[Commlist] CFP: SWPACA Summer Salon 2025 - Online - Graphic Novels, Comics, and Popular Culture

*Call for Papers*

*Graphic Novels, Comics, & Popular Culture Area*

*Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)*

*2025 SWPACA Summer Salon*

June 26-28, 2024

*Virtual Conference*

https://swpaca.org/ <https://swpaca.org/>

Submissions open on *March 25, 2025*

Proposal submission deadline: *April 15, 2025*

Proposals for papers are now being accepted for the SWPACA Summer Salon. 
SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas in a variety of categories 
encompassing the following: Film, Television, Music, & Visual Media; 
Historic & Contemporary Cultures; Identities & Cultures; Language & 
Literature; Science Fiction & Fantasy; and Pedagogy & Popular Culture. 
For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, 
please visit https://swpaca.org/subject-areas/ 
<https://swpaca.org/subject-areas/>

*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.).*

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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, please see the Summer Salon FAQs and Tips page at 
https://swpaca.org/faq-summer-salon/ <https://swpaca.org/faq-summer-salon/>

Registration information for the conference will be available at 
https://swpaca.org/summer-salon/ <https://swpaca.org/summer-salon/>

Unfortunately, we are not able to offer any financial assistance for the 
Summer Salon.__

Individual proposals for 15-minute papers must include an abstract of 
approximately 200-500 words. Only one proposal per person, please; 
unfortunately, we cannot accommodate roundtables for the Summer Salon.

If you have any questions about the Graphic Novels, Comics, & Popular 
Culture 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.



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