CFP: Horror (12/1/04; SW/TX PCA/ACA, 2/9/05-2/12/05)

CALL FOR PAPERS: HORROR

2005 Southwest/Texas Regional Meeting of the Popular Culture and American
Culture Association at the Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel in downtown
Albuquerque, New Mexico

February 9 - 12, 2005

The area chair for Horror of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and
American Culture Association invites all interested scholars to submit
papers on any aspect of horror in literature, film, television, or general
culture for the regional meeting of the Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA.

If you are interested in being a presenter, please send a detailed abstract
(400-500 words) for a paper of 15 to 20 minutes reading time via e-mail.
Please provide contact information, such as name, mailing address, phone
number, and especially e-mail address.

If you want to propose a panel of three or four speakers, or three speakers
and one respondent, please include the following information: panel title;
name and contact information of the panel chair; an abstract for each paper;
contact information for each presenter.

Especially encouraged to participate are graduate students, for whom, among
other things, the Hyatt Regency also offers rooms at special rates. Aside
from an array of existing awards for graduate student work, a $500 award
will be presented at the 2005 - 2007 Southwest Texas PCA/ACA Annual Meeting
for the best graduate essay focusing on Southwestern Culture with particular
emphasis on food culture, Route 66, Native American Cultures of the region,
Southwestern art, or Southwestern focused collections and collectibles. No
other academic organization offers the number of incentives to participate
for graduate students like the SW/TX PCAACA!

The deadline for abstract and panel submissions is December 1, 2004.

Please specify as soon as possible whether your presentation requires a TV,
VCR, slide projector, and/or screen. If you need to present on a specific
day or at a specific time, please let me know as early as possible. Please
remember that you must be present in person to present a paper; readings by
proxy are not permitted.

For information about the registration process, registration fees,
membership, graduate student awards and course credits, and information
about travel and location, please consult the Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA's
official web site:

http://www.h-net.org/~swpca

Please send all abstracts, panel proposals, and queries to:

Prof. Steffen Hantke
Department of English, Sogang University
Seoul 100-611, South Korea
Tel. 82-2-705-8810, Fax 82-2-715-0705
steffenhantke_at_hotmail.com

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