EAPSU 2025 Corrected Program

Brief Schedule

Friday, October 24

Room 1

Room link: https://sru.zoom.us/j/99703208565

Passcode: 113647

8:45 a.m.	Welcome to Our Morning Participants
9 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.	Session 1: Shippensburg Student Roundtable
10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.	Session 2
12 – 1:15 p.m.	Session 3
1:30 – 2:45 p.m.	Session 4
3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.	Session 5: Kutztown Student Panel
4:15 p.m.	Conference End

Room 2

https://sru.zoom.us/j/95703501628

Passcode: 409618

9 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.	Session 1
10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.	Session 2: PASSHE Writing Council
12 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.	Session 3
1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.	Session 4: Millersville Student Panel
3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.	Session 5
4:15 p.m.	Conference End

Room 3

https://sru.zoom.us/j/96930355761

Passcode: 197698

1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

Session 4: Millersville Student Panel

 

 

Session 1 9 am to 10:15 am

Room 1

Shippensburg Student Roundtable

Emily Brewer "Narrative Relief: Expressive Writing, or Therapeutic Practice?"

Cynthia Dodd "Cynthia: Searching for Self"

Jenny Russell, “Exploring the Environmental Other: If Fish Could Talk”

Room 2

Ryan Stryffeler, Slippery Rock, “Shamanism and Masculinity in The Northman (2022)”

Ben Keubrich, West Chester, ‘The Rhetoric of “Neutrality’: When Calling for Peace is Criminal”  

William Broun, East Stroudsburg, “Conservatism Is Spoken Here, Too: Inspiring (and Challenging) Right-Leaning Students in English Classrooms”  

Session 2 10:30 to 11:45 am

Room 1

Laura Kieselbach and James Ware, East Stroudsburg, “Behind the A’s: The Struggles of Academically Advanced Students in High Schools and Colleges”

Christina Fisanick, California, “Writing as Resistance: Digital Storytelling, Community History, and Inclusive Pedagogy”

Room 2

PASSHE Writing Council Presentation

Session 3 12 to 1:15 pm

Room 1

Deb Ruddick, East Stroudsburg, “That’s My Work: The Unauthorized Use of Published Work to Train Generative AI”  

S. Marie Persia, West Chester, “How British 19^th Century Authors Were Influenced by Etiquette Manuals”  

Alexis Stakem, West Chester, “Revisiting Sui Sin Far: Complicating and Contextualizing Her Representation and Advocacy”

Room 2

Todd O. Williams, Kutztown, “’Debbie Acclimating’: A Story of a Non-Verbal, Autistic Student Beginning College”  

Brian Cope, Whatcom Community College, “Flowers in Bloom: Countering Threat in the Classroom by Cultivating Compassion through Loving Kindness and Community Building”

William Harris, Shippensburg University, “’Reckless and Gay’: Queering Straight Romance in David Lean’s Brief Encounter” 

Session 4 1:30 pm – 2:45 pm

Room 1

Cynthia Leenerts, “Dunggeulge Dunggeulge: Round and Round with Threat Assessment in Squid Game”  

Jonathan Shaw, Kutztown, “Innie, Underground”  

Meaghan Hunt, East Stroudsburg, "The Terror Behind Eyes: The Crazed Madness in Poe's Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven"

Room 2

Millersville Student Panel, “Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad in Dialogue with the Underground Railroad History in Lancaster County”

Dr. Katarzyna Jakubiak

Aubrey Bitner

Michael Keehan

Julia Fallows

Amanda Rivera

Room 3

Millersville Student Panel, "Romancing Bridgerton: Critical Theory Meets Netflix’s Viral Regency Fantasy"

Dr. Emily Baldys

Kade Booker

Rhia Brown

Ashley Mason

Mason Musser

Sydney Smith

Session 5 3:00 – 4:15

Room 1

Kutztown Student Panel, "Video Game Preservation: Is it Game Over?"

Dr. Sandra M. Leonard

Gabu Gonzalez

Hailey Duncan

Nicole Gerstenberg

Room 2

Jess Sentgeorge, Slippery Rock, "The Cinematic Psyche of Silence of the Lambs (1991) as a Combatant to Homophobia”  

Kylie Saar, Shippensburg, “Toward Ecological Entanglement: Surviving the Anthropocene in Vandermeer's Annihilation”  

Barbara Welty, East Stroudsburg, “Threat Assessment in The Woman in Whiteby Wilkie Collins”  

Jenny Russell, Shippensburg, “She Didn’t Start the Fire: Climate Anxiety, Femicide, and Motherhood in Ducks, Newburyport”  

How to Use this Program

Finding Sessions

First, review the session listings for Friday and decide which you will attend. You may come and go as you please.

Both sets of sessions occur in a specific Zoom “Room.” The “Room” listed has a unique URL that will be used continuously across all sessions. Selecting the link will launch Zoom (app or web page) so you can attend the presentation. If you wish to leave one room for another, Zoom will prompt you by asking you if you wish to leave one room to go to another.

Plan to join each room a few minutes before the session begins using links in this program. Guests will be muted initially.

Getting Started with the Zoom Service

Zoom rooms can be accessed through a web browser, desktop application or mobile application.

If accessing through a mobile device, download and install the Zoom application prior to the online conference. When you select a link from the conference guide or email, you will be prompted to join the session by launching the app or through your web browser.

For help with your connection and audio settings, see these informational pages: (1) How to Join a Zoom Webinar (2) Using Zoom in a web browser

Live Captioning

We will use Zoom’s captioning service for live captioning. A link to the live caption webpage will be provided during the session. In the event that the live caption does not function, the room host will type captions as backup. 

Using Zoom During the Presentation

Microphone access and video is disabled for session attendees, but you can participate by:

1. Addressing questions to the presenter. Questions will be saved for the end by using the Q&A tool. At the end of the session, the host may enable attendee audio for general discussion.

2. Addressing comments to fellow participants using the Chat button (talk bubble icon) located in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen.

Adjust the size of the presentation window by selecting the four arrows at the top, right of the screen. Exit full screen by selecting the “Exit Full Screen” button on the top of the screen.

Leave the session at any time by selecting the “Leave Meeting” button in the lower right of the screen.

Troubleshooting

Issues with Audio

• Check your audio settings by selecting “Audio Settings” in the lower right of the screen.
• Try logging out of Zoom and logging back in. You might also need to reboot your computer. Make sure that, if you have the Zoom app installed, you are using the latest version.
• Refer to Zoom technical support – as a small conference, there will be limited tech help support while sessions are live.

Internet & Connection Issues

• If the presenter experiences connection issues, please be patient. The room host will guide discussion and quiet general tumult until the presenter can continue.
• Sessions will be recorded. The committee will attempt to make sessions available after the conference.

Code of Conduct

This is an online conference that is taking place via Zoom. Representatives will monitor the sessions and may be contacted via the chat. Please contact the room moderator if you see inappropriate activity or are subject to harassment. Sessions are recorded; if your camera and mic are on, please set up your laptop in a quiet and non-public living area, take note of your personal surroundings, and do not move to a different setting in the middle of a session.

Because many of the panels and roundtables will rely on continuous discussion, turn-taking in discussion may be difficult. Please be gracious and try to allow everyone time to talk.