CFP: Biography and Popular Culture (9/15; PCA/ACA, 4/11/01-4/14/01)

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CFP: PCA 2001
Biography and Popular Culture Area

The Biography and Popular Culture Area of the PCA invites
submissions for its annual joint meeting with the American Culture Association in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, on April 11-14, 2001. Scholars from various disciplines will meet to share their
Popular Culture interests and research.

The Biography and Popular Culture Area is a new area that was established in the spring of
2000.

This area will examine the connections between biography and popular culture. Papers
regarding any aspect of Popular Culture and Biography are encouraged.
Full panel proposals will also be considered.

Possible paper or panel topics may include and are not limited to the following:
 Autobiography
 Literary biography
 Scandalous biography
 Biography in films
 Arts and Entertainment Biography Television Show
 Political Biography
 Psychoanalysis and Biography
 Scholarly Biographies
 Fact vs. Fiction in Biographies (For example, the controversy over Edmund Morris' Dutch: a
Memoir of Ronald Reagan)
 Biography and Entertainment
 Controversial Biographies

Prospective presenters should send a one-page abstract by 9/15 to Camille
McCutcheon.

Please note that the PCA/ACA regulations limit participants to one paper presentation.
Therefore, if you are interested in presenting in the Biography and Popular Culture Area, please
do not submit an abstract to another area.

If you would like more information about PCA and ACA, consult our website, via the link,
below. Visit the Call for Papers website at http://h-net.msu.edu/~pcaaca.

  Camille McCutcheon
  University of South Carolina Spartanburg Library
  800 University Way
  Spartanburg, SC 29303
  Phone: (864) 503-5612
  Fax: (864) 503-5601

  Email: cmccutcheon@uscs.edu
  

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