Greetings colleagues!
Here are a few updates regarding the joint CCTE/TCEA Conference in Texas:
- CCTE’s deadline for submitting proposals is Nov. 15, 2026, and TCEA’s deadline has been extended to Monday, Nov. 23rd at 11:59 PM.
- The Annual 2027 Conference of College Teachers of English of Texas and the Texas College English Association will take place at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi in Corpus Christi, TX from Feb. 26-27, 2027. Featured speakers will include Dr. Jackie Cuevas, Assistant Professor of Latina/o Literary and Cultural Studies at the University Texas at Austin; Dr. Candace de León-Zepeda, Dean of Academics & Associate Provost at Our Lady of the Lake University; Dr. Gavin Johnson, Director of Composition at Texas Christian University, and award-winning Poet Laureate of Corpus Christi (2019-2020) Juan Manuel Perez.
- The Conference of College Teachers of English (CCTE) welcomes scholarly papers, creative writing, and panels in all areas of literature and language, including linguistics and language studies, as well as the teaching of these areas. Also welcome are papers and panel proposals in teaching writing, ESL, developmental writing, and the virtual classroom.
- The theme for the 2027 Texas College English Association (TCEA) meeting invites scholars to consider “The Ayes (and Eyes) of Texas” in creative works and studies of literature, film, rhetoric, writing studies, and related fields. This theme arises from dynamics between governing and regulatory bodies, higher education institutions, their faculty and staff, and the students and communities we serve, but contributors are encouraged to submit works that engage with any of the following themes: approval, consent, compliance, and surveillance.
- Our TCEA Breakfast will feature Dr. Gavin Johnson, whose forthcoming monograph with the Ohio State University Press explores academic surveillance, antioppressive pedagogy, writing program administration, and queer-feminist rhetorical praxis. These themes will be explored in his talk, “Everything’s Bigger in Texas: Academic Surveillance, Affective Whiplash, and the Case for Queer Optimism.”
Visit our Annual Conference webpage for the CFPs and conference updates. Please submit your paper and panel proposals here! (Presenters are welcome to submit to both conferences, which welcome proposals from a wide range of disciplines in English Studies). Also, Please share the CFPs widely with your professional networks. Let your colleagues and students know about the many awards we offer along with the opportunity to be published in the prestigious CCTE Studies journal. I don’t know of any other regional conference that has so many and such diverse award categories!
If you have questions about the CCTE CFP, please email the conference chair, Dr. Lisa Valenzuela, at ccte2027conference. If you have questions about the TCEA CFP, please email Dr. Coenen at hillary.coenen. CCTE and TCEA now have a consolidated membership rate. You can pay your membership dues on our website.
Thanks again!
Hillary
Hillary Coenen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English, Composition Coordinator
President, Texas College English Association
Associate Presiding Officer, MSU Faculty Senate
Advisor | Sigma Tau Delta – Beta Xi
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