[Discussion] CFP: Biography & Popular Culture (11/1/05; PCA/ACA, 4/12/06-4/16/06)

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From: "MCCUTCHEON, CAMILLE" <CMCCUTCHEON@uscupstate.edu>

BIOGRAPHY AND POPULAR CULTURE

Call for Papers for the 35th Annual Joint Conference of the Popular Culture and
American Culture Associations Atlanta, Georgia, April 12-16, 2006

Deadline: November 1, 2005

The 36th annual joint conference of the Popular Culture and American culture
Associations will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, April 12-16, 2006. The Biography
and Popular Culture Area of the Popular Culture Association welcomes submissions
from scholars of various disciplines. The Biography and Popular Culture Area
will examine the connections between biography and popular culture. Papers and
full panel presentations regarding any aspect of popular culture and biography
are encouraged.

Potential topic might include:

Biography and entertainment, art, music, theater
Biography and film
Television programs about biography
Biography and urban legends
Biography and folklore
Biography and literature
Scholarly Biography
Controversial Biography
Psychoanalysis and Biography
Historical Biography
Political Biography
Autobiography

Prospective presenters should send a one-page, typed, single spaced abstract and
a one page vitae by November 1, 2005 to Camille McCutcheon, USC Upstate Library,
800 University Way, Spartanburg, SC 29303. Please do not submit an abstract
electronically. Direct questions to cmccutcheon@uscupstate.edu.

PCA/ACA regulations limit participants to one paper presentation. Therefore, if
you are interested in presenting in the Biography and Popular Culture Area,
please do not submit an abstract to another area, but follow up on original
submission if you do not hear from the chair by December 1, 2005. If you would
like more information about the PCA and the ACA, consult our web site
http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca.

Camille McCutcheon
Coordinator of Library Instruction
Associate Librarian
University of South Carolina Upstate
800 University Way
Spartanburg, SC 29303

Phone: 864.503.5612
Fax: 864.503.5601
E-mail: CMcCutcheon@uscupstate.edu



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