<p>This edited volume will offer an opportunity for authors to investigate the ways in which blackness is reimagined in both mainstream and independent comics. Specifically, I propose responding to the following questions: What are the ways in which heroism is redefined by black characters? How are black futures reimagined? What gendered arguments are made through &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/11/29/blackness-in-graphic-novels/" class="more-link">Continue reading

<p>The William Brigman TJPC Award. This award is for graduate students who write an article for consideration by The Journal of Popular Culture and who also plan to present a version of their article at the National Popular Culture Association Conference. The award-winning essay will receive automatic publication in the TJPC (identified in the journal as the winner of The William Brigman &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/11/29/brigman-award/" class="more-link">Continu

<p>The North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) presents two book awards each year to promote and honor outstanding research and writing in the field of sport history. Awards are given for distinguished books written in English on any aspect of sport history, without chronological or geographic restriction. The NASSH Book Award Committee is currently &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/11/21/sports-history-book-prize-competition/" class="more-link">Continue read

<p>With the 2018 volume &#8220;Jewish Sports Heritage&#8221; will focus on writing on any aspect of Jewish involvement in the world of sports. The journal will no longer be published quarterly, just one time/year, so this will be an expanded volume. We seek compelling essays, insightful commentaries and critical analyses. Jewish Sports Heritage Association is accepting &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/11/15/jewish-sports-heritage-cfp/" class="more-link">Continue read

<p>At NEPCA&#8217;s October Executive Council meeting, two new areas were proposed: Media Literacy and Crime in Fact and Fiction. Before launching, however, NEPCA wishes to gauge interest from those who might wish to serve as a chair for one of these areas. A chair helps solicit and evaluate papers. A thorough job description can be found &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/11/14/nepca-seeking-area-chairs/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-t

<p>Professor Kathy Merlock Jackson has served with distinction as editor of The Journal of American Culture (JAC) for the past fifteen years. She is stepping down from that position and her successor has been chosen. After considering many fine applicants, Wiley recently issued a contract to Professor Carl Sederholm, and he has accepted the editorship. Professor Sederholm is &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/11/10/changes-at-the-jac/" class="more-link">Continue readin

<p>In 2017, a year of difficult and often appalling events both on the national and international stage, monument culture unexpectedly became the centerpiece of discussion, protest, activism, and vandalism. Scholars and preservationists witnessed monument culture move from the margins to the center of society, both in the United States and in many other countries around &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/11/05/future-of-monument-culture-cfp/" class="more-link">Continue

<p>Call for papers, The St. John&#8217;s Humanities Review Spring 2018 Issue The St. John’s University Humanities Review Special Issue: “Race, Dystopia, and American Identity” Deadline for Abstracts: December 15, 2018 Deadline for Submissions: February 15, 2018 Editors: Scott Koski and Catherine C. Saunders Contact email: scott.koski16@my.stjohns.edu &amp; saunderc@stjohns.edu “Race, Dystopia, and American Identity” A Special Issue of The St. John’s University &hellip; <a hre

<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of Eren Odabasi,the winner of the 2016 Carol Mitchell Prize for Best Graduate Student paper. Alas, Nova Seals, our Amos St. Germain Prize winner got away from the podium before I could snap her picture. Each year NEPCA honors two graduate students for excellence at the previous year&#8217;s conference. Maybe your picture &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/11/03/one-of-our-graduate-prize-winners/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class=

<p>H-SPORT is currently seeking contributions for our Teaching Initiative project. Presently, we are looking for syllabi and assignments that focus on media, literature, philosophy, law, policy, management, sociology, and history of sport. Because we are an interdisciplinary list other categories in the sport-teaching field are also welcome. Our goal with the Teaching Initiative project is to offer a &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/11/03/call-for-contributions-h-spo

<p>Meet Marty Norden from the UMass Amherst Department of Communications. After the superb job Marty did with our 2017 conference he was unanimously elected as NEPCA&#8217;s president for 2017-18.</p>

<p>Scenes from NEPCA 2017. This is the day after when your faithful Executive Secretary took Krisha (Sukrittaya Jukping) to see the house and statue of one of her heroines: Sojourner Truth. She was thrilled. Seems like the least I could do for one who had traveled 46 hours (!!!) from Thailand to take part in &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/11/01/2684/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Scenes From the 2017 Conference:&nbsp;I</span><