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CELJ at MLA 2009
CELJ at MLA 2007 and 2008
CELJ at MLA 2004, in Philadelphia
2004 Award Winners
Willis Regier, Speaker
James English, Speaker
Chat with an Editor
MLA Booth
CELJ at MLA 2003, on the Shores of Southern California
David Hanson (far left), vice president and incoming president of CELJ, celebrates with some of the winners of the 2003 Awards Competition. The assembly of editorial prowess includes:
Bruce Boehrer, Editor, Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies, Runner-up, Best New Journal; Cassandra Laity, Coeditor, Modernism/Modernity, Winner, Phoenix Award for Outstanding Editorial Achievement; Mindy Wilson, Managing Editor, Gettysburg Review, Winner, Best New Design; Robert McRuer, Guest Editor for Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies, published by GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Winner, Best Special Issue; Kelly Carroll, Executive Managing Editor, American Journal of Bioethics, Winner, Best New Journal.
James Knapp of JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory at CELJ's "Chat with an Editor" table in the exhibit hall, which served more than fifty aspiring authors this year.
At a CELJ-sponsored panel called "What Editors Want: Belletristic Journals, Literary Criticism, and Other Matters," President Michael Cornett (at the podium) joins in lively conversation with editors representing the council's membership among journals of creative writing (from left to right): Richard Mathews, Tampa Review; Margaret Bauer, North Carolina Literary Review; Lori Cameron, Penwood Review; David Clark, World Literature Today; and Brian McHale, Poetics Today.
Brian McHale, of Poetics Today, speaks to issues that concern both journal editors and writers at the "What Editors Want" session.
David Hanson (vice president), Michael Cornett (president), and Linda Troost (secretary/treasurer) enjoy a breakfast meeting, complete with the San Diego pleasures of fresh-squeezed orange juice and lush subtropical flora.
Some photos from the MLA 2002 panel in New York: "What Editors Want: Interdisciplinary Work and Other Matters."
Michael Cornett, CELJ president presiding at the "What Editors Want" panel.
Panelists (left to right): Dina Ripsman Eylon, Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal; Catherine Gallagher, Representations; Maura Spiegel, Literature and Medicine; Jeffrey Di Leo, symplokc: A Journal for the Intermingling of Literary Scholarship; Bruce Boehrer, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies.
An engaged panel.
Here are a few snapshots from lthe MLA 2001 awards ceremony in New Orleans:
Jana Argersinger, CELJ's Secretary/Treasurer, congratulating John Bryant, editor of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, on his runner-up award for Best New Journal.
Joseph T. Skerrett Jr., of Melus: The Journal of the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, receiving honors as Distinguished Retiring Editor.
Roy Flannagan, CELJ's President, explaining that he would have been in a three-piece suit if his plane had arrived on time, while Heidi McGregor (JSTOR) and Jana Argersinger wait their turn to speak.
Heidi McGregor speaking about the valuable service rendered by the non-profit full-text database of journals, JSTOR.
Michael Cornett, CELJ's Vice President, counseling a young scholar at a "Chat with the Editor" session at the CELJ booth.