CFP Vampire Studies Area PCA (11/30/2023; Chicago 3/27-30/2024)

Vampire Studies (PCA/ACA National Conference) March 27-30 2024

deadline for submissions:
November 30, 2023

full name / name of organization:
Popular Culture Association

contact email:
pcavampires@gmail.com


source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/09/13/vampire-studies-pcaaca-national-conference-march-27-30-2024

PCA CONFERENCE 27-30 March 2024, CHICAGO, IL

The Vampire Studies Area of the PCA welcomes papers, presentations, panels, and roundtable discussions that cover all aspects of the vampire as it appears throughout global culture.

The complicated issue of consent is central to all vampire texts, from being fed upon, to being transformed (infected) without consent or one that is informed, freely given, by individuals responsible for negotiating, maintaining, and communicating their on-going consent. In various media and art, sexual assault is often used as a narrative device to motivate characters, as an initiator of power, or the beginnings of a revenge narrative arc. This year we specifically welcome papers, panel presentations, or creative pieces that grapple and explore the ways in which consent functions in vampire narratives. We encourage scholars to consider the ways that power dynamics, social identities, and cultural contexts have shaped conversations over time about consent within vampire tales.

We also look forward to submissions addressing media focusing on the ways in which vampires explore issues of race, ethnicity, and inclusion.

As well as this broad theme we also encourage papers, presentations, and panels that cover any of the following:Products where sexual violence is used as a core narrative trope or motivating factor ie Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire.
The vampire bite and consent in shows like the Vampire Diaries, True Blood, First Kill, Dracula
The Non-Western Vampire (i.e. Black, Asian, Latino/a/x, African, Aboriginal)
The vampire on legacy television shows (i.e., Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Moonlight, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals)
The vampire on recent television shows (i.e., First Kill, The Passage, Interview with the Vampire, Vampire in the Garden, Fire Bite)
Legacy Cinematic vampires (i.e., Nosferatu, Interview with the Vampire, Near Dark, Twilight, Dracula Adaptations etc.)
Recent Cinematic Vampires (i.e., Night Teeth, Morbius, Monster Family etc.)
Vampire Cultures and Contexts (i.e. vampire RPGs or other gaming universes, fan studies, graphic novels, Tik Tok & other social media platforms)
Vampires and the Marginalized (i.e., race, gender, sexualities, national origin)
Genres (i.e. Gothic Horror, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Steampunk, Early Readers, Children’s Picture Books, Young Adult, Erotica, Comedy)
Historic and contemporary vampiric locations and geographies (i.e. cemeteries, castles, cities)
The Horror Vampire, Byronic vs Hedonistic, or Horror vs Romantic
Vampire Studies (i.e., the vampire in the classroom, vampire scholarship)

And anything and everything in between!

To have your proposal/abstract considered, please submit your proposal/abstract of approximately 250 words at the Popular Culture Association Website. We also accept complete panel proposals of 3-4 people.

We do not currently accept papers from fledgling/undergraduate scholars, but you can submit your proposal to the Undergraduate Area. We encourage you to get involved in our vibrant vampire community by joining one of our social media spaces and attending our conference events such as our business meeting. film screening, other roundtables, and sessions.

If you have questions, contact us at pcavampires@gmail.com Also, follow us on Twitter @pca_vampires or join our Facebook groups PCA Vampire Studies and Vampire Scholars.


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cultural studies and historical approaches
ethnicity and national identity
film and television
gender studies and sexuality
popular culture

Last updated September 18, 2023

CFP National PCA Monsters Area (11/30/2023; Chicago 3/27-30/2024)

Note: We are NOT affiliated with this area or its endeavors. 

Monsters, Monstrosities, & the Monstrous

deadline for submissions:
November 30, 2023

full name / name of organization:
Popular Culture Association

contact email:
colleen.karn@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/09/16/monsters-monstrosities-the-monstrous

Monsters, Monstrosities, & the Monstrous CFP

Do you do monster scholarship? If so, we encourage you to consider submitting a paper to the new Monsters, Monstrosities, & the Monstrous area of the Popular Culture Association for the PCA National Conference in Chicago, March 27-30, 2024. https://pcaaca.org/page/nationalconference

Our special topic area (hopefully to become a standing area) will finally provide a home for everything monsters at PCA. We are proud to be the sister area of Vampire Studies who inspired us to create this area for the rest of the monsters. Please join us in exploring the themes, influences, and impact of the monster as a cultural and historical touchstone.

Across the globe and throughout the centuries, the label of monster has been invoked to separate the “natural” from the “unnatural” and the acceptable from the socially unacceptable. Whether referring to mythological creatures, the Victorian creations that have become standards through Universal film adaptations, or as a shorthand to denigrate othered peoples, the monster has no shortage of applications and, sometimes, reevaluations.

We specifically welcome papers or presentations that focus on the use of the monster as a teaching tool or educational lens.

As the term monster has a wide application, topics can be anything from the inhabitants of Sesame Street to medieval studies to medical oddities. Potential paper topics include:

• Children’s books, toys, or related media
• Film and television including remediations and transmediations
• Literary texts
• Board games, RPGs, video games, and pinball
• Monsters queering societal norms and the monster as Other
• Propaganda materials
• Freakshows and oddities

As part of our “Emerging Monster Scholars” initiative, we are accepting a limited number of papers from undergraduates to showcase and support these future researchers in the field of monster studies. We will be asking applicants for these slots to provide information about an instructor who can attest to the strength of the proposed material and who will help prepare them for a national conference presentation.

Scope of the paper topics accepted under this area: From Grendel to Grover and Hannibal Lecter to high rises, topics in this area span the monstrous in form, behavior, and theory.

List of example paper titles: “Using Cohen’s Seven Monster Theses When Teaching Frankenstein,” “Monsters Helping Children Understand Death in A Monster Calls,” “Monstrifying the Other for Entertainment: From Freak Shows to B-Movies,” “The Monster and his Monstrosity: H. H. Holmes’ Murder Hotel,” and “Deromanticizing the Monster in What We Do in the Shadows.”

Submission requirements: Please submit an abstract (maximum of 300 words).

Contact: Colleen Karn: colleen.karn@gmail.com or David Hansen: hansend@baycollege.edu



Last updated September 18, 2023

CFP Vampire Studies Area for PCA 2023 (12/20/2023; San Antonio 4/5-8/2023)

Vampire Studies (PCA/ACA National Conference) April 5-8, 2023

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/09/20/vampire-studies-pcaaca-national-conference-april-5-8-2023

deadline for submissions:
December 20, 2022

full name / name of organization:
Popular Culture Association

contact email:
pcavampires@gmail.com



Annual National Popular Culture Association Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS:

PCA CONFERENCE 5-8 APRIL 2023 IN SAN ANTONIO, TX

The Vampire Studies Area of the PCA welcomes papers, presentations, panels, and roundtable discussions that cover all aspects of the vampire as it appears throughout global culture.

We specifically welcome papers, panel presentations, or creative pieces about vampire children/young adults from fiction and film such as Claudia in Interview with a Vampire, Eli from Let the Right One In or Shorifrom Fledgling. We also look forward to submissions addressing media and advertising targeted towards children/young adults and vampirism such Mavis from Hotel Transylvania, The Count from Sesame Street, or Vampirina Ballerina.

As well as this broad theme we also encourage papers, presentations, and panels that cover any of the following:

• Children’s Products (i.e. toys like Draculara from Monster High, cereals like Count Chocula, the Ink Drinker, and Bunnicula, and Halloween-related products)
• The Non-Western Vampire (i.e. Black, Asian, Latino/a/x, African, Aboriginal)
• Vampires at the end of the world and beyond
• The vampire on legacy television shows (i.e. Dark Shadows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Moonlight, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals)
• The vampire on recent television shows (i.e. First Kill, The Passage, Interview with the Vampire, Vampire in the Garden, Fire Bite)
• Legacy Cinematic vampires (i.e., Nosferatu, Interview with the Vampire, Near Dark, Twilight, Dracula Adaptations etc.)
• Recent Cinematic Vampires (i.e., Night Teeth, Morbius, Monster Family etc.)
• Monster Universes (i.e. A Discovery of Witches, Lost Girl, Monster High)
• Vampire Cultures and Contexts (i.e. vampire RPGs or other gaming universes, fan studies, graphic novels, Tik Tok & other social media platforms)
• Vampires and the Marginalized (i.e., race, gender, sexualities, national origin)
• Genres (i.e. Gothic Horror, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Steampunk, Early Readers, Children’s Picture Books, Young Adult, Erotica, Comedy)
• Historic and contemporary vampiric locations and geographies (i.e. cemeteries, castles, cities)
• The Horror Vampire, Byronic vs Hedonistic, or Horror vs Romantic
• Vampire Studies (i.e., the vampire in the classroom, vampire scholarship)

And anything and everything in between!

To have your proposal/abstract considered, please submit your proposal/abstract of approximately 250 words at the Popular Culture Association Website. We also accept complete panel proposals of 3-4 people.

We do not currently accept papers from fledgling/undergraduate scholars, but you can submit your proposal to the Undergraduate Area. We encourage you to get involved in our vibrant vampire community by joining one of our social media spaces and attending our conference events such as our business meeting. film screening, other roundtables, and sessions.

If you have questions, contact us at pcavampires@gmail.com Also, follow us on Twitter @pca_vampires or join our Facebook groups PCA Vampire Studies and Vampire Scholars.



Last updated September 20, 2022

CFP The Mouse’s Monsters at PCA (12/23/2021; PCA Virtual 4/13-16/2021)

The Mouse’s Monsters at PCA: Further Examples of Monsters and the Monstrous in the Worlds of Disney

Sponsored Session Proposed for the 2022 Virtual Conference of the Popular Culture Association

Sponsored by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area and the Disney Studies Areas of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association for PCA’s Disney Studies Special Topic Area.

Virtual event: 13-16 April 2022.

Proposals due by 21 January 2022 (UPDATED).

 

At its 2021 Virtual Conference, the Monsters & the Monstrous Area and the Disney Studies Areas of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association (a.k.a. NEPCA) organized three successful sessions on the theme of monsters and the monstrous in the fictional worlds of the Walt Disney Company.

We’d like to continue to build on those investigations this coming spring at the national meeting of the Popular Culture Association (a.k.a. PCA) and to also help support the PCA’s new Disney Studies Special Topic Area.

For this session, we’re most interested in proposals related to representations of monsters and the monstrous in the traditional Disney brand and in Pixar, but papers related to more recent properties and acquisitions (for example ABC, ABC Family/Freeform, Hulu, Lucasfilm, Marvel, the Muppets, Saban Entertainment, and Twentieth Century Fox) can be also be valid approaches. All submissions will also be considered for inclusion in a collection of essays based on the topic.

 

Potential topics might include the following:

• Adaptations of classic monster stories.
• Aliens.
• Animals as monsters.
• Attractions.
• Bad dreams.
• Communities of monsters.
• Constructs.
• Cryptids.
• Curses.
• Dinosaurs.
• Disguises.
• Disney as monstrous.
• Disney Villains.
• Gargoyles.
• Ghosts.
• Halloween.
• Halloween-themed productions.
• Haunted houses (and mansions)
• Horror-themed productions.
• Human “monsters”.
• Imaginary creatures.
• Legendary creatures.
• Magical creatures.
• Magic-users.
• Othered individuals.
• Reanimated dead.
• Shape-shifters.
• Technology and monsters.
• Undead/zombies.
• Underworld and other realms of the dead.
• Vampires.
• Weather-related monsters.
• Witchcraft/witches and wizards.

 

If you are interested in joining this session, please submit your information into PCA’s online system at https://pcaaca.org/conference/submitting-paper-proposal-pca-conference. You’ll need to create a profile and upload a biographical statement AND join the PCA for the coming year before the system will allow you to reach the proposal screen. Be sure to select “Disney Studies” as the area for your paper. Proposals should be about 250 words.

Please also send a copy of your proposal to the session organizers, so we can keep track of them: Michael A. Torregrossa (NEPCA’s Monsters & the Monstrous Area Chair) at popular.preternaturaliana@gmail.com and Priscilla Hobbs (NEPCA’s Disney Studies Area Chair) at p.hobbs-penn@snhu.edu.

Further details on PCA’s Disney Studies Special Topic Area can be found at https://pcaaca.org/area/disney-studies-special-topic-2022.

NEPCA’s Monsters & the Monstrous Area maintains a blog at https://popularpreternaturaliana.blogspot.com/.

 

 

 

CFP Vampire Studies (2022 PCA/ACA National Conference)

Note: PCA has recently shifted the conference to online AND extended the submission deadlines.

Vampire Studies (2022 PCA/ACA National Conference)

Source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/08/30/vampire-studies-2022-pcaaca-national-conference

deadline for submissions: November 15, 2021

full name / name of organization: Popular Culture Association

contact email: pcavampires@gmail.com

The Vampire Studies Area of the PCA welcomes papers, presentations, panels, and roundtable discussions that cover all aspects of the vampire as it appears throughout global culture. This year's conference will be held April 13-16 in Seattle, WA.

This year the Vampire Community celebrates the centenary of Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror.  We welcome papers, panel presentations, or creative pieces about this classic genre defining film.  As well as this broad theme we also welcome papers, presentations, and panels that cover any of the following:

•       The Non-Western Vampire (i.e. Black, Asian, Latino/a/x, African)
•       The Horror Vampire Byronic vs Hedonistic, or Horror vs Romantic
•       Vampires at the end of the world and beyond
•       The vampire on legacy television shows (i.e. Dark Shadows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Moonlight, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals)
•       The vampire on recent television shows (i.e. What We Do In the Shadows, From Dusk Till Dawn, Castlevania)
•       Legacy Cinematic vampires (i.e., Nosferatu, Interview with the Vampire, Near Dark, Twilight etc.)
•       Recent Cinematic Vampires (i.e., Bit, Crucible of the Vampire: Therapy for the Vampire etc.)
•       Vampire Cultures and Contexts (i.e., vampire RPGs or other gaming universes, fan studies, graphic novels)
•       Vampires and the Marginalized (i.e., race, gender, sexualities, national origin)
•       Genres such as Gothic Horror, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Steampunk, Young Adult, Erotica, Comedy
•       Historic and contemporary vampiric locations and geographies (i.e. cemeteries, castles, cities)
•       Vampire Studies (i.e., the vampire in the classroom, vampire scholarship)

And anything and everything in between!

To have your proposal/abstract considered, please submit your proposal/abstract of approximately 250 words at the Popular Culture Association Website. We also welcome complete panel proposals of 3-4 people.

We do not currently accept papers from fledgling/undergraduate scholars, but you can submit your proposal to the special Undergraduate Area.

If you have questions, contact us at pcavampires@gmail.com.  Also, follow us on Twitter @pca_vampires or join our Facebook groups PCA Vampire Studies and Vampire Scholars.

2022 Conference Dates and Deadlines

01Aug-21           2022 Conference Information Available on website

01-Sept-21         Submissions Open

01-Oct-21           Early Bird Registration Begins

15-Nov-21          Deadline for Paper Proposals and Grant Applications

 

Last updated September 1, 2021

Update CFP Monsters in/of Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture (virtual session) (2/28/21; PCA)

 

Monsters in/of Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture (virtual session)

Sponsored by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association for the Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture Area of the Popular Culture Association

Session planned for the 2021 National Conference of the Popular Culture Association, virtual event, 2-5 June 2021

 

Monsters seem to be everywhere growing up, but it is only recently that studies have explored their appeal and impact on the development of children and young adults. In this session, we hope to continue this work by exploring the following themes: our need for monsters as children and/or young adults, the ways monsters of children’s and young adult literature/culture have changed over time, and how these monsters have shaped us as we grow. Proposals on monsters and texts from any period or medium will be considered as long as they relate to children’s and young adult literature and culture.

Address any inquiries about the panel to the Monsters & the Monstrous Area Chair at Popular.Preternaturaliana@gmail.com.

 

Membership in the Popular Culture Association (a.k.a. PCA) will be required to present as will a registration fee. Further details and submission instructions at https://pcaaca.org/conference/submitting-paper-proposal-pca-conference. Membership starts at $50, while this year’s registration rate has been reduced to $95.

Please submit your proposals into the PCA database for review (select the Children’s and YA Literature and Culture Area). Submissions should be made by 28 February 2021.

 

 

CFP Stephen King Area (10/1/2018; PCA/ACA Washington DC 4/17-20/2019)

CFP: Stephen King Area (2019 PCA National Conference), Washington D.C.
https://www.fantastic-arts.org/2018/cfp-stephen-king-area-2019-pca-national-conference-washington-d-c/
July 24, 2018

Stephen King Area (2019 PCA National Conference)

deadline for submissions:
October 1, 2018

full name / name of organization:
Patrick McAleer/Popular Culture Association

contact email: stephenkingpca@gmail.com



Stephen King Area

2019 PCA/ACA Annual National Conference

Washington D.C.: Wednesday, April 17th-Saturday, April 20th

The co-chairs of the Stephen King Area—Philip Simpson of Eastern Florida State College and Patrick McAleer of Inver Hills Community College—are soliciting papers, presentations, panels and roundtable discussions which cover any aspect of Stephen King’s fiction and film for the Annual National Joint Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference to be held in Washington D.C. from April 17th-April 20th 2019. Papers, presentations, and panels can cover King’s experimentation with medium (e-books, graphic novels, TV series), his more recent fictions, including his Dark Tower series, and anything in between. Indeed, feel free to view past programs of the PCA/ACA conference at www.pcaaca.org to see what has been covered during recent conferences.

To have your proposal/abstract considered for presentation, please submit your proposal/abstract of approximately 250 words through the PCA/ACA Database—http://ncp.pcaaca.org/ — by October 1st, 2018. Here you will submit your paper proposal/abstract and also provide your name, institutional affiliation, and contact information. Responses/decisions regarding your proposals will be provided within two weeks of your submission to ensure timely replies. Of course, should you have any questions specific to the Stephen King Area, please send an e-mail to stephenkingpca@gmail.com and we will be happy to assist you.

Complete panel proposals of 3-4 people are also welcomed, as are proposals for roundtable discussions with two or more featured speakers and a moderator. For more information, visit the PCA/ACA at www.pcaaca.org.

CFP PCA/ACA Vampire in Literature, Culture, and Film Area (10/1/2017)

The Vampire in Literature, Culture, and Film

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2017/07/28/the-vampire-in-literature-culture-and-film

deadline for submissions: October 1, 2017

full name / name of organization: Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA)

contact email: lnevarez@siena.edu

The Vampire in Literature, Culture, and Film Area is seeking papers for the national joint Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) meeting to be held March 28-31 in Indianapolis, Indiana.

We welcome papers on vampires in literature, culture, and film for presentation at the conference.

Topics that are of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

• Vampires and music
• The international vampire
• Twilight and its legacy (2018 marks the 10-year anniversary of the film Twilight and the publication of Breaking Dawn)
• Werewolves and vampires
• The work of Nina Auerbach
• The return of Anne Rice’s vampire Lestat
• Social justice and vampires
• The literary vampire
• The vampire on television (ex: The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, The Strain, The Passage)
• Pedagogy
• Vampire subculture and lifestyle

Please submit abstracts of 250 words by October 1, 2017 to the PCA/ACA database: https://conference.pcaaca.org/

We welcome the submission of complete panels of 3-4 presenters.

Responses/decisions regarding your proposals will be provided within two weeks of your submission to ensure timely replies.

For further information, please visit: http://pcaaca.org/the-vampire-in-literature-culture-film/ or contact the area co-chairs: Mary Findley (findley@vtc.edu) or Lisa Nevarez (lnevarez@siena.edu).

Last updated July 28, 2017

CFP Gothic Area PCA/ACA

Additional details on the UPenn CFP site at http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/52708.

Gothic Literature, Film & Culture

All Proposals & Abstracts Must Be Submitted Through The PCA Database.
Please submit a proposal to only one area at a time. Exceptions and rules

CALL FOR PAPERS

We welcome papers and presentations on any aspect of the Gothic in film, literature, or other forms of cultural expression. All critical approaches are welcome.

You can propose an individual paper or a panel session of three or four presenters. Graduate students are especially encouraged to submit papers or panels.

Individual papers will be grouped into sessions based on historical, thematic, disciplinary or critical affinities.

Participants will be asked to serve as session chairs. Sessions are scheduled in one-and-a-half hour slots, ideally with four papers or speakers per session, so individual papers should be limited to a length of approximately 15 minutes.

Submit a one-page (250-500 word) proposal or abstract.

Please send all inquires to:

Louis H. Palmer, III
English Dept.
Castleton State College
6 Alumni Drive
Castleton, VT 05373
802.468.1341
Fax: 802.468.6045
louis.palmer@castleton.edu

CFP Horror Area PCA/ACA (11/1/13)

Horror

All Proposals & Abstracts Must Be Submitted Through The PCA Database.
Please submit a proposal to only one area at a time. Exceptions and rules

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Horror Area co-chairs of the Popular Culture Association invite interested scholars to submit proposals for papers or complete panels on any aspect of horror in fiction, cinema, television, gaming, theory and culture.

Your paper proposal should include:

1) 100- to 250-word abstract, including paper title;
2) a notification of any audio-visual needs.

Your panel or roundtable proposal should include:

1) suggested panel/roundtable title;
2) 100- to 250-word abstract identifying the theoretical framework, or guiding questions and thesis of your panel/roundtable;
3) 100- to 250-word abstracts, including titles, for each of your presenters’ papers;
4) a list of presenters and their affiliations;
5) a notification of any audio-visual needs.

Please note that proposals that are overly general are difficult to review; accordingly, your abstract should outline your main argument or research questions, your thesis and main points, and your projected conclusions.

Submitting the same or various proposals to different subject areas of the PCA is not allowed. Presenters are, however, permitted to submit proposals for both a roundtable discussion and a panel presentation. Acceptance of your paper obligates you to present the paper at the conference. You must also be present at the conference to present your own work—no “readings by proxy” are allowed.

PCA/ACA Endowment Grants: PCA/ACA offers 54 travel grants to the conference as well as research and collections grants. The deadline for submitting applications for grants is January 7, 2012. For an overview of, and application forms for each grant go to: http://www.pcaaca.org/grant/overview.php.

Important: All presenters 1) must be registered members of the PCA or ACA and 2) must register for the conference.  Information on how to access membership and registration forms will be sent to you upon acceptance of your presentation. Or, go now to the PCA/ACA website: http://pcaaca.org/national-conference-2/instructions-for-the-submission-database/.

Please send all inquires to:

Jim Iaccino
The Chicago School of Prof. Psychology
pcahorror@gmail.com

Carl Sederholm
Brigham Young University
pcahorror@gmail.com

Kristopher Woofter
Concordia University
pcahorror@gmail.com

CFP Vampire Area PCA/ACA (11/1/13)

The Vampire in Literature, Culture & Film

All Proposals & Abstracts Must Be Submitted Through The PCA Database.
Please submit a proposal to only one area at a time. Exceptions and rules
CALL FOR PAPERS

The Vampire in literature, Culture and Film area of the PCA/ACA is soliciting papers, presentations, and/or four-person panels on any aspect of the Vampire in literature, culture or film.

Submit your 250-300 word abstract to the PCA Database.

Please send all inquires to:

Mary Findley
Vermont Technical College
Randolph, VT 05061
mfindley@vtc.edu

Phil Simpson
Eastern Florida State College
SimpsonP@easternflorida.edu