<p>NEPCA is proud to announce the winners for the Best Graduate Student Papers from its October 2014 conference held in Providence, Rhode Island. Each year NEPCA wards two prizes for graduate student excellence. The awards  of named  for our esteemed NEPCA colleagues Amos St. Germain (WIT) and Carol Mitchell (Springfield College). The prizes come with &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/03/10/st-germain-and-mitchell-prize-winners/" class="more-link">Continue reading <sp

<p>&nbsp; NEPCA President Bob Hackey&#8217;s most recent book is now available in paperback. Here&#8217;s the announcement. Cries of Crisis: Rethinking the Health Care Debate Robert B. Hackey From the University of Nevada Press Contact: Caddie Dufurrena 775-682-7395 cdufurrena@unpress.nevada.edu An intriguing analysis of America&#8217;s efforts toward  health care reform &#8220;Interpreting American health politics through the lens &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/02

<p>CFP: The Monsters and the Monstrous Journal for Volume 5, Number 1 (Summer 2015), &#8220;Fairy Tale Monsters / Monstrous Fairy Tales&#8221; This special issue of the Monsters and the Monstrous Journal proposes to discuss the ideas of fairy tale monsters and monstrous fairy tales and explore how fairy tale monsters are defined, (re)created and (re)visioned. The journal &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/02/21/cfp-the-monsters-and-the-monstrous-journal/" class="more-l

<p>C47: A Film Journal Deadline: Rolling, with first reviews 2/15/2015  C47: A Film Journal, is a new journal of film and media studies published by Portland State University and Ooligan Press, requests submissions for its inaugural issue. The journal will be published twice annually, in both hard copy and online format. The journal is refereed. &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/02/21/gus-van-sant-essays-sought/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-

<p>Call for Papers The Folklorist in the Marketplace: The Economics of Folklore and the Folklore of Economics Folklore and the marketplace, at least in the west, have long eyed each other with unease. The earliest generations of folklorists tended to construct the subject of their study as outside of, or even in direct opposition to, &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/02/21/cfp-folklorists-in-the-marketplace/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-read

<p>ABC-Clio is publishing a three-volume reference collection titled American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales: An Encyclopedia of American Folklore in late 2015.  The editors seek contributors from fields of literature, history, anthropology, sociology, folklore, and allied subjects to write entries ranging from 750-2500 words on a wide range of topics.  The purpose of the encyclopedia &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/02/12/call-for-submissions-encyclopedia-of-america

<p>The Long Beach Indie International Film Festival is looking for scholars, filmmakers, archivists, musicians, journalists, and digital media producers to bring their art, intellect, and energy to its 2015 Film, Media, and Music Conference. It welcomes  individual papers and full panels representing any topic (e.g. theory, production, history, criticism, preservation, etc.) related to film, television, music, mass &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/02/12/cfp-film-medi

<p>Digital America is now accepting submissions for Issue No. 5. It seeks critical essays, film, artwork, design, and process pieces that question, analyze, and/or hack the tools of digital culture. We are also interested in work that explores how new behaviors and new global networks of power and influence are shaping American life. All submissions should &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/02/12/cfa-digital-america-issue-no-5-now-accepting-submissions/" class="more-li

<p>Attention: Film and Race Studies Scholars! Seeking Authors for Racial Representation in American Cinema: A Three-Volume Encyclopedia Set Entries needed on films, genres, stars and directors for volumes on Early, Classical and Contemporary Cinema. Edited by Dr. Daniel Bernardi, Interim Dean at San Francisco State University, author of Star Trek and History: Race-ing Toward a &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/02/12/cfa-seeking-authors-for-racial-representation-in-ame

<p>Though the chick lit genre is most often cited as a location for the study of contemporary white women’s experiences or perhaps to debate the genre’s feminist credentials, it has in the last fifteen years emerged as a site where protagonists of many ethnicities negotiate their cultural identities and notions of national belonging. To serve as &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/02/12/theorizing-in-the-chick-lit-genre-proposed-collection-of-essays/" class="more-link">

<p>Phylon is accepting papers on race and culture addressing such issues in American, African American, and the African Diaspora studies.  The journal hopes to emphasize the cultural and historical aspects of race and culture and to know and study them having impact on human progress. Email: shunter@cau.edu Visit the website at cauduboislegacy.net/Du_Bois_Resources.html &nbsp;</p>

<p>Contributors are sought for an interdisciplinary book on video games in East Asia to be edited by Austin Lee and Alexis Pulos and published by Palgrave Macmillan for its East Asian Popular Culture Series. The series was launched in 2014 in order to meet an increased interest in the subject among scholars of various disciplines &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/01/27/call-for-book-chapters-video-games-in-east-asia/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="sc