Subject: Extended CFP: Works of Joss Whedon, SW/TX PCA/ACA (12/15/09; 2/10-13/10)
*CFP: The Works of Joss Whedon, SW/TX PCA/ACA (12/15/09; 2/10-13/10)*
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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.
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*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. 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: *
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Whedonverse proposals should be submitted solely to the addresses above (
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Science Fiction and Fantasy proposals should go to Ximena Gallardo:
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Register early for discounted cost (by 11/30/09) and to reserve space at
the conference hotel as discounted rooms fill quickly.
*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.
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Alyson R Buckman
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