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Michigan College English Association’s conference on Saturday, October 5, 2019 at Michigan State University

Please join us for the Michigan College English Association’s conference on Saturday, October 5, 2019 at Michigan State University in East Lansing. The conference themes are “Borders, Walls, and Bridges.” Our featured luncheon speaker is Dennis Hinrichsen, the Lansing Poet Laureate.

We are looking for papers about literature; composition; pedagogy; film; linguistics; technical writing; race, class, cultural, and gender studies; classroom management; evaluation; research; on-line instruction; and union/administration issues, as well as readings of creative writing. Proposals are due by September 24, 2019. Please send your name, university affiliation if any, e-mail address, audio-visual requests, time preference, and a 200-word abstract or sample of creative writing to Joyce Meier and Cheryl Caesar, Program Chairs, via email at meierjo@msu.edu and caesarc@msu.edu . To submit a panel proposal, please include the information for all members (4 maximum participants) in the same proposal.

The 2019 Registration Form is at https://michigancea.org/2019/06/29/registration-form-for-the-sat-october-5-2019-conference-of-the-michigan-college-english-association/The 2019 Call for Papers is at https://michigancea.org/2019/05/01/call-for-papers-michigan-college-english-association-conference-on-saturday-october-5-2019/ Please note that our new MCEA website is http://michigancea.org/

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Janet Ruth Heller

I am the past president of the Michigan College English Association. I have a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. I have published four poetry books: Nature's Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021), Exodus (WordTech Communications, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012) and Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011). My scholarly book, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama, was published in 1990 by the University of Missouri Press. My fiction picture book about bullying for children, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 7th edn. 2022), has won four national awards. My play The Cell Phone won fourth place in a national contest and was performed twice at the Fenton Village Players One-Act Play Festival on June 24-25, 2011 in Fenton, Michigan. Triton College produced another play, Pledging, as part of its Tritonysia Play Festival in May 2017. Choeofpleirn Press published Pledging in Rushing Through the Dark (2022).