CFP: Tolkien Studies
deadline for submissions: October 1, 2018
full name / name of organization: Tolkien Studies, Popular Culture Association
contact email: robin.reid@tamuc.edu
CFP: Tolkien Studies
2019 Popular Cultural Association National Conference
Wardman Park Marriot, Washington, D.C.
Wednesday, April 17, to Saturday, April 20, 2019
DEADLINE: OCTOBER 1, 2018
The Tolkien Studies Area welcomes proposals for papers, paper sessions, or roundtables in any area of Tolkien Studies (the Legendarium, adaptations, reader reception and fan studies, source studies, literary studies, cultural studies, tourism studies, medieval and medievalist studies, media and marketing, religious studies) from any disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspective.
We welcome individual paper proposals or proposals for paper sessions or roundtable discussions. All sessions are scheduled in 1.5 hour slots, typically with four presenters per paper session or five-seven per roundtable. Paper presentations should not exceed 15 minutes.
Academic and independent scholars and graduate students are encouraged to submit. For individual papers, please submit contact information (name, institutional affiliation if any, mail and e-mail addresses, and telephone number), a title and 200-300-word abstract plus a working bibliography.
For roundtables or complete paper sessions, please submit:
Session Title
Name and contact information for the session organizer
Titles and abstracts for each presenter
Contact information for each presenter
All presenters must set up an account to submit their proposal electronically, must be members of the PCA, and must register for the conference:
http://pcaaca.org/national-conference/proposing-a-presentation-at-the-conference/
For information on PCA, please go to http://www.pcaaca.org
For conference information, please go to http://www.pcaaca.org/national-conference/
Travel and research grants are available: http://pcaaca.org/grants/
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
Adaptation: Visual Arts
Adaptation: Tolkien and Game Studies
Gender Studies: Women in Tolkien
Gender Studies: Gender and Tolkien
Gender Studies: Tolkien’s Queering of Genre
Literary Studies: Tolkien and Genre
Literary Studies: Hemingway and Tolkien
Literary Studies: Romanticism and Tolkien
Fandom Studies: Reparative Fan Fiction (Race) and Tolkien
Fandom Studies: Tolkien and Cosplay
Fandom Studies: History of Tolkien Fandom
Methodology: Digital Humanities Tools for Tolkien Scholarship
Methodology: Ethics in Tolkien Studies
Themes: Environmentalism, Ecology, and Tolkien
Themes: Poststructuralism and Tolkien
Religious Studies: Alternate Mythologies/Pagan Readings and Tolkien
Religious Studies: Spirituality and Tolkien
Religious Studies: Catholic Debates in 20th Century and Tolkien
Religious Studies: Oxford Community and Tolkien
1 July Database Opens for Submissions
1 October Registration Opens
1 October Deadline for Paper Proposals
15 November Early Bird Registration Rate Ends
1 December Preliminary Program Available
15 December "Drop Dead": Unregistered Participants Removed from Program
3 January 2019 Final Program to the Publisher
17-20 April 2019 Washington, D.C.!
For information on the Tolkien Studies area, please contact:
Robin Anne Reid
Department of Literature and Languages
A&M University-Commerce
Commerce, TX 75429
Or check the Tolkien Studies at Popular Culture Public Group on Facebook.
Last updated May 25, 2018
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