CFP: Comics and the American Southwest and Borderland / collection (Jan. 15)

CFP:

Comics and the American Southwest

and Borderland

The editors of Comics and the American Southwest and Borderlands seek chapter submissions for this collection. We hope the collection accomplishes for the Southwest and Border region what Costello and Whitted’s Comics and the U.S. South achieved for that region and Southern studies via mining, creating, and illuminating the intersections of comics scholarship and academic writing on the Southwestern United States, the U.S-Mexico border, and their literatures, identities, and cultures.

Submissions might consider:

• The impact of comics creators from the Southwest or Border region.
• Characters, titles, or storylines set in and/or influenced by the Southwest or Border region (Hulk, Ghost Rider, El Diablo, Blue Beetle, The Rangers, etc).
• The work of Jaxon/Jack Jackson.
• General depictions of the Southwest or Borderlands in comics.
• The New Frontier and the New Southwest.
• Examinations of how non-American artists have represented the American West (Charlier, Moebius, Blain, etc.)
• U.S-Mexico relations in comics.
• Ecocritical elements in comics set in or making use of the space of the Southwest/Borderlands.
• Immigration; citizenship; nationalism in comics from or about the region.
• Race, gender, sex and ethnic studies in comics from or about the region.
• How comics challenge, support, or otherwise interact with notions of the region and its literature as presented by Tom Lynch, Eric Gary Anderson, Gloria Anzaldua, and others.
• Nationalism; politics; violence in comics from or featuring the region.
• Liminal spaces/Nepantla; contact zones; politics of the region in comics.
• Westerns.
• Comics' treatment of NAFTA, the drug war and/or borderland violence.
• Adaptations of Southwest, Chicano, Latina, or Mexican literature.
• Chicana/a or Latina/o studies as frames for analysis of comics.
• Class and economic issues in comics from or featuring the region.
• Depictions of Native peoples from the region in comics.
• Interviews with comics creators on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Submissions may explore comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, web comics, and editorial cartoons or explore subject across media as long as comics are a major focus. Submissions may focus on any genre.

Essays are due to both Dr. James Bucky Carter (jbcarter777@gmail.com) and Dr. Derek Parker Royal (Derek@DerekRoyal.com) by March 28, 2014, but the editors request abstracts of no more than 500 words no later than 2 weeks before the deadline, with a preference of seeing abstracts by January 15, 2014.

http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/53497

CFP: Indigenous 'Deep' Space: Indigenous Absence and Presence in Sci-Fi and Comics (Dec 2; Feb 13-16)

Call for Papers:

Indigenous 'Deep' Space:

Indigenous Absence and Presence

in Sci-Fi and Comics
Native/Indigenous Studies Area

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association
nativestudiespca@gmail.com

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***

Paper proposals are now being accepted for a panel dedicated to the absence and presence of Indigenous characters and cultures in popular sci-fi and comics. From Star Trek Voyager's Chakotay to the X-Men's Danielle Moonstar, sci-fi and comic genres have capitalized on the Indigenous landscape for characters and cultures. This panel asks presenters to examine and discuss the absence and presence of Indigenous characters and cultures in these popular genres.

Listed below are some suggestions for possible presentations but topics not included here are welcomed and encouraged:

• Indigenous writers of sci-fi and speculative fiction genres
• Indigenous cultures in space (issues of colonization that mirror Indigenous histories in sci-fi deep space settings)
• Blue Corn Comics
• Indigenous/Native American descended characters in sci-fi
• Indigenous/Native American descended characters in comic and graphic novels
• Specific sci-fi T.V. shows and webisodes incorporating Indigenous cultures and characters (episodes of Stargate, Angel, Buffy, Star Trek, etc.)
• Online comics
• History of Indigenous characters in sci-fi or comics

Inquiries regarding this area may be sent to Brian Hudson and Margaret Vaughan at *nativestudiespca@gmail.com*

Please forward this information to people who would be interested in participating.

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CFP: Comics and the American Southwest and Borderland (collection; Jan. 31)

CFP:

Comics and

the American Southwest and Borderland

The editors of Comics and the American Southwest and Borderlands seek submissions for this collection, which has interest from the University Press of Mississippi. We hope the collection does for the Southwest and Border region what Costello and Whitted’s Comics and the U.S. South did for that region and Southern studies via mining, creating, and illuminating the intersections of comics scholarship and established academic writing on the Southwestern United States, the U.S-Mexico border, and their literatures, identities, and cultures.

Submissions might consider:

• The impact of comics creators from the Southwest or Border region
•  The work of Jaxon/Jack Jackson, specifically
• Characters or storylines set in and/or influenced by the Southwest or Border region
• Depictions of the Southwest or Borderlands in comics
• Examinations of how non-American artists have represented the American West (Charlier, Moebius, Blain, etc.)
• U.S-Mexico relations in comics
• Immigration; citizenship; nationalism in comics from or about the region
• Race, gender, sex and ethnic studies in comics from or about the region
• Nationalism; politics; violence in comics from or featuring the region
• Liminal spaces; contact zones; politics of the region in comics
• Westerns Adaptations of Southwest, Chicano, Latina, or Mexican literature
• Chicana/a or Latina/o studies as frames for analysis of comics
• Class and economic issues in comics from or featuring the region
• Depictions of Native peoples from the region in comics

Submissions may explore comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, web comics, and editorial cartoons. Submissions may focus on any genre.

Please send 300-500 word abstracts to both Dr. James Bucky Carter (jbcarter777@gmail.com) and Dr. Derek Parker Royal (Derek@DerekRoyal.com) by January 31, 2013.

CFP: El Paso in the Comics II: The Southwest in the Comics (grad. conference: Aug. 20; Feb. 23, 2010)

Posted on behalf of James Bucky Carter, University of Texas at El Paso.

El Paso in the Comics II:
The Southwest in the Comics

Graduate students in all fields of study are invited to submit 200-word abstracts to the second-annual El Paso in the Comics conference and event, to be held on the campus of the University of Texas at El Paso, February 23, 2010.Papers on all aspects of comics scholarship, theory, and pedagogy will be given attention, but those that deal with issues related to artists, creators, characters and/or themes associated with the American Southwest and/or Hispanic/Chicano culture in comics will be given top priority.

Abstracts should include name, e-mail, affiliation (university and program), proposed paper title and 200-word description. Presentations should run no more than 20 minutes.

Send abstract to:

Dr. James B. Carter
Re: El Paso in the Comics Conference
113 Hudspeth Hall
UTEP English Department
500 W. University Ave.
El Paso, TX 79912

Or electronically to: Jbcarter2[@]utep.edu.

The deadline for abstracts is August 20, 2009.

The academic portion of the event will take place in the morning. A creators' roundtable will follow in the mid-afternoon, featuring the many local studios and creators of the El Paso/Juarez region discussing their work with members of the community. The evening will wrap up with a keynote speech by celebrated comics artist and writer Jaime Hernandez of Love and Rockets fame.