Alfred Hitchcock---Deadline Extended!

Michael Howarth Announcement
Location
New Mexico, United States
Subject Fields
American History / Studies, Film and Film History, Humanities, Psychology, Literature

Call for Papers – DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Alfred Hitchcock

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

40th Annual Conference, February 20-23, 2019

Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: November 1, 2018  November 15, 2018

 

Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 40th annual SWPACA conference.  One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels.  For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/ 

 

For our 40th Annual Conference celebration, we are excited to announce that special guest Pam Houston will be joining us as a keynote speaker. She is the author of short story collections Cowboys are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat, novels Sight Hound and Contents May Have Shifted, and the essay collection, A Little More About Me. Houston is a professor at the University of California Davis and teaches in the Low Residency MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts.  She also cofounded and directs the literary nonprofit Writing By Writers.

 

SWPACA will also offer 3 preconference workshops scheduled for Wednesday, February 20th, 9am-12pm. Join us this year for workshops in academic publishing, self-publishing, and using popular culture in the classroom!

 

Panels now forming for presentations on the films and career of Alfred Hitchcock. Listed below are some suggestions for possible presentations.

  • Hitchcock and Music
  • Hitchcock and Television
  • Hitchcock and Pedagogy
  • Hitchcock and Film Theory
  • Hitchcock and Film Genres
  • Hitchcock and Voyeurism
  • Hitchcock and the Silent Era
  • Hitchcock and Gender
  • Hitchcock and Black Humor

Scholars, teachers, professionals, grad students, and others interested in Alfred Hitchcock are encouraged to participate. The above list of topics suggests a few possible ways to consider Alfred Hitchcock's work, but it is not final. Any other approaches to discussing the “master of suspense” are certainly welcome.

 

All proposals must be submitted through the conference’s database at http://conference.southwestpca.org/ 

 

For details on using the submission database and on the application process in general, please see the Proposal Submission FAQs and Tips page at

http://southwestpca.org/conference/faqs-and-tips/proposal-submission-faqs-and-tips/ 

 

Individual proposals for 15 minute papers must include an abstract of approximately 200-500 words.  Including a brief bio in the body of the proposal form is encouraged, but not required.  

 

For information on how to submit a proposal for a roundtable or a multi-paper panel, please view the above FAQs and Tips page.  

 

The deadline for submissions has been EXTENDED to November 15, 2018!   

SWPACA offers monetary awards for the best graduate student papers in a variety of categories. Submissions of accepted, full papers are due December 1.  For more information, visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/

 

Registration and travel information for the conference is available at http://southwestpca.org/conference/registration/

 

In addition, please check out the organization’s peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, at http://journaldialogue.org.

If you have any questions about the Alfred Hitchcock area, please contact its Area Chair, Dr. Michael Howarth, Missouri Southern State University, Howarth-m@mssu.edu.

 

We look forward to receiving your submissions.  

Contact Information

Dr. Michael Howarth, Area Chair

Missouri Southern State University

417-625-9748

Contact Email
howarth-m@mssu.edu