Re: [Fwd: CFP: Writing the Earth: Rhetorics and Literacies of Sustainability]

["Alaimo, Stacy" <alaimo@uta.edu>]

Wow!  You're right, Richard,
This is stunning!

There is such a wealth of ecocriticism, green cultural studies, and environmental philosophy 
at this point that it seems unimaginable to say that English studies is decades behind.  

I was just feeling the opposite, myself:  that it's hard to keep up with everything new coming out.

The other effect of this sort of idea--that no one in English studies has ever thought about the 
environment--is that it encourages scholars new to the field to ignore all of the work
already done (because it presumably doesn't exist)!

 
Stacy

Dr. Stacy Alaimo
Associate Professor of English
University of Texas at Arlington
stacya@exchange.uta.edu




-----Original Message-----
From: asle-owner@interversity.org on behalf of Richard Kerridge
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Subject: Re: [asle] [Fwd: CFP: Writing the Earth: Rhetorics and Literacies of Sustainability]
 
This looks like a good call for papers, but I'm a bit taken aback by the opening paragraph. Is he aware of one tenth of what ASLE has done over the past fifteen years?  We sometimes get this in Britain: people blithely turning up announcing that they've just had this rather good idea, environmentalist criticism, and wouldn't it be a jolly good thing. Usually they are from the most prestigious and encrusted research universities.
 
Just a moan.
 
Richard

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Subject: [asle] [Fwd: CFP: Writing the Earth: Rhetorics and Literacies of Sustainability]





Call for Proposals
for a collection
Writing the Earth: Rhetorics and Literacies of Sustainability
Peter N. Goggin, editor

English studies is decades behind other disciplines in recognizing the
importance of considering our research and teaching in light of local and
global environmental exigencies. There is still a pervasive, if
unacknowledged, belief that much of our work ought to focus on the triad of
race/class/gender, whereas "environment" remains a category awkwardly
associated with largely "white," middle-class values and geographies, and
thus confined to the perimeters of our conversations.

--Derek Owens


Essay proposals are invited for a collection titled Writing the Earth:
Rhetorics and Literacies of Sustainability. This collection invites
scholars
of literacy and rhetoric (in English studies and elsewhere) to pick up the
gauntlet that Owens has thrown down before us and answer the challenge to
put sustainability at the forefront of research and teaching in the
humanities.

Although "sustainability" is generally understood as examining,
reassessing,
and changing current practices, policies and human endeavors to reduce the
potential for harm to future generations, the concept has been constructed
in multiple ways by many invested and interested parties to serve multiple
agendas and purposes. The range and possibility for topics in this
collection is therefore wide open, as long as they address sustainability
through lenses of literacy and/or rhetorical theory. Therefore, topics
might
include, but are certainly not limited to: rhetorics of sustainability;
rhetorics of sustainable development; environmental rhetoric; ecocriticism
and ecocomposition; literacies of sustainability; discourses of
sustainability; technology/media and sustainability; teaching writing and
sustainability, and rhetorical places and spaces of sustainability. The
focus may look broadly at a topic from a conceptual/theoretical
perspective,
or narrowly and pragmatically at a specific case.

Please send your 250-500-word proposal and a CV as electronic
attachments in
MSWord format to Peter Goggin ( goggin1@asu.edu) by September 30, 2007

Peter N. Goggin
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Arizona State University
Box 870302, Tempe, AZ 85287-0302
Phone: (480)965-7748  Fax: (480)965-3451

Western States Rhetoric & Literacy Conference
http://www.public.asu.edu/~petergo/wsrl/wsrl.html

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