CFP Metaphor of the Monster Conference (7/1/2018; Mississipi State U 9/21-22/2018)

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The Metaphor of the Monster
Friday, September 21 - Saturday, September 22, 2018
Deadline for abstract submission: Tuesday, July 1st, 2018

Mermaids, giants, gorgons, harpies, dragons, cyclopes, hermaphrodites, cannibals, amazons, crackens, were-wolves, barbarians, savages, zombies, vampires, angels, demons… all of them inhabit and represent our deepest fears of attack and hybridization, but also our deepest desires of transgression. Frequently described in antithetical terms, monsters were frequently read in the past as holy inscriptions and proofs of the variety and beauty of the world created by God, or as threats to civilization and order. These opposing views on the monster show the radically different values that have been assigned to monsters since they started to permeate the human imagination in manuscripts, maps, and books.

Their hybridity challenges natural order and escapes taxonomy, thus problematizing our epistemological certainties. Inhabiting the margins of society, monsters also police social laws and show the consequences of transgressions on their own deformed bodies. Moreover, they are pervasive in nature and metamorphose into something else in different historical periods in order to embody the fears of that age, never to disappear from our imagination.

The 2018 Classical & Modern Languages and Literatures Symposium focuses on the concept of monstrosity as a cultural construct in literature, science, and art, and the ways in which the monster has been shaped, used, and interpreted as metaphor by scientists, writers, and artists in order to depict otherness, hybridization, threat to hegemonic order, and transgression.

We accept submissions in English that explore monstrosity from various disciplinary or interdisciplinary angles. Topics might include, but are not limited to:

• Representation in literature/art of different forms of monstrosity
• Gendered- or queer-focused studies of monstrosity
• The depiction of the Other as monster, and the depiction of marginalized communities
• Hybridity, miscegenation, and the problem of categorizing
• Cartography, margins of civilization
• Books as monsters
• Transgressive subjects as monsters
• The medicalization of the monster: monstrosity in medical discourse; monsters within: parasites, viruses, and illness
• Ecocritical approaches to the topic: humans as "parasites" and "predators"
• Dystopian depictions of the urban space as a monstrosity
• The monster as spectacle, freak shows
• Deconstructing monstrosity through inclusion
• Teaching monstrosity

To submit an Individual Proposal, fill an application through our website: https://www.cmll.msstate.edu/symposium/proposal/index.php
All proposals are due on July 1st, 2018.

• Paper title
• Name, institutional affiliation, position or title and contact information of the presenter including e-mail address and phone number.
• Abstract for an individual paper: up to 300 words for a single paper
• Brief (2-4 sentence) scholarly or professional biography of the presenter.
• Indication of any audiovisual needs or special accommodations.

To submit a Panel Proposal, each presenter must submit an Individual Proposal, and note the name of the Panel Chair on the appropriate box of the application.

Publication of Peer-Reviewed Selected Proceedings

After the conference, all presenters will be eligible to submit their papers for publication consideration.

Registration fees

Early registration by July 1st:

• $100.00 U.S. academics (faculty)
• $75.00 foreign academics and U.S. graduate students

Late registration fee (after July 1st):

• $125.00 U.S. academics (faculty)
• $100.00 foreign academics and U.S. graduate students

If you have any questions please contact Silvia Arroyo at SArroyo@cmll.msstate.edu.

CFP Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses Eight (expired) (Alabama, 6/21/-24/2018)

Sorry to have missed posting this much earlier: 

CFP: Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses Eight
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2017/05/10/cfp-slayage-conference-on-the-whedonverses-eight

deadline for submissions: 

January 8, 2018

full name / name of organization: 

Whedon Studies Association

contact email: 

slayage.conference@gmail.com

Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies, the Whedon Studies Association, and conveners Stacey Abbott and Cynthia Burkhead invite proposals for the eighth biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses (SCW8). Devoted to Joss Whedon’s creative works, SCW8 will be held on the campus of the University of North Alabama, Florence, Alabama, June 21-24, 2018. The conference will be organized by Local Arrangements Chair Cynthia Burkhead, along with Slayage alumns Anissa Graham, Stephanie Graves, Jennifer Butler Keeton, and Brenna Wardell

We welcome proposals of 200-300 words (or an abstract of a completed paper) on any aspect of Whedon’s television and web texts (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, Dollhouse,Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.); his films (Serenity, The Cabin in the Woods, Marvel’s The Avengers, Much Ado About Nothing, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, In Your Eyes); his comics (e.g. Fray; Astonishing X-Men; Runaways;Sugarshock!; Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Nine, and Ten; Angel: After the Fall; Angel & Faith Season Nine and Ten); or any element of the work of Whedon and his collaborators. Additionally, a proposal may address paratexts, fandoms, or Whedon’s extracurricular—political and activist—activities, such as his involvement with Equality Now or the 2016 US elections.  Since Florence, Alabama is one of the four cities making up the Shoals, and the area is rich in music history (the Muscle Shoals Sound, W.C. Handy) as well as Native American History, we look forward to papers addressing these subjects as they relate to the Whedonverses. Multidisciplinary approaches (literature, philosophy, political science, history, communications, film and television studies, women’s studies, religion, linguistics, music, cultural studies, art, and others) are all welcome. A proposal/abstract should demonstrate familiarity with already-published scholarship in the field, which includes dozens of books, hundreds of articles, and over a fifteen years of the blind peer-reviewed journal Slayage. Proposers may wish to consult Whedonology: An Academic Whedon Studies Bibliography, housed with Slayage at www.whedonstudies.tv.

An individual paper is strictly limited to a maximum reading time of 20 minutes, and we encourage, though do not require, self-organized panels of three presenters. Proposals for workshops, roundtables, or other types of sessions are also welcome. Submissions by graduate and undergraduate students are invited; undergraduates should provide the name, email, and phone number of a faculty member willing to consult with them (the faculty member does not need to attend). Proposals should be submitted online through the SCW8 webpage at http://www.whedonstudies.tv/scw8--2018.html   and will be reviewed by program chairs Stacey Abbott, Cynthia Burkhead, and Rhonda V. Wilcox. Submissions must be received by Monday, 8 January 2018. Decisions will be made by 5 March 2018. Questions regarding proposals can be directed to Rhonda V. Wilcox at the conference email address: slayage.conference@gmail.com.

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CFP Haunted Heritage: Confronting a Culture of Specters Graduate Conference (2/15/2018; Rutgers 4/14/2018)

CALL FOR PAPERS: "Haunted Heritage: Confronting a Culture of Specters"
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2017/11/12/call-for-papers-haunted-heritage-confronting-a-culture-of-specters

deadline for submissions: 

February 15, 2018

 

full name / name of organization: 

Rutgers University, Camden / English Graduate Student Association 

 

contact email: 

egsa2018conference@gmail.com

 

 The EGSA is pleased to release the call for papers for our fifth annual graduate conference to be held on Saturday, April 14th 2018. This year's conference theme is "Haunted Heritage: Confronting a Culture of Specters."

Haunted Heritage: Confronting a Culture of Specters

Rutgers University, Camden Graduate Conference

We inhabit a haunted culture, surrounded by specters of every sort. From digital culture, the political mainstreaming of ideas once thought past, to the domination of popular culture by zombies, apocalypses, and nostalgia, our cultural moment is consumed by spectral presences.   Everywhere we turn, there is a haunting to comprehend and confront. Even language, our primary mode for understanding all of these various specters, is haunted.

Understanding our cultural hauntings, and our haunted selves, empowers us to begin the struggle of overcoming, living with, or even appreciating the specters surrounding us. This conference explores the past, present, and future of our cultural situation and the ways we learn to live with the knowledge of an other-worldly, forgotten, or translucent presence. We seek papers and presentations that explore presences felt but invisible, otherworldly, esoteric, uncanny, monstrous, and/or mysterious.

The English Graduate Student Association, is pleased to invite papers from graduate, and exceptional undergraduate, students within literary studies, literary theory or philosophy, digital studies, film studies, game studies, creative writing, literacy studies, linguistics, rhetoric & composition, and childhood studies for our fifth annual conference on April 14, 2018. 

Papers and presentations might include (but are not limited to):

• Histories, of any kind
• Identity 
• Materialisms
• Digital Content and Spaces
• Exile and Migration
• Colonialism
• Post/Trans-Humanism, Animal Studies
• Modernity and Post-Modernity
• Mysticisms, Religion 
• Hauntologies
• Affect
• Popular Culture

Keynote Speaker: TBD

Submission Deadline: Proposals should be submitted to egsa2018conference@gmail.com by February 15th, 2018. 

Submission Guidelines: Please submit a 350 word abstract proposing an 8-12 page paper. Abstracts should be added to the email submission as an attachment with no identifying information present. In the body of the email, please include your name, affiliated institution, area of study, and contact information. 

For questions, email egsa2018conference@gmail.com. 

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CFP Supernatural Studies Conference Spring 2018 (expired; New York 3/23/2018)

Sorry to have missed this:
 
EXTENDED! Supernatural Studies Conference Spring 2018

deadline for submissions: 

January 9, 2018

 

full name / name of organization: 

Supernatural Studies Association

 

contact email: 

supernaturalstudies@gmail.com

 

The Supernatural Studies Association (www.supernaturalstudies.com) invites submissions for the inaugural Supernatural Studies Conference, to be held at Bronx Community College on Friday, March 23, 2018.

Call for submissions

The Supernatural Studies Association invites submissions for the inaugural Supernatural Studies Conference, to be held at Bronx Community College on Friday, March 23, 2018. Horror scholar and author of a series of zombie novels Dr. Kim Paffenroth of Iona College will deliver the keynote address.

The conference welcomes proposals on representations of the supernatural in any form of text or artifact, such as literature (including speculative fiction), film, television, video games, social media, or music. Submissions regarding pedagogy and supernatural representations will also be considered. There is no restriction regarding time periods or disciplinary and theoretical approaches (examples include literary, historical, and cultural studies approaches).

Abstracts of 300 words maximum should be sent to supernaturalstudies@gmail.com by January 9, 2018, and decisions regarding acceptance will be communicated by January 20, 2018. Faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars are welcome to apply.  Please note that, due to location and funding, we do not have an associated conference hotel and cannot offer travel support.

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CFP From Carmilla to Drusilla: Vampires Across Popular Culture (2/15/2018; Romania 6/7-10/2018)

From Carmilla to Drusilla: Vampires Across Popular Culturehttps://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2017/11/08/from-carmilla-to-drusilla-vampires-across-popular-culture

deadline for submissions: 

February 15, 2018

full name / name of organization: 

Seton Hill University

contact email: 

arnzen@setonhill.edu

Call For Papers: International Vampire Film and Arts Festival  - 7-10 June 2018

The third annual International Vampire Film and Arts Festival will take place in Sighisoara in Transylvania, Romania, on June 7th-10th, 2018. To celebrate their popular fiction dual degree collaboration, WRITE TOGETHER--in which students earn an MA studying at Edinburgh Napier University for one year, then transition to a low residency program to earn their MFA from Seton Hill University--faculty from both universities are teaming up to curate this year’s exciting call for papers. 

Keynote Speaker:CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN (bestselling author of Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Watcher's Guide, Of Saints and Shadows, Ararat, Seize the Night, & more)

Sponsoring Faculty: Dr. Michael Arnzen and Nicole Peeler (Seton Hill University)

Mr. David Bishop and Ms. Laura Lam (Edinburgh Napier University)

Conference Theme: From Carmilla to Drusilla: Vampires Across Popular Culture

The IVFAF, in association with Seton Hill University and Edinburgh Napier University, calls for papers by scholars interested in presenting their researched essays on vampire literature and film in the academic symposium that runs alongside the festival in Transylvania.

We will divide this year’s academic symposium into two days of programming:

• One day will be devoted to situating the vampire as a figure of fascination across popular culture.
• One day will focus on the vampires of Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe, including its many spin-offs and tie-ins and source materials.  

The significance of the "Buffyverse” (which in 2017 celebrated its 20th Anniversary since first airing on television) will be emphasized in this second day.  While drawing from an original 1992 horror comedy film, the quirky YA television series developed the characters and the supernatural world of Sunnydale into a long-running series (and a popular spin-off, Angel), generating a cult following that continues to this day in comics, novels, and more.

Both sessions invite papers in genre theory & history, popular fiction, media culture, television theory, adaptation, comic studies, the transformative arts and other areas of film, literary and cultural studies in order to explore and expand the significance of both the vampire, in general, as well as the "Buffyverse," in popular culture and around the world.   

Proposals for single 20-minute papers or pre-constituted panels (of 3 x 20-minute papers) on the conference theme are now welcomed from scholars.  Possible topics for the first day may include (but are not limited to) the following:

+The Impact of Popular Culture or Non‐Gothic Genres on Dracula, Varney, Carmilla and Other Classic Vampire Texts

+Vampire Fiction as Subgenre (Comedies, Romances, YA literature, Graphic Novels)

+The Vampire’s Role in Genre Evolution

+The Vampire as Metaphor

+Vampires as Signs of Cultural Change

+The Popular Vampire in the Literary Mainstream

+The Evolution of Sex and Religion in Vampire Literature

+The Influence of Cinema on Literary Vampires (and vice‐versa)

+Vampiric Tropes in Social Networking, Internet Memes and New Media Culture

+Popular Vampire Fiction/Film in the Non‐Western World

+Pedagogical Applications of Popular Vampire Texts

+Gender and the vampire and/or the vampire hunter

+Vampires and the depiction of alternative sexualities

+Other Cultural Studies Applications of the Vampire Icon

And possible topics for the second day may include (but are not limited) to the following:

+ The Impact of historical vampire literature (Dracula, Varney, Carmilla etc.) on the Buffyverse.

+ Cultural themes in Joss Whedon's work.

+ Buffy's influence on contemporary vampire cinema or YA literature.

+ Gender issues and sexuality  in Joss Whedon's Buffyverse.

+ Spike, Angel and vampiric masculinity.

+ Fan Culture and the Buffy series.

+ Buffy in Social Networking, Internet Memes and New Media Culture

+ Teaching with Buffy

+ Generation X and Millennial Audience Receptions of Buffy

+Is Buffy feminist?

A particular desire will be to select papers that examine the vampire in Young Adult literature and teen dramas, which would offer a wider context for situating Buffy scholarship or otherwise expanding our scholarly understanding of the appeal of the vampire in youth culture. We also want to support undergraduate scholarship: any current UG students interested in attending IVFAF would be eligible for special, 10-15 minute presentation panels to facilitate their participation in an international conference at the undergraduate level. 

Submit abstracts (500 words maximum) via email only to arnzen@setonhill.edu no later than February 15th, 2018.  If submitting a full panel proposal, include all three proposals along with a summary statement (50 words maximum) of the panel's title and central topic written by the moderator.  Acceptance of a proposal is a commitment to present a finished written paper in a talk lasting approximately 20 minutes.  Accepted submitters must confirm their commitment to travel, attend and present their own original work at the conference in Sighisoara, Romania. Presenters must register by purchasing an Academic Delegate ticket.

For more information on conference registration and location, visit http://ivfaf.com

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CFP In the Shadows: Illuminating Monstrosity in Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture (2/28/2018; British Columbia 5/11-12/2018)

In the Shadows: Illuminating Monstrosity in Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/01/29/in-the-shadows-illuminating-monstrosity-in-childrens-and-young-adult-literature-and

deadline for submissions: 

February 28, 2018

 

full name / name of organization: 

University of British Columbia Master of Arts in Children's Literature program

 

contact email: 

ubc.conference.2018@gmail.com

 

In the Shadows:

Illuminating Monstrosity in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture

Call for Paper Proposals

Deadline for submission: February 28th, 2018 

A peer-reviewed graduate student conference on children’s literature, media, and culture

University of British Columbia - Friday May 11th - Saturday May 12th, 2018 

In the Shadows: Illuminating Monstrosity in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture is a two-day conference on May 11th - 12th 2018 showcasing graduate student research in children’s literature. You are invited to submit a proposal for an academic paper that contributes to research in the area of children’s and young adult literature, media, or cultural studies. Submissions of creative writing for children and young adults are also welcome. We are particularly interested in research and creative work that draw on the broadly interpreted theme of monstrosity--including research on narratives that feature monstrous figures and the monstrous side of humanity.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Literature from the genres of horror, gothic, mystery, or science fiction
• Post-humanism/trans-humanism
• Narratives of physical or emotional trauma, scars, disfigurement, etc.
• Themes of fear, captivity, empathy/apathy
• The uncanny and the sublime
• Narratives focussing on the duality of human nature
• Themes of survival, lost innocence, or childhood innocence
• Experiences of marginalized groups, otherness, and social outcasts
• (Mis)representations of people as “monsters”
• Government atrocities, tragedies, and other perspectives on historical events
• Analyses of monstrosity from critical or theoretical perspectives (e.g. psychoanalysis, post colonialism, feminism, etc.)
• Adaptations, bringing a narrative to life in a new story or medium
• Stories of real-world monsters, such as bullies or personal, inner demons
• Narratives featuring monsters, vampires, werewolves, zombies, ogres etc.
• Villains and beasts from fairy tales, folktales, or mythology
• Friendly monsters or imaginary friends (e.g. Pokémon, The BFG, Monsters Inc.)
• The allure and romanticism of monsters (e.g. Twilight)
• Papers related to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, in honour of the 200th anniversary of publication 

The topics above are a guideline for the proposals we would like to see, but we are eager to receive paper proposals on any facet of monstrosity in children’s and young adult texts. 

Academic Paper Proposals
Please send a 250-word abstract that includes the title of your paper, a list of references in MLA format, a 50-word biography, your name, your university affiliation, email address, and phone number to the review committee at submit.ubc.conference@gmail.com. Please include “Conference Proposal Submission” in the subject line of your email. 

Creative Writing Proposals
Submissions of creative writing for children and young adults in any genre are welcome, including novel chapters, poetry, picture books, graphic novels, scripts, etc. Please send a piece of work no longer than 12 pages double-spaced. (Anything shorter is welcome-- poetry, for example, might only be a page). The submission should include the title of your piece, a 150-word overview of your piece (describe age group, genre, and links to the conference theme), a list of references in MLA format (if you have any), a 50-word biography, your name, your university affiliation, email address, and phone number. Please send your submission to the review committee at submit.ubc.conference@gmail.com. Please put “Creative Conference Proposal Submission” in the subject line of your email.

Out of Province/Country Submissions
For those who may need extra time to plan their travels please put “Travel” in the email subject line and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
 

For more info, please contact ubc.conference.2018@gmail.com or visit https://blogs.ubc.ca/intheshadows/.  Join our mailing list at http://eepurl.com/dht7_z.

Thank you and we look forward to seeing you this spring!

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CFP Monsters and Monstrosity in Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literature (1/15/2018)

Call for Submissions: Monsters and Monstrosity in Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literature
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2017/12/07/call-for-submissions-monsters-and-monstrosity-in-nineteenth-century-anglophone

deadline for submissions: 

January 15, 2018

 

full name / name of organization: 

Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 

 

contact email: 

literary.monsters@gmail.com

 

Call for Papers

Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies

Special issue on “Monsters and Monstrosity in Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literature”

Guest editors: Gero Guttzeit and Natalya Bekhta

Anglophone literature in the nineteenth century abounds in monsters that continue to horrify even in the present: vampires, mummies, doppelgangers, ghosts, and zombies as well as Frankenstein’s monster, the Jabberwock, Helen Vaughan, and the Invisible Man. Our aim in this special issue of Anglistik is to remap this monstrous abundance in light of the emerging field of monster studies (Mittman 2016). Monster studies, also termed ‘monster theory’ (Cohen 1996) or ‘teratology’ (Picart and Browning 2012), “use[s] the monsters themselves as theoretical constructs” (Mittman 2016, 9), conceptualizes “monstrousness […] as a mode of cultural discourse” (Cohen 1996, viii), and understands monstrosity as an imposed narrative rather than an intrinsic feature of certain social appearances and behaviours (Wright 2013, 3). Since the nineteenth century has been crucial to the development of monster studies, particularly with regard to the monstrous body (Youngquist 2003), the vampire (Auerbach [1995] 2006) and Frankenstein’s creature (Baldick 1987), a dedicated publication on “Monsters and Monstrosity in Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literature” will bring together fresh considerations of this historical period and the theory it inspired.
We aim to reconsider monsters and monstrosity within nineteenth-century literary narratives as well as to rethink monstrosity through nineteenth-century literature. Such a project might draw on a variety of influential theoretical approaches connected to the field of monster studies (Kristeva [1982] 2010; Haraway 1992; Carroll 1990; Halberstam 1995; Cohen 1996; McNally 2011; Mittman 2016). We are looking for contributions that revisit but also go beyond the traditional pinnacles of the 1816 Lake Geneva ghost story writing contest and the fin-de-siècle Gothic to ask the interconnected questions as to why the nineteenth century has such a peculiar affinity with monsters and monstrosity and which new impulses it can give monster studies today.

Issues and questions to be discussed include but are not limited to:

Periodization and historicization: Can events such as the “sudden population explosion of monsters” in the Romantic period (Burwick 2015, 176–77) be used to periodize the nineteenth century? Is a chronological structuring in monster studies “messy and inadequate” because a narrative of progress is unsuitable for describing monsters (Cohen 1996, ix) or do monsters have a recurring representational purpose and, like Gothic productions, mark comparable historical moments in the cycles of capitalist accumulation (Shapiro 2008, 30-31)?

Nation and disability: How can we extend and critique contemporary ideas of monstrosity from Britain, the US, and other Anglophone countries such as Emerson’s description of “[t]he state of society [as] one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters” (Emerson 1971, 53)? Can genres such as nineteenth-century Gothic sustain a critique of the monstrosity of impaired bodies (Anolik 2010)?

Gender and sexuality: While popular conceptions of monstrosity in early modern England very often took the shape of monstrous female bodies (Brenner 2009, 165), what can the relative marginality of female monsters in the monstrous pantheon of the nineteenth century tell us about redefinitions and readjustments of gender conceptions in the period? Which metaphors other than spectrality (re)define emergent notions of homosexuality (Castle 1993)?

Class and race: What can “capitalist monsterology” (McNally 2011, 2), which focuses on the monstrous forms of the lived experience of capitalism, tell us about the period when the current world-economy established itself? How do monsters such as Frankenstein’s creature and the zombie reinforce or rewrite experiences of slavery and categories of race (as suggested by Young’s (2008) work on black Frankenstein)?

Intertexuality, intermediality, and metaliterary meanings: What can different intermedial versions of monsters, for instance Frankenstein’s creature, tell us about the system of nineteenth-century literature and other media? What is the specificity of nineteenth-century variations of older, mythological monsters such as Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “The Kraken” (1830)? How does monstrosity work as an instrument of the metaphorization of literature and its production, distribution, and reception, as present, for instance, in Henry James’s early twentieth-century dismissal of certain nineteenth-century novels as “large loose baggy monsters” (James 1909, 477)?

‘Monstrous theory’: How can nineteenth-century monsters be used to rethink assumptions in what might be termed today’s “monstrous theory” connected, for instance, to the spectral turn, the posthuman turn, and the animal turn? What are conceptual alternatives to the so-called “anxiety model” of the Gothic as critiqued by Baldick and Mighall (2000)?

Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies (ISSN: 0947-0034) is the journal of the German Association for the Study of English (Anglistenverband). Further information on the journal can be found here: https://angl.winter-verlag.de/ Full contributions of 5,000 to 7,000 words with MLA formatting will be due by October 1, 2018, and the final issue will be published with open access in late 2019.
Please submit a 500-word abstract (excluding bibliography) with a brief biography to the guest editors Gero Guttzeit and Natalya Bekhta at literary.monsters@gmail.com by January 15, 2018.

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Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference Schedule Online

From the official Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference site:
http://stokercon2018.org/the-convention/ann-radcliffe-academic-conference/

The Second Annual Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference will be presented at the Third Annual StokerCon, March 1 – 4, 2018 held at the historic Biltmore Hotel in Providence, Rhode Island (http://www.providencebiltmore.com/). We are pleased to announce here the full conference program, and we hope to see you in Providence!

StokerCon info and tentative schedule at:  http://stokercon2018.org/.

Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference Schedule

Thursday, March 1, 2018

Panel 1: Gender Studies / 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM

• Bridget Keown, “The Symptoms of Possession: Gender, Trauma, and the Domestic in Novels of Demonic Possession”
• Elsa Carruthers and Rhonda Joseph, “When We Are the Monsters: Female Monsters and the Subversion of Patriarchy”
• Maya Thornton, “’1, 2 … Freddy’s Coming for You’: Freddy Krueger as Manifestation of Teenage Societal Anxieties”
• Holly Newton, “Coming Out and Coming Home: Reading Silent Hill Homecoming’s Alex Shepherd as Queer”

Panel 2: Monster Studies, Eurasia / 11:45 AM – 1:15 PM

• Emily Anctil, “‘Not a Bedtime Story’: Investigating Textual Interactions Between the Horror Genre and Children’s Picturebooks”
• Naomi Borwein, “Monster Studies, Monster Anthropology, and Australian Aboriginal Horror Literature”
• Frazer Lee, “Koji Suzuki’s Ring – A World Literary Perspective”
• Amanda Trujillo, “Contagious Curses: Identifying the Characteristics and Origins of a Horror Trope”

Panel 3: Horror Studies / 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

• Khara Lukancic, “Ethics in Horror Movies: An Analysis of The Bye Bye Man”
• Nicholas Diak, “Lost Nights and Dangerous Days: Unraveling the Relationship Between Stranger Things and Synthwave”
• Daniel Holmes, “Horror, Terror, and the Homeric Uncanny”
• Caitlin Duffy, “This Mansion of Gloom’: Visualizing Edgar Allan Poe’s Atmospheres of Horror”

Panel 4: Myth and Monsters / 3:45 PM – 5:15 pm

• Anthony Gambol, “The Genesis of Myth”
• Mathias Clasen, “Fear for Your Life: Evolution and Horror Fiction”
• Shawn Pendley, “Modal Confusion Meets Moral Insensibility in Fox’s Lucifer
• Michele Brittany, “Mummies in Comics 101”

Friday, March 2, 2018

Panel 1: Gender Studies / 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM

• Deirdre Flood, “Under the Mask: Slasher Villains in Pre and Post 9/11 Horror”
• Rocky Colavito, “Trans Fatal(e): Body Horror, Trans(un)fixion, and Walter Hill’s The Assignment”
• Jennifer Loring, “The Dark Heart of Human Nature: The Necessity of Extreme Horror”
• Johnny Murray, “’Gelatinous Green Immensity’: The Sublime – Grotesque in Weird Fiction”

Panel 2: Gothic, Folklore & Villains / 11:45 AM – 1:15 PM

• Danny Rhodes, “’When the Cage Came Up There Was Something Crouched A-Top of It’: The Haunted Tales of LTC Rolt – A Contextual Analysis”
• Michelle Reinstatler, “Western Culture’s Adversarial Relationship with the Revenant: Tragedy and the Haunted in Dead Crossroads”
• Douglas Ford, “Of All Nights in the Year: Walpurgis Night and Young Goodman Brown”
• Erica McCrystal, “Jekyll and Hyde Everywhere: Inconsistency and Disparity in the Real World”
• Renee DeCamillis, “The Power of Sympathetic Villains of Literature and Screen Pulses Through Music”

 Panel 3: Zombies, Ghouls and Other Monsters / 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

• Michael Torresgrossa, “Arthurian Monster Mash: The Undead in Camelot from The Awntys off Authure to the Fiction of Today”
• Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., “Night of the Living Dead, or Endgame: Samuel Beckett and Zombies”
• Kent Pettit, “Medieval and Modern Godfathers of Ghouls: William of Newburgh and George A. Romero as Subversive Sages for Turbulent Times”
• Allison Budaj, “Melancholy and The Walking Dead”

Panel 4: 20^th Century Horror Literature / 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM

• John Tibbetts, “The Mystery of Marjorie Bowen”
• Adam Crowley, “Roadway to Hell: The Divided Line and the Concept of Evil in H.P. Lovecraft’s The Colour Out of Space”
• Gavin Hurley, “Richard Laymon’s Rhetorical Style: Minimalism, Suspense, and Negative Space”
• James Anderson, “Four Quadrants of Success: The Metalinguistics of Author Protagonists in the Fiction of Stephen King”

Organizing Co-Chairs

Michele Brittany & Nicholas Diak
Email: AnnRadCon@gmail.com

About the Ann Radcliffe Conference and Stokercon

The Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference is part of the Horror Writers Association’s Outreach Program. Membership to the Horror Writers Association is not required to submit or present, however registration to StokerCon 2018 is required to present. StokerCon registration can be obtained by going to www.stokercon2018.org. There is no additional registration or fees for the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference outside StokerCon registration. If interested in applying to the Horror Writer’s Association as an academic member, please see www.horror.org/about/ .
StokerCon is the annual convention hosted by the Horror Writers Association wherein the Bram Stoker Awards for superior achievement in horror writing are awarded.