[csaa-forum] CFP: Reading and Writing in the Twenty-First-Century Literary Studies Classroom: Theory and Practice

[John Gunders]

Reading and Writing in the Twenty-First-Century Literary Studies Classroom: Theory and Practice

6 July 2017

This broad-ranging conference will assume good reading and its concomitant good writing to be essential both to the mastery of disciplinary content and to the transformative potential of an education in literary studies. To that end we seek papers that consider reading and writing from a range of perspectives, practical and theoretical. What are the challenges, difficulties, and pleasures for students and teachers? What strategies and techniques encourage timely compliance with course reading requirements and foster critically engaged, well-argued responses? What critical theories model critique in the twenty-first-century classroom, and what might be, as Rita Felski has recently asked, the limits of that critique? Reading that is active and thus potentially critical, ethical, creative, hospitable, transformative-and pleasurable-may be intrinsic to disciplinary knowledge, but how do we help students acquire the skills needed to de-code complex texts and respond to them?

Confirmed speakers:

Associate Professor David Aldridge, Oxford Brookes University

Dr Tully Barnett, Flinders University

Professor Helen Sword, University of Auckland

Professor Karen Manarin, Mount Royal University

CALL FOR PAPERS

Please send 250-word proposals for papers, panels, or workshops. together with a 75-word bio, to readingwritingtheorypractice at gmail.com<mailto:readingwritingtheorypractice at gmail.com> with the subject line 'Reading and Writing'. Deadline for submissions: 3 February 2017.

Contact for general queries: Judith Seaboyer (j.seaboyer at uq.edu.au<mailto:j.seaboyer at uq.edu.au>).
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