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*DEADLINE EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 15, 2009! * Join us at the 2010 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 31st Annual Conference, at which the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area will be honored! The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM, February 10-13, 2010. This is a special CFP on the works of Joss Whedon, including: *Dollhouse*, *Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog*, comics (*Buffy* season 8, *Astonishing X-Men*, *Runaways, Spike, Angel, Fray*), *Buffy, Angel, Firefly, *and*Serenity. * *We especially encourage presentations on:* - *Dollhouse* - *Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog* - Genre transformations: Buffy and Angel's continuations and transformations into comics (*Buffy *season 8/*Angel: After the Fall*) or *Firefly*'s transformation into *Serenity*, etc. - Whedon's work on *Astonishing X-Men, Runaways, Fray, *and/or* Tales of the Vampires/Tales of the Slayers* - The construction of place and space - The intersections of memory, identity, and consciousness - Socioeconomic class - Sexuality & gender performance - Race & ethnicity - Teaching Joss Whedon's work - The influence and styles of writers from the "Whedon school of television writing," such as Jane Espenson, David Greenwalt, Tim Minear, Marti Noxon, etc. All Whedonverse topics will be considered. Please be sure to check out the essays published in *Slayage: the Online Journal of Buffy Studies* as well as the multiple publications on Whedon's work prior to submitting. Familiarity with the field is expected. *Deadline for proposal submissions:* December 15, 2009. Earlier proposals are accepted and will be responded to with all due haste. The registration deadline is December 15, 2009 for early bird rates; December 31 is the final registration deadline. All participants must register by that date or will not be permitted to present or appear in the program. Please send (preferably electronic) queries, 250 word paper proposals, and 500 word panel proposals to BOTH Alyson Buckman ([log in to unmask]) AND Tamy Burnett ([log in to unmask]). Include full contact info (name, institutional affiliation if any, snail mail address, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail) for all participants, working titles for proposals, as well as current curriculum vitae. Snail mail contact info: (if preferred) Alyson Buckman, PhD Department of Humanities and Religious Studies 6000 J St. California State University, Sacramento Sacramento, CA 95819-6083 916-278-5335 Tamy Burnett Department of English University of Nebraska-Lincoln PO Box 880333 Lincoln, NE 68588-0333 402-310-4972 For more details on the conference, please visit the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association: http://www.swtxpca.org/. *Visit the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area on Facebook: * http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=7322&post=37243&uid=53194657668# /group.php?gid=53194657668 Whedonverse proposals should be submitted solely to the addresses above ( [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> and [log in to unmask]). Other Science Fiction and Fantasy proposals should go to Ximena Gallardo: [log in to unmask] *More about the SF&F Area * The Area was founded in 1995 by Prof. Richard Tuerk of the Texas A&M University-Commerce (formerly East Texas State University) and author of *Oz in Perspective* (McFarland, 2007). The Area is currently chaired by Ximena Gallardo C. of the City University of New York-LaGuardia, Alyson Buckman of the California State University-Sacramento*,* Tamy Burnett of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Brian Cowlishaw of Northeastern State University. Though the co-chairs consult on submissions, Ximena is primarily responsible for the general organization of the conference panels and coordinating special topics, Alyson and Tamy coordinate the Whedonverse panels (*Buffy*, *Firefly*, *Angel*, *Dollhouse*, and etc.), and Brian reviews and organizes the literature panels. With an average of 70+ presenters annually, The Science Fiction and Fantasy Area of the Southwest and Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association is one of the most dynamic and well-attended areas at the conference. Numerous publications have originated from our panels. * * Tamy Burnett <[log in to unmask]>