Place: Beaumont, Texas      

March 4-6, 2010      Host: Lamar University

CCTE welcomes scholarly papers, creative writing, and panel proposals in all areas of literature and language, including linguistics and language studies, as well as the teaching of these areas. Papers and panel proposals in teaching writing, ESL, developmental writing, and the virtual classroom are also welcome. CCTE accepts only submissions that have not been read or published elsewhere.  

All submissions are due October 1, 2009.  Please follow these guidelines for all conference submissions:  

  • E-mail submissions only to the appropriate session chair (see list below)
  • Timed presentations only: 9-10 double-spaced pages (15-18 minute reading time)
  • Full  conference paper preferred but 500-word abstract accepted for initial consideration
  • Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction: must be complete when submitted
  • Panel Proposals:  must include a full abstract or paper from each panel member. Each abstract or paper will be accepted or rejected individually.
  • Presenters who do not pay dues by November 30 will be removed from the program.
  • All  abstracts, papers, creative writing, and panel proposals MUST be submitted with two cover pages: one with the presenter’s name, academic affiliation (or independent scholar), mailing address, telephone, and email address; and a second with only the title of the presentation. That is, the actual abstract, paper, creative writing, or panel proposal should include its title but NO writer identification of any kind on any of its pages.
  • Consideration  for an award (listed below) or for publication in CCTE Studies requires submission of completed paper to the appropriate chair by February 1, 2010. 

Chairs:

Conference Paper and Creative Writing Awards Announced at Saturday CCTE Luncheon

  • Robert  Adger Law Award for Best Shakespeare Paper
  • American Literature Award; British Literature Award; World Literature Award; Randall Popken Rhetoric, Composition, Technical Writing Award; William E. Tanner Award for Rhetorical Paper by a Graduate Student
  • George Nixon Writing Award for Fiction
  • Creative Writing Award for Poetry
  • Pedagogy in Literature
  • Pedagogy in Rhetoric
  • Frances Hernández Teacher-Scholar Award: The honoree receives a check for $1000 and a plaque honoring his or her professional achievement.

For For more information, contact: Susan Blassingame, CCTE Executive Secretary/Treasurer, Department of Humanities, Lubbock Christian University, 5601 19th Street, Lubbock, Texas 79407-2099. Email: susan.blassingame@lcu.edu

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Official Notice to Members

In accordance with the organizational by-laws, the CCTE Executive Council notified the membership that the following proposed dues increase would be presented for member vote at the 2009 General Business Meeting in Austin, Texas, March 6, 2009. The following motioned passed unanimously at the meeting:

That annual dues be increased by $5 at all levels of CCTE membership so that, for example, dues for full-time faculty will increase from $20 to $25 and dues for part-time faculty, retired faculty, and graduate students will increase from $10 to $15. If passed, this dues increase will go into effect as of member year 2010 (i.e., Fall 2009 - Spring 2010).

• TCEA Annual Meeting in Beaumont 2010 (in conjunction with CCTE). For more about TCEA, see the Texas College English Association site.

• CCTE Listserv To join the CCTE listserv, open to all members, send a request to Valerie Balester.

Thanks!

The Local Arrangements Committee at UT-Austin appreciated the support it received from the faculty at St. Edward’s University for the 2009 meeting.

Thanks to Betsy Miller at the Austin Convention & Visitors Bureau for providing CCTE conferees with the “Official Visitors Guide to Austin,” maps, and wildflower seed packets.

Thanks to Kathleen Painter at University Printing Services for her assistance in preparing the 2009 CCTE program.

CCTE is grateful to Bedford/St. Martin’s, Pearson, and W. W. Norton for generously supporting the 2009 CCTE Conference. We greatly appreciated your presence at the meeting.