<p>The Performance Studies content area of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association is now welcoming submissions for our virtual Fall conference! The conference will be held Thursday, Oct. 21 – Saturday, Oct. 23. We invite the community to submit proposals for this year’s conference in the Performance Studies content area. (For a full list of content &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2021/05/11/cfp-performance-studies-for-nepca2021/" class="more-link">Continue re

<p>The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association’s Race and Ethnicity area welcomes paper submissions from graduate students, faculty, collectors, writers, and independent researchers of popular culture. NEPCA’s 2021 fall, virtual conference will be held Thursday October 21 – Saturday October 23, 2021. The deadline for proposals is August 1, 2021.   We encourage panel proposals, as well as, individual submissions.&nbsp; Papers are &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/202

<p>2021 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Virtual ConferenceThursday, October 21-Saturday, October 23, 2021Proposal due: August 1, 2021 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 &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2021/04/22/cfp-politics-civic-life-and-pop-culture-area-for-

<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA) is seeking paper proposals on the topic of Romance/Popular Romance Fiction for its annual conference. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We welcome a wide variety of papers related to romance and popular romance fiction. Possible approaches can include narrative analysis of the romance genre, issues of representation

<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 2021 fall,virtual conference will be held Thursday October 21 &#8211; Saturday October 23, 2021. The deadline for proposals &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2

<p>Battle for the Big Top: P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American CircusBy Les StandifordHachette Book Group, 272 pages.Review by Rob Weir If you are under the age of 40 and have never lived in New York City, you may have never seen the “Greatest Show on Earth,” as &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2021/03/04/book-review-battle-for-the-big-top/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Book Review: B

<p>The 2021 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as another virtual conference from Thursday, October 21-Saturday, October 23 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 clear sense of how the &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2021/02/02/2021-nepca-conference-goes-virtual/" class="more-link">Continue readin

<p>Troy Rondinone, Nightmare Factories: The Asylum in the American Imagination. Johns Hopkins, 2019. Book review by Katherine Allocco (Western Connecticut State University) Troy Rondinone traces the evolution of the portrayal of mental health institutions in American popular culture from the nineteenth century until today. Beginning with Edgar Allen Poe’s 1845 short story “The System of &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2021/02/01/book-review-nightmare-factories-by-troy-ro

<p>Elizabeth Otto. Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics. MIT Press, 2019. Book review by Katherine Allocco (Western Connecticut State University) In Haunted Bauhaus, art historian Elizabeth Otto, who has published numerous books on the Bauhaus, turns her expertise to examining some of the movements and ideas that appeared on the &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2021/01/26/book-review-haunted-bauhaus-by-elizabeth-ott

<p>Horwitz, Tony. Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide   Penguin, 2019. Book review by Katherine Allocco (Western Connecticut State University) Tony Horwitz’s last book, Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide, tells two stories. First, he recounts details of Frederick Law Olmsted’s two journeys across the Southern States in &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2021/01/19/book-review-spying-on-the-south-by-tony-horwitz/" class="more-li

<p>Halberstadt, Alex. Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning. Random House, 2020. Book review by Katherine Allocco (Western Connecticut State University) Alex Halberstadt’s Young Heroes of the Soviet Union redefines the genre of memoir creating something complex and compelling. He begins his memoir with the central question: Can trauma be inherited? &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2021/01/12/book-review-alex-young-heroes-of-the-soviet-union-a-memoir-a

<p>Two of our members Kellie and Jim Deys invite folks in the NEPCA community to this virtual book launch for a publication they both have forthcoming chapters in. We&#8217;re including here the invite, the book description and the abstracts from Kellie &amp; Jim for those that are interested in learning more. Join this Virtual Book &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2021/01/07/book-launch-invitation-gen-x-at-middle-age-in-popular-culture-on-1-8-2021/" class="more-link">Con

<p>Hosey, Sara. Home is Where the Hurt Is: Media Depictions of Wives and Mothers. McFarland, 2019. Book review by Katherine Allocco (Western Connecticut State University) Sara Hosey’s excellent book Home is Where the Hurt Is analyzes shifting media images of mothers and wives in recent film and television shows emphasizing the ways that stereotypes and &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2021/01/05/book-review-home-is-where-the-hurt-is-by-sara-hosey/" class="more-link">Conti

<p>Greetings NEPCA Community In less than 1 month, we will be holding our first virtual conference&#8211;#NEPCA2020. We&#8217;re excited and looking forward to venturing into the future together. To that end, we wanted to provide several support documents for our communitiy in prepartion for the conference. The schedule is up and will be continually updated over &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2020/09/30/getting-ready-for-your-first-virtual-conference/" class="more-link"

<p>NEPCA is excited to announce our Keynote Speaker for our 2020 Virtual Conference. Keisha has had a rewarding career in higher education spanning fifteen years across five institutions.  She has held diversified and progressive roles that led to her serendipitous transition into her current project manager role with SNHU’s Innovation Center.  She has the very &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2020/09/28/keynote-speaker-for-nepca2020-keisha-venson-sheedy/" class="more-lin

<p>Greetings friends, We are excited to share out that both registration and the current draft of the 2020 NEPCA Virtual Conference are now available.  Be sure to check out the schedule and see which events you&#8217;re excited to attend and also be sure to register. Register here for the 2020 NEPCA Virtual Conference Current Draft &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2020/08/19/registration-conference-schedule-for-nepca2020/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="s

<p>Greetings NEPCA Community, We hope this message finds you as well as can be, given all the things that are going on in the world right now on so many levels. We have recently been informed that our campus destination for our Annual Conference will not be able to host us in the fall as &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2020/06/12/nepca2020-conference-update/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">#NEPCA2020 Conference Update</span></a></p>

<p>The CFP for the Northeast Popular Culture Associate Annual Conference for 2020 has been extended.  We will be accepting admissions until June 15. This year&#8217;s conference will either be hybrid (some sessions online and some face-to-face) or entirely virtual. We&#8217;re dependent upon what the host institution decides and their announcement will come in early June.  &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2020/05/25/extended-call-for-nepca2020/" class="more-link">Continue