Save the Date! 🎉 Join us for the 56th PCA National Conference at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis, April 8–11, 2026—just one week after Easter! Get ready for dynamic panels, lively discussions, and great connections. Abstract submission details coming soon!

The Allen Ellis Digital Research Award honors innovative academic databases that advance the study of Popular & American Culture. Est. in 2010 and renamed in 2020 for Professor Emeritus Allen Ellis, it recognizes excellence in research, originality, and accessibility.

The PCA Documentary Award honors an outstanding documentary that critically engages with themes in Popular or American culture. #PCA #Documentary #PopularCulture #AmericanCulture

Queer stories shape culture and so does the research behind them. The John Leo & Dana Heller Award honors scholarship that elevates LGBTQ representation in popular culture published in the past 3 years. #RepresentationMatters #QueerStudies

Honoring the legacy of Harry & Katrina Hazzard-Donald, this award recognizes groundbreaking scholarship that deepens our understanding of African American popular culture in its richness, complexity, and impact within books published in the past year.

What’s Popping: May is out! Conference highlights, award updates, calls for reviewers/submissions, and June events you don’t want to miss. Check your inbox.

Celebrating Susan Koppelman’s legacy by spotlighting bold feminist work in popular culture, published within the past three years. #PCAACA #FeministScholarship #PopCulture

Ray & Pat Browne Award honors the best edited reference/primary-source works in popular culture studies. Eligible:published in popular culture studies published in the past 3 years.. #PCAACA #PrimarySources #ArchivalResearch

Celebrating the winner of the John G. Cawelti Award—our annual honor for innovative scholarship in Popular and American Culture: Christine McWhorter’s “Building Critical Race Media Literacy: Countering the Narrative” (Routledge).

Join us for May’s Membership Matters where we will discuss dissertation/thesis incorporation, publishing opportunities, and other ways to build a future for your conference paper. Sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…

Congratulations to Brenda Boudreau and Kelli Maloy—winners of this year’s award honoring Ray and Pat Browne edited or co-edited scholarly books (hardcover or paperbound). The award recognizes collections with more than one or two contributors, published within the past year.

Congratulations to this year's winner, Amy Erdman Farrell! This award honors rigorous, original work that moves popular + American studies forward. Selected for research quality, originality, and field impact.

Keep the momentum going and present at a PCA regional conference. Click the link here to find out more: pcaaca.org/page/Regionalconf…

Survey extended to April 24. Tell us what you loved and what we can improve; your feedback shapes future PCA conferences. Click the link here to get started: app.smartsheet.com/b/form/01… . #PCA2026 #PCAConference #PCASurvey #PCACommunity

Final panels and Town Hall bring the week into focus. A week of conversations that sparked ideas, sessions that pushed us forward, game nights that brought us together. We’re excited to see you at the 2027 Annual Conference in Boston.

If publishing is on your radar, don’t skip these at the 2026 Annual Conference. From getting your work published to connecting with editors and peers, these sessions are built to move your ideas forward.

PCA 2026 is live. Panels are open, and the rubber ducks are already in circulation. Check the schedule, find your people, and get into the work.

Presenting, networking, exploring Atlanta, however you're experiencing PCA 2026, we want to see it. Tag or mention us in your photos and you might be featured on our page. Let’s showcase the energy of this year’s Annual together!

You’re presenting. Now let’s make it count. At the 2026 Annual Conference, PCA-sponsored sessions bring the community together from the Opening Ceremony and keynotes to celebrations of scholarship and the Town Hall. This is where ideas are shared, questions are asked.