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

Tue Oct 27 15:19:25 GMT 2020




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,SWPACAis 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 annualSWPACA conference. One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences,SWPACAoffers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels. For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visithttp://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 athttp://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.

SWPACAwill 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, visithttp://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/, athttp://journaldialogue.org/ <http://journaldialogue.org/>

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

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