Call For Papers

 ***DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION TO ATTEND SYMPOSIUM IS FEBRUARY 8TH BY 5PM***

On Saturday, February 21, 2015 the TCNJ Graduate Program in English, in conjunction with the Office of the Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Department of English, and the Women's and Gender Studies Graduate Certificate program, will host the Department's first English MA Symposium at The College in order to offer students the opportunity to share their work in literature and literary studies.

The principal aim of this event is to engender a community of research and pedagogical exchange in language and literature. The symposium will feature panel presentations, and a workshop entitled, "Writing and Publishing Academic Journal Articles," facilitated by members of the TCNJ English Department. The workshop and panels are intended to offer students relevant feedback on their research while encouraging them to take their seminar and/or symposium papers to the next level and ready them for publication.



In tandem with the yearly campus theme sponsored by the Cultural and Intellectual Community Program Council (CICPC), the call for papers will invite MA students and alumni to submit 300-word abstracts for 15-20 minute presentations on the topic of Poetic Justice.

Potential areas of inquiry may include any of the following suggestions:

• Poetic justice proper
• Literary conventions of social, emotional, ethical, and moral justice
• Representations of legal justice, language and the law; censorship
• Life writing, confession, testimony and questions of truth
• Racism; forms of oppression and forms of redress
• Freedom, tyranny, dictatorship, and human rights
• Historical perspectives on justice across periods and movements
• Gender (in)equity in culture, society, and the classroom
• LGBTQ literature and theories of justice; representations of pre & post-marriage equality
• Literature of captivity, incarceration, and other forms of (un)lawful confinement
• Close reading panels featuring poetry in relationship to forms of justices (original poems welcome)
• Social media, gaming, the internet, etc.
• Visual arts/cultural representations

Please email all inquiries to PoeticJusticeAtTCNJ@gmail.com. All those who plan on attending the symposium, if they are presenting or not, should register for the event.

To register, please submit a registration form at this link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/17gldecXEdimsHG5A4MEMCoFh7SqMu6xP9Uu3GoXhRxw/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=mail_form_link