[Air-L] 38th Annual New Jersey College English Association

Klobucar, Philip Andrew andrew.klobucar at njit.edu
Mon Nov 17 11:38:19 PST 2014


*Announcing Call for Papers for 38th Annual New Jersey College English
Association *

*OUT OF SYNC: TEACHING LITERATURE in the DIGITAL ERA*



This year’s conference seeks papers as well as electronic media projects
focusing on the future of literature and writing studies in the early 21st
century. Featuring panel discussions and professional demos, “Out of Sync:
Teaching Literature in the Digital Era” proposes to examine how digital
education technologies have recently transformed both the practice and
instruction of the literary arts in today’s academy. Possible topics to be
explored may include: the influence of big data, rapid innovation, and
startup culture on the teaching and study of literature; how literary
theory has responded politically, materially and aesthetically to the
digital era; the shrinking size and intellectual role of humanities
departments in postsecondary institutions. We are looking for both
scholarship and apps or tech demonstrations that explore the intersection
between literature and educational technology.


*PRESENTATION PROPOSALS FOR THE FOLLOWING TWO CONFERENCE PANELS ARE NOW
BEING ACCEPTED*


*                             1. After the Book: Critical Reflections on
Digital Storytelling and its Challenges to Traditional Narrative Models in
Electronic Literature.*

As the literary arts continue to expand in scope to include multimodal
formats and new production and distribution tools, the very concept of what
a text is and how it functions is undergoing its most significant
transformation in half a millennium. This panel welcomes papers on how
traditional print-based modes of narration and storytelling will continue
to develop as digital media. Possible topics include:


§  Educational uses of digital storytelling

§  The Move from narrative structures to databases as a mode of organizing,
chronicling and communicating storylines.

§  Coding as a literary form

§  Immersion and interactive narratives within digital media

§  Narratology and multimodal media format

*2. Precariat Labor and University Teaching in the Humanities*

By now we’re all familiar with the same oft-quoted statistics: the ratio of
available tenure-track positions in American universities to the amount of
Ph.Ds awarded each year is roughly 1:7. In Humanities related fields that
ratio is even more unbalanced. Undergraduates in most English programs
across the country have less than a 50 per cent chance of having a tenured
or tenure-track faculty member as their professor. This panel welcomes
papers on how the increasingly precarious state of employment for
university professors is likely affecting scholarship, pedagogy and course
and program design in the literary arts and beyond. Possible topics include:

§  Digital labor in the university: how digital technologies are
transforming teaching and service in higher education

§  Role of literature in an information-based economy and its relationship
to the so-called “creative industries.”

§  Ethnographies of digital work: the race and gender politics of online
courses

§  Digital labor and gaming/gamification in relation to online teaching and
course design

§  The Networked Student: the use and effect of crowdsourcing on student
assignments and curriculum design

§  The use of automated essay scoring in online teaching


*Presentation Proposals *of 250-500 words can be submitted here:
http://goo.gl/forms/fFzGwTCWHU

*DEADLINE:* *January 16, 2015*



*WORKING RECIPES - THE TECH TEST KITCHEN: DEMOS and ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
on TEACHING with NEW EDUCATION TECHNOLOGIES*

In addition to the panel presentations, the conference will also feature a
special, ongoing demo session able to highlight new digital education
technologies now development or ready for use. Participants in the “Tech
Test Kitchen” will be given the opportunity to introduce their tools and
answer questions in a later round table discussion on how these
technologies and methods may be transforming our pedagogies and teaching
practices.


*Individual proposals to demo tools and new teaching methods in the Tech
Test Kitchen are now being accepted. Please provide a cover sheet including
your name, the title or name of the tool you will be featuring and a brief
100 to 250 word description of its various features and capabilities to Dr.
Andrew Klobucar, NJCEA Conference Organizer via **klobucar at njit.edu*
<klobucar at njit.edu>*. Please note that wire frame renderings and concept
art are also acceptable. These demos do not have to feature fully finished
projects and technologies. A chief aim of this session and discussion is to
introduce new ideas and arguments concerning teaching with education
technologies.*

*DEADLINE: January 16, 2015*


Andrew Klobucar
Associate Professor
Department of Humanities
428 Cullimore Hall
973.596.5724
klobucar at njit.edu



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