DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 30! Join us in glorious ATLANTIC CITY.

Proposals are welcome on all aspects of popular and American culture. For more information or to submit a proposal, visit http://mapaca.net. Single papers, panels, roundtables, and alternative formats are welcome. Submit a 300-word abstract to one appropriate area by Friday, June 30, 2013.

MAPACA’s membership is comprised of college and university faculty, independent scholars and artists, and graduate and undergraduate students. MAPACA is an inclusive professional organization dedicated to the study of popular and American culture in all their multidisciplinary manifestations. It is a regional division of the Popular Culture and American Culture Association (PCA/ACA). MAPACA hosts an annual conference and publishes the Mid-Atlantic Almanack each fall, and engages in other scholarly and analytical activities year round at http://mapaca.net.

Subject Areas (see website for more details):

American Studies
• Art & Visual Culture
• Beowulf to Shakespeare: Popular Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
• Children and Childhood Studies
• Comics, Cartoons, and Video Gaming
• Death in American Culture
• Decorative Arts and Design
• Detective Fiction
• Disability Studies
• Environment and Culture
• Fan Fiction
• Fashion, Appearance and Material Culture
• Film Studies
• Food and Culture
• Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies
• Horror
• Internet Culture
• Language and Popular Culture
• Latino/a Studies
• Music
• Native American Studies
• Popular Architecture
• Popular Culture and Activism
• Popular Novels
• Religion and Popular Culture
• Sexuality and Erotica
• SF/Fantasy
• Sports
• Tattoos and Tattooing
• Television
• Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
• Travel and Tourism
• Urban Culture
• War Studies
• Women's Studies
• Working Class Culture