Area chair
Kim Sels (Towson University)
This section welcomes papers in all areas of art and visual culture relating to popular and American culture, including practice, theory, curation, spectatorship, the market, and culture industry.
MAPACA Mid-Atlantic Popular &
American Culture Association
Mid-Atlantic Popular &
American Culture Association
Art & Visual Culture
Areas
- Activism
- American Studies
- Animal Studies
- Art & Visual Culture
- Asian and Asian-American Studies
- Black Studies
- Body Art and Images (formerly Tattoos and Tattooing)
- Children and Childhood Studies
- Comics, Cartoons, and Video Gaming
- Death in American Culture
- Decorative Arts and Design
- Detective Fiction
- Disability Studies
- Disney Studies
- Fan Studies and FanFiction
- Fashion, Style and Consumer Culture
- Film Studies
- Food and Culture
- Gothic Studies
- Health Studies and Public Health
- Horror and Paranormal Studies
- Internet Culture
- Journalism and News Media
- Language and Popular Culture
- Latino/a Studies
- Law and Popular Culture
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Studies
- MAPACA
- Medieval & Renaissance
- Music
- Native American Studies
- Natural and Built Environment
- Novels and Book History
- Performance Studies
- Play Studies
- Poetry and Poetry Studies
- Professional Development
- Professional Wrestling
- Religion and Culture
- Rhetoric and Composition in a Global World
- Sexuality and Erotica
- SF/Fantasy
- Sports
- Television
- Travel and Tourism
- True Crime
- Urban Culture
- War Studies
- Women’s and Feminist Studies
- Working Class Culture