All Proposals & Abstracts Must Be Submitted through the PCA Website.
Please submit a proposal to only one area at a time.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 2021 Popular Culture Association Conference will be held Wednesday, June 2 through Saturday, June 5, 2021. The Children’s and YA Literature and Culture Area invites presentations for papers on any aspect of children’s and YA popular culture: material culture, media, games, advertising, literature, and so on. Past topics have included recent films/television series; technology and social media; books, authors, and series; and issues and trends in children’s and YA literature and culture such as race, gender, and sexuality, dystopian fiction, the controversy about adults reading YA fiction, and environmentalism. New approaches to classic children’s and young adult literature and culture are also welcome.
We are particularly interested in papers examining the impact of #WeNeedDiverseBooks and Black Lives Matter on children’s and YA literature and culture.
In addition, as part of the PCA’s 50th anniversary celebration, we’re particularly interested in papers focused on children’s and YA literature and culture also reaching this milestone (e.g., Frog and Toad Are Friends, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, In the Night Kitchen, The Trumpet of the Swan, Runaway Ralph, Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret; etc.), though we welcome papers about any topic related to children’s and YA literature and culture.
PCA encourages interdisciplinary approaches to popular culture in its presentations, which should be 15-20 minutes long. Please include your university affiliation if you have one, your telephone number, and your email address. If you are an undergraduate submitting to the area, please contact the area chair (see below) for more information about the process and to receive the form you must complete designating a sponsor for your paper.
ALL PROPOSALS AND ABSTRACTS MUST BE SUBMITTED TO THE PCA DATABASE.
Please do NOT submit papers to more than one session of PCA/ACA at the same time. Also be sure of having travel funds should your paper be accepted. Do NOT submit a paper unless you feel confident of attending the conference. No shows are noted.
Send inquiries to (Note: The actual proposals are to be sent directly to the PCA online site):
Dr. Amie Doughty
322 Netzer Admin
English Department
SUNY Oneonta
Oneonta, NY 13820
E-mail (preferred) Amie.Doughty@oneonta.edu
You can also find us on Facebook www.facebook.com/chlitcultpca and Twitter @chlitcult_pca
For additional information and instructions go to www.pcaaca.org
