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#SWPACA24 Submissions Are Open!

Submissions are now being accepted for SWPACA 2024, taking place at the Albuquerque Marriott. This marks the 45th anniversary of SWPACA, so we hope that you’ll be able to join us as we celebrate this momentous occassion!

Visit https://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/ to see our full list of Subject Areas and submission guidelines. The deadline to submit is October 31, 2023.

This will be a fully in-person conference. If you’re looking for an online option to present your work, keep an eye out for details about the SWPACA Summer Salon, a completely virtual conference to take place in June 2024. However, keep in mind that the Summer Salon is a smaller conference with limited presentation slots and no student funding assistance.

#FeatureFriday: Meet the Fellows! Jessie Rogers

👩🏼 Jessie Rogers (she/her)
📍 Lubbock, TX
📚 PhD Candidate, Department of English @ Texas Tech

❓ What are your research interests?
I specialize in comics, fantasy, and film in popular culture, examining the intersectional aspects of gender, race, sexuality, class, and disability that arise within these genres and formats.

❓ What got you interested in pop/American culture studies?
I was very interested in speculative fiction growing up and pop culture studies gave me avenues for exploring the texts and genres I grew up loving, allowing me to see them in new ways based on my interests in identity and representation.

❓ What are your goals as a SWPACA Leadership Institute Fellow?
As a Fellow, I would love to try to encourage interdisciplinary work for myself and for others—while I am currently involved with the Graphic Novels area of the conference, I would really like to also involve myself with other areas like Children’s Literature and Medievalism and promote collaboration between areas. I am also hoping to learn more about general conference organization!

❓ What is your current pop culture passion/obsession?
I’ve been re-reading Saga recently, especially with the new issues that started coming out earlier this year, and I’ve just started a Doctor Who rewatch!

📢 Join our next class of Schoenecke Fellows! Applications now being accepted through 12/1/22! https://southwestpca.org/leadership-institute/

#FeatureFriday: Meet the Fellows! Devon Bradley

👩🏼 Devon Bradley (she/her/hers)
📍 McAllen / San Antonio, TX
📚 PhD in English @ University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)

❓ What are your research interests?
-Film history and adaptation studies (my favorite directors are Alfred Hitchcock and Roger Corman)
-Rhetorics and popular culture, paying particular attention to intersectionality and social justice movements
-Contemporary borderlands and Chicanx literatures

❓ What got you interested in pop/American culture studies?
My high school trivia team first got me interested in Pop/American studies. I ended up becoming the film/pop culture specialist on the team.

❓ What are your goals as a SWPACA Leadership Institute Fellow?
Acting as a co-area chair for the Alfred Hitchcock area for the upcoming conference, I have learned about what goes into organizing a CFP, reviewing proposals, and organizing/ moderating panels. I look forward to helping to chair one of our two panels and hearing all the fantastic research on Hitchcock!

My goals for myself as a Fellow are to soak it all up and enjoy the experience, keep networking and perhaps contribute to Dialogue or explore a different role for my second year of the Institute.

❓ What is your current pop culture passion/obsession?
My current pop culture obsession is anything spooky (I’m a big fan of all things Halloween)! I’ve been rewatching my favorite films to prepare for Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities and Netflix’s Wednesday coming out this fall.

📢 Join our next class of Schoenecke Fellows! Applications now being accepted through 12/1/22! https://southwestpca.org/leadership-institute/