EAPSU 2025 Conference: Threat Assessments

EAPSU 2025 Conference: “Threat Assessments”

Hosted online at Slippery Rock University October 24 (via Zoom)

Call for Proposals

EAPSU 2025 will be a hybrid conference to accommodate those without travel funding or transportation. We welcome online (via Zoom) and pre-taped papers, panels, and creative works for our Friday sessions. 

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.

Proposals are no longer being accepted.