Futures of World Literatures and Literacies

CALL FOR PAPERS: Futures of World Literatures and Literacies

The Fifth Annual International Red River Conference on World Literature and the Fifth Annual Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing invite proposals for a joint conference, "Futures of World Literatures and Literacies:"

April 25-28, 2002
North Dakota State University
Fargo ND, USA

Deadline for submission of proposals: November 30, 2001.

The conference is being sponsored by the Department of English, North Dakota State University, Fargo ND, 58105. Proposals (300 words) for RRCWL should be directed to Kevin Brooks; proposals for GPACW should be directed to Elizabeth Birmingham. Please include your name, complete mailing address, and e-mail address. Proposals for panels must include an abstract for each presenter, as well as names, addresses, and e-mail addresses of all participants. Email and online submissions are welcome, but please include postal addresses. Send inquiries to: Kevin_Brooks@ndsu.nodak.edu or Elizabeth_Birmingham@ndsu.nodak.edu.

The RRCWL and GPACW conferences will run concurrently; sessions within each conference will run consecutively. Featured speakers will be shared by both conferences. While we are particularly interested in proposals that address the conference theme, papers on all aspects of world literature and computers and writing will be considered. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

* New writers, new readers, re-readings, and new interests in literary and literacy studies.
* Globalization and its impact on literature and literacy.
* The future of oral and literate traditions.
* The future (of the) human/body/text.
* Neocolonialism, postcolonialism, and the shaping of world literatures and literacy practices.
* Hybridity, difference, and commonality in global culture and online.
* Curricular changes and innovations-world literature and electronic literacy courses in institutional contexts.
* Hypertext, film, new media-what will literature and literacy become in the future?
* Teaching in the 21st century: pedagogy and practice in world literature and e-literacies.
* Access to and accessibility of world literatures and technologies of literacy.


Featured Speakers

Carolyn Guyer is author of the hypertext Quibbling, essays on writing in the new millennium, co-author with Michael Joyce of Lasting Image, and co-ordinator of the Mother Millennia Project-an online collection of stories about mothers from around the world.

Cass Dalglish, Professor of English, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, and author of Nin, a novel which uncovers and recovers the writings of women from Sumerian tablets to the World Wide Web.

Geoffrey Sirc, Horace T. Morse Distinguished Teaching Professor in Composition, University of Minnesota, is author of "Never Mind the Tagmemics, Where's the Sex Pistols" and many other essays. He works in composition, broadly defined, especially where art, technology, voice, and writing intersect. His book, _Composition as a Happening II_, will be published by NCTE.

International scholars, including Canadians, are invited to apply for travel funds generously donated by the President of North Dakota State University.

Go to http://www.ndsu.edu/RRCWL for further details about the conference.