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Rollins Book Award Submissions
The Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association (SW/TX PCA/ACA) is pleased to announce that we are now accepting nominations for the 2013 Peter C. Rollins Book Award. This juried award recognizes contributions to the study of popular and/or American culture and, in particular, works analyzing cultural and historical representations in film, television, and/or other visual media. Volumes receiving this award are distinguished by their methodology and research; monographs, reference works, and anthologies are all eligible. For the first time this year, volumes published in electronic formats are also eligible. We invite publishers, authors, and editors to submit any appropriate publications of exceptional quality published during 2011 or 2012.
The Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association is one of the leading academic associations dedicated to the study of popular and American culture; our annual meeting, at which each year’s winner is honored, is one of the largest such meetings in the world. Dr. Peter C. Rollins, for whom the award is named, is one of the association’s founders and most valued members; in addition, he is a highly-regarded and well-known scholar of popular and American culture. Over a period of thirty years, he helped both junior and senior scholars as Associate Editor of The Journal of Popular Culture and The Journal of American Culture, and as Editor-in-Chief of Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies (www.filmhistory.org). In addition, Dr. Rollins’ book publications distinguish him among scholars. For example, his most recent publication America Reflected: Language, Satire, Film, And the National Mind (New Academia; 2010) provides the reader with a seasoned guide exploring the vagaries of American popular culture. Further, he has edited or co-edited a number of notable volumes, such as The Columbia Companion to American History and Film (Columbia UP, 2004) and Why We Fought: America’s Wars in Film and History (UP of Kentucky, 2008). In his edited volumes, Dr. Rollins showcased the work of many individuals, highlighting his dedication to expanding the scholarly study of film and television.
Submission guidelines:
· Monographs (single or multiple author), anthologies, and reference books published in 2011 or 2012 are eligible
More than one title per author may be submitted for consideration
Submissions must be in English; translations from another language of first publication are acceptable
Six copies of each title must be submitted; mail print submissions as detailed below; contact Tamy Burnett (swtxpca.org@gmail.com) to arrange submission of electronic volumes
Deadline for submissions: December 1, 2012
Direct Book Shipments to the following:
If shipping by USPS send to:
Ken Dvorak, PhD Coordinator, Peter C. Rollins Book Award Committee PO Box 743 Alcalde, NM 87511
If shipping by FED EX or UPS send to:
Ken Dvorak, PhD Coordinator, Peter C. Rollins Book Award Committee 37 Rio Arriba County Road 38 Alcalde NM, 87511
Direct all inquiries and other correspondence to: Tamy Burnett, PhD Co-Coordinator, Rollins Book Award Committee University of Nebraska-Lincoln PO Box 880333 Lincoln, NE 68588-0333 (402) 310-4972
Award recipient(s) will be announced during the SW/TX PCA/ACA Annual Conference, February 13-16, 2013, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Complete annual conference details and additional Rollins Award information can be found at: www.swtxpca.org.
We hope you will consider submitting any exceptional titles your press has published this year. Please don’t hesitate to contact us with questions.
Regards,
Tamy L. Burnett, PhD Co-Coordinator, Rollins Book Award Committee Public Relations Coordinator, SW/TX PCA/ACA swtxpca.org@gmail.com www.swtxpca.org
Previous Rollins Award Winners
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Judges: Drs. Hugh Foley, Cynthia Miller, and Rob Weiner
Alison Macor
Chainsaws, Slackers and Spy Kids: 30 Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010)
"A thorough and engaging micro-history; strong scholarship; important contribution to regional and independent film studies; insightful interviews and sharp contextual analysis; writing no 'slacker' could do."
Honorable Mention
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Karla Rae Fuller, Hollywood Goes Oriental: CaucAsian Performance in American Film (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010).
Winner for 2011
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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 2010
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 2009
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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 2008
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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 2007
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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.
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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.