[Discussion] UPDATE: Re-Thinking Ephemera in the Classroom (6/30/05; collection)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: "Joshua B. Fisher" <jfisherwv@earthlink.net>

This is an addendum to the call for papers sent out several weeks ago.

**Note that preliminary manuscript drafts (5-6,000 words) for accepted
proposals will be due AUGUST 31, 2005**

Call for Submissions
Re-Thinking Ephemera in the Classroom and Beyond

Seeking proposals for a volume of essays tentatively entitled Re-Thinking
Ephemera in the Classroom and Beyond. The editors are looking for 
5-6,000 word
manuscripts to fill the roughly ten-essay volume. By presenting a wide 
range of
definitions and theoretical perspectives as well as a variety of pedagogical
strategies and approaches for teaching and exploring notions of early modern
ephemera, contributors will seek to address the following kinds of 
questions.

· What do we mean by ephemera? (non-extant, performative/gestural/anecdotal,
non-canonical, produced or circulated for singular or temporary use, other
meanings)
· How can ephemeral matters/texts complicate discussions of
plays/performance/cultural contexts?
· How can we problematize binaries between ephemera and canonical works?
· To what extent can ephemeral traces and remnants serve pedagogical 
ends? What
kinds of justifications are there for incorporating ephemera in the 
classroom?
· What kinds of teaching strategies and lesson plans work and what kinds are
less effective in the exploration of ephemeral matters?

The aim of Re-Thinking Ephemera is two-fold: (1) to work toward defining
ephemera as a complex and multi-faceted critical category in terms of its
literary, cultural, and historical significance and (2) to serve as a 
handbook
to provide pedagogical strategies and teaching tools for exploring ephemeral
matters in the undergraduate and graduate level classroom.

Please submit proposals (preferably by email) of no more than 500 words 
by June
30th, 2005 to:

Joshua B. Fisher
Campus Box 3052
Department of English
Wingate University
Wingate, NC 28174
jbfisher@wingate.edu



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