Readings, Writings, and Rhetorics

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As information becomes available, we will update the following links to aid in informing you of all the necessary information needed for the conference.

Conference Schedule
Registration Form
Campus Maps
Important Dates
Hotels, transportation, and restaurants

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This year's conference will take place at the Student Center of Georgia State University Thursday, September 16 through Saturday, September 18, 2004.

In an effort to professionalize contributions to our discipline and its related fields, The Fifth Annual New Voices Conference, sponsored by Georgia State University's Graduate English Association, seeks proposals for individual papers, panels, and roundtables. This year we are particularly interested in submissions that offer innovative ways of reading and writing texts (e.g., creative, hypertextual, visual) and explore traditionally overlooked rhetorics as well as emerging rhetorics. Graduate students from all disciplines are invited to participate.

Though others are welcomed, relevant topics include the following:

• Writing Center Pedagogies and Tutor Research
• Digital and/or Visual Rhetorics
• Civic Rhetoric and Service Learning
• Literary/Critical Theories
• American, British, World Literatures
• Non-Canonical Literatures and Issues of Canonicity
• Gender/Race/Class Studies
• Identity and Liminality Studies
• Creative Writing—Original Works, Theories, Pedagogies
• Composition Pedagogies
• Professional/Technical Writing and Communication
• ESL/EFL Instruction
• Basic Writing Pedagogies
• Language and Discourse Studies
• Writing and Publishing as a Graduate Student
• Writing Across the Curriculum
• Mentoring Relationships

Submission Deadline: (This deadline has been changed from the original date)
May 31, 2004. We will send notification of proposal status no later than mid-June 2004.

Submission Guidelines:
Individual papers should fill no more than a 20-minute timeframe. Panels of three (possibly four) individuals should be no longer than 60 minutes, leaving time for audience questions and comments. Roundtables may fill the traditional hour and a half slot.

How to Submit:
We encourage electronic submission through email (Word attachments preferred); however, we will gladly accept hard copy submissions also. Please send:

• name
• field of study
• contact information
• graduate status
• institutional affiliation
• paper title
• 250-300-word abstract

to Conference Chairs. In the case of panels or roundtables, include all participants in one collective submission. Also, please indicate if and what AV equipment is required for presentation, keeping in mind equipment that is available is limited.

Laura Durden and Tanya Cochran

Georgia State University
Department of English
MSC 8RO322
33 Gilmer Street SE, Unit 8
Atlanta, GA 30303-3088
404.651.2900 (phone)
404.651.2858 (fax)

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For further information email the New Voices 2004 conference coordinator at gea@gsu.edu (preferred) or call Tanya Cochran @ 404.651.2900.