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Brazilian Popular Culture

CALL FOR PAPERS

Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture Association
and the American Culture Association

(New Orleans, April 8-11, 2009)
 
The annual meeting of the PCA/ACA will be held April 8 - 11, 2009 at the New Orleans Marriott Hotel.  To present a paper at one of the sessions pertaining to Caribbean and Latin American Literature and Culture at the 2009 conference, you may send an abstract of 100 to 150 words to the appropriate area chair by November 30, 2008.  Papers may be presented in English, French, Portuguese or Spanish.  Proposals for organized sessions are also welcomed.  Abstracts and session proposals should be sent to one of the following subject area chairs:

Brazilian Popular Culture 

Fernando de Sousa Rocha

Department of Portuguese

Middlebury College

Middlebury, VT

Tel:  (802) 443-5000

E-mail: rocha@middlebury.edu

Caribbean Literature and Culture 

Jorge Febles

Department of World Languages

University of North Florida

Jacksonville, FL 32224-2664

Tel:  (904) 620-2283

E-mail:  jorge.febles@unf.edu

 

Latin American
Film and Media

Melissa Fitch

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

The University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ 85721

Tel:  (520) 626-7647

E-mail: mfitch@email.arizona.edu

 

Latin Americans and Latinos:

Identity Issues and Cultural Stereotypes

 

Eliana Rivero

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

The University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ 85721

Tel:  (520) 621-5240

E-mail: eliana@email.arizona.edu

Latin American Literature and Culture

 

Patricia Montilla

Department of Spanish

Western Michigan University

Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5091

Tel:  (269) 387-3040

E-mail:  patricia.montilla@wmich.edu

Latin Dance and the Global Economy 

Melissa Fitch

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

The University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ 85721

Tel:  (520) 626-7647

E-mail: mfitch@email.arizona.edu

 

Latin American Performance Studies

Elsa Gilmore

Language Studies Department

United States Naval Academy

Annapolis, MD 21402-5030

Tel:  (410) 293-6350

E-mail:  patricia.montilla@wmich.edu

Transatlantic Cultural Issues

 

Carmen Gabriela Febles

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

The University of Wisconsin

Madison, WI

Tel:  (608) 212-5628

E-mail: febles@wisc.edu


For more information about the conference, you may check the following web site:  <http://www.pcaaca.org>.  Specific questions related to the sessions and/or the Caribbean and Latin American Literature and Culture super area may be addressed to Patricia Montilla  (patricia.montilla@wmich.edu) or Jorge Febles (jorge.febles@unf.edu).

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