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.

Popular Preternaturaliana: Studying the Monstrous in Popular Culture

CFP Promises of Monsters: Those Haunting Feminist Speculative Fiction (3/14/2026; MLA 2027)

CFP Ninth Annual Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference at StokerCon 2026 (3/27/2026; Pittsburgh/Hopin 6/5/2026)

CFP Monster Media Conference 2026 (3/15/2026; Edinburgh/Hybrid 6/18-19/2026)

CFP 2026 Armitage Symposium (5/24/2026; Providence, RI 8/13-16/2026)

CFP Otherness: Essays and Studies - Spring 2026 (2/15/2026)

CFP Haunting Revisions: The Female Gothic Across Time and Media (3/1/2026)

CFP Welcome to Hawkins: A Special Issue on Stranger Things (1/30/2026)

CFP Slayage 11 Conference (1/15/2026; Illinois 7/9-12/2026)

CFP Don't Look Away: The Monstrous, the Gothic, and Survivance in the Worlds of Stephen Graham Jones (1/26/2026; ALA Chicago 5/20-23/2026)

CFP Haunted Bodies Conference (1/19/2026; Kingston, UK & Online 5/22-24/2026)

CFP Romancing the Posthuman (Special Issue of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies; 11/30/2025)

CFP Enmonsterisations in the Fantastic (1/10/2026; TU Braunschweig 6/26-28/2026)

CFP Horror Studies Now 2026 Conference (1/30/2026; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK 5/28-29/2026)

CFP Monsters, Monstrosities, & the Monstrous Area of PCA (11/30/2025; Atlanta PCA)

CFP Unfaithful Adaptations of Jekyll and Hyde: Essays on Hybridity and the Gothic Double (3/5/2025)

Call for Presenters: Online Talk Series - Gothic, Horror, Folklore and the Supernatural (12/20/2025)

CFP Horror Area SWPACA (10/31/2025; Albuquerque, 2/25-28/2026)

CFP Spectral Panels: Gothic Traditions in Comics and Graphic Novels (NeMLA Panel) – Deadline 9/30/2025

CFP Kafka's Fiction (Panel) (9/30/2025; NeMLA 2026 Pittsburgh/hybrid)

CFP Regenerating Genre: History and Multicultural Perspectives in Horror (NeMLA 26) (9/30/2025)