Updates: Registration Credit, Award Committees, Teaching Tuesdays, Susan Faludi Confirmed as Featured Speaker at 2021 Conference

Update on Registration Credit

For those members who requested credits for the 2021 conference after cancellation of the Philadelphia conference:

When the conference registration portal opens on October 12, we will register those who have active memberships for the 2021 conference . You will only need to purchase a membership. We will review updated membership records weekly and continue to register those active members with credits; again, you will not be registered until you purchase a membership for the 2021 conference year. After your registration is confirmed, you may purchase one guest membership for a non-presenter for $50.

We have your names on file, so there is nothing more to do at this time. Thank you for your patience!

Call for Award Committees

The PCA Award Season will be heating up in the next few weeks. Some of the award committees are seeking additional members. If you are interested in applying, please submit a CV and brief letter of application to Brenda Boudreau at bboudreau@mckendree.edu by September 11.

Please make it clear which committee you are applying for. Members of awards committees must be current conference year (2021) PCA members.

Kathy Merlock Jackson Dissertation Award (looking for one new member)
John G. Cawelti Award for the Best Textbook/Primer (looking for two new members)
Peter C. Rollins and Susan W. Rollins Award for the Best Documentary Film (looking for two new members)
Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Reference/Primary Source in Popular and American culture (looking for one new member)
Carl Bode Award for the Outstanding Article Published in the Journal of American Culture (looking for two members)

Teaching Tuesday is here!

Teaching remotely for the first time? Or are you a seasoned veteran looking for innovative, original online projects for your students? PCA wants to help! Catch our Facebook page each week for suggestions, assignments, and advice from fellow Association members. Have any class activities, recommendations, or teaching tidbits you'd like to share? If so, please contact Governing Board Member Amie Doughty at amie.doughty@oneonta.edu

Featured Speaker: Susan Faludi

Journalist and author Susan Faludi will be joining us in Boston in June! Read more about Susan here.

In her most recent book, In the Darkroom, Faludi investigates her transgender father’s lifetime of identity transformations, and the larger mysteries of identity—personal, political, and cultural—transfixing our times.

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