(Re)Markable Identities: Confronting, Corrupting, and Conflating Cultural Discourses

February 24-26, 2006

Arizona State University ● Tempe, Arizona

“Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them.” —Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands la Fronterra

Ideology blurs cultural borders, complicating notions of “us” and “them.” This is the focus of the 12th annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium. We seek both critical and creative panel proposals and presentation abstracts from a variety of disciplines that examine the construction and negotiation of gendered, raced, sexualized, classed, and other marked identities and identification(s). These identities can be individual or collective, single or multi-layered. We are looking for submissions that use new theoretical approaches as well as (re)considerations of dominant texts (including written, visual, performed, etc.). Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

● Literature and the “canon”

● Linguistics and Languages

● Rhetoric and Composition

● ESL

● Philosophy

● Psychology and Sociology

● New History

● Pedagogy

● Literacy

● Religion

● Feminism

● Queer Theory

● Transgender Studies

● Disability Studies

● Performance Studies

● Body Politics

● Ethnic Studies

● CRT

● Multi-culturalism

● Post/Colonialism

● Border Studies

● Issues of Aging

● Film Studies

● Visual Arts

● The Avant-garde (theater, film, etc.)

● Technology Issues

Panel Proposals should be no more than 500 words and submitted by November 15, 2005

Paper Abstracts should be no more than 350 words and submitted by November 15, 2005

Please include home and office numbers, complete mailing address, e-mail address, professional affiliation, and AV requirements with your submission.

Please direct questions or submissions to: Micheal.Bolton@asu.edu or STEPHANIE@asu.edu.