CFP Things That Go Bump in the North: Canadian Horror Media (7/31/2018)

Seems its a good time to be studying monsters. Here's another interesting call.


Things That Go Bump in the North: Canadian Horror Media
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/06/03/things-that-go-bump-in-the-north-canadian-horror-media

deadline for submissions: July 31, 2018

full name / name of organization: UOIT

contact email: andrea.braithwaite@uoit.ca



Things That Go Bump in the North: Canadian Horror Media


Horror stories speak of our fears. In doing so, horror stories also speak of our everyday, our “normal,” as this ordinariness is quickly thrown into disarray. Things That Go Bump in the North will look at Canadian horror across media – from fiction, film, and television to games, graphic novels, and web series. This edited collection considers what Canadian horror texts can tell us about Canadian culture, media, history, and politics. Things That Go Bump in the North aims to see horror stories as stories about nation, as sites for critical reflection on the meanings and uses of “Canada” in this genre – and what we are terrified to lose, or perhaps keep.


This collection deliberately uses “Canadian” and of “horror” loosely in order to more fully explore the cultural work of horror stories. By “Canadian,” we seek texts that are by, in, and/or about Canada or Canadians; “horror” includes inflections like the gothic and the grotesque, the silly and the supernatural. We encourage diverse submissions from a range of critical approaches and research methods; we are particularly excited about work that addresses Indigenous, diasporic, and other underrepresented productions and perspectives.


Topics may include and are not limited to:

• A specific creator or creative team
• A singular media form, text, or series
• Adaptations and transformations
• Generic hybrids
• Regional or community-specific horror stories
• Studies of fans, audiences, and reception contexts
• Historical horror tales and texts
• Co-productions and international ventures
• Alternate histories and horrifying futures
• Industry and/or policy analysis
• Transmedia texts and storytelling
• True crime texts

Proposals of not more than 250 words will be due by July 31 2018. Final essays of approximately 6000-8000 words, including all notes and references in Chicago author-date style will be due by April 30 2019. Please direct inquiries and proposals to: andrea.braithwaite@uoit.ca and p.greenhill@uwinnipeg.ca.

CFP LAST CALL for Monsters in the Margins: The Horrors of Image/Text (4/25/14)

I'm not sure if this was posted earlier. The original call was with a 15 March 2013 deadline.

[CFP] UPDATE: Monsters in the Margins: The Horrors of Image/Text (LAST CALL)
Posted 14 Mar, 2014
NEW DEADLINE: April 25, 2014

Edited by Don Ault, Najwa Al-tabaa, and Katherine Shaeffer

Due to low response, we are re-releasing our CFP for "Monsters in the Margins," an upcoming special issue of ImageTexT that will utilize the theme of our 2012 UF Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels. The new deadline for submissions is April 25th, 2014.

Please note that, if there is not sufficient interest in the "Monsters" special issue, any submissions we receive or have received for it will be folded into the submissions for our next General issue of ImageTexT.

In any crisis, whether economic or cultural, there is a sense of an unimaginable danger right around the corner. These unknown and unfathomable terrors fascinate the imagination and dramatically play out our anxieties in a more cognitively relatable form. We attempt to embody them, to transplant them, or to make them somehow tangible, yet despite the variety of attempts, the underlying anxiety persists. The narratives and forms into which we channel our terrors become our monsters. At the same time, the modes and means of this content production and distribution seem to loom, suggesting changes and mutations around the corner, and the outliers and disturbances in the status-quo make us wary of what's to come.

In the midst of the first true economic crisis of the 21st century, we return to these sites with renewed curiosity. How can we depict the sublime terror of our anxieties? How can we convey our unabashed horror through image and text, and communicate those feelings across venues and platforms? Why do we keep trying to re-imagine the same monstrous templates, especially when the tools of a craft are perpetually unstable?

The targeted goal of the "Monsters in the Margins" special issue from ImageTexT is to address these issues by welcoming any and all explorations into the representation of monsters in a imagetextual form. As a proceedings issue following 2012's Monster in the Margins UF Graduate Comics Organization conference, we invite papers from both panelists and speakers at the conference, as well as scholars who did not attend the conference. All articles relevant to the special issue topic will be judged on merit.

We are especially interested in how the combination of text and image augments each in potentially productive and monstrous ways. From traditional genres to new horizons of horror, we seek to examine the monsters of media and attempt to understand how the medium influences the message, and vice versa.

Submissions should maintain a focus on comics, manga, children's literature, video games, imaging technology or any other form that includes both image and text in its representations (either simultaneously or indirectly). In addition to these product-oriented examinations, we also welcome viewpoints from both creative and cultural/sociological orientations, including artist's and writer's perspectives on the acts of creation, examinations of distributive modes, and cultural responses to the distribution of visual/textual content.

Potential topics for submission include, but are not limited to:

How do 'traditional' monsters change as time passes and cultural movements shift?
How do image and text interplay to provide an affective sensation of the ineffable?
Does the rise of paratextual supplements to imagetextual publications mutate the 'core' content? Does it make monstrous our experience of reading it?
Can the visual or textual elements of a composition interfere with one another to create a monster?
How does the medium function as a monster? How can developing media and modes of distribution, such as zines and webcomics, be seen as marginalized and monstrous imagetextual distortions?
How does one create a monster? What decisions go into the production of a novel creature that is meant to disturb?
What is the role of the 'friendly' or 'cute' monster?
What role do features such as font selection, coloring technique, paper texture or material lack, blurbs, and covers serve in the reception/portrayal of the monstrous?
Accepted essays are expected to be approximately 4,000-7,000 words. Interested writers should email their full articles with any intended images by April 25th, 2014 to naltabaa@ufl.edu and copy them to khshaeffer@gmail.com.

Please also include a one-paragraph personal summary with your submission.