The area chair for Horror of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association invites all interested scholars to submit papers on any aspect of horror in literature, film, television, or general culture for the regional meeting of the Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA.
If you are interested in being a presenter, please send a detailed abstract (400-500 words) for a paper of 18 to 20 minutes reading time via e-mail. Please provide contact information, such as name, mailing address, phone number, and especially e-mail address.

If you want to propose a panel of three or four speakers, or three speakers and one respondent, please include the following information: panel title; name and contact information of the panel chair; an abstract for each paper; contact information for each presenter.

Especially encouraged to participate are graduate students, for whom, among other things, the Hyatt Regency also offers rooms at special rates. Once again, we also invite Graduate Students to submit to one of our many Graduate Student Awards including the Charles Redd Center Award for Western Studies and the Albuquerque Convention and Visitors Bureau Award (for guidelines, see http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/Awards/awards.htm).

The deadline for abstract and panel submissions to the area chair is November 15, 2005.

Registration deadline is December 31, 2005--all participants must register by this date!
Please specify as soon as possible whether your presentation requires a TV, VCR, slide projector, and/or screen. If you need to present on a specific day or at a specific time, please let me know as early as possible. Please remember that you must be present in person to present a paper; readings by proxy are not permitted. For information about the registration process, registration fees, membership, graduate student awards and course credits, and information about travel and location, please consult the Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA's official web site: http://www.h-net.org/~swpca

Please send all abstracts, panel proposals, and queries to:

Prof. Steffen Hantke
Department of English, Sogang University
Seoul 100-611, South Korea
Tel. 82-2-705-8810, Fax 82-2-715-0705
steffenhantke@hotmail.com