CALL FOR PAPERS
HARRY POTTER STUDIES
33rd Annual Conference of the
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture
Association
Feb. 8-11, 2012
Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico
SW/TX PCA/ACA invites scholars to submit papers to the
inaugural session of the Harry Potter Studies Area for the
2012 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.
For individual paper proposals, please submit an abstract of
no more than 300 words to the official SW/TX PCA/ACA database
at http://conference2012.swtxpca.org. Please include full
contact information (name, any institutional affiliation,
snail mail and email addresses, and a phone number) for each
author of the paper. 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. Additionally, you
will be required to submit all of the papers for the panel to
the official database at http://conference2012.swtxpca.org.
Please submit all questions to Dr. Christopher Bell
([log in to unmask]), chair of the Harry Potter Studies Area.
All proposals must be submitted to the database by December 1,
2011. Proposals sent to the chair via email will be returned
and you will be asked to submit via the database. Information
on the SW/TX PCA/ACA and the conference can be accessed at
http://swtxpca.org/index.html.
Feel free to distribute this call to any and all relevant
parties and/or listservs.
Respectfully,
Christopher Bell, Ph.D.
Director – Center for Excellence in Communication
Assistant Professor Attendant of Communication
Harry Potter Studies Area Chair – Southwest/Texas Popular
Culture Association
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Columbine Hall 312h
1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80918
"American popular culture is my culture, and I don't just live
in it;
I love it madly, and writing about it seems as natural - and
necessary - as breathing."
- Stephen King
"When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you
will
find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of
obedience than have ever been committed in the name of
rebellion."
- C.P. Snow
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