ACCUTE 2025
Congress 2025: Reframing togetherness
George Brown College (GBC), Toronto
May 30th – June 2nd, 2025
DEADLINE: November 22nd, 2024
The 2025 Conference CFP for the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) is now OPEN. We are accepting proposals of 300-500 words to our General Call for Panels, Member-Organized Panels, Creative Writing Panels, and Joint-Sponsored Panels. Please use the Online Submission Form to submit your proposal.
Graduate Students and Contract Faculty who are members of ACCUTE will be eligible for a partial travel reimbursement as funds allow.
GENERAL CALL
ACCUTE’s General Call welcomes papers in all fields of English studies. Submit no more than one 300-500 word proposal, including a 100-word abstract and a brief biographical note using our Online Submission Form by November 22nd, 2024. Please contact info.accute@gmail.com if you have any questions about the submission process.
MEMBER-ORGANIZED PANELS
Member-Organized Panels are proposed by an ACCUTE member for the annual ACCUTE conference. You will find the list of Member-Organized Panels in the following pages. Submit your 300-500 word proposal, including a 100-word abstract and a brief biographical note using our Online Submission Form by November 22nd, 2024. Please ensure you include the title of the panel you are submitting to. Proposals that are not accepted to the panel will be considered in our General Call.
CREATIVE WRITING PANELS
Creative Writing Panels are member-organized panels presented in collaboration with the Creative Writing Collective (CWC). They may also take the form of literary readings. Submit your 300-500 word proposal, including a 100-word abstract and a brief biographical note using our Online Submission Form by November 22nd, 2024. Please ensure you include the title of the panel you are submitting to.
JOINT-SPONSORED PANELS
Joint-sponsored panels are held at the ACCUTE conference and are co-sponsored by another association and are intended to foster links between ACCUTE and other scholarly associations. Panelists are not required to be ACCUTE members so long as they are members of good standing in the co-sponsoring association, but only ACCUTE members will be eligible for travel funding. 300-500 word proposal, including a 100-word abstract and a brief biographical note using our Online Submission Form by November 22nd, 2024. Please ensure you include the title of the panel you are submitting to.
Organized Panel Overview
| Panel Title | Organizer(s) | Panel Type |
| The Animal in the Anthropocene: Narratives of Non-Human Survival | Ben Berman Ghan, Margaryta Golovchenko | Member- Organized |
| (Un)making Contemporary Canadian Autobiography and Autofiction | Sophie Feng, Myra Bloom | Member- Organized |
| The Many Loves of Dr. Judith Scherer Herz: a panel celebrating our professor, colleague, mentor, and friend | Heather Jessup | Member- Organized |
| Calling All Creative Humanists | Brandon McFarlane | Member- Organized Roundtable |
| Normalized Narratives of Sex and Violence | Zara Diab | Member- Organized |
| From Uncanny to Unsettling: Queer Children in Literature and Film | Ryanne Kap | Member- Organized |
| L.M. Montgomery and the Women | Rita Bode | Member- Organized |
| Rethinking Victorian Non-Fiction Prose | Hao Li | Member- Organized Joint NAVSA-ACCUTE |
| Writing New Worlds: Young Adult Literature and Possibility | Jessica Caravaggio | Member- Organized |
| The Literary Critic of Humour | Danielle Bobker | Member- Organized |
| Sustaining Signals: Sounding the Curatorial | Klara du Plessis, Jason Camlot | Member- Organized |
| Suburb Nation | Cheryl Lousley, Zishad Lak, Paul Barrett | Member- Organized |
| Romanticism and Evil | Adam Mohamed, Liam Rockall | Member- Organized Joint NASSR-ACCUTE |
| On and Off the Record: Audiotextual Performance and Cultural Resistance | Michael O’Driscoll, Kristen Smith | Member- Organized |
| Not Our Grandmother’s Apocalypse: Speculative Fiction as Intervention | Miriam Jones | Member- Organized Roundtable |
| From Scottsboro to Spain | Bart Vautour | Member- Organized |
| Critical Relations on Turtle Island | Tavleen Purewal | Member- Organized |
| Adaptable Atwood | Tina Trigg | Joint MAS-ACCUTE |
| Beyond Trauma (Studies)? | Gabriel Briex, Carson Hammond | Member- Organized |
