that Call For Papers email list is going to be my undoing
I signed up for the Penn State listserve for calls for papers in English a while back. For the non-academics, this means that I get about a hundred emails once a week announcing different conferences, journal issues, edited collections, etc that need sumbissions on particular topics.
I think that I'm constantly getting excited about at least one of these a week is a good indication that I've chosen the right career. But I think I'm going to have to stop looking at these things because I keep wanting to respond and if I do, I'm never going to get the dissertation done.
I sent in one for an edited collection on Pirates of the Caribbean back in January (should hear back in mid to late March about that one). It was a proposal for a paper on the relationship between rhetoric and power in the Pirates films.
My diss director just sent me another CFP that I didn't get on the listserve, for a collection on using popular culture to teach college writing. I already had the paper planned ("Zombies in the Composition Classroom"); now I just have a place to submit it.
And today I'm reading a CFP for a collection on Fight Club. I think there's definitely room for a response to Fight Club and complaints/criticisms of it similar to the one I did on Natural Born Killers.
So, yes, I am a geek. But a happy one.
I think that I'm constantly getting excited about at least one of these a week is a good indication that I've chosen the right career. But I think I'm going to have to stop looking at these things because I keep wanting to respond and if I do, I'm never going to get the dissertation done.
I sent in one for an edited collection on Pirates of the Caribbean back in January (should hear back in mid to late March about that one). It was a proposal for a paper on the relationship between rhetoric and power in the Pirates films.
My diss director just sent me another CFP that I didn't get on the listserve, for a collection on using popular culture to teach college writing. I already had the paper planned ("Zombies in the Composition Classroom"); now I just have a place to submit it.
And today I'm reading a CFP for a collection on Fight Club. I think there's definitely room for a response to Fight Club and complaints/criticisms of it similar to the one I did on Natural Born Killers.
So, yes, I am a geek. But a happy one.