CALL FOR PAPERS

2003 EAPSU Conference

COMMUNITIES and CONNECTIONS

West Chester University

West Chester, PA  19383

October 23-24, 2003

 

Fourteen universities in one system; fourteen English departments, each with various curricula and programs that serve major, minor, general education, and interdisciplinary requirements; fourteen English department faculty who teach, sit on committees, present papers at conferences, and publish: The topic for EAPSU 2003 is, loosely speaking, communities inside, outside, tangential to, either real or virtual, online or off, that comprise an English department.

We invite proposals from faculty for presentations, roundtable discussions, and workshops that address teaching and research concerning the various communities that make up an English department. We especially invite proposals that speak about teacher-scholarly-community collaboration, interdisciplinarity, service-learning, associations with external organizations, and connections to global communities. Topics include, but are not limited to:

·        Effective teaching and pedagogical practices

·        Curriculum design and course content

·        Joint ventures in literature and composition; composition and film; such pairings are limited only by the imagination

·        Interdisciplinary courses and programs that focus on diverse aspects of literary, rhetorical, cinematic, and linguistic subject matter

·        Original works of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, or drama

·        Service-learning and other outreach programs

·        We also invite suggestions for special interest roundtable discussions. In addition to the above topics, other possibilities include uses of technology; writing center practices; evaluation of tenure-track faculty; and assessment of major programs.

The deadline for proposal submissions is June 30, 2003. Please submit a one-page proposal for a presentation or a panel session or a brief statement of interest in leading or participating in a roundtable discussion to:

Professor Jane E. Jeffrey

EAPSU Planning Committee 

Department of English

West Chester University

West Chester, PA 19383

eapsu@wcupa.edu