Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:09:28 -0500
From: Reg Lilly <rlilly-AT-scott.skidmore.edu>
Subject: PLC: CFP: Reading Sites: Gender, Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Sexual Orientation


Call for Papers: Reading Sites: Gender, Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Sexual
Orientation. 

 We are in the process of preparing a volume of essays that incorporates current
research on gender, race, class, ethnicity, and sexual orientation and
theoretical and practical studies of reading.  We invite authors to submit 2-3
page proposals for articles employing theoretical, empirical, historical,
ethnographic, rhetorical, or pedagogical approaches, or any combination of
these.  Articles should explore reading practices in particular contexts--in the
schools, within the academy, or in the culture at large.  They may focus on
professional readers, students, adults, or children and may arise out of
literary studies, rhetoric and composition, or cultural studies.  Articles
employing interdisciplinary and/or multicultural perspectives are especially
welcome.

Sample topics:

In what ways can class, gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation be
integrated into theories of reading and studies of reading practices? What are
the theoretical, analytical, and practical consequences of attention to these
categories?  What are their educational and pedagogical implications?  How is
reading affected by subject-position?  How can different perspectives be
negotiated in the academy as well as in the
larger culture?  What are the politics of such negotiations?

Send proposals to Patrocinio P. Schweickart, Department of English, University
of New Hampshire, Durham NH 03824 (patsy.schweickart-AT-unh.edu) *and* Elizabeth A.
Flynn, Department of Humanities, Michigan Technological
University, 1400 townsend Drive, Houghton, MI 49931-1295 (eflynn-AT-mtu.edu) by
July 1, 1998.


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