<p>We&#8217;re ecstatic to share that our Keynote Speaker for NEPCA 2022&#8217;s virtual conference is Dr. Novotny Lawrence. Dr. Novotny Lawrence is an Associate Professor at Iowa State University where he holds a joint appointment between the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication and the English Department. He is an award-winner teacher, and his research focuses &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2022/09/07/nepca-2022-keynote-speaker/" class="more-link">Continue

<p>What&#8217;s a popular culture conference without the opportunity to talk with some folks doing some of the amazing work that we all love and study so much? Please join us at the NEPCA 2022 Conference Closing Panel on Saturday, October 22 from 1:30pm-2:45pm (EST) for a discussion roundtable with five award-winning writers of cross-genre fiction. &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2022/08/16/special-guest-panel-at-nepca2022/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class

<p>EXTENDED DEADLINE! The deadline for proposals has been extended to August 15, 2022, by end of day (EST). The 2022 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as another virtual conference from Thursday, October 20-Saturday, October 22 in a similar structure to last year (Thursday evening, Friday late afternoon, Saturday &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2022/07/30/nepca-2022-virtual-conference-cfp-extended-to-augsut-15/" class

<p>2022 Annual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association Virtual Event to be held Thursday, 20 October, to Saturday, 22 October 2022 Proposals are due 1 August 2022 We live in an age full of monsters. We make them, yet they escape our control and have profound impacts on us, often reshaping us in &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2022/07/21/cfp-here-be-monsters%ef%bf%bc/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">CFP

<p>The Northeast Popular Culture Association welcomes proposals in the area of Digital Media and Gaming Culture for its virtual conference to be held from Thursday, October 20-Saturday, October 22, 2022. Submissions may cover any aspect of gaming–both virtual and in-person formats–as well as aspects of play, and/or considerations of the role of the digital and &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2022/07/07/cfp-for-digital-media-and-gaming-culture/" class="more-link">Continue

<p>CAMERA MAN (2022)By Dana StevensAtria Books, 393 pages + notes Charlie Chaplin was early cinema’s king of comedy. After that, it’s a tossup between Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton. Dana Stevens, a film critic and podcast cohost for Slate, champions Keaton, of whom she is an unabashed fan. As Camera Man’s subtitle suggests–The Dawn of &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2022/07/06/book-review-camera-man-2022/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-te

<p>The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association’s Classrooms, Libraries, and the Academy area welcomes paper submissions from librarians, archivists, curators, graduate students, faculty, collectors, writers, patrons, and independent researchers of popular culture and information settings of all types. NEPCA’s 2022 fall,virtual conference will be held Thursday October 22 &#8211; Saturday October 22, 2021. The deadline for proposals &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2

<p>The&nbsp;Northeast Popular/American Culture Association’s Race and Ethnicity&nbsp;area&nbsp;welcomes paper submissions from graduate students, faculty, collectors, writers, and independent researchers of popular culture. NEPCA’s 2022 fall, virtual conference will be held October 20 – October 22, 2022. The deadline for proposals is August 1, 2022.   We encourage panel proposals, as well as individual submissions.&nbsp;&nbsp; Papers are generally 15-20 &hellip; <a href="http

<p>The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA) is seeking paper proposals on the topic of Romance/Popular Romance Fiction for its annual conference.&nbsp; NEPCA’s 2022 fall, virtual conference will be held Thursday, October 20 – Saturday, October 22, 2022. The deadline for proposals is August 1, 2022.   We welcome a wide variety of papers related to romance &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2022/06/07/cfp-romance-popular-fiction/" class="more-link">Continue

<p>The Literature and Popular Culture area for the 2022 Northeast Popular &amp; American Culture Association conference is accepting paper and panel proposals from faculty and graduate students. NEPCA’s 2022 virtual annual conference will be held online from Thursday, October 20-Saturday, October 22, 2022. Abstracts are due by August 1, 2022 and can be submitted here. &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2022/06/02/cfp-literature-and-popular-culture/" class="more-link">Contin

<p>Thursday, October 20-Saturday, October 22, 2022 (Virtual) Proposal due: August 1, 2022 Papers for the Politics, Civic Life and Culture area of NEPCA explore the role of political actors, institutions, ideology, rhetoric, and satire in popular culture. Topics and themes may be drawn from all policy domains – both foreign and domestic. 2022 Special topics &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2022/05/10/cfp-politics-civic-life-and-pop-culture-area-for-nepca2022/" class="more-

<p>After discussion with the Executive Council and some strong advocacy within the membership, I am so very honored to announce two new awards that NEPCA will be supporting each year, dedicated to two of NEPCA’s strongest community members. If you are interested in serving on the inaugural award committees for both of these awards, please &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2022/05/05/two-new-annual-awards/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text"

<p>The 2022 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as another virtual conference from Thursday, October 20-Saturday, October 22 in a similar structure to last year (Thursday evening, Friday late afternoon, Saturday morning). We all want to be back together again face-to-face but without a campus to host us, we &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2022/04/06/nepca-2022-virtual-conference-cfp/" class="more-link">Continue reading

<p>Who Was that Masked Woman: Representations of Women Vigilantes and Outlaws in Popular Media from Reconstruction to the Great Depression NEPCA is sharing this CFP that we thought our membership might be interested in. For more information, contact: Gregory Bray, brayg@newpaltz.edu Deadline for submissions: December 15, 2021 We invite chapter proposals for a collection of critical essays &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2021/11/03/cfp-who-was-that-masked-woman/" class="m

<p>Daniel Y. Kim. Intimacies of Conflict: Cultural Memory and the Korean War. New York: NYU Press, 2020. Review by Katherine Allocco, Western Connecticut State University Daniel Kim’s thorough and thoughtful new book, Intimacies of Conflict, argues that the Korean War, the so-called “forgotten war”, exerted a widespread influence on the way that Americans understood, discussed &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2021/10/26/review-intimacies-of-conflict-cultural-memory-and-th

<p>We are so very pleased to announce our Keynote Speaker for the 2021 NEPCA Annual Conference is Dr. Henry Jenkins. Dr. Jenkins has and continues to be an important and valuable voice in the world of popular culture studies and we look forward to his talk on Friday, October 22 as our Keynote Speaker. NEPCA&#8217;s &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2021/09/09/conference-keynote-dr-henry-jenkins-at-nepca2021/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-te

<p>The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA) is seeking paper proposals on the topic of Digital Media and Gaming Culture for its annual conference, occurring online from 21 October through 23 October 2021. In this area, we welcome a wide variety of papers on the subjects of digital media and/or gaming, both fields loosely defined. Submissions &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2021/06/08/nepca2021-digital-media-and-gaming-culture-area-cfp/" class="more-link