Popular Preternaturaliana: Studying the Monstrous in Popular Culture

Popular Preternaturaliana was brought to life in May 2013 and serves as the official site of the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of NEPCA. We are sponsored by the Northeast Alliance for Scholarship on the Fantastic and hosted by the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture. We hope to provide a resource for further study and debate of the preternatural wherever, whenever, and however it may appear.

Friday, March 8, 2024

CFP Preternatural in Popular Culture (6/15/2024; NEPCA Online and Dudley, MA 10/3-5/2024)

Call for Papers: Preternatural in Popular Culture

Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association

2024 Annual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture Association

Nichols College (Dudley, MA) and Zoom, 3-5 October 2024

Proposals due by 15 June 2024

The Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) invites submissions under the general theme of the Preternatural in Popular Culture.

For this year, submissions should focus on creatures and/or creations that exist above, beyond, and/or outside the natural world and the ways these entities are represented in popular culture (anime, comics, fiction, film, manga, streaming video, television, etc.) from across time and space.

The Monsters & the Monstrous Area is among NEPCA’s largest areas, and we often have blocks of sessions running across the full event. To best accommodate everyone, single presentation submissions are preferred over panel submissions.

Please direct any questions or concerns to Michael A. Torregrossa, Monsters & the Monstrous Area Chair, at popular.preternaturaliana@gmail.com, and check out our blog Popular Preternaturaliana: Studying the Monstrous in Popular Culture for ideas and past sessions. The blog can be accessed at https://popularpreternaturaliana.blogspot.com/.

Conference Information

The 2024 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a hybrid conference from Thursday, 3 October, through Saturday, 5 October. Presenters will be required to become members of NEPCA for the year.

Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday evening and Friday morning via Zoom, and in-person sessions will take place on Friday evening and Saturday morning at Nichols College, in Dudley, Massachusetts.

For more information about the conference and to submit a proposal, please visit our NEPCA’s dedicated Conference site at https://nepca.blog/2024-conference-page/. Be prepared to answer the following questions about your proposal:

Proposal Type (Single Presentation or Panel)
Modality (in person or virtual)
Subject Area
Working Title
Academic Affiliation (if any)
Abstract (250 words)
Short bio (50-200 words)
Accommodations
Preferences for when to present

The submissions site will be open until 11:59 PM (EDT) on 15 June 2024.