[ecrea] Call for papers: SWPACA Harry Potter Studies

CALL FOR PAPERS
HARRY POTTER STUDIES

37th Annual Conference of the
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
Feb. 10-13, 2016
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. 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 conferences since 
2012 have been gathered into four (4) published, edited volumes released 
in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016. We are an area committed to publication!

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/

Please consider submitting to the official SWPACA journal, entitled 
Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy. 
For more information, please visit http://journaldialogue.org.

 For individual paper proposals, please submit an abstract of no more 
than 300 words to the official SWPACA database at 
http://conference2016.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 1, 2015. 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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