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For the 2010 Convention, the CAITY Caucus Business Meeting/Reception will be held following the CAITY roundtable at a place and time to be announced. Stay tuned for more information!
NeMLA awards an annual prize for the best essay developed from a paper presented by contingent faculty, adjunct instructors, independent scholars, and two-year college faculty members at any of the Convention's sections.
We are extending the submission deadline for the 2010 CAITY Caucus Paper Prize to January 15, 2010. The competition is limited to papers presented by CAITY members at any panel of the 2009 convention in Boston. contingent faculty, adjunct instructors, independent scholars, and two-year college faculty are invited to send 20-25 page versions of their essay to Kellie Donovan Condron, CAITY Secretary and Chair of the CAITY Caucus Paper Prize, at kdonovancondron@babson.edu
Submissions should be between 7,000 and 9,000 words, with a maximum of 10,000 words including notes and works cited. We cannot consider unrevised paper presentations. The author's name, address, and academic affiliation should appear only on a separate cover sheet.
Each caucus prize offers a $100 cash award. Prize-winning essays will automatically be considered for publication by Modern Language Studies; all essays are subject to MLS's double-blind review.
The NeMLA CAITY travel awards are open to contingent faculty, adjunct instructors, independent scholars, and two-year college faculty who have been accepted to present at the 2010 Convention. The online application will be available from January 5, 2010 to Jan. 20, 2010; we will not accept applications by mail, fax or e-mail. Our evaluation will be based on criteria including but not limited to the quality of the applicant's abstract.
To apply, please use the following link (not yet active for 2010 convention): http://www.nemla.org/awards/travel.html.
Awards for which CAITY members are eligible but that are also open to other NeMLA members include:
The Role of Non-Tenure Track Faculty in the Academy
Chair: Mary Ann Tobin, Triton College
The CAITY Roundtable will include the following subjects and presenters:
CAITY members may also be interested in the MLS Roundtable on Book Reviewing: The roundtable will explore the art of literary and scholarly book reviewing and its practice in both the public and academic spheres. Some of the questions we’ll ask are: What are the implications of the decline of book review sections and the rise of literary blogs? Is the review form itself changing? Are scholarly book reviews increasingly insular reflections of academic politics? Who reads them? Participants: Gail Pool, author of Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America, Cornel Bonca, former books editor of the OC Weekly and a regular reviewer for The New York Observer, The American Book Review, and Killing the Buddha, and Astrid Weigert, book review editor of the German Quarterly at Georgetown University.
Nominations for leadership positions within our Caucus are accepted at the annual CAITY Meeting/Reception. Elections are held shortly after the Convention through SurveyMonkey. Officers include the following:
Oversees the caucus and is elected triennially. The President serves on the NeMLA board, and attends both fall and spring board meeting (the fall board meeting is typically held at the upcoming convention site). Other responsibilities include organizing convention CAITY events, and assisting with the CAITY Paper Prize and Travel Awards.
Assists the President with caucus business and is elected biennially. The Vice President organizes and chairs the Travel Grant Committee, manages caucus emails and surveys, and assists with the CAITY Paper Prize.
Oversees the CAITY Paper Prize.