CALL FOR PAPERS
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, Pennsylvannia, 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 presentations will also be considered.
Possible paper or panel topics may include and are not limited to the
following:
Autobiography
Literary Biography
Scandelous 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)
Historical Biography
Biography and Entertainment
Contriversial Biographies
Prospective presenters should send a one-page abstract by September 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 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
E-mail: CMcCutcheon@uscs.edu
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