#CFPHighlight Identities and Cultures
Identities and Cultures
African American / Black Studies
Travis Boyce, PhD, San Jose State University, travis.boyce@sjsu.edu
Open Description
The African American/Black Studies area of the conference welcomes proposals regarding any aspect of African American life, culture, performance, literature, demographics, history, law, politics, economics, education, healthcare, art, religion, social sciences, business, representations in popular culture, music, the diaspora, Africa, or any other issue relevant to African American/Black Studies and culture.
Asian Popular Culture / The Asian American Experience
Elaine Cho, PhD, Eastfield College, elainecho@dcccd.edu
Open Description
Asian Popular Culture / The Asian American Experience is a subject area that covers a wide variety of topics. Proposals for individual papers and panels on Asian popular culture or Asian American life and culture are welcome. The list of topics is suggested, but not limited to:
- Film
- Literature
- Fashion
- Family
- Food
- Music
- Asian American Experience/Identity
- Transcultural Representations in Asian Pop Culture
- Religion
- Politics
- Gender and Sexuality
- Travel
Chicano/a Literature, Film, and Culture
Lupe Linares, PhD, College of St. Scholastica, llinares@css.edu
Open Description
Panels and individual papers on all aspects of Chicana, Chicano, and Chicanx culture are encouraged for our upcoming conference. The Chicana/o/x Literature, Film, and Culture area tends to be both multicultural and interdisciplinary, and panels and individual papers may explore any issues relevant to Chicana/o/x cultural studies.
Presentations might examine themes relevant to Chicana/o/x culture and politics, including but not limited to:
Proposals that address any aspect of Chicana/o/x culture are welcome.
Disability Studies
Lexey Bartlett, PhD, Fort Hays State University, labartlett@fhsu.edu
Assistant Area Chair: Stephanie Lim, University of California Irvine, 2019 Michael K. Schoenecke Institute Fellow, sjoylim@uci.edu
Open Description
Submissions are welcomed that apply disability studies, including specific areas such as Deaf Studies, in any area of cultural, historical, literary, or pedagogical research, or that apply disability studies in conjunction with another theoretical approach, such as queer studies, feminist or gender studies, issues of diversity, and so on. Work addressing all media and cultural contexts (literature, TV, film, games, social media/web media, laws, social and cultural practices, politics, and so on) from a disability studies or combined approach is welcome.
Some possibilities include:
- Historical or cultural studies research into attitudes toward disability
- Legal, social, or cultural research into treatments of disability
- Research on the representation of disability in textual or graphic literature, drama, television, film, ephemera, games, or other cultural objects
- Work on technology and disability
- Pedagogical approaches drawing on disability studies concepts or studies of disability in relation to pedagogy
Middle Eastern and North African Studies in the United States
Rima Abunasser, PhD, Texas Christian University, rima.abunasser@tcu.edu
Open Description
The area chair for Middle Eastern and North African Studies in the United States is now accepting submissions for the 2021 conference. We welcome and encourage proposals regarding any aspect of Middle Eastern and North African life in the U.S. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to the following:
- MENA representations in popular culture (television, film, comic books, video games, etc.)
- Language and translation studies
- Queer theory and the MENA community
- Women and gender studies
- MENA art and artists
- MENA literary studies
- Transnationalism, diaspora, and the MENA community
- MENA coalition building and relationships with various Communities of Color
- Racial formation and the MENA community
- MENA immigration studies
- Religion and religious representations
Native American/Indigenous Studies
Margaret Vaughan, PhD, Metropolitan State University, margaret.vaughan@metrostate.edu
Open Description
Come present with us! Proposals are now being accepted for the Native/Indigenous Studies area. Listed below are some suggestions for possible presentations, but topics not included here are welcomed and encouraged. Paper topics can include transnational and international Indigenous issues.
Topics in the area at past conferences have included:
- Cyberculture and social media
- Native representations in popular culture (television, comic books, graphic novels, video/computer games, etc.)
- Indigenous methodologies and interpretative frameworks
- Queer theory and Native Studies
- Teaching Native American Studies
- Native art and artists
- Popular culture and language preservation
- Native American and Indigenous Literature
- Indigenous resistance, regional or global (treaty rights, incarceration issues, sports mascots, etc.)
- Native peoples’ relationships with various Communities of Color
- Landscapes and Indigenous ecologies
- Travel, tourism, and Indigenous nations
- Native sovereignty and media
Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Pat Tyrer, PhD, West Texas A&M University, ptyrer@wtamu.edu
Open Description
The area chair for Women, Gender, and Sexuality invites all interested scholars to submit proposals on any aspect of women, gender, and sexuality in literature, film, television, digital, and online as well as general culture. Given the strong showing of work on gender issues in cinema in recent years, we hope to continue this tradition, but also to diversify into new and unconventional areas, especially with the addition of roundtable sessions on a variety of popular topics.