This panel seeks to explore the presence of the suburban landscape in American crime fiction. Novelists of horror novels, such as Shirley Jackson and Richard Matheson, have been studied for the Gothic imagination in their suburban tales. However, this panel seeks to explore the reasons for and ramification of placing suburbia as the backdrop in a different genre: namely, crime novels from the 1950s onward. Some possible angles include: to what extent does suburbia become redefined in genre fiction? What place and purpose does suburbia hold for crime fiction writers of a chosen period? How do transgressions get configured in such a setting? I welcome submissions that explore these and other angles.

Observers of all political stripes never seem to tire of reminding us just how politically polarized the US has become over the last decade.

CFP: Fandom and Pedagogy (collection)

In Constance Penley's 1994 text NASA/TREK, she quotes an unnamed fanfiction writer turned professional author as stating, "Forget Breadloaf. Forget the Iowa Writers Workshop....fandom is the best writing workshop in the country."

Scholarly essays are sought for a potential collection on fandom studies and post-secondary pedagogy. All theoretical approaches welcome. Feminist approaches particularly wanted.

Possible topics may include but are not limited to:

El Seminario EC3 sobre Evaluación y Comunicación de la Ciencia (I Seminario, II Seminario, III Seminario) es un encuentro bienal que pretende servir como punto de encuentro a los investigadores y profesionales del área, mostrar las tendencias más recientes en la investigación sobre bibliometría y evaluación de la ciencia, a la vez que presentar el trabajo más reciente del grupo EC3. Asimismo pretendemos servir de interfaz entre la práctica científica y profesional intentando buscar una vertiente aplicada de las técnicas y herramientas bibliométricas.

Tourism, Heritage, Identities (01/25/2013; ALA 05/23-26/2013)

Papers are invited for a proposed panel at the 2013 meeting of the American Literature Association in Boston (23-26 May, 2013).

I seek papers that explore heritage tourism, or tourism motivated by the desire to recover a cultural identity, either the traveler's own or that of another group. I welcome papers that deal with non-fiction travel writing, fiction, film, poetry, or theory.

Relevant issues may include:

Heritage and objectification: museums, photographs, souvenirs, etc.

Heritage and the touristic gaze

The usable or invented past

Globalization, diaspora, long-distance nationalism

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association's
34th Annual Conference in Albuquerque, NM

Submit abstracts to:

http://conference2013.swtxpca.org/

***DEADLINE Extended to December 2, 2012***

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association's
34th Annual Conference in Albuquerque, NM
Submit abstracts to:

http://conference2013.swtxpca.org/

***DEADLINE Extended to December 2, 2012***