CfP Studies in Horror and the Gothic: A Special Issue of Palgrave Communications (9/1/2016)

CfP: ‘Studies in Horror and the Gothic’: A Special Issue of Palgrave Communications

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Posted on June 22, 2016 by Skye Cervone

‘Studies in Horror and the Gothic’: A Special Issue of Palgrave Communications. Proposals/Sept 2016, Final Articles/Nov 2016

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Palgrave Communications

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Palcomms@palgrave.com

STUDIES IN HORROR AND THE GOTHIC Deadline for article proposals: September 1, 2016
Final deadline for full submissions: November 1, 2016

Palgrave Communications, an open access journal, is inviting submissions and article proposals for a special issue/thematic collection dedicated to ‘Studies in Horror and the Gothic’. The collection is Guest Edited by Dr John Edgar Browning (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA).

‘Studies in Horror and the Gothic’ is by necessity of its pervasive, aesthetic nature a broad and all-encapsulating thematic collection, one that will engage the study of horror and the Gothic through literature, film, television, new media, and electronic gaming. We are here interested in the dark, the forbidden, the secret. But fundamentally all our submissions should ask, and strive to address (or redress) on their own terms, what is “horror” and what is the “Gothic,” employing in the process individual or multiple methods of theoretical inquiry and myriad disciplinary or interdisciplinary approaches from across the humanities, social sciences, and beyond.

This thematic collection concerns itself with the business of exhuming, from the dark recesses of human experience, any number of cultural products from any historical moment or geography that might prove useful in uncovering some of horror’s and the Gothic’s more fascinating junctures and deeper meanings. Submissions should be scholarly but remain accessible to the advanced student or knowledgeable general reader interested in the subject.

Contributions on the following themes are especially encouraged:

• Theories of horror and monstrosity
• Horror, the Gothic, and pedagogy
• National Gothic(s) and horrors;
• Female Gothic/horror histories
• Specialised themes in horror and the Gothic (law, sexuality, disability, etc)
• Ethnographic approaches to horror and the Gothic
• Horror by the decade
• Lost Gothics
• Post-millennial horrors and Gothic(s).

Collection Advisory Board: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (Central Michigan University, USA), Carol Margaret Davison (University of Windsor, Canada), Harry M. Benshoff (University of North Texas, USA), Dylan Trigg (University of Memphis, USA and University College Dublin, Ireland), Maisha L Wester (Indiana University, USA), and Jesse Stommel (University of Mary Washington, USA).
Authors who are interested in submitting a paper should, in the first instance, send a short abstract-length proposal to the Managing Editor (Palcomms@palgrave.com) outlining the scope of their paper and its novelty; any general enquiries can also be directed to this address.

For more information on the journal’s open access policy and any relevant fees (APCs) or waivers, please see the following: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/palcomms/about/openaccess