[ecrea] SWPACA Harry Potter Studies Division

CALL FOR PAPERS

HARRY POTTER STUDIES



35th Annual Conference of the

Southwest Popular/American Culture Association

Feb. 19-22, 2014

Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center

Albuquerque, New Mexico



SWPACA invites scholars to submit papers to the vibrant and diverse 
Harry Potter Studies Area of the Southwest PCA/ACA conference (with its 
2014 theme, “Popular and American Culture Studies: Yesterday, Today and 
Tomorrow”). 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.



Papers from the Harry Potter Studies Area presented at the 2012 
conference were gathered for a published edited volume in 2013. We hope 
to repeat that performance in 2014!



Papers submitted to the Harry Potter Studies Area are eligible for the 
SWPACA Travel Fellowships 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 application information, 
see http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/ For 
individual paper proposals, please submit an abstract of no more than 
300 words to the official SWPACA database at 
http://conference2014.southwestpca.org/. 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.



Please submit all questions to Dr. Christopher Bell ((cbell3 /at/ uccs.edu)), 
chair of the Harry Potter Studies Area. All proposals must be submitted 
to the database by November 15, 2013. Proposals sent to the chair via 
email will be returned and you will be asked to submit via the database. 
Information on the SWPACA and the conference can be accessed at 
http://southwestpca.org/.



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