[Commlist] CFP: Graphic Novels, Comics, & Popular Culture at SWPACA

Call for Papers

*Graphic Novels, Comics, and Popular Culture*

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

42^nd Annual Conference, Week of February 22-27, 2021

http://www.southwestpca.org <http://www.southwestpca.org>

Submissions Open September 1, 2020

Submission Deadline: November 13, 2020

For the 2021 Conference, SWPACA is going virtual! Due to concerns 
regarding COVID-19, we will be holding our annual conference completely 
online this year. We hope you will join us for exciting papers, 
discussions, and the experience you’ve come to expect from Southwest.

Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 42nd 
annual SWPACA conference. One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary 
academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each 
typically featuring multiple panels. For a full list of subject areas, 
area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit 
http://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/ 
<http://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/>__

*Graphic Novels, Comics, and Popular Culture*

The Graphic Novels, Comics, and Popular Culture subject area chair 
welcomes presentation proposals on formal, cultural, historical, and 
theoretical dimensions of sequential art in all its forms (comics, 
graphic novels, anime, etc.).

Presentations may focus on a single work, put works into productive 
conversation with one another, or investigate relationships between 
works of sequential art and their transmedia adaptations; in the latter 
case, however, significant emphasis should be placed on sequential art – 
those proposals focusing predominantly on film, television, gaming, or 
other formats might be better suited for other interest areas.

Authors may also submit field-provoking critical literature reviews 
intended to reframe scholarly discussion around major disciplinary 
themes or questions, works of sequential art history or historiography, 
ethnographic work concerning sequential art audiences, studies of the 
sequential art industry’s political economy, or investigations into new 
forms of sequential art storytelling, consumption, distribution, or 
marketing. Of course, critical interpretations of sequential art works 
that touch on any of the above are also very much welcome.

*All proposals must be submitted through the conference’s database at 
**http://register.southwestpca.org/southwestpca* 
<http://register.southwestpca.org/southwestpca>**

For details on using the submission database and on the application 
process in general, please see the Proposal Submission FAQs and Tips 
page at http://southwestpca.org/conference/faqs-and-tips/ 
<http://southwestpca.org/conference/faqs-and-tips/>

Individual proposals for 15-minute papers must include an abstract of 
approximately 200-500 words. For information on how to submit a proposal 
for a roundtable or a multi-paper panel, please view the above FAQs and 
Tips page.

SWPACA will offer registration reimbursement awards for the best 
graduate student papers in a variety of categories. Submissions of 
accepted, full papers are due January 1, 2021. SWPACA will also offer 
registration reimbursement awards for select undergraduate and graduate 
students in place of our traditional travel awards. For more 
information, visit 
http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/ 
<http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/>. 
Registration for the conference will be open and available in late fall. 
Watch your email for details!

In addition, please check out the organization’s peer-reviewed, 
scholarly journal, /Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular 
Culture and Pedagogy/, at http://journaldialogue.org/ 
<http://journaldialogue.org/>

If you have any questions about the Graphic Novels, Comics, and Popular 
Culture area, please contact its Area Chair, Robert Moses Peaslee, at 
(robert.peaslee /at/ ttu.edu) <mailto:(robert.peaslee /at/ ttu.edu)>.


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