Weird Fiction Review 8

Now available from Centipede Press:

Weird Fiction Review #8
http://www.centipedepress.com/anthologies/wfreview8.html

Edited by S.T. Joshi
Artwork gallery by Erol Otus.
Lengthy interview with Patrick McGrath.
History of the small press: Shasta Press by Stefan Dziemianowicz.
Several new essays and stories.
Sewn paperback.
Nearly 400 pages.

pricing: $35, on sale for $19.

 
The Weird Fiction Review is an annual periodical devoted to the study of weird and supernatural fiction. It is edited by S.T. Joshi. This eighth issue contains fiction, poetry, and reviews from leading writers and promising newcomers. This issue features fiction by John Shirley, Flannery O’Connor, Lynne Jamneck, Michael Washburn, and others, and articles by Stefan Dziemianowicz (an illustrated history of Shasta Publishing), Michael Shuman (on horror films and garage and surf music), Adam Groves (on the golden age of speculative erotic fiction), John C. Tibbetts (on John M. Barrie), Forrest J Ackerman (on Robert Bloch), as well as verse and other essays and fiction. The feature of the issue is Chad Hensley’s terrific interview with Erol Otus, the iconic artist that did so much of the Dungeons & Dragons artwork of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The front and back cover, and inside covers, are by artist Grant Griffin. The list price on this item is $35 and it is on sale for $19.

Full contents details available by visiting Centipede Press's page for the book at http://www.centipedepress.com/anthologies/wfreview8.html.

CFP I’m Already Dead: Essays on The CW’s iZombie and Vertigo’s iZOMBIE (Extended) (8/30/2018)

I’m Already Dead: Essays on The CW’s iZombie and Vertigo’s iZOMBIE (Extended)
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/06/14/i%E2%80%99m-already-dead-essays-on-the-cw%E2%80%99s-izombie-and-vertigo%E2%80%99s-izombie-extended

deadline for submissions:
August 30, 2018

full name / name of organization:
Weber State University

contact email:
izombiecollection@gmail.com



I’m Already Dead: Essays on The CW’s iZombie and Vertigo’s iZOMBIE

Editors

Ashley Szanter, Weber State University

Jessica K. Richards, Weber State University



Project Overview

Editors Szanter and Richards seek original essays for an edited collection on Rob Thomas’s television series iZombie as well as the show’s graphic novel source material, Roberson and Allred’s iZOMBIE. Currently under contract with McFarland Publishing, we’re requesting supplemental essays to a working collection. This particular series has begun to overhaul modern constructions of the zombie in popular culture and media. While scholarship on the television zombie is not in short supply, particularly in regards to AMC’s The Walking Dead, we believe this particular show and comic series speak to a growing trend in zombie culture whereby the zombie “passes” as human—fully assimilating into normalized society. The collection aims to explore how this new, “improved” zombie altered popular notions of the zombie monster and brought in a new group of viewers who may shy away from the blood and gore tradition of other popular zombie narratives. As each season of the series begins to take a more traditional approach to zombie narratives, we want to focus this collection on how the show tackles current power and political structures as well as asking questions about globalization and nationhood. With CW announcing that the final season will air in January, we’re looking for essays that address the entirety of the show.

Chapters we’re looking for in this collection can focus on one or more of the following categories:

• Explorations of how these two narratives construct gender—particularly in regards to femininity and masculinity. Are the rules for gender performance different for male/female zombies as opposed to male/female humans?
• Essays that explicitly address the graphic novel series iZOMBIE with a focus on character development across the narrative.
• Analyze the use of hackneyed stereotypes, especially in the television show, as the consumption of brains often leads the zombies to exhibit deeply stereotypical, sometimes racist, behaviors.
• Examinations of the place/function of romance in the show and/or comic. Relationships function as a central part of the television show in particular. How do the complications of zombie life influence or impede relationships between humans/humans, humans/zombies, zombies/zombies?
• The CW’s iZombie as the result of genre exhaustion for both the traditional zombie genre as well as the paranormal romance genre. iZombie’s network is known for attractive characters/actors and a strong inclusion of romance and sexuality. Have we taken zombies and paranormal romance as far as they can go without expanding the new ZomRomCom to include heartthrob zombies?
• Address iZombie or iZOMBIE and intersectionality. Of particular interest to the editors are non-binary gender and sexuality, feminism, race, “passing,” and non-traditional/deconstructed families or relationships.

Abstract Due Dates

Preference will be given to abstracts received before August 30, 2018. Abstracts should be no longer than 350 words and be accompanied by a current CV.

Contact us and send abstracts to Ashley and Jessica at izombiecollection@gmail.com. 

CFP Edited Collection on Young Adult Gothic Fiction (7/16/2018)

Edited Collection on Young Adult Gothic Fiction
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/05/22/edited-collection-on-young-adult-gothic-fiction

deadline for submissions: July 16, 2018

full name / name of organization: Dr Michelle Smith and Dr Kristine Moruzi

contact email: Michelle.Smith@monash.edu



Call for Papers: Edited Collection on Young Adult Gothic Fiction

The twenty-first century has seen a marked increase in the Gothic themes of liminality, monstrosity, transgression, romance, and sexuality in fiction for young adults. While Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series (2005-2008) is the most well-known example of Gothic young adult fiction, it is part of a growing corpus of hundreds of novels published in the genre since the turn of the millennium. During this period, the Gothic itself has simultaneously undergone a transformation. The Gothic monster is increasingly presented sympathetically, especially through narration and focalisation from the “monster’s” perspective. In YA Gothic, the crossing of boundaries that is typical of the Gothic is often motivated by a heterosexual romance plot in which the human or monstrous female protagonist desires a boy who is not her “type”. In addition, as the Gothic works to define what it means to be human, particularly in relation to gender, race, and identity, contemporary shifts and flashpoints in identity politics are also being negotiated under the metaphoric cloak of monstrosity.

Yet the Gothic also operates within young adult fiction to enable discussions about fears and anxieties in relation to a variety of contemporary concerns, including environmentalism, human rights, and alienation. Catherine Spooner suggests that the Gothic takes the form of a series of revivals. In the proposed collection we seek to explain what the current Gothic revival in YA fiction signifies and call for papers engaging with any aspect of Gothic fiction published for young adults since 2000.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• The Gothic and the posthuman
• The paranormal romance
• The monstrous feminine
• The adolescent body
• The evolution of canonical monsters including the vampire, the werewolf, the witch
• Postfeminism and the Gothic
• The Gothic and race
• Gothic spaces
• Gothic historical fiction

The editors are currently preparing a proposal for a university press Gothic series, in which the publisher has already expressed preliminary interest.

Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words and a biographical note of up to 150 words to both Dr Kristine Moruzi (kristine.moruzi@deakin.edu.au) and Dr Michelle Smith (michelle.smith@monash.edu) by 16 July 2018.

Full papers of 6000 words will be due by 1 December 2018.

CFP Journal of Dracula Studies (expired for 2018 volume)

Sorry to have missed this for the year, but the journal would now be accepting for 2019:

[UPDATE] DEADLINE EXTENDED to June 1, 2018
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/05/02/update-deadline-extended-to-june-1-2018

deadline for submissions:
June 1, 2018

full name / name of organization:
Journal of Dracula Studies

contact email:
journalofdraculastudies@kutztown.edu



We invite manuscripts of scholarly articles (4000-6000 words) on any of the following: Bram Stoker, the novel Dracula, the historical Dracula, the vampire in folklore, fiction, film, popular culture, and related topics.

Submissions should be sent electronically (as an e-mail attachment in .doc or .rtf). Please indicate the title of your submission in the subject line of your e-mail. Send electronic submissions to journalofdraculastudies@kutztown.edu.

Please follow the updated MLA style. Contributors are responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions and ensuring observance of copyright. Manuscripts will be peer-reviewed independently by at least two scholars in the field. Copyright for published articles remains with the author.

CFP Theorizing Zombiism: Toward a Critical Theory Framework Conference (9/1/2018; Dublin 7/25-27/2019)

Theorizing Zombiism: Toward a Critical Theory Framework
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/04/13/theorizing-zombiism-toward-a-critical-theory-framework

deadline for submissions: September 1, 2018

full name / name of organization: University College Dublin, Ireland

contact email: theorizingzombiism@gmail.com



Theorizing Zombiism: Toward a Critical Theory Framework

University College Dublin

UCD Humanities Institute

25-27 July 2019


The rising academic interest in the zombie as an allegory for cultural and social analysis is spanning disciplines including, humanities, anthropology, economics, and political science. The zombie has been used as a metaphor for economic policy, political administrations, and cultural critique through various theoretical frameworks. The zombie has been examined as a metaphor for capitalism, geopolitics, globalism, neo-liberal markets, and even equating Zombiism to restrictive aspects of academia.


The zombie as a cultural figure has its beginnings in allegorical folk tales related to the experience of the Haitian slave. Roger Lockhurst, Zombies: A Cultural History, examines these folk tales concerned with the horrific existence of slavery as told through the enigmatic zombi, which was quickly assimilated into western film and pulp fiction. Early films such as White Zombie, mark the induction of the savage zombies into western culture. George A. Romero transformed the zombie narrative into a survival story reflecting aspects of human society. This long standing tradition of the zombie genre is the basis for the successful series The Walking Dead. However, the rise of popular forms of the Zombie narrative, I, Zombie and the Netflix Original Santa Clarita Diet shifts the focus to the first person experience of the Zombie.


The evolution of the zombie narrative in both culture and academics indicates its adaptability and viability as a distinct framework for critical theory. This conference aims to investigate the possibility of developing a singular theoretical framework to evaluate culture and society through the zombie narrative trope. Contributors are encouraged to provide discipline specific, and interdisciplinary, examinations of the zombie with the purpose of formulating an overall theoretical structure of Zombiism.


Potential Topics both discipline specific and non-discipline specific, but not limited to:

• Nationalism through the zombie narrative films: Rec (Spain), Le Horde (France), Cockneys vs Zombies (England), Dead Meat (Ireland), Ravenous (Canada), etc.
• Zombie phenomenology/philosophy/phsychoanalysis
• Globalization, Refugees, and Migration.
• Pedagogical Zombiism.
• Gender and the Undead.
• Zombies in Popular Culture: Re-evaluating the function of horror in society.
• Expanding Praxis: Evaluating the expanding Zombie trope into other art forms and fields.
• The Zombification of History: Re-telling historical events through Zombiism and other horror tropes (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, etc).
• Undead digital objects and issues of digital curation/Undead archival objects.
• Legal Zombiism: Law and Legislation that refuses to die.
• Ecocritcal Zombiism.
• Science/Science Fiction: The science of Zombiism/The Zombification of science.
• Zombiism and visual culture and art history.

Send abstracts of 300 words for consideration to theorizingzombiism@gmail.com by 1 Sept, 2018.

Website: https://theorizingzombiism.wordpress.com

Conference organizers: Scott Hamilton (UCD), Conor Heffernan (UCD)

CFP Critical Essays on Arthur Machen (9/1/2018)

Collection on Arthur MACHEN [EXTENSION OF DEADLINE]
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/06/07/collection-on-arthur-machen-extension-of-deadline

deadline for submissions: September 1, 2018

full name / name of organization: Dr. Antonio Sanna

contact email: isonisanna@hotmail.com



Critical Essays on Arthur Machen

edited by Antonio Sanna


In spite of his prolific production of novels, short stories and essays, Arthur Machen (1863-1947) is one of those Victorian and twentieth-century writers whose works have been unjustly forgotten by contemporary readers and scholars. Machen was an ardent believer in mysticism and the occult, an admirer of the medieval world and a pioneer in psychogeography. His literary works have influenced celebrated writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, Charles Williams and Jorge Luis Borges and they are still pleasurable and valuable sources of entertainment. However, nowadays he is mainly remembered for his 1894 novella“The Great God Pan”, whereas his equally-successful volumes The Three Impostors (1895), The Hill of Dreams (1907), The Terror (1917), The Secret Glory (1922) and The Green Round (1933) as well as his short stories (“The Inmost Light”, “The White People”, “The Bowmen” and “N”, to mention merely a few) are rarely mentioned in studies on the English literature of the late-Victorian period and the first half of the twentieth century.

This anthology will explore Machen’s heterogeneous oeuvre from multidisciplinary perspectives. This volume seeks previously-unpublished essays that explore the English writer’s production. I am particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches to the subject that can illuminate the diverse facets of the writer’s work. There are several themes worth exploring when analyzing Machen’soeuvre, utilizing any number of theoretical frameworks of your choosing. I request the chapters 1) to be based on formal, academic analysis and 2) to be focused mainly on the writer’s works (though comparisons with other authors’ works are more than welcome).

Contributions may include (but are not limited to) the following topics:

• Machen’s autobiographies
• The supernatural
• The seen and the unseen
• Representations of madness
• Representations of childhood, parenting and ageing
• Machenand fairy tales
• Gender and queer readings
• Machenand philosophy
• Exploration of dreams and the subconscious
• Fear of the Other
• The problem of evil
• Biblical interpretations
• Cultural studies and popular culture
• Class consciousness
• Science, science fiction and mystery
• Machen and the occult
• Machen and psychogeography
• Machen’s legacy

The anthology will be organized into thematic sections around these topics and others that emerge from submissions. I am open to works that focus on other topics as well and authors interested in pursuing other related lines of inquiry. Feel free to contact me with any questions you may have about the project and please share this announcement with colleagues whose work aligns with the focus of this volume.

Please submit a 300-500 word abstract of your proposed chapter contribution, a brief CV and complete contact information to Dr. Antonio Sanna (isonisanna@hotmail.com) by the 1st of September, 2018. Full chapters of 4000-6000 words would be due upon signing a contract with a publisher. Note: all full chapters submitted will be included subject to review.

CFP Otherness and the Urban (Spec Issue of Otherness: Essays and Studies) (9/28/2018)

Special Journal Issue: “Otherness and the Urban”

deadline for submissions: September 28, 2018

full name / name of organization: Centre for Studies in Otherness

contact email: otherness.research@gmail.com


Otherness: Essays and Studies 7.1

The peer-reviewed e-journal Otherness: Essays and Studies is now accepting submissions for a special issue, forthcoming Spring 2019 – “Otherness and the Urban”


Edited by Maria Beville, this issue seeks to publish research articles from and across different scholarly disciplines that examine, in as many ways as possible, the concepts of otherness and alterity as these relate to the experience and representation of the city.


The city is a unique and subjective space. It is fragmented and indistinct. It is at once place and text: to walk the city is to read it. In ‘Semiology and Urbanism’ (The Semiotic Challenge), Roland Barthes notes that the city is a discourse and a language: ‘[t]he city speaks to its inhabitants, we speak our city, the city where we are, simply by inhabiting it, by traversing it, by looking at it’. However, in this discourse, there exists ‘a conflict between signification and reason, or at least between signification and that calculating reason which wants all the elements of the city to be uniformly recuperated by planning’. Our desire to map the city is a desire to map the self: an impossibility that constantly reminds us of our own inherent Otherness.


In this way the city is multivalent. It is both the location and the sign of the Other. And rather than merely existing as a physical place, the city is experience; individualised and multiplied in its alterity. While the city exists as a place to be read and is unique in every individual reading, it is also a place to be written, inspiring writers, artists, and thinkers to become lost in city streets and locales as they struggle to find new ways to meet the challenge of representing the unrepresentable.


Thus, the city is where the subject and space become intertwined. While the city becomes part of the subject and the subject a part of the city, urban space in its resistance of representation remains a constant challenge to notions of self, of sameness, of homogeneity. The city is therefore bound to exist in tension with identity, both individual and collective. Just as is the case with the self, there can be no cohesive vision of the city because the city not only resists mapping, it resists unified narrative in its flux; in its phantasmagoria.


And yet the otherness of the city remains a part of the definition of urban selfhood and understanding this is best achieved through a balanced view of the city’s physical and metaphysical dimensions. No examination of the textuality of the city should overlook the materiality of the city and its impact on the city experience. City design, city building, city governance and city use form the structures of the city which carry and mediate its otherness.


This issue seeks to develop a collective of research papers which examine the otherness of the city and the Other in the city.


Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• The city as other in literature/ Otherness in the city in literature
• Otherness and the philosophy of the city
• Urban aesthetics and otherness
• Twinned cities
• Hybrid cities
• Haunted cities
• Folklore and otherness in the city
• Globalisation, otherness and the urban
• The uncanny city (in literature, art, film, media)
• The politics of alterity in the city
• Otherness in the postcolonial city
• The postmodern city
• The Gothic city
• Minority urban experience (in literature, art, film, media)
• Urban Otherness and popular culture

Articles should be between 5,000 – 7,000 words. All electronic submissions should be sent via email with a Word document attachment formatted to the Chicago Manual of Style standards. Please send submissions to the editor, Maria Beville at otherness.research@gmail.com


The deadline for submissions is Friday, September 28, 2018.


*Barthes, Roland. ‘Semiology and Urbanism.’ In The Semiotic Challenge, translated by Richard Howard. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988. P191-201.



General Submissions

Scholars are always welcome to submit articles within the scope of the journal for consideration for our next general issue. We anticipate a general issue to come out in the Autumn of 2019.

Please address any inquires to Matthias Stephan: otherness.research@gmail.com.
 

CFP Gothic in the Nineteenth Century (7/15/2018; Loyola University Chicago 10/27/2018)

CFP Deadline Extended: “Hideous Progeny”: The Gothic in the Nineteenth Century (7/15/2018; 10/27/2018)
https://www.navsa.org/2018/06/14/cfp-deadline-extended-hideous-progeny-the-gothic-in-the-nineteenth-century-7-15-2018-10-27-2018/
Jun 14, 2018

“Hideous Progeny”: The Gothic in the Nineteenth Century

Lake Shore Campus, Klarcheck Information Commons, 4th floor

October 27, 2018, 8:30am-5:30pm



“And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper.”
Mary Shelley, 1831 Introduction to Frankenstein

In this truly Gothic year, the Loyola University Chicago Victorian Society celebrates both the bicentennial of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and the birth of Emily Brontë, author of Wuthering Heights (1847), two famous Gothic novels which sparked questions regarding the potential of human connections across social classes, time, and death itself. Subsequent authors of Gothic fiction similarly employed this genre to interrogate the breakdown of patriarchal family structures, systems of power and reproduction, sexual, religious, and socio-political taboos and norms, reinterpret previous literatures, and reject contemporary notions of the limits of reality, scientific possibility, and human progress. Given the 19th-century recognition of the Gothic as an unstable, versatile space that can function as a surprising and subversive mechanism for social critique, the Loyola University Chicago Victorian Society asks what are the possibilities, values, narrative strategies, ideas, versions, mutations, and adaptations of the nineteenth century Gothic? Over the course of the nineteenth century, what endured, progressed, and morphed in this genre, and why?

The Loyola University Chicago Victorian Society solicits paper proposals addressing Gothic questionings of texts, bodies, and the supernatural. Possible CFP categories include but are not limited to the following:

• textual studies and digital humanities
• narrative theory
• adaptations
• history of science
• queer theory
• women and gender studies
• art and architecture
• post-colonial studies
• the gothic and the neo-gothic
• mutations, perversions, and disability studies.

Plenary Speaker: Alison Booth (University of Virginia)

Keynote Speaker: Suzy Anger (University of British Columbia)

Please send abstracts no longer than 300 words to lucvictoriansociety@gmail.com no later than 15 July 2018.

In the weeks and months ahead, more details will be forthcoming on our website: http://lucvictoriansociety.wix.com/lucvs.

CFP MEARCSTAPA/Preternature special issue (10/1/2018)

MEARCSTAPA/Preternature special issue
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/06/21/mearcstapapreternature-special-issue

deadline for submissions:
October 1, 2018

full name / name of organization:
MEARCSTAPA

contact email:
tmtomaini@gmail.com



MEARCSTAPA

Call for Papers



MEARCSTAPA (Monsters: The Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory and Practical Application) invites papers on any topic of Monsters/Monster theory, or the Supernatural/Uncanny for a special issue of the journal Preternature (PSU Press). The special issue will celebrate MEARCSTAPA’s tenth anniversary as an academic society dedicated to the study of the monstrous.



Papers are welcome from anywhere on the globe, in any discipline of the Humanities, can reflect any genre, and can include any historical or literary period. Papers must be in English, and must conform to the Preternature submission guidelines. Submission guidelines can be found at http://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_Preternature.html



Please send full papers of 8,000-12,000 words by October 1, 2018to Melissa Ridley Elmes at MElmes@lindenwood.edu and Thea Tomaini at tmtomaini@gmail.com. Papers will undergo a double-blind review by at least two reviewers.



Preternature provides an interdisciplinary, inclusive forum for the study of topics that stand in the liminal space between the known world and the inexplicable. The journal embraces a broad and dynamic definition of the preternatural that encompasses the weird and uncanny—magic, witchcraft, spiritualism, occultism, esotericism, demonology, monstrophy, and more, recognizing that the areas of magic, religion, and science are fluid and that their intersections should continue to be explored, contextualized, and challenged.

CFP Transforming Bodies in Early Modern Drama (7/16/2018; RSA Toronto 3/17-19/2019)

RSA 2019: Transforming Bodies in Early Modern Drama (July 16th, 2018)
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/06/17/rsa-2019-transforming-bodies-in-early-modern-drama-july-16th-2018

deadline for submissions: July 16, 2018

full name / name of organization: Christina M. Squitieri / New York University

contact email: cms531@nyu.edu




Renaissance Society of America (RSA) 2019: 17–19 March 2019, Toronto, Canada

Transforming Bodies in Early Modern Drama

**This is a guaranteed session**

How are bodies–of people, plants, or animals–transformed on the early modern stage?

What are the agents of transformation, and is there something about drama in particular that allows for bodily transformation?

How is transformation represented (or not represented) dramatically?

What constitutes a "body" on stage, and is a body still the same if parts of it transform?

What does the transformation of the body tell us about corporeal unity, identity, transformation, or the instability of the body or identity?

How can bodily transformation intersect with theoretic frameworks such as materialism, historicism, ecocriticism, animal studies, or the post-human?

Topics may include (but are not limited to) the way violence (physical, sexual, verbal), ritual, disguise, death, love, the natural world, disease, wounds, language, power, fear, etc have a transforming effect on the early modern human and non-human bodies that populate early modern drama, through any theoretical lens.

Please send 150-word abstracts and brief CV to Christina M. Squitieri (cms531@nyu.edu) and Penelope Meyers Usher (pfm250@nyu.edu) by Monday, July 16th, 2018. This panel will be sponsored by the Early Modern and Renaissance Society at New York University.

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CFP Shakespeare and the Gothic Imagination (6/30/2018; ICR South Carolina 10/25-28/2018)

Origins and Assemblages of the "Modern;" Shakespeare and the Gothic Imagination
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/06/15/origins-and-assemblages-of-the-modern-shakespeare-and-the-gothic-imagination

deadline for submissions:
June 30, 2018

full name / name of organization:
Lucian Ghita (Clemson University)

contact email:
lucianghita78@gmail.com


Writing in 1800, the Marquis de Sade claimed that the Gothic was the inevitable product of the revolutionary tremors felt throughout Europe. In revealing the proximity between poetic and political terror, the Gothic became the inescapable condition and symptom of modernity itself. The rise of the Gothic in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe is closely bound up with the discovery of Shakespeare as a "modern dramatist" by Hegel and, later, Marx. Like the Gothic, Shakespeare's plays had a propensity for exploring the "dark underbelly" of the new modern world. This seminar explores the mutually constitutive relationship between "Shakespeare" and "the Gothic," viewed as cultural catalysts for modernity and modern creativity. This panel invites a vast range and variety of proposals that use theoretical, historical, empirical or contextual approaches to explore not only how the two phenomena "were born together" and developed in tandem during the "long" Romantic period (1764-1850), but also how they have become cultural and critical categories for analyzing modernity itself.

Papers might consider, but are not limited to, the following areas, questions, and issues:

- Gothic adaptations and reworkings of Shakespeare's plays from the period
- Philosophical and political assemblages (Hegel, Marx, Voltaire)
- Shakespeare Revolutions- Discourses and Narratives of Modernity (related to Shakespeare and the Gothic)
- Romantic and Gothic Formations in Shakespeare
- Theatricality and Gothic Excess
- Gothic "Monsters"
- Assembling/Disassembling Shakespeare
- Ghost in the Machine (theatrical reception and history)- Macabre, Terror, and the Uncanny
- Shakespeare and His "Doubles"
- The influence of Horace Walpole, de Sade, and other Gothicists


Send all proposals and inquiries to lucianghita78@gmail.com by June 30, 2018.



This panel will be part of the 2018 International Conference on Romanticism ("Romantic Assemblages") to be hosted by Clemson University and held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Greenville, South Carolina, between October 25-28, 2018.

http://pearce.caah.clemson.edu/international-conference-romanticism/icr-...

The International Conference on Romanticism was founded in 1991 and aims to pursue the study of Romanticism across linguistic, national, and political disciplines. For more information please visit http://icr.byu.edu. Conference attendees and participants must be current members of ICR. Please visit http://icr.byu.edu/membership to become a member or renew your membership. The International Conference on Romanticism was founded in 1991 and aims to pursue the study of Romanticism across linguistic, national, and political disciplines. For more information please visit http://icr.byu.edu. Conference attendees and participants must be current members of ICR. Please visit http://icr.byu.edu/membership to become a member or renew your membership

New Book Series: Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature

New Gothic Book Series
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/06/13/new-gothic-book-series

deadline for submissions:
December 31, 2019

full name / name of organization:
Anthem Press

contact email:
proposal@anthempress.com


NEW INTERNATIONAL GOTHIC BOOK SERIES.

The Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature incorporates a broad range of titles that undertake rigorous, multi-disciplinary and original scholarship in the domain of Gothic Studies and respond, where possible, to existing classroom/module needs. The series aims to foster innovative international scholarship that interrogates established ideas in this rapidly growing field, to broaden critical and theoretical discussion among scholars and students, and to enhance the nature and availability of existing scholarly resources.

Series Editor: Carol Margaret Davison, University of Windsor, Canada

Editorial Board Members:
Xavier Aldana Reyes – Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Katarzyna Ancuta – Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Ken Gelder – University of Melbourne, Australia
George Haggerty – University of California, USA
Tabish Khair – Aarhus University, Denmark
Tanya Krzywinska – Falmouth University, UK
Vijay Mishra – Murdoch University, Australia
Marie Mulvey-Roberts – University of the West of England, UK
Andrew Hock Soon Ng – Monash University, Malaysia
Inés Ordiz – University of Stirling, UK
David Punter – University of Bristol, UK
Dale Townshend – Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock – Central Michigan University, USA
Maisha Wester – University of Indiana, USA
Gina Wisker – University of Brighton, UK

We welcome the submission of proposals for challenging and original works that meet the criteria of this series. We make prompt editorial decisions. Our titles are published simultaneously in print and eBook editions and are subject to peer review by recognized authorities in the field. We are accepting proposals for monographs, edited collections, scholarly introductions and sourcebooks, and course readers. Please contact proposal@anthempress.com for more information. There is no formal deadline.

CFP Our Monsters, Ourselves (Film & History Horror Area) (7/1/2018)

Wish I could attend, but this conflicts with MAPACA.


Film & History Horror Area CFP: Our Monsters, Ourselves
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/05/31/film-history-horror-area-cfp-our-monsters-ourselves

deadline for submissions: July 1, 2018

full name / name of organization: Film & History Conference

contact email: ashleysmith2017@u.northwestern.edu



CALL FOR PAPERS


Our Monsters, Ourselves

An area of multiple panels for the 2018 Film & History Conference:

Citizenship and Sociopathy in Film, Television, and New Media

November 7-12, 2018

Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club, Madison, WI (USA)

Full details at: www.filmandhistory.org/conference



DEADLINE for abstracts: July 1, 2018



It is often said that every era gets the monster it needs. Whether they maintain or challenge the status quo, guard or confront power, champion or eradicate difference, our cinematic monsters tell us more about our own lives than about the fantasy worlds they inhabit. Cultural, racial, and religious others often become those monsters, as anxieties about identity, loss, corruption, invasion, and rapid social change bubble over onto the screen. Likewise, we—and those like us—become the monsters as we cling to outmoded values and ways of being.



How do we use our cinematic monsters to craft the stories we tell about ourselves, and our ever-changing fears? In what ways do our monsters defend or interrogate our ideas of nation? With so much real-world horror interwoven in our daily lives, how might our monsters be a source of coming to terms with—and perhaps healing—the evils of the world?



Potential topics might include, but are not limited to:

• National horror (Don’t Breathe, The Witch, The Walling, The Purge)
• Monsters among us (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Cherry Tree Lane, Cloverfield)
• Power, politics, and horror (Society, The People Under the Stairs, The Howling)
• Making racism’s horrors explicit (Get Out, White Dog, Candyman)
• Buying into the horror: monstrous consumption (Fido, The Stuff, Dawn of the Dead, American Psycho, Street Trash)
• The horrors of aging (Drag Me to Hell, Rosemary’s Baby, The Visit, Rabid Grannies)
• Fear and fascination: our romance with sociopathy (My Friend Dahmer, The Killer Inside Me, Zodiac)
• Body horror: Fear of frailty (Malefique, Don’t Look Back, Tusk, Teeth)
• Stuck in a post-9/11 horror film: What’s next?

Abstracts that engage with genre horror films as social commentary are particularly welcome. Proposals for complete panels of three related presentations are also welcome, but should include an abstract and contact information (including email) for each presenter.



Please e-mail your 200-word proposal to the area chair:



Ashley R. Smith

Northwestern University

ashleysmith2017@u.northwestern.edu

Vampires and New England

I recently finished Blood Lines: Vampire Stories from New England (Nashville: Cumberland House, 1997), edited by Lawrence Schimel and Martin H. Greenberg as part of The American Vampire Series.

It is an interesting collection with works from a very disparate selection of writers. A number of the stories play with New England's own traditions of vampire folklore (or create new ones), but too many of the narratives seemed to use the setting only as a place to tell a vampire story rather than expand on what has come before or relish in the location. All are worth a read, but readers should be forewarned that they might not find what they are expecting here. These are, perhaps, best referred to as "Vampire Stories Set in New England," rather than to be thought of "Vampire Stories of New England".


Contents (from The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998):

Blood Lines: Vampire Stories from New England ed. Lawrence Schimel & Martin H. Greenberg (Cumberland House 1-888952-50-4, Sep ’97 [Oct ’97], $12.95, 225pp, tp) Vampire anthology of ten stories, one original. Authors include Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Manly Wade Wellman, H.P. Lovecraft, and Esther Friesner. Introduction by Schimel.

• ix · Introduction · Lawrence Schimel · in
• · New Hampshire
• 1 · Investigating Jericho [Saint-Germain] · Chelsea Quinn Yarbro · na F&SF Apr ’92
• · Massachussetts
• 51 · The Brotherhood of Blood · Hugh B. Cave · nv Weird Tales May ’32
• · Connecticut
• 73 · Chastel [Lee Cobbett; Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant] · Manly Wade Wellman · nv The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series VII, ed. Gerald W. Page, DAW, 1979
• · Maine
• 99 · Doom of the House of Duryea · Earl Peirce, Jr. · ss Weird Tales Oct ’36
• · Vermont
• 115 · Moonlight in Vermont · Esther Friesner · nv Sisters in Fantasy 2, ed. Susan Shwartz & Martin H. Greenberg, Roc, 1996
• · Connecticut
• 139 · Secret Societies · Lawrence Schimel · ss *
• · Massachussetts
• 151 · Luella Miller · Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman · ss Everybody’s Magazine Dec ’02
• · New Hampshire
• 165 · When the Red Storm Comes · Sarah Smith · ss Shudder Again, ed. Michele Slung, Roc, 1993
• · Connecticut
• 179 · The Beautiful, the Damned · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · ss F&SF Feb ’95
• · Rhode Island
• 197 · The Shunned House · H. P. Lovecraft · nv Weird Tales Oct ’37