Scholarly Motorcycle Publication Seeks Papers

The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Associations are holding a series of panels at the next annual meeting of these groups to be held March 19–22, 2008 in San Francisco, California at the beautiful San Francisco Marriott. Deadline for entries on Motorcycling Culture and Myth are November 1, 2007. Proposals for individual papers, presentations, and panel discussions are requested on motorcycling and its impact on American and other societies and cultures. Suggested topics include:

• Riders' narratives or descriptions of the ride
• The motorcycle as art, poetry, or agency
• Rituals, norms, customs, or influences in motorcycle culture
• The biker as subaltern
• Movies, films, or other images of motorcyclists
• Analyses of media, consumer capitalist, corporate, or other power structures in relation to motorcycling culture or popular myth
• Biographical analyses of noteworthy motorcyclists and their influence upon myth, culture, or cultural capital
• Racial, ethnic, gendered, class, or demographic aspects of motorcycling culture
• Other literary, anthropological, geographical, historical, sociological, or psychological perspectives of motorcycling culture or myth

Please respond to the Area Chair listed below with a biographical statement and an abstract of 150 words by November 1, 2007:

Gary L. Kieffner
Department of History
University of Texas at El Paso
Telephone: 915.747.5875
E-mail: Kieffner@miners.utep.edu

Basic information about the conference can be found at the PCA/ACA website