SWPACA Summer Salon 2025 🌞😎

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Submit a proposal to Summer Salon 2025–now through April 15!

Mission

The mission of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) is to promote an innovative and nontraditional academic movement in the humanities and social sciences celebrating America’s cultural heritages, and to increase awareness and improve public perceptions of America’s cultural traditions and diverse populations. We work towards this mission by providing a professional network for scholars, writers, and others interested in popular/American culture via our annual academic conference and through our open-source, peer-reviewed academic journal, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy. Additionally, the SWPACA has a long-standing commitment to supporting the development of new and young academic professionals in the fields of popular and/or American cultural studies through conference travel grants, paper awards, and professional development opportunities.

Submit to Summer Salon 2025!

Proposals for #SWPACASalon25 are being accepted–now through April 15!

Dialogue vol. 11, no. 3, December 2024

We are pleased to announce that Dialogue is now on Digital Commons, generously hosted by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and where you can read the newly published Volume 11, Issue 3!

Meet Our Area Chairs: Jeremy Vaughan, Humor & Comedy in Popular Culture

Welcome to Jeremy, who is leading SWPACA’s new Area for Humor & Comedy in Popular Culture! Read more about Jeremy’s research, goals, and recommendations for Humor & Comedy.

Meet Our Area Chairs: Erik Stanley, Digital & Analog Cultures

Welcome to Erik, who joins the SWPACA team as Area Chair for Digital & Analog Cultures (formally called Computer Cultures). Click here to read more about the evolution of the Digital & Analog Cultures Area.

Meet Our Area Chairs: Stacy Fowler, Sports & Popular Culture

Welcome to Stacy, a familiar face at SWPACA who leads SWPACA’s new Area in Sports & Popular Culture. Click here to read more about Stacy and the Sports Area.

Meet Our Area Chairs: Juliette Holder, Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies

Welcome to Juliette, who leads SWPACA’s new Area in Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies! Click here to read more about Juliette’s research and hopes for the new Area.

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