FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3RD
4:00 - 5:00 PM           NYCEA / PCEA Board Meeting
4:00 - 6:00 PM           Conference Registration
5:00 - 6:00 PM           Film screening and light reception
“Young Monks” by Prof. Summer Dorr, SUNY Alfred State

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4TH
8:00 - 9:00 AM           Continental Breakfast
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Conference Registration
9:00 - 9:15 AM           Welcome Address:
Dr. Steven Mauro, President of SUNY Alfred State
9:15 – 10:15 AM        Session A
 
A1—The Teacher-Scholar Profession [Location: The Porch]
Moderator: Aniko Constantine, SUNY Alfred State

• Timothy Barr, DePauw University, “Working Scholars and Scholarly Work”
• Hannah R. Gordon, SUNY University at Buffalo, “Teaching as Emotional Labor: Pedagogical Care and the Burnout Machine”
• Carine M. Mardorossian, SUNY University at Buffalo, “Identity Fatigue in the Undergraduate Classroom: Reigniting Student Engagement One Bug at a Time”

 
A2—Literary Labors [Location: The Lodge]
Moderator: Calista McBride, SUNY Alfred State

• Joseph Breen, Morehead State University, “Erasure by Revision: Walt Whitman’s Native Girl”
• Sharon Delmendo, St. John Fisher University, “‘Bad Blood’: Scapegoating the Tuskegee Syphilis Study’s Black Nurse in Miss Evers’ Boys”
• Joe Marren, SUNY Buffalo State University, “Jack London, Ambrose Bierce, Rerum Novarum and the Search for Commonality in Labor”

 
//VIRTUAL PANEL// Academic Labor and the Modern Workplace (Join the meeting now)
Moderator: Jonathan Shelley, St. John Fisher University

• Laurie A. Dashnau, Houghton University, “Common Threads in Writing Studies”
• Josh Gosciak, Medgar Evers College (CUNY), “Academic Labor (Or the Lack Thereof): AI and the Future of Authenticity”
• Suhail Islam, Nazareth University, “Academic Work, New Media Genres and Counterhegemonic Discourse: Alternative Media, Social Movements, and Activism in the Social Media”
• Garrett C. Jeter, Louisiana Christian University, “Insect at Work: Kafka’s Metamorphosis as Commentary on the Modern Workplace”

 
 10:15 – 10:30 AM      Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:30 AM      Session B
 
B1—Approaches to Artificial Intelligence [Location: The Porch]
Moderator: Summer Dorr, SUNY Alfred State

• Charles A. S. Ernst, Hilbert College, “When Students Misuse AI in a Wholesale Way: On Fair and Accountable Faculty Responses”
• Katharina Seutemann, Independent Scholar, “Phrasal Verb Gap-Fill: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”
• Daniel J. Weinstein, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, “When Three Minds Meet: Creative Disruption in Pragmatic, AI-assisted Content”

 
B2--Labor and Activism [Location: The Lodge]
Moderator: Max Mertel, SUNY Alfred State

• Derek Adams, Ithaca College, “Voicing the Voiceless: Mary White Ovington’s Hidden Labor of Love”
• John-David (JD) Struckmann, SUNY Alfred State, “The Communal Mid-Brain State: Protest and Propaganda Songs in America”
• Guoshuai Zhang, St. John's University, “Affective Labor as Covert Resistance in Asian American Literature”

 
//VIRTUAL PANEL// Literature, Media, and Ecologies of Labor (Join the meeting now)
Moderator: Janelle Varin, SUNY Alfred State

• Brando Francesco Bonsanti, University of Roma Tre, “Labor Struggles and Ecological Consciousness in Appalachia: Denise Giardina’s Storming Heaven”
• Erica Joan Dymond, East Stroudsburg University, “‘Yes Chef’: Labor as Learning in Christopher Storer’s The Bear”
• Sally Kessler, University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities, “Privacy and Cool Dew: Séguin’s ‘Evening or the Gleaner’”
• Vivienne Tailor, Independent Scholar, “From Somber Sacrifices to Pink Dragons: Tracing Chinese Confucian Filial Piety though the Yuan Dynasty, 1960s Model Plays, 1990s Scar Literature, and Modern Visual Media”

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM           Career Roundtable for Graduate Students: Teaching-Focused Institutions
12:00 – 12:45 PM      Conference Luncheon
12:45 – 1:30 PM        Keynote Address
“How to Do Things with a Humanities Degree… According to Seamus Heaney, J.L. Austin, and African Red River Hogs”
Dr. Rose Zaloom, Friends of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo
 
1:30 – 2:30 PM           Session C
C1--AI Politics and Pedagogy [Location: The Porch]
Moderator: Nicole DiGerlando, SUNY Alfred State

• Kristen Garramone-Hoffman, Queensborough Community College (CUNY), “Disembodied Prose: AI, Student Voice, and the Erasure of Embodied Writing in the Composition Classroom”
• Derrick Gentry, Finger Lakes Community College, “Algorithms, Optimific Calculi, and Categorical Imperatives: The Work of Teaching Introductory Ethics for STEM Students”
• Birney Young, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, “The Work of Art in the Age of Digital and AI Reproducibility”

 
C2--Programmatic Interventions [Location: The Lodge]
Moderator: Travis Matteson, SUNY Alfred State

• Catherine Reed, Samantha Flatt, and Angelina Champagne, Keuka College, “A Fair Effort: Reinforcing Reading with Evidence and Enjoyment”
• Max Mertel, SUNY Alfred State, "Student Perceptions of Integrating Health Humanities in Interprofessional Education" 

 
2:30 – 2:45 PM           Coffee Break
2:45 – 4:00 PM          Session D
D1--Labor Pedagogies [Location: The Porch]
Moderator: Nicholas Stefanski, SUNY Alfred State

• Catherine Braun, Ohio State University at Marion, “ePortfolios and Whiteboards for Interaction and Reflection in an Asynchronous Online Class”
• Piper Corp, St. John’s University, “The Labor of ‘Natural Communication: Rethinking Speech and Writing in Higher Education”
• Jennie Joiner, Keuka College, “Literature at Work: Building Curiosity”
• Catherine Reed, Keuka College, “The Great Grade Debate”

4:00 PM: Conference Adjourns
 
NYCEA / PCEA 2025 is presented courtesy of your registration fees, NYCEA, PCEA, the SUNY Alfred State English and Humanities Department, and Auxiliary Campus Enterprise & Services (ACES).
Thank you!