[EDLING:665] CFP: Academic Style: Beyond the Faculty Handbook

[Francis M. Hult]

College English Association Panel at MLA 2005 (Washington D.C.)

Call for Papers

Academic Style: Beyond the Faculty Handbook

      New faculty members are encouraged to consult their institutional
handbooks to familiarize themselves with protocol, yet academia has its own
unwritten set of rules for comportment.  Together, such modes of conduct
indicate that academic culture has its own style of collegiality.  To date,
the cultivation of specific behaviors to maintain academic collegiality has
been conducted vaguely.
     This panel will consider forms of collegiality within academic culture.
Is there a theory of academic style?  Who has set the terms for collegiality
within academic culture?  What is expected and by whom for the purpose of
maintaining collegiality?  What are some of the tensions between modes of
academic conduct?  What are some of the social and professional implications
of an unwritten style of collegiality for undergraduate students, graduate
students entering the job market, or recent Ph.D.'s seeking a book contract?
What paradigms in literature exist for academic style?  Papers may address
topics including but not limited to: the relationship between academic style
and literature, classroom deportment, team teaching, interdepartmental
collaboration, mentoring new faculty and graduate students, and scholarly
correspondence.
      Send papers or proposals of 200-500 words by March 17th to Robin
Hammerman at Stevens Institute of Technology (rhammerm at stevens.edu).