[ecrea] SW/TX PCA/ACA Harry Potter Studies

NEW DEADLINE: DECEMBER 2, 2012!

Call for Papers

Harry Potter Studies

34th Annual Conference of the

Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association

Feb. 13-16, 2013

Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center

Albuquerque, New Mexico

SW/TX PCA/ACA invites scholars to submit papers to the vibrant and 
diverse Harry Potter Studies Area for the 2013 conference. The Harry 
Potter Studies Area is an interdisciplinary/cross-disciplinary field 
that focuses on both the novel and filmic versions of J.K. Rowling’s 
work. Papers may address the work as a whole, specific characters, 
themes, relationships, social and/or cultural implications, individual 
texts within the series, etc.

Paper and/or panel proposals are welcomed. Any and all types of 
scholars, including independent scholars, graduate students, 
non-tenured, tenure-track, tenured and emeritus faculty are encouraged 
to submit. The Harry Potter Studies Area aims to emphasize a diversity 
of scholarship opportunities and is open to innovation in approach to 
research about the Potterverse. Networking among Potter scholars with an 
eye toward post-conference collaboration and publication is a key goal 
of the Harry Potter Studies Area.

The Harry Potter Studies Area boasted one of the largest turnouts of any 
division at the 2012 conference. We hope to repeat that performance in 
2013!

Papers submitted to the Harry Potter Studies Area are eligible for the 
SWTX PCA/ACA  Graduate Student Award and the Richard Tuerk "Out of This 
World" Paper Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy. Dual submissions to 
the Area and the awards are highly encouraged.

For individual paper proposals, please submit an abstract of no more 
than 300 words to the official SW/TX PCA/ACA database at 
http://conference2013.swtxpca.org. Please include full contact 
information (name, any institutional affiliation, snail mail and email 
addresses, and a phone number) for each author of the paper. Please also 
include a biographical note about each author in lieu of a full CV.

For panel proposals, please feel free to send an initial query email, or 
to propose the panel directly. Please include all of the information 
requested for an individual paper proposal for each member of the panel, 
as well as a working title for the panel and an additional description 
of no more than 300 words explaining the purpose/theme of the panel. 
Additionally, you will be required to submit all of the papers for the 
panel to the official database at http://conference2013.swtxpca.org.

Please submit all questions to Dr. Christopher Bell ((cbell3 /at/ uccs.edu) 
<mailto:(cbell3 /at/ uccs.edu)>), chair of the Harry Potter Studies Area.

All proposals must be submitted to the database by December 2, 2012. 
Proposals sent to the chair via email will be returned and you will be 
asked to submit via the database. Information on the SW/TX PCA/ACA and 
the conference can be accessed at http://swtxpca.org/index.html.

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