Annual Spring Symposium
Each year, the CALS Spring Symposium brings together prominent scholars in American literature and culture with Penn State faculty, students, and the larger public to discuss a pressing issue in today’s academic world.
Spring Symposium 2025 – “Horizons”
Tuesday, March 18
Dewey Room, Collaborative Commons, Pattee Library
11:00 a.m. “(Even) In Terrible Days, For the Love of Reading.”
Presented by Kevin Quashie, Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in English, Brown University.
Moderator: Gabrielle Foreman, Paterno Family Professor of American Literature and Professor of African American Studies and History, Penn State.
3:00 p.m. “Cross-Cultural Harlem: Theory, Method and Field”
Presented by Sandhya Shukla, associate professor of English and American studies, University of Virginia
Moderator: Keith Gilyard, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and African American Studies, Penn State.
For additional information, please contact John Marsh, director of the Center for American Literary Studies, at jem55@psu.edu.
