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NEWS VOLUME 33, WINTER 2013 From the President Kathleen Blake Yancey, Florida State University Dear Colleagues and Friends, intellectual model for the humanities, which she calls Comparative Media Studies and which is located in the twin activities of making Greetings and Happy New Year 2013! I hope objects and of critique. In sum, her work helps us think about the this message finds each of you well and happy values and practices of traditional print literacy as well as about the as the new calendar year begins to unfold; it possibilities and challenges of new forms of texts emerging in digital won’t be long before we are concluding another environments. academic year. The news on the academic In addition, we will have numerous featured sessions; here’s a front, as we know, is mixed. On the one hand, preview! One of these sessions documents the use of networked it’s influenced by a US economy that continues media to help us more fully understand traumatic events. Another to recover slowly, but whose recovery is linked of these sessions focuses on the ways electronic publishing, both to global certainties (can we say global warming?) and uncertainties books and journals, can expand our scholarship and show it in new (political uprisings) alike. On the other hand, there is some sense ways. Yet another special session focuses on new spaces for teaching that colleges and universities are recovering: doing a bit more hiring and learning: the Noel Studio for Academic Creativity at Eastern than before, for example, and we certainly have new intellectual and Kentucky University; the Communication Center at Georgia Tech; pedagogical issues to address. Let’s hope that the signs of progress and the Technology Commons at the University of Central Florida. increase and expand in 2013! And not least, another session will be live and performative: “A In thinking about SAMLA 85 (yes, this is our 85th conference!), I Reading by Poets Featured in The Southern Poetry Anthology Series.” can’t help but remember our 84th, which was held on a beautiful fall We hope that with this theme and sessions like those described weekend in North Carolina. We have many to thank for that grand above, SAMLA 85 will encourage dialogues surrounding the event, among them our Executive Director, Renée Schatteman; intersections between literatures, languages, rhetorics, and media— our past Associate Director, Lara Smith Sitton; our 2012 President, problematizing boundaries between print and digital, between Charles Moore; and the enthusiastic team of amazing interns reading and writing, between scholarship and pedagogy, between from our host institution, Georgia State University. Thanks are text and image, between institutional and vernacular, and between due as well to Dr. William Long, Dean of the College of Arts and critique and making. At the same time, we continue to be interested Sciences at Georgia State, and Dr. Randy Malamud, Chair of the in sessions of all kinds addressing disciplinary interests. Department of English at Georgia State, whose collective support Please consider submitting a special session proposal, and although makes possible the daily operations of SAMLA and its annual not a requirement by any means, we encourage you to submit conference. The 2012 convention included over 260 events and proposals for roundtables, discussion panels, special and regular panels—with many featured sessions, our critical keynoter talk and sessions, working paper sessions, seminars, and workshops relating our creative keynoter reading; special evening performances of to this topic. Or, at the very least, mark your calendars now to join music and poetry; Sunday cluster sessions; the annual luncheon and us this November in Atlanta! awards ceremony; professional development seminars; and a new And in the interim, please accept my best wishes for a healthy, closing plenary session. Close to 1,200 attendees enjoyed scholarly happy, and productive 2013. and informal discussion and fellowship, and while I did not meet everyone there, I did have the pleasure of meeting and speaking Cordially, with many of you in Raleigh, and I hope to meet even more of our members and guests this fall. As your 2013 SAMLA President, I am delighted to share with kathleen blake yancey you a small preview of SAMLA 85: it promises to be an exciting SAMLA President 2013 event! We will return to Atlanta on November 8–10 and meet at Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English the Atlanta Marriott Buckhead Hotel and Conference Center. Our Distinguished Research Professor special focus—celebrating the varieties of texts we read, write, Florida State University and perform—is “Cultures, Contexts, Images, and Texts: Making In this Issue Meaning in Print, Digital, and Networked Worlds,” and our Job Information List........................2 Professional Development keynoter is Katherine Hayles, Professor of English and Director of Executive Director’s Letter.............3 Seminars....................................9–10 Graduate Studies at Duke University. Professor Hayles’s interests Conference Deadlines.....................4 SAMLA 85 Plenary Speaker and range widely: her books include My Mother Was a Computer: Reflections: SAMLA 84 Plenary Talks....5 Program Committee Letter..........11 Digital Subjects and Literary Texts (The University of Chicago Press), Writing Machines (The MIT Press), and How We Became Reflections: Karenne Woods and Jill SAMLA 85 Featured Sessions......12 Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics McCorkle’s Talks.................................6 SAMLA 84 Closing Plenary.........13 (The University of Chicago Press). In addition, she was the first “Re-Inventing Great Books . .”: SAMLA 84 Conference faculty director of Electronic Literature, an organization dedicated A Reflection.....................................7 Impressions Photo Gallery....14–15 to the facilitation and promotion of writing, publishing, and reading Open Mic.........................................7 Awards Information...............16–17 of literature in electronic media. Her current project, Making, Music of Poetry/Poetry of Music......8 Calls for Papers.......................21–48 Critique: A New Paradigm for the Humanities, proposes a new 1 SAMLA 2012 Executive Committee SAMLA Job Information List President Hunt Hawkins, University of South Florida Kathleen Blake Yancey Florida State University The SAMLA Job Information List website(s) are up and running, hosted by the University 1st Vice President of South Florida. The SAMLA JIL is similar to the MLA JIL, but it is focused strictly on the Lynn Ramey South Atlantic region. The rationale for the list is that many schools in the region, especially Vanderbilt University smaller ones, do not advertise their jobs on the MLA list because they cannot afford to 2nd Vice President interview at the MLA convention or bring in candidates from across the country. Heretofore, H. R. Stoneback they have tended to advertise very locally, perhaps on state lists. However, they would of State University of New York course welcome more applications, especially from candidates around the region who could Past President come inexpensively for campus interviews (even by driving) or could meet with hiring Charles B. Moore committees at regional conventions. The list also provides greater placement opportunities Gardner-Webb University for MA, MFA, and PhD-producing departments in the region. A further difference from the Executive Director MLA JIL is that ours is completely free. Renée Schatteman Georgia State University The web site for posting job advertisements is http://samla.cas.usf.edu/logininputjobform. php, and the site for searching for jobs is http://samla.cas.usf.edu/. To use these sites, you SAR Editor should email Deedra Hickman ([email protected]), and she will send you a user name Matthew Roudané and password (one for each site). Department chairs or their delegates should post ads and Georgia State University distribute their search user name and password to job seekers in their departments (so we Executive Committee do not need to create separate ones for each individual). The List will run year-round since Members many smaller schools advertise jobs late. In the current budget climate, even larger schools Tony Grooms put up late postings as their funding gets approved, so these schools are not on the standard Kennesaw State University MLA timetable. Freddy L. Thomas Virginia State University As said already, this service is free, courtesy of SAMLA and the University of South Florida. Stuart Noel Georgia Perimeter College SAMLA Website Update Michael Rice Middle Tennessee State University Jennifer Olive, SAMLA Webmaster Giovanna Summerfield SAMLA is happy to report that our new website has proved successful in its implementation. The Auburn University online membership and registration forms were a wonderful addition to the SAMLA team in organizing the annual conference and will continue to be used this year. These forms are available Katherine Weiss East Tennessee now on the SAMLA website for your convenience. We will also continue to develop our online State University content to provide the most current and reliable information regarding SAMLA and its activities. In addition to last year’s website materials, we are also proud to unveil SAMLA’s entrance into SAMLA News social media. Now, members can interact with us on Facebook or Twitter for the latest updates and Editorial Staff information on SAMLA. We also look forward to integrating