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Heldrich-Dvorak Travel Fellowship Rollins Book Award SWTX PCA/ACA Institutional Awards Student Award Winners |
Submission Guidelines for the 2011 Peter C. Rollins Annual Book AwardThis prize is awarded annually to the ”best“ book in popular culture studies and/or American culture studies. Preferred consideration will be given to books on the histories and cultures, including popular cultures, of the Southwest and West. The SW/TX PCA/ACA also encourages submission by members of the organization. Prize-winning volumes receiving this award are distinguished by their methodology and research; monographs, reference works, and anthologies are eligible. Designed to reward genuine research and lucid expression, the award bears the name of Peter C. Rollins, Co-Founder of the organizations. In reference works such The Columbia Companion to American History on Film and anthologies such as Hollywood as Historian, he showcased the work of many members. Over a period of thirty years, he helped both junior and senior scholars to do their best work in his role as Associate Editor of the Journal of Popular Culture and the Journal of American Culture—as well as Editor-in-Chief of Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies (see www.filmandhistory.org). Prize-winner(s) will be announced during the 2011 joint meeting of the SWTX PCA/ACA and the National Popular/American Culture conference being held in San Antonio, Texas, April 20-23, 2011. Submission guidelines are:
Direct all correspondence including award nominations including book shipments to: Ken Dvorak, Ph.D, Rollins Book Award Coordinator 9032 Dugas Road #517 San Antonio, TX 78251 Telephone: 281.455.3289 Email: krdvorak@gmail.com ---> Rollin Award Submission Guidelines (downloadable PDF document). The SWTX PCA/ACA is an organization with some 1000+ national and international attendees annually. It has become one of the most important interdisciplinary forums for the study of popular/American culture in the U.S. and we are thankful for your continued support. Winner for 2010
Judges: Drs. Hugh Foley, Cynthia Miller, and Rob Weiner Jeet Heer and Kent Worchester, eds. A Comics Studies Reader (UP of Mississippi, 2009) Jeet Heer, editor of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium, is writing a doctoral thesis on the cultural politics of Little Orphan Annie at York University (Toronto). Kent Worcester teaches political theory at Marymount Manhattan College. He is the author of C. L. R. James: A Political Biography and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA). Winner for 2009 
Judges: Drs. Hugh Foley, Delia Gillis, and Scott Zeman Adilifu Nama Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film (U of Texas P, 2008) Adilifu Nama is Associate Professor in the Pan African Studies Department of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at California State University, Northridge. Winner for 2008
Judges: Drs. Hugh Foley, Delia Gillis, and Scott Zeman Katie Mills The Road Story and The Rebel: Moving Through Film, Fiction, and Television (Southern Illinois UP, 2006) Katie Mills is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of English Writing at Occidental College in Los Angeles. She has published essays on the Beat generation and the alternative youth culture in a number of journals and books. Winner for 2007
Judges: Drs. Hugh Foley, Delia Gillis, and Scott Zeman M. Elise Marubbio Killing the Indian Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film (The UP of Kentucky, 2006) M. Elise Marubbio is Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies and English at Augsburg College. Winner for 2006
Wheeler Winston Dixon Lost in the Fifties: Recovering Phantom Hollywood (Southern Illinois UP, 2005) Wheeler Winston Dixon, is the Ryan Professor of Film Studies at the University of Nebraska. In addition to his many books and articles, he serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Quarterly Review of Film and Video.
James M. Welsh, Professor Emeritus of English at Salisbury University is the author and editor of numerous articles, reviews, and collections including The Literature/Film Reader: Issues of Adaptation, co-edited with Peter Lev (Scarecrow, 2007). He serves on the editorial board of Literature/Film Quarterly and is Founder and President of the Literature and Film Association. |
