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Welcome to the homepage for the Southern Appalachian Student Conference on Literature!
The Department of English at East Tennessee State University will host the fourth annual Southern Appalachian Student Conference on Literature, to take place on Saturday, September 25, 2010, in the ETSU Culp Center. 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.
We are currently in the process of inviting participants to our conference. You can find more details out deadlines, submission requirements, and fees on our registration page.
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Mark Noble of Georgia State University will serve as our keynote speaker for our 2010 conference. You can learn more about him 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 Awards for Outstanding Literary Research. We congratulate ETSU undergraduate Robert Kottage for winning our 2009 Achievement in Essay Award for his paper, "Reading the Four of Cups: Divination versus Christianity in McCarthy's Blood Meridian." We look forward to his continued success. For our 2010 competition, abstracts of 250 words should reach the conference organizers by 30 April, 2010. Full papers of ten to twelve (10-12) pages must be submitted by 17 July, 2010, to be considered for the SASCOL Achievement in Essay Award.
Registration fee for the day-long conference (including the keynote banquet) is set at $30.
SASCOL organizers wish to express their gratitude to the Office of the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Vice President Bert C. Bach, the College of Arts and Sciences and Dean Gordon Anderson, and the Department of English and its chair, Professor Judith Slagle, for their support of this event.
For more information about SASCOL 2010, please browse through this website; you may address other questions to Professors Katherine Weiss (weisk01@etsu.edu) and Thomas Alan Holmes (holmest@etsu.edu).
SASCOL
c/o Department of English
East Tennessee State University
P. O. Box 70683
Johnson City, TN 37614
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