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EAPSU 2025 Conference: “Threat Assessments”

Hosted in-person and online at Slippery Rock University October 23-24 (online) and 25 (at Slippery Rock University’s main campus)

Call for Proposals

EAPSU 2025 will be a hybrid conference to accommodate those without travel funding or transportation. For the in-person sessions on Saturday, we welcome individual papers, group panels, discussion sections, workshops, or creative works from faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students. We also welcome online (via Zoom) and pre-taped papers, panels, and creative works for our Friday sessions. Please indicate your modality in the proposal.

On the evening of the 24^th we plan to host a roundtable discussion with the chairs of the departments leading a discussion on challenges facing English departments in PASSHE schools. Afterwards, the evening will see an open mic featuring the creative work of EAPSU students and faculty – if you or your students would like to be a part of the open mic, contact Jason.stuart@sru.edu for more info. 

Traditionally, EAPSU presents faculty, student, and faculty/student work in all areas of English Studies: writing studies, creative writing, composition, rhetoric, literature and literary studies, technical and professional writing, linguistics, film and new media studies, popular culture, pedagogy, and creative writing. We also encourage submissions that focus on new areas of inquiry, PASSHE-oriented discussions, and current problems in the field. Proposals might include:

• Responses to the numerous crises facing academic freedom and productivity both in PASSHE and in higher education, generally
• Mitigation strategies against the explicit threats to student and faculty safety and well-being, in particular LGBTQI+ and international students
• Countering threats to the integrity of knowledge work by educational technologies and so-called “Artificial Intelligence”
• Evaluations of literary works, theories, and movements at the end of the “Long 20^th century”
• Revisiting concepts of aesthetics, authorship, and reception in the digital humanities and writing
• Definitions of the threat to pedagogies that support diversity, equity, belonging, and accessibility

The conference committee and EAPSU strongly encourage the development of long-term discussions, working groups, and roundtables to encourage continuous discussion and interplay between English programs and writing programs within PASSHE. Additionally, EAPSU encourages organizations and working groups within PASSHE to join us to share the work they are doing and develop partnerships for the long-term sustainability of all groups.

Please submit your 200-word proposal for online and in-person conference sessions to jason.stuart@sru.edu by July 15, 2025.

EAPSU is also looking for schools to host future conferences! If you are interested in developing a thematic conference that celebrates the work of PASSHE educators, scholars, and – most importantly – students, please get in touch with the EAPSU Board! We are looking to schedule the next three years of EAPSU conferences at sites across the Commonwealth.

Proposals for EAPSU 2024 will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. EDT  Friday September 6. 

Find the hotel block for the Millersville conference at Hilton's booking site.

Millersville University hosts the EAPSU conference in 2024! Join us October 18th and 19th at McComsey Hall. CFP and more announcements to come.

EAPSU 2023 Conference:
Kutztown University of PA

Conference Theme: Academic Freedom

Suggested paper topics include social justice, book banning, freedom of thought, current teaching shortage, moves to weaken public education. Conference coordinators will also consider other ongoing scholarly activities within the discipline. Individual papers, panel discussions, and roundtables are encouraged.

Start: Friday, October 13 at 3:00 pm
End: Sunday, October 15 at 3:00 pm

All sessions in KU's Academic Forum, Rooms 103, 202, 203.

Conference program.

Lunch on Saturday in The Georgian Room.

Click here for conference CFP.

Click here for conference flyer.

For discounted hotel reservations, call Hampton Inn and Suites Kutztown @ 1-484-641-8800 and use the code: PAS (or group code CHHPAS). 

To sign up for Poetry Open Mic on Friday, October 13, click this link.  Faculty and students are encouraged to participate.

Keynote speaker on Saturday night is Eric Stroshane, Assistant Director of member Services for the American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom.

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Impost, the journal of criticism and creative work published by EAPSU, has just released volume 16. Impost is free to read and download in the "Our Journal" section [PDF]. 

Many thanks to the editorial team at Impost and Impost's editor, Dr. Anne Dyer Stuart at Bloomsburg University, for producing another excellent edition. 

The schedule and program for EAPSU 2021, hosted by East Stroudsburg University, is finalized. Download your copy. 

Registration for the EAPSU 2021 annual conference is now open. 

The attendance fee for faculty is $40. Students attend for free, though we do ask you to complete registration if you are presenting or just attending. 

Please visit our events page for the conference to register. 

The registration link for the 2021 EAPSU conference, hosted by East Stroudsburg University, will be published soon to the Annual Conferences page. Watch this space!

The deadline for the virtual EAPSU conference hosted by East Stroudsburg University has been extended to September 1, 2021. Please submit your latest work and join us on October 8 and 9!