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Areas

Our list of Subject Areas shows the term’s many facets for us. These Subject Areas, as diverse as they are, focus on one common denominator–the study of popular culture.

Choose an area. Browse the list of below areas to find the area which best fits your submission.  Due to limited space and time, presenters may only give one paper at the conference.  We welcome fresh approaches to subjects that maintain our commitment to scholarship and to a professional presentation. In addition to a paper presentation, you may be part of one roundtable/panel  OR  present one original, creative work (ie. poetry, non-fiction writing, fiction writing). Please note that only select areas accept proposals from undergraduate students

 

Subject Area

Area Chair

Academics and Collegiate Culture

Adolescence in Film and Television

Advertising

African-American Culture

Aging and Senior Culture

American Indian Literatures and Cultures

American Literature

Animals and Popular Culture - special topic 2023

Animation

Art & Design Culture (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Asian Popular Culture (Lent and Xu)

Australian and New Zealand Popular Culture

The Beatles - Special Topic

Beer Culture

Biographies

Black Performing Arts

Black Popular Culture

Body and Culture (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Border Studies, Cultural Economy and Migration

British Popular Culture

Cannabis and Culture- Special Topic

Celebrity in Culture

Cemeteries and Gravemarkers

Children's Literature and Culture (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Children's/YA Series Books and Dime Novels (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Circuses and Circus Culture

Civil War and Reconstruction (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Collecting and Collectibles

Comedy and Humor

Comics and Comic Art

Communication and Digital Culture

Copyright and Intellectual Property

Creative Fiction Writing

Cultural Adaptation

Dance and Dance Culture (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Disability Studies (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Disasters and Apocalypses

Disney Studies - Special Topic

Eastern European Studies

Ecology and Culture (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Education, Teaching, History and Popular Culture

Eros, Pornography and Popular Culture

Fairy Tales

Fan Culture and Theory

Fashion, Style, Appearance, Consumption and Design

Fat Studies (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Film

Folklore 

Food in Popular Culture 

Game Studies

Gender and Media Studies

Gender Studies

Generational Studies

German Literature and Culture (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Gothic in Literature, Film, and Culture

Grateful Dead-Special Topic

Happiness and Culture - Special Topic

Health and Disease in Culture

History of Popular Culture Studies

Horror (text, media, culture) (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Indian Culture, Art and Media

Internet Culture

Journalism and Media Culture (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Latin American Literature, Film, and Culture

Latin Americans and Latinos: Identity Issues and Cultural Stereotypes (Rosales)

Law and Popular Culture

Lesbian, Gay, Queer, and Trangender Studies (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Research

Literature and Madness

Literature, Politics, and Society

Material Culture

Medieval Popular Culture and Arthurian Legends

Memory and Representation

Men and Men's Studies

Motherhood/Fatherhood and Popular Culture (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Music (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Musicals, Stage, and Film (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Mystery and Detective Fiction (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Mythology in Contemporary Culture

Nonfiction Writing

Philosophy and Culture

Poetry Studies and Creative Poetry (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Politics Portrayed in Electronic Print and Media (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Popular Art, Architecture, and Design (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Popular History in American Culture

Professional Development

Professional Wrestling - - Special Topic 

Psychology and Popular Culture

Pulp Studies

Punk Studies (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Radio and Audio Media

Religion and Culture

Reproductive Justice - Special Topic

Rhetoric, Composition, and Popular Culture

Romance (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Science and Popular Culture

Science and Religion in Popular Culture -Special Topic

Science Fiction and Fantasy (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Sea Literature, History, and Culture (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Shakespeare on Film and Television (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Soap Opera

Sports (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Stephen King

Television (accepts undergraduate submissions)

The Sixties (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Theatre and Drama

Tolkien Studies (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Travel and Tourism (accepts undergraduate submissions)

True Crime -Special Topic

U.S. Regional Literatures and Cultures

Undergraduate Sessions (accepts undergraduate submissions)

Vehicle Culture

Virtual Idenities and Self-Promoting

Visual Culture

Visual Culture

War and Armed Conflict after 1945

Westerns and the West

Women's Studies

World's Fairs and Expositions

 

 



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