entitled A Pocketful 
of Currencies: T. S. Eliot in the
Bank.

The New Directions academic conference aims to give graduate students 
the opportunity to develop
papers that theorize about or demonstrate transgressive literary 
practices, performances, or the codes that
are either obeyed or defied in doing so.

Possible topics for critical and creative presentations include but are 
not limited to:

(Anti)Social Media
Artistic Representations of the Self/Other
Bodies and Corporeality
Borderlands and Frontiers
Climate and the Environment
Community Engagement
Competence, Intercultural and/or Linguistic
Curriculum/Program Development and Design
(De)/(re)constructing Identities
(Dis)abilities
Dystopia, Utopia, Apocalypse
Economics and Language
Epigenetics and Coding
Fairy and/or Morality Tales
Gender/Sex(uality)
Genre Theories
Horror
Ideologies
Indigeneity
Intersectionality and Assemblage
Language Policy
Makers and Making
Mythologies, Ancient Texts, and Folklore
Narrative/Lyric
National and Transnational Identities
Paganism
Pedagogies
Politics
Positionality and Perspectives
Prophetic Speech in Narrative and/or Verse
Purity and Sin
Queer Space
Racial Formations
Rhetoric of Resistance
Semiotics/Symbolism
Translation(s)
Truth in Nonfiction
Visual and Digital Culture and Media

Submission Guidelines

All proposals must be submitted by email to 
(arizonanewdirections /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(arizonanewdirections /at/ gmail.com)> 
before 12 midnight MST
on January 15, 2017. We will respond with decisions by the end of 
January. Please use the following
format for the subject line of your email: “Proposal Last Name First 
Name” (e.g., Proposal Sims Rachel).
Please attach a single document in .DOC(X) format with the following 
information in exactly the order
listed below:

1. Paper title; name; institutional affiliation; any degrees and 
granting institutions; email address;
and phone number

2. Abstract of the content and rationale for the paper, up to 300 words 
(presentation time for papers
is 20 minutes maximum)

3. Two to three-sentence scholarly biography of presenter

4. Indicate any audio/visual needs or special accommodations


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