[Commlist] cfp: SWPACA Albuquerque 2025 - Graphic Novels, Comics, and Popular Culture

*Call for Papers*

*Graphic Novels, Comics, and Popular Culture*

*Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)*

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

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

Proposal submission deadline: *October 31, 2024*

Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 46th 
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 
https://swpaca.org/subject-areas/ <https://swpaca.org/subject-areas/>__

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*The Graphic Novels, Comics, and Popular Culture (GNCPC) Area seeks 
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 too much on film, television, gaming, or other 
formats will not be read favorably.

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.

*All proposals must be submitted through the conference’s database at 
**https://swpaca.org/app* <https://swpaca.org/app>**

For details on using the submission database and on the application 
process in general (including submitting proposals for roundtables and 
preformed panels), please see the FAQS & Resources tab on 
https://swpaca.org/ <https://swpaca.org/>

Individual proposals for 15-minute papers must include an abstract of 
approximately 200-500 words. Including a brief bio in the body of the 
proposal form is encouraged, but not required.

For information on how to submit a proposal for a roundtable or a 
multi-paper panel, please view the above FAQs and Tips page.

*The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2024. *

SWPACA offers monetary awards for the best graduate student papers in a 
variety of categories. Submissions of accepted, full papers are due 
January 1, 2025. More details are here: 
https://swpaca.org/graduate-student-paper-awards/ 
<https://swpaca.org/graduate-student-paper-awards/>SWPACA also offers 
travel fellowships for undergraduate and graduate students as well as 
contingent faculty: https://swpaca.org/travel-awards-students-faculty/ 
<https://swpaca.org/travel-awards-students-faculty/>

Registration and travel information for the conference is available at 
https://swpaca.org/albuquerque-conference/ 
<https://swpaca.org/albuquerque-conference/>For 2025, we will be 
returning to the Marriott Albuquerque (2101 Louisiana Blvd NE, 
Albuquerque, NM 87110), which boasts free parking and close proximity to 
dining, shopping, and other delights.

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

*If you have any questions about the GNCPC area, please contact its Area 
Chair, Rob Peaslee (Texas Tech University, (robert.peaslee /at/ ttu.edu) 
<mailto:(robert.peaslee /at/ ttu.edu)>)*. If you have general questions about 
the conference, please contact us at (support /at/ southwestpca.org) 
<mailto:(support /at/ southwestpca.org)>, and a member of the executive team 
will get back to you.

*This will be a fully in-person conference.*If you’re looking for an 
online option to present your work, keep an eye out for details about 
the 2025 SWPACA Summer Salon, a completely virtual conference to take 
place in June 2025.


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