Image Comics has posted the first 7 pages of the recent comic book series Madame Frankenstein online. Details at http://imagecomics.tumblr.com/post/106534692041/jazz-age-glamour-and-gothic-horror-in-madame. The series presents the resurrection of a 1920s-era woman as a monster and will be available in a collected edition come March 2015.
Monday, December 29, 2014
Madame Frankenstein Preview
Image Comics has posted the first 7 pages of the recent comic book series Madame Frankenstein online. Details at http://imagecomics.tumblr.com/post/106534692041/jazz-age-glamour-and-gothic-horror-in-madame. The series presents the resurrection of a 1920s-era woman as a monster and will be available in a collected edition come March 2015.
CFP Poe Studies Association Panels at the ALA (1/15/15; ALA Boston 5/21-24/15)
Poe Studies Association Panels at the ALA
CFP: “Rethinking Poe’s Sublime: Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 175 years later”; A Poe Studies Association panel at the 26th Annual American Literature Conference in Boston, MA (May 2015)
Poe abandoned his proposed Tales of the Folio Club sometime after 1835, but still wanted to issue a collected edition of his prose fiction. Dropping the literary club motif, he combined the original tales with additional items from the Southern Literary Messenger. This new collection of 25 stories became Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840). What choices informed Poe’s decisions about what to include? To what extent does the term “grotesque”—especially as it relates to Poe’s notions of the sublime—function as a defining characteristic of the two volumes’ contents? Papers are invited on specific tales as well as on Poe’s discussions of the sublime and/or the grotesque in his reviews, miscellaneous writings, and poetic treatises. Other related topics are welcome as well.
To submit a proposal, send a title and an abstract of no more than 350 words to: William Engel (wengel@sewanee.edu); in the subject line, put “PSA panel 2015.” The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2015 (panelists will be notified shortly thereafter).
CFP: “Teaching Poe and Popular Culture,” a Poe Studies Association panel at the 26th Annual American Literature Conference in Boston, MA (May 21-24, 2015)
Few American writers have enjoyed the posthumous popularity of Poe, whose works inspire adaptations in various genres such as film and graphic novel while lunchboxes and bobblehead figures commemorate the man himself. Such popularity is a boon for teachers of Poe, who can use movies, comic books, and online videos to help students make sense of a nineteenth-century writer whose stories and poems might seem, at first glance, peculiar and puzzling. Contemporary creative reinterpretations of Poe’s writings also provide insight into how we remove Poe from his antebellum milieu and refashion him to suit our tastes. Studying Poe’s nineteenth-century career, students can discern how popular trends shaped his work, for the example of Poe reveals many ways that writers respond to and shape mass culture. The Poe Studies Association solicits proposals for this pedagogical panel. Possible topics include Poe and contemporary Gothicism; The Raven and Poe biography; Poe’s influence on filmmakers such as Corman and Burton; Poe as rock-and-roll icon; popular images of Poe’s body; nineteenth-century sensation fiction and Poe; Poe and death in antebellum popular culture; Stephen Foster, Poe, and the popular lyric in the nineteenth-century. Other related topics are, of course, welcome.
To submit a proposal, send a title and an abstract of no more than 350 words to Travis Montgomery at tdmontgomery2@fhsu.edu. The subject line should read “PSA panel 2015.” The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2015.
CFP: “Rethinking Poe’s Sublime: Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 175 years later”; A Poe Studies Association panel at the 26th Annual American Literature Conference in Boston, MA (May 2015)
Poe abandoned his proposed Tales of the Folio Club sometime after 1835, but still wanted to issue a collected edition of his prose fiction. Dropping the literary club motif, he combined the original tales with additional items from the Southern Literary Messenger. This new collection of 25 stories became Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840). What choices informed Poe’s decisions about what to include? To what extent does the term “grotesque”—especially as it relates to Poe’s notions of the sublime—function as a defining characteristic of the two volumes’ contents? Papers are invited on specific tales as well as on Poe’s discussions of the sublime and/or the grotesque in his reviews, miscellaneous writings, and poetic treatises. Other related topics are welcome as well.
To submit a proposal, send a title and an abstract of no more than 350 words to: William Engel (wengel@sewanee.edu); in the subject line, put “PSA panel 2015.” The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2015 (panelists will be notified shortly thereafter).
CFP: “Teaching Poe and Popular Culture,” a Poe Studies Association panel at the 26th Annual American Literature Conference in Boston, MA (May 21-24, 2015)
Few American writers have enjoyed the posthumous popularity of Poe, whose works inspire adaptations in various genres such as film and graphic novel while lunchboxes and bobblehead figures commemorate the man himself. Such popularity is a boon for teachers of Poe, who can use movies, comic books, and online videos to help students make sense of a nineteenth-century writer whose stories and poems might seem, at first glance, peculiar and puzzling. Contemporary creative reinterpretations of Poe’s writings also provide insight into how we remove Poe from his antebellum milieu and refashion him to suit our tastes. Studying Poe’s nineteenth-century career, students can discern how popular trends shaped his work, for the example of Poe reveals many ways that writers respond to and shape mass culture. The Poe Studies Association solicits proposals for this pedagogical panel. Possible topics include Poe and contemporary Gothicism; The Raven and Poe biography; Poe’s influence on filmmakers such as Corman and Burton; Poe as rock-and-roll icon; popular images of Poe’s body; nineteenth-century sensation fiction and Poe; Poe and death in antebellum popular culture; Stephen Foster, Poe, and the popular lyric in the nineteenth-century. Other related topics are, of course, welcome.
To submit a proposal, send a title and an abstract of no more than 350 words to Travis Montgomery at tdmontgomery2@fhsu.edu. The subject line should read “PSA panel 2015.” The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2015.
CFP Evil Kids in Children’s Literature (1/15/15; ALA Boston 5/21-24/15)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Children’s Literature Society
American Literature Association
26th Annual Conference
May 21-24, 2015
The Westin Copley Place
10 Huntington Avenue
Boston MA 02116-5798
Nobody Understands Me. Evil Kids in Children’s Literature
Do researchers understand evil kid characters? In children’s literature, the evil kid school
of thought changes with history. Authors write the Puritan notion of the sinful kid school,
the Lockean ignorant but educable kid, and the Romantic idealized innocent virtuous
redeeming somewhat helpless kid. Modern, Postmodern, and New Sincerity “evil” kids
range from bullies to baby vampires to misunderstood villains like Gregory Maguire’s
character Elphaba from his book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the
West (1995).
This panel examines evil children in literature. Are we seeing an increase in such
representations in contemporary children’s literature? Are independent rational thinkers
with agency represented as evil? Do evil children have more freedom to color outside of
the lines? Are actions evil, not people? Has the idea of evil changed in children’s
literature?
Please include academic rank and affiliation and AV requests
Please send abstracts or proposals (around 250 words) by Thursday, January 15, 2015 to
Dorothy Clark (Dorothy.g.clark@csun.edu), Linda Salem (Linda.salem@yahoo.com)
Children’s Literature Society
American Literature Association
26th Annual Conference
May 21-24, 2015
The Westin Copley Place
10 Huntington Avenue
Boston MA 02116-5798
Nobody Understands Me. Evil Kids in Children’s Literature
Do researchers understand evil kid characters? In children’s literature, the evil kid school
of thought changes with history. Authors write the Puritan notion of the sinful kid school,
the Lockean ignorant but educable kid, and the Romantic idealized innocent virtuous
redeeming somewhat helpless kid. Modern, Postmodern, and New Sincerity “evil” kids
range from bullies to baby vampires to misunderstood villains like Gregory Maguire’s
character Elphaba from his book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the
West (1995).
This panel examines evil children in literature. Are we seeing an increase in such
representations in contemporary children’s literature? Are independent rational thinkers
with agency represented as evil? Do evil children have more freedom to color outside of
the lines? Are actions evil, not people? Has the idea of evil changed in children’s
literature?
Please include academic rank and affiliation and AV requests
Please send abstracts or proposals (around 250 words) by Thursday, January 15, 2015 to
Dorothy Clark (Dorothy.g.clark@csun.edu), Linda Salem (Linda.salem@yahoo.com)
CFP Gods and Monsters: Historicizing Ritual, Public Memory, and the Religious Imagination conference (2/13/15; San Francisco 4/18/15)
Of potential interest:
Gods and Monsters: Historicizing Ritual, Public Memory, and the Religious Imagination
Location: California, United States
Conference Date: 2015-04-25
Date Submitted: 2014-10-30
Announcement ID: 217559
https://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=217559
Gods and Monsters: Historicizing Ritual, Public Memory, and the Religious Imagination
Saturday April 25, 2015 at San Francisco State University
In his seminal essay The Great Cat Massacre, Robert Darnton gave a sage bit of advice to academics who study culture : “When you realize that you are not getting something—a joke, a proverb, a ceremony—that is particularly meaningful to the natives, you can see where to grasp a foreign system of meaning in order to unravel it.”
The monster is a construct and a projection, always interpreting the moment in which it is created. So too we see constructions of self in cultural phenomena as diverse as comic book heroes, ghost stories, fertility rituals, hagiography-even the villainization of the “other” informs the moment in which it enter public consciousness.
It is in this spirit that the 2015 History Students Association Conference at San Francisco State University is seeking papers that explore the intersection between humanity and its constructs.
How does ritual inform mentality? What can the supernatural tell us about historic truth and memory? How can we interpret stories so as to better understand the storyteller? How does politicization shape religious experience? How does the demonization of the other inform cultural fear? What do the fantastic elements interwoven with oral histories help us to discover about cultural norms?
Cross disciplinary submissions from film studies, literature, religious and ethnic studies, art history, and anthropology are encouraged.
Submission Guidelines: Please submit abstracts of 300 words or less to hsa@mail.sfsu.edu. Please include the title of the submitted paper, your name, affiliated institution, field of study, and contact information. The deadline for submissions is February 13, 2015. If selected, final papers will be due to your panel chair no later than March 20, 2015. Conference will be held Saturday April 18, 2015 at San Francisco State University.
Recent works that resonate with the spirit of the conference include :
Louise White’s monograph published in 2000, Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa serves as a cogent example of how tales of the fantastic can be examined and interpreted to allow us to better understand the mentalities of discursive or liminal groups.
Stefan Goeble’s brilliant book on medievalism published in 2007, The Great War and Medieval Memory: War, Remembrance and Medievalism in Britain and Germany, 1914-1940, looks at how elements of medieval chivalric culture were interpreted in war memorials, interpreting iconography to uncover how communal memory functions in the search for historical continuity in the face of such horrific events.
Kelly Boylan
President, History Students Association,
San Francisco State University,
hsa@mail.sfsu.edu.
Email: hsa@mail.sfsu.edu.
Visit the website at http://history.sfsu.edu/content/hsa-2015-conference
Gods and Monsters: Historicizing Ritual, Public Memory, and the Religious Imagination
Location: California, United States
Conference Date: 2015-04-25
Date Submitted: 2014-10-30
Announcement ID: 217559
https://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=217559
Gods and Monsters: Historicizing Ritual, Public Memory, and the Religious Imagination
Saturday April 25, 2015 at San Francisco State University
In his seminal essay The Great Cat Massacre, Robert Darnton gave a sage bit of advice to academics who study culture : “When you realize that you are not getting something—a joke, a proverb, a ceremony—that is particularly meaningful to the natives, you can see where to grasp a foreign system of meaning in order to unravel it.”
The monster is a construct and a projection, always interpreting the moment in which it is created. So too we see constructions of self in cultural phenomena as diverse as comic book heroes, ghost stories, fertility rituals, hagiography-even the villainization of the “other” informs the moment in which it enter public consciousness.
It is in this spirit that the 2015 History Students Association Conference at San Francisco State University is seeking papers that explore the intersection between humanity and its constructs.
How does ritual inform mentality? What can the supernatural tell us about historic truth and memory? How can we interpret stories so as to better understand the storyteller? How does politicization shape religious experience? How does the demonization of the other inform cultural fear? What do the fantastic elements interwoven with oral histories help us to discover about cultural norms?
Cross disciplinary submissions from film studies, literature, religious and ethnic studies, art history, and anthropology are encouraged.
Submission Guidelines: Please submit abstracts of 300 words or less to hsa@mail.sfsu.edu. Please include the title of the submitted paper, your name, affiliated institution, field of study, and contact information. The deadline for submissions is February 13, 2015. If selected, final papers will be due to your panel chair no later than March 20, 2015. Conference will be held Saturday April 18, 2015 at San Francisco State University.
Recent works that resonate with the spirit of the conference include :
Louise White’s monograph published in 2000, Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa serves as a cogent example of how tales of the fantastic can be examined and interpreted to allow us to better understand the mentalities of discursive or liminal groups.
Stefan Goeble’s brilliant book on medievalism published in 2007, The Great War and Medieval Memory: War, Remembrance and Medievalism in Britain and Germany, 1914-1940, looks at how elements of medieval chivalric culture were interpreted in war memorials, interpreting iconography to uncover how communal memory functions in the search for historical continuity in the face of such horrific events.
Kelly Boylan
President, History Students Association,
San Francisco State University,
hsa@mail.sfsu.edu.
Email: hsa@mail.sfsu.edu.
Visit the website at http://history.sfsu.edu/content/hsa-2015-conference
CFP The Supernatural Revamped collection (2/1/15)
Sorry to have forgotten about this:
CFP: The Supernatural Revamped (collection of essays)
Posted on October 28, 2014 by Public Information Officer
CFP: The Supernatural Revamped (collection of essays)
http://www.fantastic-arts.org/2014/cfp-the-supernatural-revamped-collection-of-essays/
The Supernatural Revamped: From Timeworn Legends to 21st Century Chic
Editors: Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan, Nova Southeastern University
Project Overview
Editors Brodman and Doan are seeking original essays for their third of a series of books on legends and images of the supernatural in film, literature and lore from early to modern times and from peoples and cultures around the world. Their first two volumes, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013), finalist for a prestigious Bram Stoker book award, dealt exclusively with the vampire legend. This volume is more inclusive, with emphasis placed on the evolution of a broad spectrum of timeworn images of the supernatural into their more modern—even chic—forms.
Each chapter in the collection will focus on one of the following categories of supernaturals:
1. Revenants (vampires, ghosts, zombies, etc.)
2. Demons and Angels
3. Shape Shifters
4. Earthbound Supernaturals (trolls, dwarves, yetis, chupacabras, etc.)
5. Fairy Folk (elves, fairies, leprechauns, etc.)
Abstract Due Dates
Preference will be given to abstracts received before February 1, 2015. Late submissions will be accepted until April 1, 2015. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words.
Final manuscripts of 3,000-4,000 words should be submitted in Chicago Style.
Contact us and send abstracts to: brodman@nova.edu or doan@nova.edu
CFP: The Supernatural Revamped (collection of essays)
Posted on October 28, 2014 by Public Information Officer
CFP: The Supernatural Revamped (collection of essays)
http://www.fantastic-arts.org/2014/cfp-the-supernatural-revamped-collection-of-essays/
The Supernatural Revamped: From Timeworn Legends to 21st Century Chic
Editors: Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan, Nova Southeastern University
Project Overview
Editors Brodman and Doan are seeking original essays for their third of a series of books on legends and images of the supernatural in film, literature and lore from early to modern times and from peoples and cultures around the world. Their first two volumes, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013), finalist for a prestigious Bram Stoker book award, dealt exclusively with the vampire legend. This volume is more inclusive, with emphasis placed on the evolution of a broad spectrum of timeworn images of the supernatural into their more modern—even chic—forms.
Each chapter in the collection will focus on one of the following categories of supernaturals:
1. Revenants (vampires, ghosts, zombies, etc.)
2. Demons and Angels
3. Shape Shifters
4. Earthbound Supernaturals (trolls, dwarves, yetis, chupacabras, etc.)
5. Fairy Folk (elves, fairies, leprechauns, etc.)
Abstract Due Dates
Preference will be given to abstracts received before February 1, 2015. Late submissions will be accepted until April 1, 2015. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words.
Final manuscripts of 3,000-4,000 words should be submitted in Chicago Style.
Contact us and send abstracts to: brodman@nova.edu or doan@nova.edu
Saturday, November 22, 2014
CFP Screening Animals and the Inhuman (1/11/15; UK 6/26-28/15)
Of possible interest (courtesy of H-Film):
From: Screen Editorial (Glasgow) <screen@arts.gla.ac.uk>
The theme of the forthcoming Screen Studies Conference, organised by the journal Screen and programmed by Screen editor Karen Lury, will be “Screening Animals and the Inhuman”.
Chiming with the increasing interest in the representation and agency of animals and non-human others in film, television and other audio-visual texts, we invite papers that address questions, representations and the performativity of the animal and of the ‘inhuman’ on and with screen based media. Presentations and papers on wider aspects of film and television will also be considered. Panel submissions will be considered but not prioritised.
Confirmed keynote speakers are Michael Lawrence (University of Sussex), Susan McHugh (University of New England) and Anat Pick (Queen Mary, University of London).
This year we would also like to invite poster presentations. Selected posters will be displayed in the central reception area of the conference, with a scheduled session for delegates to discuss content and ideas with presenters. The editors will also award a small prize for the best poster of the conference, to be announced at the final plenary session. Delegates may submit proposals for a paper and a poster but the editors will select only one mode of presentation per delegate.
The deadline for submissions is midnight (GMT), Sunday, 11 January 2015. Notifications of the outcome will be sent before end February.
To submit your proposal, please visit the link for further instructions: http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/screen/conference2015/
Screen
Gilmorehill Centre
University of Glasgow
Glasgow
G12 8QQ
www.screen.arts.gla.ac.uk
+44 (0)141 330 5035
screen@arts.gla.ac.uk
Screen available online at http://screen.oxfordjournals.org
From the Conference Website (http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/screen/conference2015/):
Call for papers: "Screening Animals and the Inhuman"
25th Annual Screen Studies Conference
26-28 June 2015, University of Glasgow, Scotland
The theme of the forthcoming Screen Studies Conference, organised by the journal Screen and programmed by Screen editor Karen Lury, is “Screening Animals and the Inhuman”.
Chiming with the increasing interest in the representation and agency of animals and non-human others in film, television and other audio-visual texts, we invite papers that address questions, representations and the performativity of the animal and of the ‘inhuman’ on and with screen based media. Presentations and papers on wider aspects of film and television will also be considered. Panel submissions will be considered but not prioritised.
The keynote speakers are Michael Lawrence (University of Sussex), Susan McHugh (University of New England) and Anat Pick (Queen Mary, University of London).
This year we would also like to invite poster presentations. Selected posters will be displayed in the central reception area of the conference, with a scheduled session for delegates to discuss content and ideas with presenters. The editors will also award a small prize for the best poster of the conference, to be announced at the final plenary session. Delegates may submit proposals for a paper and a poster but the editors will select only one mode of presentation per delegate.
The deadline for submissions is midnight (GMT), Sunday, 11 January 2015. Notifications of the outcome will be sent before end February.
Please download the appropriate template (see links at right), to submit your proposal. Please note that abstracts exceeding the 200-word limit will be returned for editing and resubmission.
Registration
Registration for the conference will open in March/April; an alert and booking link will be sent to all speakers and members of Screen's mailing list. Publishers on the mailing list will receive a similar alert enabling them to book stands and inserts.
Both speakers and non-speakers pay the same fee: £176 (full)/£95 (student). This fee includes lunches and refreshments on Saturday and Sunday and a wine reception on Friday evening. The conference dinner, and accommodation in student halls of residence can be booked during registration for an additional fee.
From: Screen Editorial (Glasgow) <screen@arts.gla.ac.uk>
The theme of the forthcoming Screen Studies Conference, organised by the journal Screen and programmed by Screen editor Karen Lury, will be “Screening Animals and the Inhuman”.
Chiming with the increasing interest in the representation and agency of animals and non-human others in film, television and other audio-visual texts, we invite papers that address questions, representations and the performativity of the animal and of the ‘inhuman’ on and with screen based media. Presentations and papers on wider aspects of film and television will also be considered. Panel submissions will be considered but not prioritised.
Confirmed keynote speakers are Michael Lawrence (University of Sussex), Susan McHugh (University of New England) and Anat Pick (Queen Mary, University of London).
This year we would also like to invite poster presentations. Selected posters will be displayed in the central reception area of the conference, with a scheduled session for delegates to discuss content and ideas with presenters. The editors will also award a small prize for the best poster of the conference, to be announced at the final plenary session. Delegates may submit proposals for a paper and a poster but the editors will select only one mode of presentation per delegate.
The deadline for submissions is midnight (GMT), Sunday, 11 January 2015. Notifications of the outcome will be sent before end February.
To submit your proposal, please visit the link for further instructions: http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/screen/conference2015/
Screen
Gilmorehill Centre
University of Glasgow
Glasgow
G12 8QQ
www.screen.arts.gla.ac.uk
+44 (0)141 330 5035
screen@arts.gla.ac.uk
Screen available online at http://screen.oxfordjournals.org
From the Conference Website (http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/screen/conference2015/):
Call for papers: "Screening Animals and the Inhuman"
25th Annual Screen Studies Conference
26-28 June 2015, University of Glasgow, Scotland
The theme of the forthcoming Screen Studies Conference, organised by the journal Screen and programmed by Screen editor Karen Lury, is “Screening Animals and the Inhuman”.
Chiming with the increasing interest in the representation and agency of animals and non-human others in film, television and other audio-visual texts, we invite papers that address questions, representations and the performativity of the animal and of the ‘inhuman’ on and with screen based media. Presentations and papers on wider aspects of film and television will also be considered. Panel submissions will be considered but not prioritised.
The keynote speakers are Michael Lawrence (University of Sussex), Susan McHugh (University of New England) and Anat Pick (Queen Mary, University of London).
This year we would also like to invite poster presentations. Selected posters will be displayed in the central reception area of the conference, with a scheduled session for delegates to discuss content and ideas with presenters. The editors will also award a small prize for the best poster of the conference, to be announced at the final plenary session. Delegates may submit proposals for a paper and a poster but the editors will select only one mode of presentation per delegate.
The deadline for submissions is midnight (GMT), Sunday, 11 January 2015. Notifications of the outcome will be sent before end February.
Please download the appropriate template (see links at right), to submit your proposal. Please note that abstracts exceeding the 200-word limit will be returned for editing and resubmission.
Registration
Registration for the conference will open in March/April; an alert and booking link will be sent to all speakers and members of Screen's mailing list. Publishers on the mailing list will receive a similar alert enabling them to book stands and inserts.
Both speakers and non-speakers pay the same fee: £176 (full)/£95 (student). This fee includes lunches and refreshments on Saturday and Sunday and a wine reception on Friday evening. The conference dinner, and accommodation in student halls of residence can be booked during registration for an additional fee.
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Dracula Session Information
Details regarding the Area's upcoming Dracula-themed panel have been posted to the NEPCA Fantastic site and can be accessed at http://nepcafantastic.blogspot.com/2014/11/dracula-panel-details.html.
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
CFP Daughter of Fangdom Conference (12/15/14; UK 4/18/15)
Daughter of Fangdom
Location: United Kingdom
Call for Papers Date: 2014-12-15
Date Submitted: 2014-10-13
Announcement ID: 217102
https://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=217102
Daughter of Fangdom: A Conference on Women and the Television Vampire
18 April 2015
The University of Roehampton
Following the success of TV Fangdom: A Conference on Television Vampires in 2013, the organisers announce a follow-up one-day conference, Daughter of Fangdom: A Conference on Women and the Television Vampire. Though Dracula remains the iconic image, female vampires have been around at least as long, if not longer, than their male counterparts and now they play a pivotal role within the ever expanding world of the TV vampire, often undermining or challenging the male vampires that so often dominate these shows. Women have also long been involved in the creation and the representation of vampires both male and female. The fiction of female writers such as Charlaine Harris and L.J. Smith has served as core course material for the televisual conception and re-conception of the reluctant vampire, while TV writers and producers such as Marti Noxon (Buffy) and Julie Plec (The Vampire Diaries and The Originals) have played a significant role in shaping the development of the genre for television.
Since vampires are not technically human, the terms male and female may apply, but representation of gender has the potential to be more fluid if vampires exist outside of human society. Given the ubiquity of the vampire in popular culture and particularly on TV, how is the female represented in vampire television? What roles do women have in bringing female vampires to the small screen? In what ways has the female vampire been remade for different eras of television, different TV genres, or different national contexts? Is the vampire on TV addressed specifically to female audiences and how do female viewers engage with TV vampires? What spaces exist on television for evading the gender binary and abandoning categories of male and female vampires altogether?
Proposals are invited on (but not limited to) the following topics:
We will be particularly interested in proposals on older TV shows, on those that have rarely been considered as vampire fictions, and on analysis of international vampire TV. The conference organisers welcome contributions from scholars within and outside universities, including research students, and perspectives are invited from different disciplines.
Please send proposals (250 words) for 20 minute papers plus a brief biography (100 words) to all three organisers by 15th December 2014.
s.abbott@roehampton.ac.uk
lorna.jowett@northampton.ac.uk
mike.starr@northampton.ac.uk
Conference Website: http://tvfangdom.wordpress.com/2014/10/13/daughter-of-fangdom-a-conference-on-women-and-the-television-vampire/
Lorna Jowett
University of Northampton
Email: lorna.jowett@northampton.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://tvfangdom.wordpress.com/2014/10/13/daughter-of-fangdom-a-conference-on-women-and-the-television-vampire/
Location: United Kingdom
Call for Papers Date: 2014-12-15
Date Submitted: 2014-10-13
Announcement ID: 217102
https://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=217102
Daughter of Fangdom: A Conference on Women and the Television Vampire
18 April 2015
The University of Roehampton
Following the success of TV Fangdom: A Conference on Television Vampires in 2013, the organisers announce a follow-up one-day conference, Daughter of Fangdom: A Conference on Women and the Television Vampire. Though Dracula remains the iconic image, female vampires have been around at least as long, if not longer, than their male counterparts and now they play a pivotal role within the ever expanding world of the TV vampire, often undermining or challenging the male vampires that so often dominate these shows. Women have also long been involved in the creation and the representation of vampires both male and female. The fiction of female writers such as Charlaine Harris and L.J. Smith has served as core course material for the televisual conception and re-conception of the reluctant vampire, while TV writers and producers such as Marti Noxon (Buffy) and Julie Plec (The Vampire Diaries and The Originals) have played a significant role in shaping the development of the genre for television.
Since vampires are not technically human, the terms male and female may apply, but representation of gender has the potential to be more fluid if vampires exist outside of human society. Given the ubiquity of the vampire in popular culture and particularly on TV, how is the female represented in vampire television? What roles do women have in bringing female vampires to the small screen? In what ways has the female vampire been remade for different eras of television, different TV genres, or different national contexts? Is the vampire on TV addressed specifically to female audiences and how do female viewers engage with TV vampires? What spaces exist on television for evading the gender binary and abandoning categories of male and female vampires altogether?
Proposals are invited on (but not limited to) the following topics:
- TV’s development of the female vampire
- Negotiation of gender and sexuality
- Evading binaries
- Female writers/ directors/ producers/ actors in vampire TV
- Adaptation and authorship
- Genre hybridity
- Female vampires in TV advertising
- New media, ancillary materials, extended and transmedia narratives
- Intersection with other media (novels, films, comics, video games, music)
- Audience and consumption (including fandom)
- The female and children’s vampire television
- Inter/national variants
- Translation and dubbing
We will be particularly interested in proposals on older TV shows, on those that have rarely been considered as vampire fictions, and on analysis of international vampire TV. The conference organisers welcome contributions from scholars within and outside universities, including research students, and perspectives are invited from different disciplines.
Please send proposals (250 words) for 20 minute papers plus a brief biography (100 words) to all three organisers by 15th December 2014.
s.abbott@roehampton.ac.uk
lorna.jowett@northampton.ac.uk
mike.starr@northampton.ac.uk
Conference Website: http://tvfangdom.wordpress.com/2014/10/13/daughter-of-fangdom-a-conference-on-women-and-the-television-vampire/
Lorna Jowett
University of Northampton
Email: lorna.jowett@northampton.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://tvfangdom.wordpress.com/2014/10/13/daughter-of-fangdom-a-conference-on-women-and-the-television-vampire/
CFP The Horror Classics (Spec. Issue of Journal of Dracula Studies) (1/1/15)
Special Edition 2015 Journal of Dracula Studies (Jan 1, 2015)
full name / name of organization:
Journal of Dracula Studies
contact email:
journalofdraculastudies@kutztown.edu
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/59087
In 2015 we will be publishing a special edition of the Journal of Dracula Studies to mark the 20th anniversary of our Chapter. The theme of this edition will be The Horror Classics.
We invite manuscripts of scholarly, reader-friendly, articles of 3000 words or less for The Horror Classics. We are looking for articles which explore the classic horror monsters of literature, film, comics from the
Golden Age of horror (Tales From the Crypt etc), and TV: The Mummy, Ghosts, The Witch, Mad Scientists, Swamp Monsters, Zombies, The Haunted House, The Werewolf, Aliens, Edward Gory etc. (For this special edition, we are not publishing material on the Vampire). Material is not limited to any historical era.
We require that articles be free of jargon and over-dependence on literary criticism.
Send submissions (electronic only) to Curt Herr (journalofdraculastudies@kutztown.edu). Please put “Special Edition: Horror Classics” in the subject line.
Deadline: Jan. 1, 2015
By web submission at 10/24/2014 - 16:10
full name / name of organization:
Journal of Dracula Studies
contact email:
journalofdraculastudies@kutztown.edu
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/59087
In 2015 we will be publishing a special edition of the Journal of Dracula Studies to mark the 20th anniversary of our Chapter. The theme of this edition will be The Horror Classics.
We invite manuscripts of scholarly, reader-friendly, articles of 3000 words or less for The Horror Classics. We are looking for articles which explore the classic horror monsters of literature, film, comics from the
Golden Age of horror (Tales From the Crypt etc), and TV: The Mummy, Ghosts, The Witch, Mad Scientists, Swamp Monsters, Zombies, The Haunted House, The Werewolf, Aliens, Edward Gory etc. (For this special edition, we are not publishing material on the Vampire). Material is not limited to any historical era.
We require that articles be free of jargon and over-dependence on literary criticism.
Send submissions (electronic only) to Curt Herr (journalofdraculastudies@kutztown.edu). Please put “Special Edition: Horror Classics” in the subject line.
Deadline: Jan. 1, 2015
By web submission at 10/24/2014 - 16:10
CFP Zombie Culture Area (SWPCA/ACA) (11/1/14; 2/11-14/15)
I hope these papers get collected somewhere:
Zombie Culture-CFP-Southwest Popular Culture Association 2015
Location: New Mexico, United States
Conference Date: 2015-02-11
Date Submitted: 2014-10-12
Announcement ID: 217079
https://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=217079
Call for Papers/Presentations: Zombie Culture
Southwest Popular Culture and American Culture Association 2015
http://southwestpca.org/
http://conference2015.southwestpca.org
Make plans to join the Southwest PCA/ACA for our 36th annual conference, February 11-14th
2015, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel and Conference Center in beautiful Albuquerque, New Mexico
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras NW
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA 87102
Tel: +1 505 842 1234 or 888-421-1442
The area chair for Zombie Culture seeks papers and presentations on any aspect of the zombie in popular culture and history. It seems as though the world has gone “zombie crazy.” There are zombie walks, games on college campuses like “Humans Vs. Zombies,” zombie children’s books, zombie poetry, fiction, video games, zombie ammunition and guns, and zombie running contests. Almost anything can be “zombified” and society and fans all over the world are literally “eating it up.” The zombie has come to represent the chaotic world we live in, and courses continue to pop up on college and university campuses all over the world. This is due in large part to the success of films like Night of the Living Dead, Zombie Flesh Eaters (Zombi 2), Dawn of the Dead, 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead, and most recently Warm Bodies, World War Z, and the television program The Walking Dead.
Any aspect of Zombie Culture will be given consideration. What is distinctively American (if anything) in the zombie in film, literature, and popular culture in general? How does the zombie influence American Culture in a way that resonates in our transmedia world?
Some topics to consider:
Directors: George Romero, Lucio Fulci, Umberto Lenzi, Todd Sheets, Danny Boyle, Sam Rami, Peter Jackson, Amando de Ossorio…
Specific zombie films: White Zombie, King of the Zombies, Dawn of the Dead, Tombs of the Blind Dead, Dead Alive, Evil Dead, Zombies on Broadway, World War Z…..
Specific books/zombie literature: Zombie Bake Off, World War Z, Book of All Flesh, Case of Charles Dexter Ward…
Zombie writers’ fiction and non-fiction: Stephen Graham Jones, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Kirkman, Steve Niles, Max Brooks, Matt Mogk, Jovanka Vuckovic, Stephen King…..
The Walking Dead
Zombie comics (any aspect: history, cultural impact, storytelling…)
Zombies since 9/11
Zombie children’s books
Zombie running
Fast vs. slow zombies
Zombie gore
Teaching the zombie (zombie pedagogy)
Zombie cos-play
Zombie brains-food
Zombie video games
Zombie ants
Can a real zombie outbreak happen?
The voodoo zombie-the historical roots of the zombie
The Euro-zombie
Nazi–zombies
Viking zombies
Marvel zombies
What exactly is a zombie?
Humans vs. zombies
Zombies across the world (Ro-langs…)
Zombies’ roots in cinema
Are mummies/Frankenstein’s monster zombies?
What does the rise in the zombie’s popularity tell us about society?
These are just a few of the topics that could be discussed.
Please submit your paper title and 100- to 300-word abstract by November 1, 2014, through our database, which can be accessed at:
http://conference2015.southwestpca.org
Please note there are monetary awards for the best graduate student papers in a variety of categories.
See http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards
The organization also has a new open access peer reviewed journal that encourages you to submit your work.
See: Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy: http://journaldialogue.org/
Area Chair: Rob Weiner
Humanities Librarian, Texas Tech University Library
rweiner5@sbcglobal.net
http://southwestpca.org/
Rob Weiner
Texas Tech University Library
Box 40002
Lubbock Texas
79409
Email: rweiner5@sbcglobal.net
Zombie Culture-CFP-Southwest Popular Culture Association 2015
Location: New Mexico, United States
Conference Date: 2015-02-11
Date Submitted: 2014-10-12
Announcement ID: 217079
https://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=217079
Call for Papers/Presentations: Zombie Culture
Southwest Popular Culture and American Culture Association 2015
http://southwestpca.org/
http://conference2015.southwestpca.org
Make plans to join the Southwest PCA/ACA for our 36th annual conference, February 11-14th
2015, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel and Conference Center in beautiful Albuquerque, New Mexico
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras NW
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA 87102
Tel: +1 505 842 1234 or 888-421-1442
The area chair for Zombie Culture seeks papers and presentations on any aspect of the zombie in popular culture and history. It seems as though the world has gone “zombie crazy.” There are zombie walks, games on college campuses like “Humans Vs. Zombies,” zombie children’s books, zombie poetry, fiction, video games, zombie ammunition and guns, and zombie running contests. Almost anything can be “zombified” and society and fans all over the world are literally “eating it up.” The zombie has come to represent the chaotic world we live in, and courses continue to pop up on college and university campuses all over the world. This is due in large part to the success of films like Night of the Living Dead, Zombie Flesh Eaters (Zombi 2), Dawn of the Dead, 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead, and most recently Warm Bodies, World War Z, and the television program The Walking Dead.
Any aspect of Zombie Culture will be given consideration. What is distinctively American (if anything) in the zombie in film, literature, and popular culture in general? How does the zombie influence American Culture in a way that resonates in our transmedia world?
Some topics to consider:
Directors: George Romero, Lucio Fulci, Umberto Lenzi, Todd Sheets, Danny Boyle, Sam Rami, Peter Jackson, Amando de Ossorio…
Specific zombie films: White Zombie, King of the Zombies, Dawn of the Dead, Tombs of the Blind Dead, Dead Alive, Evil Dead, Zombies on Broadway, World War Z…..
Specific books/zombie literature: Zombie Bake Off, World War Z, Book of All Flesh, Case of Charles Dexter Ward…
Zombie writers’ fiction and non-fiction: Stephen Graham Jones, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Kirkman, Steve Niles, Max Brooks, Matt Mogk, Jovanka Vuckovic, Stephen King…..
The Walking Dead
Zombie comics (any aspect: history, cultural impact, storytelling…)
Zombies since 9/11
Zombie children’s books
Zombie running
Fast vs. slow zombies
Zombie gore
Teaching the zombie (zombie pedagogy)
Zombie cos-play
Zombie brains-food
Zombie video games
Zombie ants
Can a real zombie outbreak happen?
The voodoo zombie-the historical roots of the zombie
The Euro-zombie
Nazi–zombies
Viking zombies
Marvel zombies
What exactly is a zombie?
Humans vs. zombies
Zombies across the world (Ro-langs…)
Zombies’ roots in cinema
Are mummies/Frankenstein’s monster zombies?
What does the rise in the zombie’s popularity tell us about society?
These are just a few of the topics that could be discussed.
Please submit your paper title and 100- to 300-word abstract by November 1, 2014, through our database, which can be accessed at:
http://conference2015.southwestpca.org
Please note there are monetary awards for the best graduate student papers in a variety of categories.
See http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards
The organization also has a new open access peer reviewed journal that encourages you to submit your work.
See: Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy: http://journaldialogue.org/
Area Chair: Rob Weiner
Humanities Librarian, Texas Tech University Library
rweiner5@sbcglobal.net
http://southwestpca.org/
Rob Weiner
Texas Tech University Library
Box 40002
Lubbock Texas
79409
Email: rweiner5@sbcglobal.net
CFP The Place of the Preternatural (12/15/14)
Some calls for papers before calling it a night:
Thanks to the mearcstapa list for the head's up on this one.
CALL FOR PAPERS: ISSUE 5:1: THE PLACE OF THE PRETERNATURAL
http://preternature.org/index.php/PN/announcement/view/15
Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural, invites submissions Issue 5:1: The Place of the Preternatural
For Issue 5:1 we welcome a variety of topics that represent original research on any topic relating to the appearance of the preternatural or closely related topics (magic, esotericism, demonology, the occult), from
any academic discipline and theoretical approach. We are especially interested on essays that touch on the appearance of magic, prophecy, demonology, monstrophy, the occult, and related topics that stand in the
liminal space between the natural world and the preternatural.
Contributions should usually be 8,000 - 12,000 words, including all documentation and critical apparatus. If accepted for publication, manuscripts will be required to adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition (style 1, employing endnotes).
Preternature also welcomes original editions or translations of texts related to the topic that have not otherwise been made available in recent editions or in English.
Complete papers must be submitted through Preternature's Content Management System at http://preternature.org by December 15, 2014.
Queries about submissions, queries concerning books to be reviewed, or requests to review individual titles may be made to the Editors:
Kirsten C. Uszkalo
Kirsten@uszkalo.com
Thanks to the mearcstapa list for the head's up on this one.
CALL FOR PAPERS: ISSUE 5:1: THE PLACE OF THE PRETERNATURAL
http://preternature.org/index.php/PN/announcement/view/15
Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural, invites submissions Issue 5:1: The Place of the Preternatural
For Issue 5:1 we welcome a variety of topics that represent original research on any topic relating to the appearance of the preternatural or closely related topics (magic, esotericism, demonology, the occult), from
any academic discipline and theoretical approach. We are especially interested on essays that touch on the appearance of magic, prophecy, demonology, monstrophy, the occult, and related topics that stand in the
liminal space between the natural world and the preternatural.
Contributions should usually be 8,000 - 12,000 words, including all documentation and critical apparatus. If accepted for publication, manuscripts will be required to adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition (style 1, employing endnotes).
Preternature also welcomes original editions or translations of texts related to the topic that have not otherwise been made available in recent editions or in English.
Complete papers must be submitted through Preternature's Content Management System at http://preternature.org by December 15, 2014.
Queries about submissions, queries concerning books to be reviewed, or requests to review individual titles may be made to the Editors:
Kirsten C. Uszkalo
Kirsten@uszkalo.com
Sunday, October 19, 2014
CFP Animal Horror/Animal Gothic Film Collection (expired)
Ran across this last month. Sorry to have missed posting it sooner:
Animal Horror/Gothic Horror Film (Book Project)
Event: 01/01/2015
Abstract: 01/30/2014
Categories: American, 20th & 21st Century, British, 20th & 21st Century, Comparative, Gender & Sexuality, Interdisciplinary, Cultural Studies, Film, TV, & Media, Popular Culture
Location: Publication
Organization: Umeå University, Sweden, Linnaeus University, Sweden
http://www.cfplist.com/CFP.aspx?CID=2113
Animal Horror/Animal Gothic Film
We invite proposals for the first book-length collection that explores the confrontation between the human and the animal in horror, gothic and survival film. From Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) via The Edge (1997) to Piranha 3D (2010), animal horror has charted the transformation of the domestic to the monstrous and uncanny, told stories of invasion and counter-invasion, collapsed and erected sexual and racial borders and explored the increasingly fraught relationship between human culture, human society and nature/Nature.
We are interested in contributions that explore animal horror films in the light of the ethics of the war on terror, ecological collapse, and biopolitics with an emphasis on sex, gender, race and post-/neo-/decolonial issues. In particular, we are interested in papers that address the following concerns:
• How can the understanding of animal horror be channelled through the perspectives of gender, feminist and queer studies? What forms of sexuality does the genre explore, encourage or disrupt?
• How does animal horror engage questions of terror and torture, especially in the “state of exception” that has followed in the wake of 9/11 and the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan?
• How does animal horror negotiate questions of race and ethnicity? How is race inscribed into animal horror films through portrayals of bodies, blood and the relation between human and animal worlds?
• How does animal horror explore, encourage or disturb discourses on ecology and environmental pollution? How can animal horror be understood in the light of the Anthropocene?
• Animal horror is often characterized by elements of comedy and humour. How does this complicate and subvert the conservative or progressive discourses that saturate the genre?
• How are animal horror films financed, how has the genre developed over time, and what is its relation to the entertainment industry and to the increasingly ubiquitous Military entertainment complex?
For purposes of limitation, this collection will deal only with actual (and possibly genetically enhanced) animals, but not with monsters, supernatural or mythological creatures. In other words, gigantic anacondas, sharks or crocodiles are fine, but werewolves, unicorns, Godzilla or space aliens fall outside the scope of the collection.
The editors are Johan Höglund, Katarina Gregersdotter and Nicklas Hållén. Johan Höglund (Linnaeus
University) is author of The American Imperial Gothic: Popular Culture, Empire, Violence (forthcoming Ashgate, 2014), and co-editor of Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires: Dark Blood (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Nicklas Hållén (Linnaeus University and University of York) and Katarina Gregersdotter (Umeå University) are co-editors of the anthology Femininities and Masculinities in Action: Theory and Practice in a Moving Field (ID Press, 2012). Gregersdotter is also co-editor of Rape in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy and Beyond. Contemporary Scandinavian and Anglophone Crime Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
Please send abstracts of no more than 400 words to Johan Höglund (johan.hoglund@lnu.se), Nicklas
Hållén (nicklas.hallen@lnu.se), and Katarina Gregersdotter (katarina.gregersdotter@engelska.umu.se)
before the deadline Jan 30, 2014. Full articles will be due mid to late 2014.
Contact Email: katarina.gregersdotter@engelska.umu.se
Animal Horror/Gothic Horror Film (Book Project)
Event: 01/01/2015
Abstract: 01/30/2014
Categories: American, 20th & 21st Century, British, 20th & 21st Century, Comparative, Gender & Sexuality, Interdisciplinary, Cultural Studies, Film, TV, & Media, Popular Culture
Location: Publication
Organization: Umeå University, Sweden, Linnaeus University, Sweden
http://www.cfplist.com/CFP.aspx?CID=2113
Animal Horror/Animal Gothic Film
We invite proposals for the first book-length collection that explores the confrontation between the human and the animal in horror, gothic and survival film. From Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) via The Edge (1997) to Piranha 3D (2010), animal horror has charted the transformation of the domestic to the monstrous and uncanny, told stories of invasion and counter-invasion, collapsed and erected sexual and racial borders and explored the increasingly fraught relationship between human culture, human society and nature/Nature.
We are interested in contributions that explore animal horror films in the light of the ethics of the war on terror, ecological collapse, and biopolitics with an emphasis on sex, gender, race and post-/neo-/decolonial issues. In particular, we are interested in papers that address the following concerns:
• How can the understanding of animal horror be channelled through the perspectives of gender, feminist and queer studies? What forms of sexuality does the genre explore, encourage or disrupt?
• How does animal horror engage questions of terror and torture, especially in the “state of exception” that has followed in the wake of 9/11 and the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan?
• How does animal horror negotiate questions of race and ethnicity? How is race inscribed into animal horror films through portrayals of bodies, blood and the relation between human and animal worlds?
• How does animal horror explore, encourage or disturb discourses on ecology and environmental pollution? How can animal horror be understood in the light of the Anthropocene?
• Animal horror is often characterized by elements of comedy and humour. How does this complicate and subvert the conservative or progressive discourses that saturate the genre?
• How are animal horror films financed, how has the genre developed over time, and what is its relation to the entertainment industry and to the increasingly ubiquitous Military entertainment complex?
For purposes of limitation, this collection will deal only with actual (and possibly genetically enhanced) animals, but not with monsters, supernatural or mythological creatures. In other words, gigantic anacondas, sharks or crocodiles are fine, but werewolves, unicorns, Godzilla or space aliens fall outside the scope of the collection.
The editors are Johan Höglund, Katarina Gregersdotter and Nicklas Hållén. Johan Höglund (Linnaeus
University) is author of The American Imperial Gothic: Popular Culture, Empire, Violence (forthcoming Ashgate, 2014), and co-editor of Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires: Dark Blood (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Nicklas Hållén (Linnaeus University and University of York) and Katarina Gregersdotter (Umeå University) are co-editors of the anthology Femininities and Masculinities in Action: Theory and Practice in a Moving Field (ID Press, 2012). Gregersdotter is also co-editor of Rape in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy and Beyond. Contemporary Scandinavian and Anglophone Crime Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
Please send abstracts of no more than 400 words to Johan Höglund (johan.hoglund@lnu.se), Nicklas
Hållén (nicklas.hallen@lnu.se), and Katarina Gregersdotter (katarina.gregersdotter@engelska.umu.se)
before the deadline Jan 30, 2014. Full articles will be due mid to late 2014.
Contact Email: katarina.gregersdotter@engelska.umu.se
CFP In the Blood (Themed Issue of Monsters and the Monstrous Journal) (11/28/14)
CFP: Monsters and the Monstrous Journal Themed Issue: "In The Blood": Volume 4, Number 2 (Winter 2014/15)
Publication Date: 2014-11-28
Date Submitted: 2014-09-06
Announcement ID: 216156
https://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=216156
Monsters and the Monstrous Journal: Volume 4, Number 2 (Winter 2014/15), Themed Issue: In The Blood
Call for Submissions:
This themed issue on the Monsters and Monstrosity Journal focuses on the connections between monsters, monstrosity and blood. In terms of the nature and physicality of blood itself, as a carrier of disease and contagion but also a conduit of genetic, ideological and memorial encoding.
Possible themes or points of departure:
Hot blood, in cold blood, blue blood, blood passion, bad blood, blood monsters, life blood, blood lines, blood relations, bloodshed, wire in the blood, pure blood, full blooded, blood disease, blood drinkers, blood suckers, true blood, false blood, blood art, blood addictions, menstrual blood, blood divination and written in blood, to name but a few.
This call for articles, artworks, poetry and prose considers all forms of the monsters of miscegenation, contamination, tradition, generations, revenge and rejuvenation. All and any ways that the very stuff of life becomes, and can be configured as, monstrous, threatening, deviant, mischievous and malignant.
We are also looking for film and book reviews on any theme related to the idea of Monsters and the Monstrous. All materials reviewed should have been published or released within two years of the journal issue they are submitted to. Any queries, please contact the editor at the email below.
Submissions for this Issue are required by Friday 28th November 2014 at the latest. Contributions to the journal should be original and not under consideration for other publications at the same time as they are under consideration for this publication. Submissions are to be made electronically wherever possible using either Microsoft® Word or .rtf format. All images, artworks and photographs need to have the appropriate copyright permissions before being sent in.
We also invite submission to our special features on Non-English Language Book Reviews. Please mark entries for these topics with their respective headings.
All accepted articles, artworks and prose pieces will receive a free electronic version of the journal.
Length Requirements:
~ poetry, prose, short stories can be any length but not exceed 7,000 words.
~ articles should be between 4,000 – 7,000 words long
~ reflections, reports and responses should be 1,500 – 3,000 words long
~ book and film reviews should be between 500 and 1,500 words long
Submission Information:
All submissions should include a short biography (100-150 words) that will be included with the to be included submission if accepted. Please send submissions via e-mail using the following Subject Line:
‘Journal: Contribution Type (article/review/…): Author Surname’
Submissions E-Mail Address: monstersjournal@inter-disciplinary.net
Submissions will be acknowledged within 48 hours of receipt.
For further details of the journal, please visit:
http://monstersjournal.net/submissions/
Priory House
149B Wroslyn Road
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1993 882087
Fax: +44 (0)870 4601132
Email: monstersjournal@inter-disciplinary.net
Visit the website at http://monstersjournal.net/submissions/
Publication Date: 2014-11-28
Date Submitted: 2014-09-06
Announcement ID: 216156
https://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=216156
Monsters and the Monstrous Journal: Volume 4, Number 2 (Winter 2014/15), Themed Issue: In The Blood
Call for Submissions:
This themed issue on the Monsters and Monstrosity Journal focuses on the connections between monsters, monstrosity and blood. In terms of the nature and physicality of blood itself, as a carrier of disease and contagion but also a conduit of genetic, ideological and memorial encoding.
Possible themes or points of departure:
Hot blood, in cold blood, blue blood, blood passion, bad blood, blood monsters, life blood, blood lines, blood relations, bloodshed, wire in the blood, pure blood, full blooded, blood disease, blood drinkers, blood suckers, true blood, false blood, blood art, blood addictions, menstrual blood, blood divination and written in blood, to name but a few.
This call for articles, artworks, poetry and prose considers all forms of the monsters of miscegenation, contamination, tradition, generations, revenge and rejuvenation. All and any ways that the very stuff of life becomes, and can be configured as, monstrous, threatening, deviant, mischievous and malignant.
We are also looking for film and book reviews on any theme related to the idea of Monsters and the Monstrous. All materials reviewed should have been published or released within two years of the journal issue they are submitted to. Any queries, please contact the editor at the email below.
Submissions for this Issue are required by Friday 28th November 2014 at the latest. Contributions to the journal should be original and not under consideration for other publications at the same time as they are under consideration for this publication. Submissions are to be made electronically wherever possible using either Microsoft® Word or .rtf format. All images, artworks and photographs need to have the appropriate copyright permissions before being sent in.
We also invite submission to our special features on Non-English Language Book Reviews. Please mark entries for these topics with their respective headings.
All accepted articles, artworks and prose pieces will receive a free electronic version of the journal.
Length Requirements:
~ poetry, prose, short stories can be any length but not exceed 7,000 words.
~ articles should be between 4,000 – 7,000 words long
~ reflections, reports and responses should be 1,500 – 3,000 words long
~ book and film reviews should be between 500 and 1,500 words long
Submission Information:
All submissions should include a short biography (100-150 words) that will be included with the to be included submission if accepted. Please send submissions via e-mail using the following Subject Line:
‘Journal: Contribution Type (article/review/…): Author Surname’
Submissions E-Mail Address: monstersjournal@inter-disciplinary.net
Submissions will be acknowledged within 48 hours of receipt.
For further details of the journal, please visit:
http://monstersjournal.net/submissions/
Priory House
149B Wroslyn Road
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1993 882087
Fax: +44 (0)870 4601132
Email: monstersjournal@inter-disciplinary.net
Visit the website at http://monstersjournal.net/submissions/
Minnie Mouse Witch?
Continuing from the previous post, here are the details on Hallmark's witchy Minnie Mouse.
As with Count Mickey, Minnie the Witch is depicted in 2 plush versions (in addition to her role, with Mickey, on the water globe). "Halloween Minnie Mouse" is up first. She is part of the itty bittys line (selling in stores, only, for $6.95) and is described as " the sweetest treat this Halloween". Clearly, we're not supposed to be afraid of this mouse.
Next, is the "Minnie Mouse the Witch" plush. She sells for $19.95 (though is now sold out online). As with her male counterpart, the artificiality of her costume is the highlight of her product description: "Everyone's favorite glamour mouse is all dressed up for Halloween as a beguiling and lovable witch. Minnie will cast a spell of fun over your holiday and help you get in the spirit of fun."
Given the descriptions that accompany these products, it is no surprise that the "Mickey and Minnie Mouse Water Globe" is so tame. Obviously for Disney, brand identity trumps Halloween.
As with Count Mickey, Minnie the Witch is depicted in 2 plush versions (in addition to her role, with Mickey, on the water globe). "Halloween Minnie Mouse" is up first. She is part of the itty bittys line (selling in stores, only, for $6.95) and is described as " the sweetest treat this Halloween". Clearly, we're not supposed to be afraid of this mouse.
Next, is the "Minnie Mouse the Witch" plush. She sells for $19.95 (though is now sold out online). As with her male counterpart, the artificiality of her costume is the highlight of her product description: "Everyone's favorite glamour mouse is all dressed up for Halloween as a beguiling and lovable witch. Minnie will cast a spell of fun over your holiday and help you get in the spirit of fun."
Given the descriptions that accompany these products, it is no surprise that the "Mickey and Minnie Mouse Water Globe" is so tame. Obviously for Disney, brand identity trumps Halloween.
Playing Dress-Up with Hallmark for Halloween 2014
I've been working intermittently on my NEPCA paper on the re-castings of Frankenstein, and I'm trying to categorize some of the appropriations I see. One common type is when familiar characterize (like Garfield and crew, the Smurfs, the Peanuts gang, the Archie gang, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) take upon the appearance of one of the characters of the Frankenstein story (usually inspired by Universal's versions rather than Shelley's original) for humorous or whimsical purposes. I'm calling this "playing dress-up" and thought I'd share some of the other monster-related examples I've come across this season.
Vampires continue to be popular, and Hallmark has a number of examples of fan-favorite characters in Bela Lugosi-inspired costumes.
The cheapest this season is a Winnie the Pooh card for $3.75 with a vampire Piglet wearing fangs and a cape.
There are also a series of items featuring a vampiric Mickey Mouse. The cutest is part of Hallmarks's itty bittys line sold (in stores only) for $6.95. The product page details that this "Count Mickey" just " 'vants' to be yours this Halloween," in a play on Lugosi's famous accent. He is presented as the most "real", but his deformed appearance lessens the impact of Mickey's transformation and the cuteness of its humor greatly reduces his scariness.
A larger version (at 7" W x 9.25" H x 7" D) of this undead incarnation of Mickey is labelled "Count Mickey Mouse". He sells for $19.95 and is now sold out online. In an attempt to further separate appearance from potential action, his description focuses on the artificiality of his costume, explaining, "Fresh from Transylvania, this elegant vampire is none other than our friend Mickey! But never fear—this plush pushover won't really bite."
Vampire Mickey reappears as part of the Mickey and Minnie Mouse Water Globe collectible, which includes Minnie dressed as a witch (more of this to follow). The water globe (retailing at $39.95) is also now sold out online; like the plush Count Mickey Mouse, it, too, highlights the fake-ness of Mickey and Minnie's monstrous appearances, rather than the potentially more sinister connotations of two creatures of the night gazing at two small, innocent chipmunks.
Notice that this Mickey has been de-fanged, a detail that de-emphasizes any possibility of horror (or even delight) here. The description is likewise brightened, noting "This decoration will add a fun and festive touch to your mantel or party table. Dressed for trick-or-treating, Mickey and Minnie peer into a jack-o'-lantern water globe at a fall scene where two furry friends are frolicking" (and not, we should note, being spied upon as a potential meal).
My final example here presents vampiric versions of Charles Schulz's Snoopy and Woodstock. Titled "Hangin' With Count Snoopy," the item is part of the ongoing Peanuts series of Keepsake Ornaments and sells for $24.95 (though it is now, also, sold out online). The product and its description offers a better blend of horror and play than the larger Mickeys. First, the description reads, "Snoopy's doghouse is all decked out for the season of screams. Press the button on the ornament to hear spooky Halloween music play. Trick or treat—if you dare!" The item presents Snoopy (dressed partly as a vampire and partly as a witch) with arms outstretched and a group of vampiric Woodstocks (bird wings replaced with bat wings) in attendance apparently guarding their vampiric overlord.
Playing the accompanying music clip creates a chilling effect. The sample begins with a excerpt from Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, a theme closely associated with Halloween ever since its use in the opening credits for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) (thanks Wikipedia!). Interspersed with the music track is the sound of Snoopy's voice, but it is anything but familiar. Instead, Snoopy seems to relish his new role as the undead and utters a series of menacing laughs better pronounced by megalomaniacal monsters (like Victor Frankenstein or Count Dracula) than lovable old Snoopy. Here is a triumph of Halloween over brand identity.
Vampires continue to be popular, and Hallmark has a number of examples of fan-favorite characters in Bela Lugosi-inspired costumes.
The cheapest this season is a Winnie the Pooh card for $3.75 with a vampire Piglet wearing fangs and a cape.
A larger version (at 7" W x 9.25" H x 7" D) of this undead incarnation of Mickey is labelled "Count Mickey Mouse". He sells for $19.95 and is now sold out online. In an attempt to further separate appearance from potential action, his description focuses on the artificiality of his costume, explaining, "Fresh from Transylvania, this elegant vampire is none other than our friend Mickey! But never fear—this plush pushover won't really bite."
Vampire Mickey reappears as part of the Mickey and Minnie Mouse Water Globe collectible, which includes Minnie dressed as a witch (more of this to follow). The water globe (retailing at $39.95) is also now sold out online; like the plush Count Mickey Mouse, it, too, highlights the fake-ness of Mickey and Minnie's monstrous appearances, rather than the potentially more sinister connotations of two creatures of the night gazing at two small, innocent chipmunks.
Notice that this Mickey has been de-fanged, a detail that de-emphasizes any possibility of horror (or even delight) here. The description is likewise brightened, noting "This decoration will add a fun and festive touch to your mantel or party table. Dressed for trick-or-treating, Mickey and Minnie peer into a jack-o'-lantern water globe at a fall scene where two furry friends are frolicking" (and not, we should note, being spied upon as a potential meal).
My final example here presents vampiric versions of Charles Schulz's Snoopy and Woodstock. Titled "Hangin' With Count Snoopy," the item is part of the ongoing Peanuts series of Keepsake Ornaments and sells for $24.95 (though it is now, also, sold out online). The product and its description offers a better blend of horror and play than the larger Mickeys. First, the description reads, "Snoopy's doghouse is all decked out for the season of screams. Press the button on the ornament to hear spooky Halloween music play. Trick or treat—if you dare!" The item presents Snoopy (dressed partly as a vampire and partly as a witch) with arms outstretched and a group of vampiric Woodstocks (bird wings replaced with bat wings) in attendance apparently guarding their vampiric overlord.
Playing the accompanying music clip creates a chilling effect. The sample begins with a excerpt from Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, a theme closely associated with Halloween ever since its use in the opening credits for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) (thanks Wikipedia!). Interspersed with the music track is the sound of Snoopy's voice, but it is anything but familiar. Instead, Snoopy seems to relish his new role as the undead and utters a series of menacing laughs better pronounced by megalomaniacal monsters (like Victor Frankenstein or Count Dracula) than lovable old Snoopy. Here is a triumph of Halloween over brand identity.
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Dracula Panel Update
I am pleased to report that our session “Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Contexts and Afterlives” has been accepted for inclusion at “Beyond the Pale: Alienation, Sites of Resistance, and Modern Ireland”: The 2014 Meeting of the New England Region of the American Conference for Irish Studies to be held at Wheaton College in Norton, MA from 21-22 November 2014.
Papers include the following:
Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Contexts and Afterlives
Sponsored by The Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Legend Area of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association (NEPCA)
Organizer/Presider: Michael A. Torregrossa, Independent Scholar
“Using Dracula to Explore 19th-Century Reactions to Medical Theories from the Preceding Century”
Nicole Salomone, Independent Scholar
“My Revenge is Just Begun—The Evolution of Superstition and Science from Stoker’s Dracula to NBC’s Primetime Series Dracula”
Marijana Stojkovic, East Tennessee State University
“Re-fashioning Dracula: Psychic Vampires in Postwar American Culture”
Kristin Bidoshi, Union College
“A Transylvanian Count in Camelot? Investigating the Draculas of the Modern Matter of Britain”
Michael A. Torregrossa, Independent Scholar
Papers include the following:
Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Contexts and Afterlives
Sponsored by The Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Legend Area of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association (NEPCA)
Organizer/Presider: Michael A. Torregrossa, Independent Scholar
“Using Dracula to Explore 19th-Century Reactions to Medical Theories from the Preceding Century”
Nicole Salomone, Independent Scholar
“My Revenge is Just Begun—The Evolution of Superstition and Science from Stoker’s Dracula to NBC’s Primetime Series Dracula”
Marijana Stojkovic, East Tennessee State University
“Re-fashioning Dracula: Psychic Vampires in Postwar American Culture”
Kristin Bidoshi, Union College
“A Transylvanian Count in Camelot? Investigating the Draculas of the Modern Matter of Britain”
Michael A. Torregrossa, Independent Scholar
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Supernatural in Literature and Film Conference 2015 (8/31/14; Macau 3/26-28/15)
Almost missed this (it looks to be recorded incorrectly in the CFP database):
The Supernatural in Literature and Film
Location: Macau
Conference Date: 2014-03-26 (Archive)
Date Submitted: 2014-01-23
Announcement ID: 210698
https://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=210698
'The Supernatural in Literature and Film' is an international academic conference that explores the role of the supernatural in literature and film throughout history.
Deadline for Abstracts: 30 August 2014 (see cfp)
Although tales of the supernatural are as old as literature itself, they have never fallen completely out of fashion but have instead kept pace with the times. Whereas the hero of the Medieval Beowulf poem vanquished beasts from beyond Anglo-Saxon civilisation and the knights in Spenser’s Early Modern Faerie Queen fought in an allegorical Holy War, the supernatural continues to shed light on its societal context in today’s literature and film. For instance, changing cultural and scientific trends have caused Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) to mean something different from the diverse Translyvanian vampires of Murnau (1922), Universal Studios (1931), Hammer Films (1958-74), Polanski (1967), Coppola (1992), Brooks (1995), Argento (2012), and so on.
Yet the literary and cinematic supernatural cannot merely be regarded as an artistic technique for coping with human aspirations and fears; it also relates to genuine historical or contemporary religious and folk beliefs. Relative to their fictional reflections, such real-world beliefs may serve entirely different purposes—or indeed, no purposes at all.
From friendly ghosts to vengeful spirits, from dainty fairies to Lovecraftian horrors, from magic dragons to atomic monsters, the literary and cinematic supernatural has had an enduring influence on how we live our lives.
'The Supernatural in Literature and Film' will take place in the tropical city-state of Macau, a special administrative region of China, on 26-28 March 2015.
The conference will feature presentations by academics and practitioners. It will also be possible to hear talks from the conference 'Vernacular Religion, Folk Belief, and Traditions of the Supernatural' (http://www.islanddynamics.org/folkloreconference-2015.html). On 28 March, delegates can participate in a post-conference tour of beautiful Lantau Island (Hong Kong), site of Tai O fishing village and the world’s largest seated bronze Buddha.
Adam Grydehøj
Island Dynamics
Copenhagen, Denmark
Tel.: +45 53401982
Email: agrydehoj@islanddynamics.org
Visit the website at http://www.islanddynamics.org/supernaturalconference-2015.html
The Supernatural in Literature and Film
Location: Macau
Conference Date: 2014-03-26 (Archive)
Date Submitted: 2014-01-23
Announcement ID: 210698
https://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=210698
'The Supernatural in Literature and Film' is an international academic conference that explores the role of the supernatural in literature and film throughout history.
Deadline for Abstracts: 30 August 2014 (see cfp)
Although tales of the supernatural are as old as literature itself, they have never fallen completely out of fashion but have instead kept pace with the times. Whereas the hero of the Medieval Beowulf poem vanquished beasts from beyond Anglo-Saxon civilisation and the knights in Spenser’s Early Modern Faerie Queen fought in an allegorical Holy War, the supernatural continues to shed light on its societal context in today’s literature and film. For instance, changing cultural and scientific trends have caused Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) to mean something different from the diverse Translyvanian vampires of Murnau (1922), Universal Studios (1931), Hammer Films (1958-74), Polanski (1967), Coppola (1992), Brooks (1995), Argento (2012), and so on.
Yet the literary and cinematic supernatural cannot merely be regarded as an artistic technique for coping with human aspirations and fears; it also relates to genuine historical or contemporary religious and folk beliefs. Relative to their fictional reflections, such real-world beliefs may serve entirely different purposes—or indeed, no purposes at all.
From friendly ghosts to vengeful spirits, from dainty fairies to Lovecraftian horrors, from magic dragons to atomic monsters, the literary and cinematic supernatural has had an enduring influence on how we live our lives.
'The Supernatural in Literature and Film' will take place in the tropical city-state of Macau, a special administrative region of China, on 26-28 March 2015.
The conference will feature presentations by academics and practitioners. It will also be possible to hear talks from the conference 'Vernacular Religion, Folk Belief, and Traditions of the Supernatural' (http://www.islanddynamics.org/folkloreconference-2015.html). On 28 March, delegates can participate in a post-conference tour of beautiful Lantau Island (Hong Kong), site of Tai O fishing village and the world’s largest seated bronze Buddha.
Adam Grydehøj
Island Dynamics
Copenhagen, Denmark
Tel.: +45 53401982
Email: agrydehoj@islanddynamics.org
Visit the website at http://www.islanddynamics.org/supernaturalconference-2015.html
Dracula Panel Again (Please Respond ASAP)
Still looking for panelists:
I'm trying to organize a panel on Bram Stoker's Dracula (including its contexts, paratexts, and afterlives) for the 2014 New England Regional Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies. The conference meets from 21-22 November 2014 at Wheaton College. Further details at http://acisweb.org/announcement/cfp-acis-new-england-regional-nov-21-22-wheaton-college/.
Please email me, ASAP, at NEPCAFantastic@gmail.com (using "Dracula Panel" as your subject) if are interested.
Michael Torregrossa
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Area Chair
Northeast Popular Culture/America Culture Association
--
I'm trying to organize a panel on Bram Stoker's Dracula (including its contexts, paratexts, and afterlives) for the 2014 New England Regional Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies. The conference meets from 21-22 November 2014 at Wheaton College. Further details at http://acisweb.org/announcement/cfp-acis-new-england-regional-nov-21-22-wheaton-college/.
Please email me, ASAP, at NEPCAFantastic@gmail.com (using "Dracula Panel" as your subject) if are interested.
Michael Torregrossa
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Area Chair
Northeast Popular Culture/America Culture Association
--
Monday, August 18, 2014
Jones's Studying Pan's Labyrinth
This is an informative text, but often reads like an introduction to film studies (perhaps that is the point of the series?) in its frequent straying from the specific film under discussion to explore larger issues related to film and film making.Studying Pan's Labyrinth
Tanya Jones
September, 2010
Paper, 160 pages, 10 b&w
ISBN: 978-1-906733-30-8
Auteur
$15.00 / £10.50
Distributed by Columbia University Press: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-1-906733-30-8/studying-pans-labyrinth
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) is a film of extraordinary technical achievement and intense emotional impact, garnering acclaim from both critics and audiences alike. Such a rich cinematic text demands close scrutiny and comprehensive study. This volume guides the reader through a detailed analysis of the film, concentrating on the generation of meaning for the viewer. The book maps technical choices and how they capture human experience and political conflict. It also details the processes of production, distribution, and exhibition. Specific examples from a range of film texts enable a vivid grasp of technical vocabulary, therefore providing readers with the tools to analyze other films as well.
Contents (from WorldCat):
- Studying Pan's Labyrinth factsheet --
- introduction --
- narrative --
- genre --
- messages and values --
- film language --
- characterisation --
- institutions.
About the Author:
Tanya Jones is an experienced teacher of film and media studies and a senior examiner for a major examination board in the U.K. She is the author of a number of best-selling film and media studies textbooks.
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Vampyr (2nd Edition) by David Rudkin
Released late last year:Vampyr (2nd Edition)
David Rudkin
Publisher site: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/vampyr-david-rudkin/?k=9781844576449
$17.95
Paperback (96 pages)
ISBN 9781844576449
Publication Date November 2013
Formats Paperback
Publisher British Film Institute
Series BFI Film Classics
Described by its maker as a 'poem of horror', Vampyr (1932) is one of the founding works of psychological horror cinema, adapted from a collection of gothic stories by Sheridan Le Fanu and directed by the revered Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer. Despite the fact that there is no definitive print and many English versions are marred by poor quality subtitles, the film remains a vivid,
extraordinary artwork in which the inner human state is made hauntingly visible.
In a reading as passionate as it is analytic, David Rudkin reveals how this film systematically binds the spectator – spatially and morally – into its mysterious world of the undead.
This second edition features a new foreword, discussion of the Martin Koerber and Cineteca di Bologna restoration of the film in 2008, and original cover artwork by Midge Naylor.
Contents:
Foreword
1. Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889-1968)
2. Locating Vampyr in Dreyer's Cinema and it its Sources
3. The 'Problem' of Vampyr
4. Vampyr: Towards a Reading
5. The Journey to Our Grave
Notes
Credits
About the author:
David Rudkin is a screenwriter. He has written numerous plays, including Afore Night Come (RSC dir. Clifford Williams); The Sons of Light (Newcastle Playhouse dir. Keith Hack; in further revision, RSC, dir. Ron Daniels); Ashes (London Open Space Theatre, dir. Pam Brighton) and Hansel and Gretel (RSC, dir. Ron Daniels). David Rudkin has also translated plays such as The Persians and Euripides, and he offers lectures on Adaptation for the Screen and Ibsen, amongst other topics.
Friday, July 25, 2014
CFP Regional Gothic Collection (12/1/2014)
CFP: Regional Gothic(12/1/2014)
posted by MARY BETH HARRIS on JUL 03, 2014
CFP Edited Collection
Regional Gothic
Edited by William Hughes and Ruth Heholt
Abstracts Due: December 1, 2014
Essays Due: September 2015
Source: http://navsa.org/2014/07/03/cfp-regional-gothic1212014/
With the referendum for Scottish Independence scheduled for September 2014 and the Cornish having recently been granted minority status, questions about the dis-unity of the “United” Kingdom are prominent in the contemporary debate regarding nationalism and regional identity. Regional Gothic will explore these fractures and the darker imaginings that come from the regions of Britain.
The British regions, “imagined communities” with fragile and threatened identities and boundaries, carry their own dark sides and repressions. The Gothic preoccupation with borders, invasion, contamination and degeneration imbricates quite naturally with the different and shifting meanings that arise from writings from – and about – the scattered margins of British identity. Locality affects the Gothic and Regional Gothic seeks to explore these specificities. Gothic fictions of the regions may originate from within those territories or be imagined from elsewhere. Yet, whether coming from the inside or the outside, conceptions of the regional can powerfully inform ideas of identity and belonging. And, as Ian Duncan has pointed out, whilst this may sometimes be a positive thing, regionalism can also “register a wholesale disintegration of the categories of home, origin, community, belonging”.
The editors are seeking abstracts for chapters that address the concept of regions and the Gothic. Submissions are welcomed that address the historic specificities of regional difference and Gothic traditions, as well as inter-disciplinary studies and contemporary imaginings of the regions and the Gothic. Topics may include (but are not bound by):
Please send 300 word abstracts by December 1, 2014 to William Hughes and Ruth Heholt:w.hughes@bathspa.ac.uk and ruth.heholt@falmouth.ac.uk .Completed essays of approximately 6000 words will be required by September 2015.
posted by MARY BETH HARRIS on JUL 03, 2014
CFP Edited Collection
Regional Gothic
Edited by William Hughes and Ruth Heholt
Abstracts Due: December 1, 2014
Essays Due: September 2015
Source: http://navsa.org/2014/07/03/cfp-regional-gothic1212014/
With the referendum for Scottish Independence scheduled for September 2014 and the Cornish having recently been granted minority status, questions about the dis-unity of the “United” Kingdom are prominent in the contemporary debate regarding nationalism and regional identity. Regional Gothic will explore these fractures and the darker imaginings that come from the regions of Britain.
The British regions, “imagined communities” with fragile and threatened identities and boundaries, carry their own dark sides and repressions. The Gothic preoccupation with borders, invasion, contamination and degeneration imbricates quite naturally with the different and shifting meanings that arise from writings from – and about – the scattered margins of British identity. Locality affects the Gothic and Regional Gothic seeks to explore these specificities. Gothic fictions of the regions may originate from within those territories or be imagined from elsewhere. Yet, whether coming from the inside or the outside, conceptions of the regional can powerfully inform ideas of identity and belonging. And, as Ian Duncan has pointed out, whilst this may sometimes be a positive thing, regionalism can also “register a wholesale disintegration of the categories of home, origin, community, belonging”.
The editors are seeking abstracts for chapters that address the concept of regions and the Gothic. Submissions are welcomed that address the historic specificities of regional difference and Gothic traditions, as well as inter-disciplinary studies and contemporary imaginings of the regions and the Gothic. Topics may include (but are not bound by):
- Welsh/Scottish/Irish Gothic
- Nationalism
- Cornish or Northern Gothic
- Peripheralism
- Gothic of the Islands
- Dark Tourism
- Queer identities in the regions
- Urban Gothic
- Ethnicity and the regions
- Village Gothic
- Gender and regionalism
- Suburban Gothic
Please send 300 word abstracts by December 1, 2014 to William Hughes and Ruth Heholt:w.hughes@bathspa.ac.uk and ruth.heholt@falmouth.ac.uk .Completed essays of approximately 6000 words will be required by September 2015.
CFP Rethinking the Anglo-Indian Gothic (9/30/14; NeMLA Toronto 4/30-5/3/15)
NeMLA 2015: Rethinking the Anglo-Indian Gothic (30 September 2014)
full name / name of organization:
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
contact email:
me.makala@gmail.com
Source: http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/57118
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
46th Annual Convention
April 30-May 3, 2015
Toronto, Ontario
Host: Ryerson University
Hotel: The Fairmont Royal York
Session Title:
Spectral Uprisings as Imperialist Critique: Rethinking the Anglo-Indian Gothic
Session Chair:
Melissa Edmundson Makala
Session Description:
This panel invites submissions that examine and reevaluate the supernatural literature that arose out of the British Raj. Exploring this area allows us to ask larger questions, such as: What is the place of Anglo-Indian Gothic within the broader genre of Imperial Gothic? Can postcolonial theory be used to interpret the colonial Indian Gothic? How is ghostly activity a form of native rebellion that reflects very real fears behind these fictional tales? How were writers influenced by the work of Kipling and why has his work dominated the genre for so long? What literary influence have Anglo-Indian women had on this genre?
In particular, this panel aims to explore how the Anglo-Indian Gothic was an important cultural statement on the anxieties that existed between the British colonizers and their native Indian subjects. The genre thus provides an alternative way of looking at the negative effects of imperialism and provides a place for subversive social commentaries disguised within an entertaining Gothic tale. Anglo-Indian Gothic writers offer glimpses into the British imperial world of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and their ghost stories offer additional insight for modern-day readers about the impact the British colonial presence had on the countries and peoples under the dominion of the Empire at its heights.
Suggested topics for this panel include: ghosts, second sight, madness, disease, violence/crime, dead/undead bodies, cultural anxiety, revenge, colonial children, the occult, reincarnation, curses, haunted dwellings, Gothic representations of the Indian Uprising, the Gothic landscape, Indian writers, reappraisals of Kipling, Anglo-Indian women writers, gender issues, and publication histories of Anglo-Indian Gothic works.
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2014
This year, NeMLA is switching to a user-based system to accept and track abstract submissions. In order to submit an abstract using the button for a CFP entry, you must sign up with NeMLA and log in. Using this new system, you can manage your personal information and review and update your abstract following submission. Signing up is free, and you only have to do it once. Interested participants can access the session information and submit abstracts by clicking on the following link:
https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html#cfp15256
Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.
Please direct enquiries to Dr Melissa Makala: me.makala@gmail.com.
By web submission at 06/05/2014 - 18:15
full name / name of organization:
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
contact email:
me.makala@gmail.com
Source: http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/57118
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
46th Annual Convention
April 30-May 3, 2015
Toronto, Ontario
Host: Ryerson University
Hotel: The Fairmont Royal York
Session Title:
Spectral Uprisings as Imperialist Critique: Rethinking the Anglo-Indian Gothic
Session Chair:
Melissa Edmundson Makala
Session Description:
This panel invites submissions that examine and reevaluate the supernatural literature that arose out of the British Raj. Exploring this area allows us to ask larger questions, such as: What is the place of Anglo-Indian Gothic within the broader genre of Imperial Gothic? Can postcolonial theory be used to interpret the colonial Indian Gothic? How is ghostly activity a form of native rebellion that reflects very real fears behind these fictional tales? How were writers influenced by the work of Kipling and why has his work dominated the genre for so long? What literary influence have Anglo-Indian women had on this genre?
In particular, this panel aims to explore how the Anglo-Indian Gothic was an important cultural statement on the anxieties that existed between the British colonizers and their native Indian subjects. The genre thus provides an alternative way of looking at the negative effects of imperialism and provides a place for subversive social commentaries disguised within an entertaining Gothic tale. Anglo-Indian Gothic writers offer glimpses into the British imperial world of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and their ghost stories offer additional insight for modern-day readers about the impact the British colonial presence had on the countries and peoples under the dominion of the Empire at its heights.
Suggested topics for this panel include: ghosts, second sight, madness, disease, violence/crime, dead/undead bodies, cultural anxiety, revenge, colonial children, the occult, reincarnation, curses, haunted dwellings, Gothic representations of the Indian Uprising, the Gothic landscape, Indian writers, reappraisals of Kipling, Anglo-Indian women writers, gender issues, and publication histories of Anglo-Indian Gothic works.
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2014
This year, NeMLA is switching to a user-based system to accept and track abstract submissions. In order to submit an abstract using the button for a CFP entry, you must sign up with NeMLA and log in. Using this new system, you can manage your personal information and review and update your abstract following submission. Signing up is free, and you only have to do it once. Interested participants can access the session information and submit abstracts by clicking on the following link:
https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html#cfp15256
Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.
Please direct enquiries to Dr Melissa Makala: me.makala@gmail.com.
By web submission at 06/05/2014 - 18:15
CFP Gothic Migrations (5/31/15; Vancouver 7/28-8/1/15)
INTERNATIONAL GOTHIC ASSOCIATION BIENNIAL CONFERENCE, 2015
GOTHIC MIGRATIONS
July 28th to August 1st 2015 Vancouver, BC
full name / name of organization:
INTERNATIONAL GOTHIC ASSOCIATION
contact email:
whatley@sfu.ca
Source: http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/57669
More information at: http://www.sfu.ca/iga2015
GOTHIC MIGRATIONS
“Gothic Migrations” will concern the origins, transits, and transformations of global gothic in its various modes and cultural manifestations.
Since its inception, Gothic has been associated with mobility. The gothic has always involved translation, adaptation, travel, diaspora, migration and their variations in the lost son or daughter, the absent father, the escaped slave or criminal, the disappeared family member, the alien, underground networks, cross border movements of cults, banditti, terrorist and other conspiratorial webs. These themes have engaged gothic works and their criticism for some time and their significance is growing in a new global economy of the gothic. As a result, the areas of gothic study have become increasingly wide ranging and now contest any singular root and any singular route of such migration. Under the theme of roots we consider the patterns of place and stability, cultural centres, home, mother or father country, belonging, neighbourhood, any ancient locus, developed systems of privilege and aristocracy, or stable gender, sexual norm, or class patterns. We also include under roots, their underlying negations in the unheimlich, the underprivileged, the criminal, the decentred, the escaped, the alien, the other, rejected sexualities, or the hybrid. Under the theme of migrations, we consider the diasporic energies of the gothic, the migratory traces of vampires, wanderers, ghosts, demons, revenants, zombies, soucouyants, other supernatural tourists, phantasmal terrorists and gothic escapees of all kinds. The conference will thus focus on the international circulation of literary, filmic, dramatic and digital Gothic, and the establishment of new and old Gothic traditions across the globe that are in search of, or have found, new homes.
Please include your contact information, institutional affiliation and a brief biography with your abstract submission at the following website:
http://www.sfu.ca/iga2015
SUGGESTED PAPERS AND PANELS
Papers and panels could consider, but are by no means limited to the following headings:
By web submission at 07/18/2014 - 22:40
GOTHIC MIGRATIONS
July 28th to August 1st 2015 Vancouver, BC
full name / name of organization:
INTERNATIONAL GOTHIC ASSOCIATION
contact email:
whatley@sfu.ca
Source: http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/57669
More information at: http://www.sfu.ca/iga2015
GOTHIC MIGRATIONS
“Gothic Migrations” will concern the origins, transits, and transformations of global gothic in its various modes and cultural manifestations.
Since its inception, Gothic has been associated with mobility. The gothic has always involved translation, adaptation, travel, diaspora, migration and their variations in the lost son or daughter, the absent father, the escaped slave or criminal, the disappeared family member, the alien, underground networks, cross border movements of cults, banditti, terrorist and other conspiratorial webs. These themes have engaged gothic works and their criticism for some time and their significance is growing in a new global economy of the gothic. As a result, the areas of gothic study have become increasingly wide ranging and now contest any singular root and any singular route of such migration. Under the theme of roots we consider the patterns of place and stability, cultural centres, home, mother or father country, belonging, neighbourhood, any ancient locus, developed systems of privilege and aristocracy, or stable gender, sexual norm, or class patterns. We also include under roots, their underlying negations in the unheimlich, the underprivileged, the criminal, the decentred, the escaped, the alien, the other, rejected sexualities, or the hybrid. Under the theme of migrations, we consider the diasporic energies of the gothic, the migratory traces of vampires, wanderers, ghosts, demons, revenants, zombies, soucouyants, other supernatural tourists, phantasmal terrorists and gothic escapees of all kinds. The conference will thus focus on the international circulation of literary, filmic, dramatic and digital Gothic, and the establishment of new and old Gothic traditions across the globe that are in search of, or have found, new homes.
Please include your contact information, institutional affiliation and a brief biography with your abstract submission at the following website:
http://www.sfu.ca/iga2015
SUGGESTED PAPERS AND PANELS
Papers and panels could consider, but are by no means limited to the following headings:
- How does the Gothic migrate?
- How might we speak of a global Gothic when one considers the logistics of time and travel?
- Generic routes/roots of the Gothic: novel to play, poetry to novel, novel to digitial game, novel to film, etc
- Gothic Time and Time-travel
- Trans-continental routes of the Gothic
- Migratory routes of vampires, zombies, and Gothic wanderers more generally
- The worldy unheimlich
- Routes with no destination
- Circuits of gothic exchange
- Invasive Gothic
- Reverse Colonisations
- Supernatural Currencies
- Home and Away
- Gothic Cultural Machines
- Global Gothic Crime
- Tropical Gothic/Temperate Gothic
- World Literary Gothic
- Drugs, Machines, and Global Vampires
- Gothic tourism
- Lines of flight
- Gothic Cultural Trauma
- Networked Gothic and digital diasporas
- Gothic maps and itineraries
- Global Gothic, nationalism and cultural imperialism
- Local to glocal Gothics
- Gothic Wars
By web submission at 07/18/2014 - 22:40
Thursday, July 24, 2014
CFP Monstrous Women in the Middle Ages (9/1/14; Texas 10/3-4/14)
TEMA Conference panel: Monstrous Women in the Middle Ages (Oct 3-4, 2014)
full name / name of organization:
MEARCSTAPA
contact email:
andrea.nichols@huskers.unl.edu
Source: http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/57184
In Nomadic Subjects (1994), Rosi Braidotti wrote: “Woman, as sign of difference, is monstrous.” In the medieval world, a similar notion was explored in multiple medieval cultures by works—visual, verbal, and performative—that assert the exceptionality of female bodies, communities, and practices against a male norm. In line with this year’s Texas Medieval Association (TEMA) theme “Interdisciplinarity in the Age of Relevance," MEARCSTAPA invites papers that focus upon the instances in which women are presented as either literal or figurative monsters, as found in images or texts from medieval Europe and contiguous cultures in Africa and Asia. We seek to explore, in particular, how the conjunction of gender and monstrosity introduced issues of sexualization, exoticism, or vilification revealing of larger societal anxieties. By bringing together cases from multiple disciplines, time frames, and geographies, this panel aims to provide a more global view of monstrous women and the issues that surround them.
Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words, with a brief bio, to andrea.nichols@huskers.unl.edu by September 1, 2014.
For more information on TEMA, see http://www.texasmedieval.org/
For more information on MEARCSTAPA, see http://www.mearcstapa.org/wp/
By web submission at 06/10/2014 - 21:09
full name / name of organization:
MEARCSTAPA
contact email:
andrea.nichols@huskers.unl.edu
Source: http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/57184
In Nomadic Subjects (1994), Rosi Braidotti wrote: “Woman, as sign of difference, is monstrous.” In the medieval world, a similar notion was explored in multiple medieval cultures by works—visual, verbal, and performative—that assert the exceptionality of female bodies, communities, and practices against a male norm. In line with this year’s Texas Medieval Association (TEMA) theme “Interdisciplinarity in the Age of Relevance," MEARCSTAPA invites papers that focus upon the instances in which women are presented as either literal or figurative monsters, as found in images or texts from medieval Europe and contiguous cultures in Africa and Asia. We seek to explore, in particular, how the conjunction of gender and monstrosity introduced issues of sexualization, exoticism, or vilification revealing of larger societal anxieties. By bringing together cases from multiple disciplines, time frames, and geographies, this panel aims to provide a more global view of monstrous women and the issues that surround them.
Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words, with a brief bio, to andrea.nichols@huskers.unl.edu by September 1, 2014.
For more information on TEMA, see http://www.texasmedieval.org/
For more information on MEARCSTAPA, see http://www.mearcstapa.org/wp/
By web submission at 06/10/2014 - 21:09
CFP Eye of the Dragon: Viewing a Medieval Iconography from the Other Side (9/15/14; Kalamazoo 5/14-17/15)
CFP: The Eye of the Dragon: Viewing a Medieval Iconography from the Other Side
Location: Michigan, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2014-09-15
Date Submitted: 2014-07-20
Announcement ID: 215191
This is a CFP for the panel "The Eye of the Dragon: Viewng a Medieval Iconography from the Other Side" at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI, May 14-17, 2015.
From the iconic heroism of Saint George to the resolute piety of Margret of Antioch; from the arrow-shooting Bahram Gur to anonymous spear-wielding riders, slayers of dragons have received considerable art historical attention. Individual slayers, as well as the iconography itself have been extensively studied and critically contextualized to reveal multi-layered meanings and changing identities. In his study on the Islamic Rider of the Gerona Beatus, O. K. Werckmeister demonstrated how, in the context of the Reconquista, the identity of the slayer could switch from good to evil, while Oya Pancaroglu argued that in Medieval Anatolia slayer images were both products and facilitators of cross-cultural exchange. Dragons and other monsters have been under the lens of art historians, too. Michael Camille and Debra Strickland have emphasized their roles as surrogates for social types and political adversaries. In that sense, the victims of the slayers, though independent of the iconography, have also been studied. However, it is difficult to say that the perspectives of the victims have received equal attention.
This panel calls for papers that will look at the slayer iconography from the position of the slain rather than the slayer. It seeks papers that will approach the image visually and conceptually from bottom up and explore alternative and innovative interpretations. What can this switch of gaze reveal about the relationship between the dragon and the slayer? In what novel ways can we interpret the visual asymmetry between them? Would it correspond to actual social asymmetries, or to their subversion? Does the diagonal of the spear pin down and stabilize differences and antagonisms, or does it cut across and mediate between them? Especially welcome are papers that move beyond Western European examples and provide comparative perspectives.
Deadline for the submission of abstracts is September 15, 2014.
Saygin Salgirli, Sabanci University: salgirli@sabanciuniv.edu
Saygin Salgirli,
Sabanci University
Orta Mahalle,Tuzla 34956,Istanbul, Turkey
Email: salgirli@sabanciuniv.edu
Location: Michigan, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2014-09-15
Date Submitted: 2014-07-20
Announcement ID: 215191
This is a CFP for the panel "The Eye of the Dragon: Viewng a Medieval Iconography from the Other Side" at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI, May 14-17, 2015.
From the iconic heroism of Saint George to the resolute piety of Margret of Antioch; from the arrow-shooting Bahram Gur to anonymous spear-wielding riders, slayers of dragons have received considerable art historical attention. Individual slayers, as well as the iconography itself have been extensively studied and critically contextualized to reveal multi-layered meanings and changing identities. In his study on the Islamic Rider of the Gerona Beatus, O. K. Werckmeister demonstrated how, in the context of the Reconquista, the identity of the slayer could switch from good to evil, while Oya Pancaroglu argued that in Medieval Anatolia slayer images were both products and facilitators of cross-cultural exchange. Dragons and other monsters have been under the lens of art historians, too. Michael Camille and Debra Strickland have emphasized their roles as surrogates for social types and political adversaries. In that sense, the victims of the slayers, though independent of the iconography, have also been studied. However, it is difficult to say that the perspectives of the victims have received equal attention.
This panel calls for papers that will look at the slayer iconography from the position of the slain rather than the slayer. It seeks papers that will approach the image visually and conceptually from bottom up and explore alternative and innovative interpretations. What can this switch of gaze reveal about the relationship between the dragon and the slayer? In what novel ways can we interpret the visual asymmetry between them? Would it correspond to actual social asymmetries, or to their subversion? Does the diagonal of the spear pin down and stabilize differences and antagonisms, or does it cut across and mediate between them? Especially welcome are papers that move beyond Western European examples and provide comparative perspectives.
Deadline for the submission of abstracts is September 15, 2014.
Saygin Salgirli, Sabanci University: salgirli@sabanciuniv.edu
Saygin Salgirli,
Sabanci University
Orta Mahalle,Tuzla 34956,Istanbul, Turkey
Email: salgirli@sabanciuniv.edu
CFP Dracula in Popular Culture Panel (8/15/14; Norton MA 11/21-22/14)
CFP Dracula in Popular Culture Panel
I'm trying to organize a panel on Dracula in popular culture for the 2014 New England Regional Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies. The conference meets from 21-22 November 2014 at Wheaton College. Further details at http://acisweb.org/announcement/cfp-acis-new-england-regional-nov-21-22-wheaton-college/.
Please email me, ASAP (but no later than 8/15/14), at NEPCAFantastic@gmail.com if are interested using "Dracula Panel" as your subject.
Michael Torregrossa
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Area Chair
Northeast Popular Culture/America Culture Association
I'm trying to organize a panel on Dracula in popular culture for the 2014 New England Regional Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies. The conference meets from 21-22 November 2014 at Wheaton College. Further details at http://acisweb.org/announcement/cfp-acis-new-england-regional-nov-21-22-wheaton-college/.
Please email me, ASAP (but no later than 8/15/14), at NEPCAFantastic@gmail.com if are interested using "Dracula Panel" as your subject.
Michael Torregrossa
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Area Chair
Northeast Popular Culture/America Culture Association
Sunday, June 15, 2014
CFP Reanimate Earth: Liminality and Communitas in Literature of the America (Panel) (6/15/14)
Of potential interest:
Reanimate Earth: Liminality and Communitas in Literature of the Americas
Location: Georgia, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2014-11-07
Date Submitted: 2014-03-31
Announcement ID: 212657
Seeking out new growth in devastated spaces and optimism in the face of environmental despair, this panel will take on the task of enchanting readers with physical spaces in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America that have already been toxified or left for dead. The liminal, a conception traditionally most relevant to anthropology and psychoanalysis, has the capacity to reinvigorate the relationship between culture and its more anomalous literary environments.
The possibilities for this concept are substantial, particularly when we perceive the liminal self as place, because as limen the hybridized monsters and liminal zones depicted in post-WW II literature are catalysts for environmental reanimation and a source for hope. What we propose is the observance, sorting and wise use of unclassified spaces where more than reforestation and revegetation will be needed to bring back ecological viability and biodiversity; sites of interest might include areas either flooded or desertified due to global warming, zones at the edge of leaking nuclear reactors, interstate medians, tornado-ravaged areas, aesthetic greens surrounding campuses, and graveyards.
Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
• hybrid spaces and bodies
• interstitial regions and borderlands
• transnational approaches to place
• liminality as a result of globalization
• golems, zombies, and shape-shifters
• liminal communities
• post-post-apocalyptic literature and film
• ecological dead zones
• genetically modified organisms
Send 200-500 word abstracts to Lee Rozelle at rozellehl@montevallo.edu by June 15.
Lee Rozelle
University of Montevallo
Department of English
Station 6420
Montevallo, AL 35115
(205) 665-6424 (office)
Reanimate Earth: Liminality and Communitas in Literature of the Americas
Location: Georgia, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2014-11-07
Date Submitted: 2014-03-31
Announcement ID: 212657
Seeking out new growth in devastated spaces and optimism in the face of environmental despair, this panel will take on the task of enchanting readers with physical spaces in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America that have already been toxified or left for dead. The liminal, a conception traditionally most relevant to anthropology and psychoanalysis, has the capacity to reinvigorate the relationship between culture and its more anomalous literary environments.
The possibilities for this concept are substantial, particularly when we perceive the liminal self as place, because as limen the hybridized monsters and liminal zones depicted in post-WW II literature are catalysts for environmental reanimation and a source for hope. What we propose is the observance, sorting and wise use of unclassified spaces where more than reforestation and revegetation will be needed to bring back ecological viability and biodiversity; sites of interest might include areas either flooded or desertified due to global warming, zones at the edge of leaking nuclear reactors, interstate medians, tornado-ravaged areas, aesthetic greens surrounding campuses, and graveyards.
Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
• hybrid spaces and bodies
• interstitial regions and borderlands
• transnational approaches to place
• liminality as a result of globalization
• golems, zombies, and shape-shifters
• liminal communities
• post-post-apocalyptic literature and film
• ecological dead zones
• genetically modified organisms
Send 200-500 word abstracts to Lee Rozelle at rozellehl@montevallo.edu by June 15.
Lee Rozelle
University of Montevallo
Department of English
Station 6420
Montevallo, AL 35115
(205) 665-6424 (office)
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
3rd Global Conference: Apocalypse: Imagining the End (Oxford, UK 7/5-7/14)
Sorry to have missed this before:
3rd Global Conference: Apocalypse: Imagining the End
Location: United Kingdom
Conference Date: 2014-07-05 (in 24 days)
Date Submitted: 2013-11-13
Announcement ID: 208511
3rd Global Conference: Apocalypse: Imagining the End
Saturday 5th July – Monday 7th July 2014, Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Call for Presentations:
From Christian concept of the ‘Apocalypse’ to the Hindu notions of the Kali Yuga, visions of destruction and fantasies of the ‘end times’ have a long history. In the last few years, public media, especially in the West, have been suffused with images of the end times and afterward, from the zombie apocalypse (the AMC series The Walking Dead) to life after the collapse of civilization (the NBC series Revolution.) Several popular television series and video games (Deep Earth Bunker) are now based on preparing for and surviving the end of the world. Once a fringe activity, ‘survivalism’ has gone mainstream, and a growing industry supplies ‘doomsday preppers’ with all they need to the post-apocalyptic chaos. One purpose of the conference is to explore these ideas by situating them in context — psychological, historical, literary, cultural, political, and economic. The second aim of the conference is to examine today’s widespread fascination the apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic thought, and to understand its rising appeal across broad sections of contemporary society around the world.
This interdisciplinary project welcomes proposals from all disciplines and research areas, including anthropology, psychoanalysis, political economy, psychology, area studies, communal studies, environmental studies, history, sociology, religion, theology, and gender studies.
Proposals for presentations, papers, performances, reports, work-in-progress, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited on issues related to (but not limited to) the following themes:
-Decline, Collapse, Decay, Disease, Mass Death
-Survivalism and Doomsday Preppers
-Revolution
-Theories of Social Change
-Peak Oil, Resource Depletion, Global Warming, Economic Collapse
-The Second Coming/Millenarianism/Rapture
-The Hindu Kali Yuga
-Sex and Gender at the End of Time
-Ironic and/or Anti-Apocalyptic Thinking
-Utopia and Dystopia
-Intentional Communities as Communities of the End Times
-Selling the Apocalypse, Commodifying Disaster, and Marketing the End Times
-Death Tourism and Disaster Capitalism
-The Age of Terror
-Zombies, Vampires, and Werewolves in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
-Disaster Fiction/Movies/Video Games
-History as Apocalypse
-Remembering and Reliving the Collapse of the Western Roman Empire -Post- Apocalyptic conditions
-Positive aspects of an Apocalypse, including change and transformation
In order to support and encourage interdisciplinarity engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference.
Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between these groups – and we welcome proposals which deal with the relationship between visions ofthe Apocalypse and Diasporas.
What to send:
Proposals will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word proposals should be submitted by Friday 14th February 2014. If a proposal is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper of no more than 3000 words should be submitted by Friday 16th May 2014. Proposals should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10 keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: Apocalypse3 Proposal Submission.
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Sheila Bibb: scbibb@inter-disciplinary.net
Rob Fisher: apoc3@inter-disciplinary.net
The conference is part of the ‘Ethos’ series of research projects, which in turn belong to the Critical Issues programmes of ID.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and challenging. All proposals accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected proposals may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference.
Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this commitment, please do not submit a proposal for presentation.
For further details of the conference, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/apocalypse-imagining-the-end/call-for-papers/
Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.
Priory House
149B Wroslyn Road
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1993 882087
Fax: +44 (0)870 4601132
Email: apoc3@inter-disciplinary.net
Visit the website at http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/apocalypse-imagining-the-end/call-for-papers/
3rd Global Conference: Apocalypse: Imagining the End
Location: United Kingdom
Conference Date: 2014-07-05 (in 24 days)
Date Submitted: 2013-11-13
Announcement ID: 208511
3rd Global Conference: Apocalypse: Imagining the End
Saturday 5th July – Monday 7th July 2014, Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Call for Presentations:
From Christian concept of the ‘Apocalypse’ to the Hindu notions of the Kali Yuga, visions of destruction and fantasies of the ‘end times’ have a long history. In the last few years, public media, especially in the West, have been suffused with images of the end times and afterward, from the zombie apocalypse (the AMC series The Walking Dead) to life after the collapse of civilization (the NBC series Revolution.) Several popular television series and video games (Deep Earth Bunker) are now based on preparing for and surviving the end of the world. Once a fringe activity, ‘survivalism’ has gone mainstream, and a growing industry supplies ‘doomsday preppers’ with all they need to the post-apocalyptic chaos. One purpose of the conference is to explore these ideas by situating them in context — psychological, historical, literary, cultural, political, and economic. The second aim of the conference is to examine today’s widespread fascination the apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic thought, and to understand its rising appeal across broad sections of contemporary society around the world.
This interdisciplinary project welcomes proposals from all disciplines and research areas, including anthropology, psychoanalysis, political economy, psychology, area studies, communal studies, environmental studies, history, sociology, religion, theology, and gender studies.
Proposals for presentations, papers, performances, reports, work-in-progress, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited on issues related to (but not limited to) the following themes:
-Decline, Collapse, Decay, Disease, Mass Death
-Survivalism and Doomsday Preppers
-Revolution
-Theories of Social Change
-Peak Oil, Resource Depletion, Global Warming, Economic Collapse
-The Second Coming/Millenarianism/Rapture
-The Hindu Kali Yuga
-Sex and Gender at the End of Time
-Ironic and/or Anti-Apocalyptic Thinking
-Utopia and Dystopia
-Intentional Communities as Communities of the End Times
-Selling the Apocalypse, Commodifying Disaster, and Marketing the End Times
-Death Tourism and Disaster Capitalism
-The Age of Terror
-Zombies, Vampires, and Werewolves in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
-Disaster Fiction/Movies/Video Games
-History as Apocalypse
-Remembering and Reliving the Collapse of the Western Roman Empire -Post- Apocalyptic conditions
-Positive aspects of an Apocalypse, including change and transformation
In order to support and encourage interdisciplinarity engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference.
Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between these groups – and we welcome proposals which deal with the relationship between visions ofthe Apocalypse and Diasporas.
What to send:
Proposals will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word proposals should be submitted by Friday 14th February 2014. If a proposal is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper of no more than 3000 words should be submitted by Friday 16th May 2014. Proposals should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10 keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: Apocalypse3 Proposal Submission.
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Sheila Bibb: scbibb@inter-disciplinary.net
Rob Fisher: apoc3@inter-disciplinary.net
The conference is part of the ‘Ethos’ series of research projects, which in turn belong to the Critical Issues programmes of ID.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and challenging. All proposals accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected proposals may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference.
Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this commitment, please do not submit a proposal for presentation.
For further details of the conference, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/apocalypse-imagining-the-end/call-for-papers/
Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.
Priory House
149B Wroslyn Road
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1993 882087
Fax: +44 (0)870 4601132
Email: apoc3@inter-disciplinary.net
Visit the website at http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/apocalypse-imagining-the-end/call-for-papers/
CFP Films of Jess Franco (7/30/14)
The Films of Jess Franco (Edited Volume)
Publication Date: 2014-07-30
Date Submitted: 2014-04-06
Announcement ID: 212836
Call for Papers
Edited Volume: The Films of Jess Franco
Editors: Antonio Lázaro-Reboll (University of Kent) and Ian Olney (York College of Pennsylvania)
Jesús “Jess” Franco (1930-2013) is one of the most prolific and madly inventive filmmakers in the history of cinema. His remarkable career spanned more than half a century and produced almost two hundred films shot in Spain and across Europe. He is best known as the director of jazzy, erotically-charged horror movies featuring mad scientists, lesbian vampires, and women in prison, but dabbled in a multitude of genres from comedy to science-fiction to pornography. Although he made his career in the ghetto of low-budget exploitation cinema, he managed to create a body of work that is deeply personal, frequently political, and surprisingly poetic. Franco’s offbeat films command a devoted cult following; they have even developed a mainstream audience in recent years, thanks to their release on DVD and Blu-Ray. To date, however, they have received relatively little scholarly attention. The Films of Jess Franco seeks to address this neglect by bringing together original essays on Franco and his movies written from a variety of different theoretical perspectives by noted scholars around the world. Ultimately, its aim is to encourage a reassessment of this critically undervalued director and his significant contributions to popular European cinema.
The editors of this proposed volume invite original essays on any aspect of Jess Franco’s work; all theoretical approaches are welcome. Possible topics might include:
Franco as Horror Auteur
Gender and/or Race in Franco’s Films
Queer Franco
The Franco Soundtrack
Franco’s Non-Horror Films
Late Franco (Films of the 1990s and 2000s)
Franco as Spanish Filmmaker
Franco as Transnational Filmmaker
Franco and the Art Film
Franco’s Influences
Sex and Eroticism in Franco’s Films
Franco and Film Adaptation
Performance and Stardom in Franco’s Films
The Politics of Franco’s Films
The Cult of Franco
Franco’s Legacy
Please send abstracts of 500 words to Antonio Lázaro-Reboll (a.lazaro-reboll@kent.ac.uk) and Ian Olney (iolney@ycp.edu) by July 30, 2014. Final essays will be due January 30, 2015. Essays should be 6,000-8,000 words in length and should follow MLA guidelines for citation and documentation.
Ian Olney
English & Humanities Dept.
York College of Pennsylvania
York, PA 17403
(717) 815-6446
Email: iolney@ycp.edu
Publication Date: 2014-07-30
Date Submitted: 2014-04-06
Announcement ID: 212836
Call for Papers
Edited Volume: The Films of Jess Franco
Editors: Antonio Lázaro-Reboll (University of Kent) and Ian Olney (York College of Pennsylvania)
Jesús “Jess” Franco (1930-2013) is one of the most prolific and madly inventive filmmakers in the history of cinema. His remarkable career spanned more than half a century and produced almost two hundred films shot in Spain and across Europe. He is best known as the director of jazzy, erotically-charged horror movies featuring mad scientists, lesbian vampires, and women in prison, but dabbled in a multitude of genres from comedy to science-fiction to pornography. Although he made his career in the ghetto of low-budget exploitation cinema, he managed to create a body of work that is deeply personal, frequently political, and surprisingly poetic. Franco’s offbeat films command a devoted cult following; they have even developed a mainstream audience in recent years, thanks to their release on DVD and Blu-Ray. To date, however, they have received relatively little scholarly attention. The Films of Jess Franco seeks to address this neglect by bringing together original essays on Franco and his movies written from a variety of different theoretical perspectives by noted scholars around the world. Ultimately, its aim is to encourage a reassessment of this critically undervalued director and his significant contributions to popular European cinema.
The editors of this proposed volume invite original essays on any aspect of Jess Franco’s work; all theoretical approaches are welcome. Possible topics might include:
Franco as Horror Auteur
Gender and/or Race in Franco’s Films
Queer Franco
The Franco Soundtrack
Franco’s Non-Horror Films
Late Franco (Films of the 1990s and 2000s)
Franco as Spanish Filmmaker
Franco as Transnational Filmmaker
Franco and the Art Film
Franco’s Influences
Sex and Eroticism in Franco’s Films
Franco and Film Adaptation
Performance and Stardom in Franco’s Films
The Politics of Franco’s Films
The Cult of Franco
Franco’s Legacy
Please send abstracts of 500 words to Antonio Lázaro-Reboll (a.lazaro-reboll@kent.ac.uk) and Ian Olney (iolney@ycp.edu) by July 30, 2014. Final essays will be due January 30, 2015. Essays should be 6,000-8,000 words in length and should follow MLA guidelines for citation and documentation.
Ian Olney
English & Humanities Dept.
York College of Pennsylvania
York, PA 17403
(717) 815-6446
Email: iolney@ycp.edu
CFP 2014 Victorians Institute Conference (6/15/14; Charlotte, NC 10/24-25/14)
CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED: 2014 Victorians Institute Conference
Location: North Carolina, United States
Conference Date: 2014-06-15 (in 4 days)
Date Submitted: 2014-05-14
Announcement ID: 213763
The Mysteries at Our Own Doors
The 43rd Meeting of the Victorians Institute
Proposals Due: 6/15/2014 (NEW DEADLINE)
Conference Dates: October 24-25, 2014
Location: Charlotte, NC
Sponsored by Winthrop University
Please send 300-500 word proposals for papers and a 1-page c.v. to Casey Cothran via email at viconf@winthrop.edu by June 15, 2014.
Henry James once said of Wilkie Collins: “To Mr. Collins belongs the credit of having introduced into fiction those most mysterious of mysteries, the mysteries which are at our own doors.” Indeed, through the fiction of Collins (and others) the Victorian Era saw the rise of the detective novel as an art form. Moreover, it also produced a wealth of poems, novels, and prose works that concerned themselves with mysteries, secrets, enigmas, and the unknown. Sensing that they stood on a threshold, that the shadowy borders of new knowledge and understanding lay almost within reach--at their “own doors,” as James said--Victorian authors struggled with a variety of mysteries arising from their interests in science, religion, the occult, mesmerism, identity, sexuality, race, class, and the Empire. We invite papers on any of these topics. Papers or panels on poetry, prose, nonfiction, or visual art are welcome, as are presentations on the pedagogy of teaching Victorian literature.
Possible topics might address detective fiction; poetic mysteries; spiritualists and mesmerists; mysteries of gender and sexuality; the mysterious Other; death; crime; ghosts, vampires or monsters; religion; Victorian science and medicine; industry and technology; archeology and paleontology; illustrations and media adaptations; language and hybridity; history and discovery; new worlds and cultures; travel and empire; pseudonyms; biography; photography; music; journalism; the mysteries of unveiling Victorian literature and culture to undergraduates; how Victorian mysteries can be discovered and solved in online classrooms, and other topics related to Victorian studies.
The keynote speaker is Marlene Tromp, Professor of English and Women’s Studies and Dean of Arizona State University’s New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. https://newcollege.asu.edu/directory/marlene-tromp
Selected papers from the conference will be refereed for the Victorians Institute Journal annex at NINES.
Limited travel subventions will be available from the Victorians Institute for graduate students whose institutions provide limited or no support. More information about the travel awards and the application process will be posted to www.vcu.edu/vij.
Please visit www.vcu.edu/vij for information about the conference, the Victorians Institute, and the Victorians Institute Journal.
Casey A. Cothran
Winthrop University
Rock Hill, SC
Email: viconf@winthrop.edu
Visit the website at http://www.vcu.edu/vij
Location: North Carolina, United States
Conference Date: 2014-06-15 (in 4 days)
Date Submitted: 2014-05-14
Announcement ID: 213763
The Mysteries at Our Own Doors
The 43rd Meeting of the Victorians Institute
Proposals Due: 6/15/2014 (NEW DEADLINE)
Conference Dates: October 24-25, 2014
Location: Charlotte, NC
Sponsored by Winthrop University
Please send 300-500 word proposals for papers and a 1-page c.v. to Casey Cothran via email at viconf@winthrop.edu by June 15, 2014.
Henry James once said of Wilkie Collins: “To Mr. Collins belongs the credit of having introduced into fiction those most mysterious of mysteries, the mysteries which are at our own doors.” Indeed, through the fiction of Collins (and others) the Victorian Era saw the rise of the detective novel as an art form. Moreover, it also produced a wealth of poems, novels, and prose works that concerned themselves with mysteries, secrets, enigmas, and the unknown. Sensing that they stood on a threshold, that the shadowy borders of new knowledge and understanding lay almost within reach--at their “own doors,” as James said--Victorian authors struggled with a variety of mysteries arising from their interests in science, religion, the occult, mesmerism, identity, sexuality, race, class, and the Empire. We invite papers on any of these topics. Papers or panels on poetry, prose, nonfiction, or visual art are welcome, as are presentations on the pedagogy of teaching Victorian literature.
Possible topics might address detective fiction; poetic mysteries; spiritualists and mesmerists; mysteries of gender and sexuality; the mysterious Other; death; crime; ghosts, vampires or monsters; religion; Victorian science and medicine; industry and technology; archeology and paleontology; illustrations and media adaptations; language and hybridity; history and discovery; new worlds and cultures; travel and empire; pseudonyms; biography; photography; music; journalism; the mysteries of unveiling Victorian literature and culture to undergraduates; how Victorian mysteries can be discovered and solved in online classrooms, and other topics related to Victorian studies.
The keynote speaker is Marlene Tromp, Professor of English and Women’s Studies and Dean of Arizona State University’s New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. https://newcollege.asu.edu/directory/marlene-tromp
Selected papers from the conference will be refereed for the Victorians Institute Journal annex at NINES.
Limited travel subventions will be available from the Victorians Institute for graduate students whose institutions provide limited or no support. More information about the travel awards and the application process will be posted to www.vcu.edu/vij.
Please visit www.vcu.edu/vij for information about the conference, the Victorians Institute, and the Victorians Institute Journal.
Casey A. Cothran
Winthrop University
Rock Hill, SC
Email: viconf@winthrop.edu
Visit the website at http://www.vcu.edu/vij
Sunday, June 8, 2014
CFP Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference (6/1/14; New York 2/26-3/1/14)
UPDATE Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference
full name / name of organization:
Poe Studies Association and Penn State Lehigh Valley Continuing Education
contact email:
bac7@psu.edu
Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference
full name / name of organization:
Poe Studies Association and Penn State Lehigh Valley Continuing Education
contact email:
rxk3@psu.edu and bac7@psu.edu
Proposals are invited for the Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference to be held in New York City, February 26-March 1, 2015. Email 250-word abstracts, subject heading “2015 Poe Conference,” to Barbara Cantalupo bac7@psu.edu by June 1, 2014.
By web submission at 05/26/2014 - 15:57
full name / name of organization:
Poe Studies Association and Penn State Lehigh Valley Continuing Education
contact email:
bac7@psu.edu
Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference
full name / name of organization:
Poe Studies Association and Penn State Lehigh Valley Continuing Education
contact email:
rxk3@psu.edu and bac7@psu.edu
Proposals are invited for the Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference to be held in New York City, February 26-March 1, 2015. Email 250-word abstracts, subject heading “2015 Poe Conference,” to Barbara Cantalupo bac7@psu.edu by June 1, 2014.
By web submission at 05/26/2014 - 15:57
CFP Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Bicentenary Conference (6/15/14; Dublin 10/15-16/14)
[UPDATE] Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Bicentenary Conference 15-16 October
full name / name of organization:
Trinity College Dublin
contact email:
cavalliv@tcd.ie
‘He stands in the absolutely first rank as a writer of ghost stories.’
– M.R. James
Best known for his Gothic masterpiece Uncle Silas and the vampire story ‘Carmilla’, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was a prolific writer, whose extensive output included historical, sensation, and horror novels, poems and ballads, numerous stories of the supernatural, political journalism, and a verse-drama. However, while his name is well known to aficionados of the horror genre, much of his work still remains in the dark.
On the occasion of the bicentenary of Le Fanu’s birth, this conference intends to bring together established scholars and emerging researchers, in order to shed new light on some of Le Fanu’s less famous fiction and celebrate his influential contribution to the Gothic genre.
We are calling for papers on any aspect of the life and work of J. S. Le Fanu. While we welcome new research on Le Fanu’s best known work, we wish to attract papers that engage with those texts which are less frequently read and studied, with the author himself, and with the legacy that he has left.
Abstracts of 300 words for 20-minute papers should be submitted, together with a brief biography, to Valeria Cavalli at cavalliv@tcd.ie. More details will be available, in due course, at www.josephsheridanlefanu.wordpress.com.
The deadline for submissions is 15th JUNE 2014.
By web submission at 05/26/2014 - 10:55
full name / name of organization:
Trinity College Dublin
contact email:
cavalliv@tcd.ie
‘He stands in the absolutely first rank as a writer of ghost stories.’
– M.R. James
Best known for his Gothic masterpiece Uncle Silas and the vampire story ‘Carmilla’, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was a prolific writer, whose extensive output included historical, sensation, and horror novels, poems and ballads, numerous stories of the supernatural, political journalism, and a verse-drama. However, while his name is well known to aficionados of the horror genre, much of his work still remains in the dark.
On the occasion of the bicentenary of Le Fanu’s birth, this conference intends to bring together established scholars and emerging researchers, in order to shed new light on some of Le Fanu’s less famous fiction and celebrate his influential contribution to the Gothic genre.
We are calling for papers on any aspect of the life and work of J. S. Le Fanu. While we welcome new research on Le Fanu’s best known work, we wish to attract papers that engage with those texts which are less frequently read and studied, with the author himself, and with the legacy that he has left.
Abstracts of 300 words for 20-minute papers should be submitted, together with a brief biography, to Valeria Cavalli at cavalliv@tcd.ie. More details will be available, in due course, at www.josephsheridanlefanu.wordpress.com.
The deadline for submissions is 15th JUNE 2014.
By web submission at 05/26/2014 - 10:55
Update on Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic?
The post expired about a year ago. Might anybody have an update on the progress of the collection?
Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic
full name / name of organization:
University of Sheffield
contact email:
john.miller@sheffield.ac.uk
Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic
Edited by Robert McKay & John Miller (University of Sheffield, UK)
The window blind blew back with the wind that rushed in, and in the aperture of the broken panes there was the head of a great, gaunt gray wolf (Bram Stoker, Dracula)
Wolves lope across the gothic imagination. Signs of a pure animality opposed to the human, they become, in the figure of the werewolf, liminal creatures that move between the human and the animal: humans in animal form and animals in human form. They are metonyms of forbidding landscapes, an unsettling howl in the distance; more intimately, their imposing fangs and gaping mouths threaten a monstrous consumption. The gothic wolf is singular, anomalous but gothic wolves form a demonic multiplicity, a pack. Wolves and werewolves function as a site for working out or contesting complex anxieties of difference: of gender, class, race, space, nation or sexuality; but the imaginative and ideological uses of wolves also reflect back on the lives of material animals, long demonized and persecuted in their declining habitats across the world. Wolves, then, raise unsettling questions about the intersection of the real and the imaginary, the instability of human identities and the worldliness and political weight of the Gothic.
We welcome proposals for chapters on any aspect of wolves, werewolves and the Gothic on page or screen in any historical period for a collection of essays to be submitted to The University of Wales Press series of Gothic Literary Studies. We are particularly interested in proposals that seek to read gothic wolves in the context of material histories of (for example) human/animal relations; environmental development; empire and globalization; and gender and sexuality.
Please send chapter abstracts of 500 words along with a short biography to Robert McKay (r.mckay@sheffield.ac.uk) and John Miller (john.miller@sheffield.ac.uk) by July 31st, 2013. Completed essays will be 6500 words in length and will be commissioned in September 2013 for delivery in the autumn of 2014.
Topics and approaches may include, but are not restricted to:
Lycanthropy/metamorphosis
Real and imaginary wolves
Animal ethics and the anthropomorphic imagination
Monstrosity
Fangs, mouths, the oral and the abject
Lupine presences and gothic spaces
Wolves and the Postcolonial Gothic
Captivity/escape
Wolf to Man – gothic politics from Plautus to Hobbes to Agamben
Gothic wolves, capital and globalization
Sublimity
Natural and unnatural histories
Wolf packs/lone wolves: multitudes and singularities
Ecocritical readings
Zoonosis
She-wolves, he-wolves and gender criticism
Wolfish appetite
Howling and gothic soundscapes
Queer readings
Dogs/wolves; ferity/ferocity
Wolves in sheep’s clothing
Wolves and psychoanalysis from Freud to Deleuze and Guattari
Reforming the Gothic: comic (or teen) werewolves
By web submission at 05/09/2013 - 09:11
Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic
full name / name of organization:
University of Sheffield
contact email:
john.miller@sheffield.ac.uk
Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic
Edited by Robert McKay & John Miller (University of Sheffield, UK)
The window blind blew back with the wind that rushed in, and in the aperture of the broken panes there was the head of a great, gaunt gray wolf (Bram Stoker, Dracula)
Wolves lope across the gothic imagination. Signs of a pure animality opposed to the human, they become, in the figure of the werewolf, liminal creatures that move between the human and the animal: humans in animal form and animals in human form. They are metonyms of forbidding landscapes, an unsettling howl in the distance; more intimately, their imposing fangs and gaping mouths threaten a monstrous consumption. The gothic wolf is singular, anomalous but gothic wolves form a demonic multiplicity, a pack. Wolves and werewolves function as a site for working out or contesting complex anxieties of difference: of gender, class, race, space, nation or sexuality; but the imaginative and ideological uses of wolves also reflect back on the lives of material animals, long demonized and persecuted in their declining habitats across the world. Wolves, then, raise unsettling questions about the intersection of the real and the imaginary, the instability of human identities and the worldliness and political weight of the Gothic.
We welcome proposals for chapters on any aspect of wolves, werewolves and the Gothic on page or screen in any historical period for a collection of essays to be submitted to The University of Wales Press series of Gothic Literary Studies. We are particularly interested in proposals that seek to read gothic wolves in the context of material histories of (for example) human/animal relations; environmental development; empire and globalization; and gender and sexuality.
Please send chapter abstracts of 500 words along with a short biography to Robert McKay (r.mckay@sheffield.ac.uk) and John Miller (john.miller@sheffield.ac.uk) by July 31st, 2013. Completed essays will be 6500 words in length and will be commissioned in September 2013 for delivery in the autumn of 2014.
Topics and approaches may include, but are not restricted to:
Lycanthropy/metamorphosis
Real and imaginary wolves
Animal ethics and the anthropomorphic imagination
Monstrosity
Fangs, mouths, the oral and the abject
Lupine presences and gothic spaces
Wolves and the Postcolonial Gothic
Captivity/escape
Wolf to Man – gothic politics from Plautus to Hobbes to Agamben
Gothic wolves, capital and globalization
Sublimity
Natural and unnatural histories
Wolf packs/lone wolves: multitudes and singularities
Ecocritical readings
Zoonosis
She-wolves, he-wolves and gender criticism
Wolfish appetite
Howling and gothic soundscapes
Queer readings
Dogs/wolves; ferity/ferocity
Wolves in sheep’s clothing
Wolves and psychoanalysis from Freud to Deleuze and Guattari
Reforming the Gothic: comic (or teen) werewolves
By web submission at 05/09/2013 - 09:11
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