Southern Appalachian Student Conference on Literature
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The Department of Literature and Language at East Tennessee State University and King University will host the Tenth Southern Appalachian Student Conference on Literature, on April 14 2023, at East Tennessee State University. This day-long event will permit undergraduate upperclassmen and graduate students the opportunity to present their literary research to peers from colleges and universities in the southern Appalachian region, providing them professional experience as they pursue their studies.
Deadline for abstracts for proposed papers will be March 3, 2023. Please see our Call for Papers for more details.
Dr. Erin Presley
Associate Professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University
Dr. Erin Presley will serve as our keynote speaker for our 2023 conference. Her talk will be titled "Horace Kephart's Place in Appalachian Studies." You can learn more about her on our keynote page.
The SASCOL organizers intend for our participants to learn more of their options as English scholars. Being "Southern Appalachian" as a regional marker rather than a content indicator, the conference welcomes submissions addressing any area of literature. Cross-disciplinary in nature, the conference welcomes submissions from students in disciplines other than English, as long as their submissions address literature. While presentations can be about literature in languages other than English, we ask that the presentations themselves be in English. We invite students from all over our region to participate in our conference.
In addition to gaining professional experience, students will have the opportunity to enter conference papers for consideration for SASCOL Achievement in Essay Award. You can learn more about their work and get information about the 2023 competition on our awards page.
There is no registration fee for participation in this conference.
SASCOL organizers wish to express their gratitude to the Department of Literature and Language and its chair, Professor Daniel Westover, and Dr. Brian Chisom, Associate Vice President of Roanoke College, for their continued support of this event.