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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 third annual Southern Appalachian Student Conference on Literature, to take place on Saturday, September 26, 2009, 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. While we have set our conference presenter schedule, we have some additional seats for participants; registration covers the banquet fee. You can find a reservation form on our registration page. We thank Doug Reichert Powell of Columbia College Chicago for his keynote address this year. Professor Powell received his MA from East Tennessee State University, and he has written extensively about our area. His keynote talk was "Appalachia Upside Down: Real and the Imaginary Geographies." You can learn more about Professor Powell 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 undergraduates in disciplines other than literature, as long as their submissions address literature. Finally, the conference will invite neighboring institutions to set up displays describing how they can benefit students of literature. 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 Jessica Gilly for winning our 2008 Achievement in Essay Award for her paper, Jessica Gilley for “’From last year, and from the year before last, and from the year before that again’: History and Culture in Beckett." We look forward to her continued success. For our 2009 competition, abstracts of 250 words should reach the conference organizers by April 6, 2009. Full papers of ten to twelve (10-12) pages must be submitted by 1 July, 2008, to be considered for the conference. Registration fee for the day-long conference (including the keynote banquet) is set at $25. 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 2009, 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
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