CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED - 03/18 - EDITED COLLECTION: The Palgrave Handbook to the Ghost Story (3/18/2022)

DEADLINE EXTENDED - 03/18 - EDITED COLLECTION: The Palgrave Handbook to the Ghost Story

Source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/01/28/deadline-extended-0318-edited-collection-the-palgrave-handbook-to-the-ghost-story

deadline for submissions:
March 18, 2022

full name / name of organization:
Joan Passey, Jen Baker, Henry Bartholomew

contact email:
joan.passey@bristol.ac.uk

The Palgrave Handbook to the Ghost Story

This handbook seeks to open new conversations about the ghost-story form. It is open to all media, genre, and disciplines - fiction, nonfiction, theatre, cinema, video games, podcasts, graphic novels, musicals, and so forth - as well as spaces and time periods (antiquity to the present).

Chapters will provide a new angle, intervention, or perspective on various aspects of the ghost-story tradition. These can be thematic, author-based, chronologically centred, or narrative-based.

We anticipate chapters to be c. 4000 words. We hope to organise chapters under the following potential sections, though anticipate overlap. We have provided some suggestions for topics, but these are not prescriptive nor exhaustive – we welcome your ideas.



Section 1: Folklore and Legends

• Including creepypasta, urban legends, global folktales, antiquarians, mythologies, folkhorror.

Section 2: Haunted Environments

• Cities, coasts, moors, gardens, the non-human, animals, insects, seascapes, colonial space.

Section 3: Ghostly Bodies and Objects

• Paintings, ruins, jewellery, dolls, bodies, psychometry, illness, malady, diagnosis, pathology, injury, corporeal ghosts, seances.

Section 4: Ghostly Experiences

• Psychical investigation, haunted houses, haunted funfairs, children as audience, audience in theatre, video gamers playing ghostly games.

Section 5: Anxious Inheritance and Legacy

• Influence, legacy, adaptation, inheritance, bloodlines, family inheritance (ie, Dacre Stoker, Joe Hill), steampunk, rewriting medieval ghosts, ghosts of antiquity, the canon.

Section 6: Spectral Theories and Epistemologies

• Theories within and without the text, religions, theologies, queer, Marxist, gender, science and technology, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, economics, psychology, hysteria, paranoia, madness, ecocritism, methodologies and frameworks.

Section 7: Paranormal Paraphernalia

• Archives, letters/interviews, found footage, paratext, prefaces, epigrams and epigraphs, magazines, pamphlets, posters, illustrations.

Abstracts should be 150-300 words, 3-5 keywords, and be accompanied by a biographical note of 100 word (max) [this can include a link to a research profile]. These should be sent to

Jen Baker j.baker.5@warwick.ac.uk, Joan Passey at joan.passey@bristol.ac.uk and Henry Bartholomew henry.bartholomew@plymouth.ac.uk by 18th March 2022. We welcome questions and inquiries. Please send either in the body of the email or as one PDF or .doc attachment.




Last updated March 7, 2022

CFP Southern Gothic Area at PCAS/ACAS 2022 (6/1/2022; New Orleans 10/13-15/2022)

CFP: Southern Gothic Area at PCAS/ACAS 2022

Source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/03/03/cfp-southern-gothic-area-at-pcasacas-2022

deadline for submissions:
June 1, 2022

full name / name of organization:
Popular Culture/ American Culture Association in the South

contact email:
SouthernGothicPCAS@gmail.com

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: THE SOUTHERN GOTHIC AT PCAS/ ACAS 2022

Submission deadline: June 1, 2022; Notification of acceptance by July 1, 2022



Despite the difficulty in defining what exactly the Southern Gothic is, it nevertheless is one of the most prominent ways the South is represented in media and culture. From Flannery O’Connor to The Originals, Truman Capote to True Detective, and William Faulkner to The Walking Dead, whether categorized as a form, a style, or a genre, the Southern Gothic is bound up with regional cultural anxieties regarding shifting discourses of race, class, gender, sexuality, and geographic identity itself. From its most stereotypical depictions to more nuanced, complex interpretations, the Southern Gothic shapes the wider perception of regional identities in ways that invite our contemporary scholarly engagement.

To this end, the Southern Gothic area of the Popular Culture / American Culture Association in the South (PCAS/ ACAS) invites proposals for individual presentations, roundtable discussions, or full panels of 3-4 papers at the 2022 PCAS/ ACAS Annual Conference, to be held October 13 - 15, 2022 in New Orleans, LA.

Topics might include (but are in no way limited to):

• the Southern Gothic in film, TV, and literature
• adaptation(s) of Southern Gothic literature
• the Southern Gothic in new media (games, podcasts, graphic novels, etc.)
• the emergence of “Southern noir” as a subgenre
• race, class, gender, and/ or sexuality in the Southern Gothic
• Southern true crime as a cultural phenomenon
• documentary and the Southern Gothic
• Global elements of/ approaches to the Southern Gothic
• Southern Gothic tourism
• monsters in the Southern Gothic: vampires, zombies, ghosts, etc.
• mental health narratives in the Southern Gothic
• specificity—or generality—in Southern Gothic geographies
• the Southern Gothic in popular music
• pedagogical approaches to/ uses of the Southern Gothic
• the spectre of history in the Southern Gothic
• sites of intersection between the Southern Gothic and other genres/ modes

PCAS/ ACAS is dedicated to working toward equity, diversity, and inclusion both within our organization and in academia at large. As such, we encourage submissions by underrepresented and marginalized scholars based upon race, gender, sexuality, and employment status (e.g., graduate students and non-tenure track or unaffiliated/independent scholars).



To propose a presentation (of 20 minutes or less) or a roundtable discussion for the Southern Gothic Area, please send the following to Area Chair Stephanie Graves at SouthernGothicPCAS@gmail.com by June 1:
Name of presenter(s), institutional affiliation (if any), & email address for each presenter
Type of submission (individual paper, roundtable, or full panel)
Presentation abstract (250 words or fewer)
Indication if you need access to A/V (not all rooms have A/V available)

Submission deadline is June 1, 2022; notifications of acceptance will be sent by July 1, 2022.



NOTE: In order to be considered for the Southern Gothic Area, please follow the instructions above rather than submitting through the PCAS/ ACAS website.

Everyone is invited to submit one academic paper and can, in addition, participate in a round-table discussion or creative session. Only those proposals intended for the Southern Gothic area should be submitted as outlined above; the PCAS/ ACAS website has an online submission form for the General Call.




Last updated March 8, 2022

CFP Literary Monsters (3/31/2022; SAMLA Jacksonville 11/11-13/2022)

Literary Monsters

Source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/03/15/literary-monsters

deadline for submissions:
March 31, 2022

full name / name of organization:
Speculative Fiction Association

contact email:
tracie.provost@mga.edu



In today's culture, it's almost impossible to avoid "monsters." Straight from mythology and legend, these fantastic creatures traipse across our television screens and the pages of our books. Over centuries and across cultures, the inhuman have represented numerous cultural fears and, in more recent times, desires. They are Other. They are Us. This panel will explore monsters--whether they be mythological, extraterrestrial, or man-made--that populate fiction and film, delving into the cultural, psychological and/or theoretical implications.



Please submit a 250-300 word abstract, a brief bio, and any A/V needs by May 31, 2022 to Tracie Provost, Middle Georgia State University, at tracie.provost@mga.edu.

SAMLA’s 94th annual conference, Change, will be held at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Hotel in Jacksonville, FL this year from November 11-13. Those accepted must be members of SAMLA to present.



Last updated March 15, 2022

CFP Carmilla’s Sisters – Female Vampires in Literature, Film and Popular Culture (3/31/2022; Bordeaux 10/7-8/2022)

Carmilla’s Sisters – Female Vampires in Literature, Film and Popular Culture

Source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/12/20/carmilla%E2%80%99s-sisters-%E2%80%93-female-vampires-in-literature-film-and-popular-culture

deadline for submissions:
March 31, 2022

full name / name of organization:
Université Bordeaux Montaigne

contact email:
nicolas.labarre@u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr



International conference, to be held in Bordeaux, France, on October 7-8, 2022

While the format is not set in stone, we will strongly consider holding online panels.



Nearly thirty years after the publication of Nina Auerbach’s seminal study Our Vampires, Ourselves, we felt the 150th anniversary of J. S. Le Fanu’s Carmilla provided an opportunity to revisit vampire fictions centred on female figures – as yet a largely unchartered territory. Despite a few pages devoted to Carmilla and queer vampires – in The Vampire Book by Gordon J. Melton, 1999, Le miroir obscur. Histoire du cinéma des vampires, by Stéphane du Mesnildot, 2013, or the catalogue of the 2019 exhibition at the Cinémathèque Française –, the centrality of Dracula and male vampires still remains prevalent in critical literature.

Yet, contrary to a received notion, female vampires abound in literature, film, television series, comics, as an unsettling presence that undermines the majestic supremacy of the vampire count, thus perhaps testifying to the latter’s “obsolescence” (to borrow Robin Wood’s formula).

With its multiple film adaptations, Le Fanu’s text still challenges readers in many ways, contemporary readers being sensitive to LGBTQI+ issues and to the aftermath of the #MeToo wave. The historical Countess Báthory also haunts literary and filmic memories, and calls for still other questions, as a power figure that already inspired Bram Stoker himself in Dracula’s Guest, the first chapter of Dracula, later suppressed by the author.

The vampire-woman is omnipresent in art cinema (Les lèvres rouges, Harry Kümel, 1971; Leonor, Juan Luis Bunuel, 1975), blockbusters (the Underworld franchise), European classics (Hammer films, Roger Vadim), Hollywood classics (Near Dark, Kathryn Bigelow, 1987). In a recent study on gender in vampire films, Claude-Georges Guilbert – commenting on the prevalence of women writers in vampire literature – claimed that the female vampire embodies the « future » of the genre. Will participants in this conference prove him right?

The organizing committee will welcome all propositions about female vampires in literature, cinema, comics, with particular attention to those addressing the following issues:

¤ The female vampire figure, between exploitation and empowerment. From Carmilla onwards, female vampires have fulfilled apparently conflicting functions. They are often young, eroticised vampires, and they announce all manner of transgression. In the same movement, they are often at the centre of narratives, they initiate action and are autonomous and admired characters, worshiped by devoted fans – one can think of Vampirella in Warren comics or Lady Dimitrescu in the Resident Evil Village video game. How do authors and publics negotiate this tension? Does this amount to reading the texts against the grain or is this reading actually inscribed in the cultural objects themselves?

¤ Isolated figure or serial type. Dracurella and the several other daughters of Dracula suggest that many female can be seen in terms of variants of a dominant male type – as an instance of the minimal differentiation that defines the culture industries. Do serial types actually predominate over isolated figures? Is there a way to measure this? Can the female vampire exist independently from this logic of derivation?

¤ The female vampire and gender stability. Even more so than her male counterpart, the female vampire is characterised by sexual ambiguity. Oversexualised, often hyperfeminised, she is nevertheless also a creature who seduces, penetrates, rarely without violence. The lesbian romance of Carmilla – but also the ambiguous fascination exerted by the historical figure of Countess Élisabeth Báthory – once more offers a prototype of this subversion of gendered roles. How does this uncertainty manifest itself in the texts or in their reception? Is the female vampire necessarily queer?

¤ Global figure v. local figures. Along the 20th century, the English-speaking cultural industries have largely colonised the visual imaginations of fantasy and horror. How does the female vampire feature in this tension between a globalised culture and local variations with their specific traditions? What are the histories and media specificities? Should we view the female vampire as a figure of the glocal?

¤ The Carmilla hypothesis. Sheridan Le Fanu’s novella haunts every question addressed in this call for papers. We will then welcome propositions examining the specific place of Carmilla in the emergence of the figure of the female vampire, through the circulation of the original text but also through the elaboration of an “adaptation network” (Kate Newell). Could we map out the apparitions of the female vampire in popular culture? How would Carmilla feature in that space?

¤ The figural approach: imagining the female vampire. Female vampires and related figures (harpies, sirens, sphinges, animal-women) : genesis and transformations of such figures in the pictorial tradition since the XIXth century (Munch, Khnopff, Mossa, Philip Burne-Jones), circulation of forms. Variants and typologies in literature from John Keats (Lamia) and Rudyard Kipling (“A Fool There Was”) to Tanith Lee (Sabella or the Blood Stone, 1980), Anne Rice (Pandora, 1998) and Octavia E. Butler (Fledgling, 2005) – through Paul Féval (La Vampire, 1856).



Communication proposals (about 200 words, along with a brief biographical note) should be sent to Jean-François Baillon (Jean-Francois.Baillon@u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr) and Nicolas Labarre (nicolas.labarre@u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr) by March 31, 2022.



Scientific committee:

Mélanie Boissonneau (Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle) – Marjolaine Boutet (Université de Picardie Jules Verne) – David Roche (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3) –– Yann Calvet (Université de Caen) – Matt Jones (De Montfort University, UK) –– Hélène Frazik (Université de Caen) – Jean-François Baillon (Université Bordeaux Montaigne) – Nicolas Labarre (Université Bordeaux Montaigne) - Dr Matt Melia (Kingston University London, UK)



Last updated March 15, 2022

CFP Dark Academia: Definitions, Theories, and Prospects (4/1/2022)

Dark Academia: Definitions, Theories, and Prospects

DUE DATE: 04-01-2022

Source: https://profession.mla.org/opportunity/dark-academia-definitions-theories-and-prospects/

We seek essays and papers for an edited collection that engages the concept of dark academia. At the center of the dark academic sensibility lies a paradox: though dark academia enjoys the cosmetic trappings of the pursuit of higher knowledge, it is at its core a celebration of the university as a place of occultation and performativity. The dark academic’s taste for mystery, history, and a distinctly Anglophone, Romantico-modernist canon—coupled with an equally distinct early-twentieth-century sartorial and lifestyle model—runs inevitably into exclusivity, elitism, and reactionary nostalgia. Indeed, the case can be made that these very elements are in fact constitutive of dark academia, as such.

Across social media, dark academia is frequently invoked as a community-building common interest for self-proclaimed oddballs or introverts who love learning—a characterization that would seem to put it in direct tension with its actual content. What can we make of this tension? Is dark academia inherently, irredeemably reactionary? In its original, social media incarnation—running as it often does to showing off outfits of the day, retro accessories, beautiful architecture, and carefully curated playlists—does it become, simply, a consumerist phenomenon? Or can we use it to think radically? If radical, does it become something other than dark academia? Whither light, gray, and chromatic modes?

What might dark academia—and its current popularity—tell us about the contemporary moment of noisy, perhaps diversionary, cultural warfare over the university and education more generally: “wokeness,” the “fearless pursuit of truth,” the sophistic invocation of “reason” in defense of the unreasonable, and the insistence on keeping schools open in the face of a pandemic? Can it direct us back to considerations of class, resistance, hegemony, epistemology, and art as a critical practice?

We are particularly interested in definitions, conceptualizations, delimitations, and troublings of the idea of dark academia as both an aesthetico-political project and a narrative genre. We are interested, too, in cultural and media critique and in writing on all forms of art and literature, including both art and literature associated with dark academic aesthetic taste and art and literature that narrativizes or thematizes the dark academic. Send a 250–350-word proposal and a short biographical statement to both editors, Cody Jones (codyjones@nyu.edu) and Nell Pach (npach@uchicago.edu) by 1 April 2022. Accepted proposals will be notified by 1 May, and drafts will be due by 1 September. Feel free to reach out with questions or proposal ideas. For more information, visit https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5850bf4e6b8f5b777d5f380c/t/61e46d520cf0055f7366d32b/1642360146980/Dark+Academia+Cfp.pdf.

CFP Monsters & Monstrous Bodies in American Culture and Society (3/13/2022; NEASA 6/10-11/2022)

Upcoming sponsored session. Sorry for the short notice.



CALL FOR PAPERS

MONSTERS & MONSTROUS BODIES IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY

SPONSORED BY THE MONSTERS & THE MONSTROUS AREA OF THE NORTHEAST POPULAR CULTURE/AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION


PROPOSALS BY 13 MARCH 2022


We seek paper proposals of 250 words or less to complete a panel on the theme of “Monsters & Monstrous Bodies in American Culture and Society.” Presentations might focus on the representations of monsters and the monstrous in American dramatic or literary texts, visual media, or works of popular culture (such as comics, films, games, or television programing) or on the ways that monsters and the monstrous are created and/or perceived in American society.


This session has been proposed for the 2022 meeting of The New England American Studies Association (NEASA) to convene at Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, from 10-11 June 2022.



Please send your proposals, contact information, and a brief academic biography to the session organizers at Popular.Preternaturaliana@gmail.com. We will share them with the conference committee for approval.


***Please Note: Vaccination and masks will be required of all presenters and attendees.***

Questions about the conference and the submission process can be sent to the NEASA Conference Committee at NEASAcouncil@gmail.com.


NEASA will be awarding prizes for the year’s best presentation by a graduate student or non-tenure track scholar (Mary Kelley Prize) and by an undergraduate presenter (Lisa McFarlane Prize). The Lois P. Rudnick prize for the best academic book in American Studies written by a New England scholar or about New England in 2020-21 will also be awarded. (Details and deadlines at https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/9793082/new-england-american-studies-association-neasa-awards.)



Further details on The New England American Studies Association can be found at https://newenglandasa.wordpress.com/.


The Monsters & the Monstrous Area maintains a blog at https://popularpreternaturaliana.blogspot.com/ with more information about its objectives as well as resources for furthering the study of monsters.

 

CFP Fifth quasi-Biennial Dr. Henry Armitage Memorial Scholarship Symposium of New Weird Fiction and Lovecraft-Related Research (6/3/22; Providence, RI 8/19-21/22)

The Armitage Symposium 

Source: http://necronomicon-providence.com/the-armitage-symposium/

The Fifth quasi-Biennial

Dr. Henry Armitage Memorial Scholarship Symposium

of New Weird Fiction and Lovecraft-Related Research

NecronomiCon Providence convention in Providence, RI

19-21 August, 2022

Location: Omni Hotel, Providence

Symposium Chair: Prof. Dennis P. Quinn, Cal Poly Pomona, CA and Editor of Lovecraftian Proceedings (Hippocampus Press)
Symposium Co-Chair: Elena Tchougounova-Paulson

The 2022 CALL FOR PRESENTATION PROPOSALS can be downloaded here: Armitage-Symposium-CFA-2022-2.pdf

 
 

About the Symposium:

The Lovecraft Arts and Sciences Council (the organizer of NecronomiCon Providence) hosts the Armitage Symposium to showcase academic works that explore all aspects weird fiction and art, from pop-culture to literature, including the writings and life of globally renowned weird fiction writer, H.P. Lovecraft. Topics of value include the influence of history, architecture, science, and popular culture on the weird fiction genre, as well as the impact that weird and Lovecraftian fiction has had on culture.

In past years, the Armitage Symposium has aimed to foster explorations of Lovecraft’s elaborate cosmic mythology, and how this mythology was influenced by, and has come to influence, numerous other authors and artists before and since. Additionally, we promote all works that foster a greater, critical, and nuanced understanding weird fiction and art (and related science fiction, fantasy, horror, etc.).

Selected talks will be presented together as part of the Armitage Symposium, a mini-conference within the overall convention framework of NecronomiCon Providence, August 18-21, 2022. Presenters will deliver fifteen to twenty-minute oral presentations summarizing their thesis, and are invited to submit a brief manuscript for possible inclusion in a proceedings publication.

For more information on the Armitage Symposium, or the overall convention and the themes to be explored, please visit our website: necronomicon-providence.com – where we will post updates and details as they develop over the final weeks leading to the convention. In addition to these talks, NecronomiCon Providence will feature numerous traditional panels and presentations given by many of the top names in the global weird renaissance.

The 2022 CALL FOR PRESENTATION PROPOSALS can be downloaded here: Armitage-Symposium-CFA-2022-2.pdf

 

CFP My Wild Heart Bleeds: 150 Years of Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla (6/1/22; online 9/3/22)

My Wild Heart Bleeds: 150 Years of Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla

deadline for submissions: June 1, 2022


full name / name of organization: Romancing the Gothic Project


contact email: sam@romancingthegothic.com

 

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/01/21/my-wild-heart-bleeds-150-years-of-sheridan-le-fanus-carmilla

official site: https://romancingthegothic.com/2022/01/19/rtgs-second-conference-my-wild-heart-bleeds-150-years-of-sheridan-le-fanus-carmilla/




This year’s Romancing the Gothic online conference celebrates the ‘birth’ of Carmilla, one of the most enduring vampiric figures, re-written and re-imagined over the years in fiction, film, web-series, podcasts, animated series and RPGs. This conference focuses on and celebrates Carmilla and its legacy, particularly the sapphic reclamation and queer celebration of its main character.

This conference welcomes creative and critical papers on a range of topics connected to Carmilla, including:

• Sheridan Le Fanu and his wider writings and legacy
• The history of the (female) vampire
• The queer Gothic and horror
• Adaptations and reiminagings of Carmilla
• Gothic reimaginings
• Gothic explorations of love and desire
• The sapphic vampire
• The sapphic Gothic
• Queering the vampire
• Sexuality in Victorian literature
• Queer desire and transgression
• Queering the supernatural
• The Gothic and romance

We are interested in interdisciplinary papers and works from a range of disciplines including: queer studies, cultural studies, literature studies, Gothic studies, folklore studies, history, sociology, philosophy etc.



As usual with a Romancing the Gothic conference, there will be extra events including author roundtables, workshops and a social event. Keep your eye peeled for news.



We are accepting panel and individual paper proposals. There are two types of paper

• 10 minute ‘Lightning talk’ – This is a short talk to introduce a theme, or area of research or interest.
• 20 minute paper – This is a 20 minute paper on a topic of your choice. There are three talks to a panel, and you may submit an individual paper or panel proposal.

Please submit a 150-250 word abstract with short bio to sam@romancingthegothic.com by 1st June.

We welcome papers from both academics and non-academics with expertise of any type in the fields indicated above (critical, creative, professional, personal). For those who are unfamiliar with writing abstracts and academic conference applications, there will be a zoom tutorial to answer any questions on April 4th. Please email with a request for the link if you would like to join.

Last updated January 31, 2022 

 

CFP 6th Vampire Academic Conference (2/28/22; Cardiff 6/15-17/22)

Call for Papers: ‘Vampires through the Ages’ (USW and IVFAF)

DECEMBER 8, 2021 by JAMESRENDELL

Source: https://rendellj1.wordpress.com/2021/12/08/call-for-papers-vampires-through-the-ages-usw-and-ivfaf/


Submission deadline: Monday February 28th, 2022.

The International Vampire Film and Arts Festival and University of South Wales present The 6th Vampire Academic Conference ‘Vampires Through the Ages’ 15th-17th June 2022, Insole Court Mansion, Cardiff, Wales.

The University of South Wales, in association with the IVFAF, calls for papers by scholars interested in presenting their researched essays on vampire literature, film, folklore, theatre, games, graphic novels, lifestyle, fashion, music and wider art in the sixth annual Vampire Academic Conference (VAC) that runs alongside the festival in Cardiff. 

This Year’s main themes:

• Nosferatu 100 years later;
• Vampires in Media;
• Symphony of Horror: Vampires, Setting, and Folklore

Possible topics may include:

• Ghetto or gentrified gore: the vampire and urban space
• (Dis)ability and the monstrous
• Fans’ fangs: Vampire fandom, subcultures, and participatory practices
• Liminal beings: the vampire and teen/young adult media
• Beyond Transylvania: Global and transnational vampires
• Casting shadows: Vampire, acting, and stardom
• Draculaughs: The vampire as comedy monster
• From the coffin to the digital tomb: twenty-first century adaptation of the vampire story
• Race and Vampires
• Season’s greetings: the vampire and cultural festivals
• In the past: Folklore and Vampires
• In the Now: The History of the Modern Vampire
• Feminism and Vampires
• Queer Theory in Vampires
• Don’t go Into the Woods: Eco-Criticism and Vampires

However, the VAC is not limited to these themes. The two overriding criteria for papers delivered at the conference are:

• They must be about vampires &
• They must be interesting

This major interdisciplinary international conference aims to examine and expand debates around vampires in all their many aspects. We therefore invite researchers from a range of academic backgrounds to re/consider vampires as a phenomenon that reaches across multiple sites of production and consumption, from literature and film to theatre and games to music and fashion and beyond. What accounts for this Gothic character’s undying popular appeal, even in today’s postmodern, digital, commercialized world? How does vampirism circulate within and comment upon mass culture?

We invite papers in genre theory & history, popular fiction, media culture, television theory, adaptation, journalism, comic studies, the transformative arts and other areas of film, literary and cultural studies to explore and expand the significance of the vampire as a figure of fascination across popular culture in shifting historic and social contexts.

We are delighted to announce that our keynote speakers for the event are Professor Stacey Abbott (University of Roehampton) and Kim Newman.

We welcome proposals for conference papers of 20 minutes but also for pre-formed panels (of 3×20-minute papers), roundtable discussions, or formats that allow for the presentation of praxis (installations, lecture performances, for instance). We also want to support undergraduate scholarship: any current UG students interested in attending the VAC would be eligible for special, 10–15-minute presentation panels to facilitate their participation in an international conference at the undergraduate level.

Please send a 300-500-word abstract, along with a short biography and indication of the format of your proposed presentation to: jelinej@scf.edu by Monday February 28th, 2022. You will be notified of your acceptance by March 15th, 2022. If you are looking for a virtual choice, please state this in your proposal. If submitting a full panel proposal, the moderator should send a 50-word summary statement outlining the panel’s title and central topic, along with all three proposals. Accepted submitters must confirm their commitment to attend and present a finished written paper in a talk lasting approximately 20 minutes at the conference in Cardiff. It must be their own original work.

Presenters must register by purchasing a Delegate ticket. For more information on conference registration and location, visit www.ivfaf.com

The VAC runs in tandem with the Vampire Creative Congress, which focuses on the creative industries and featuring talks about filmmaking, writing, games etc. The wider festival includes literature and film strands and includes guest talks. There’s also a programme of theatre performances and parties, including the spectacular Vampire Ball. For more details, go to www.ivfaf.com.

CFP Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference 2022 (expired 12/31/2021)

 Sorry to have missed this. It is a great event.

 

Call for Presentations: The Fifth Annual Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference

deadline for submissions: 

December 31, 2021

full name / name of organization: 

StokerCon/Horror Writers Association

contact email: annradcon@gmail.com

 

source: 

 

Call for Presentations: 

The Fifth Annual Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference at StokerCon 2022

Abstract Submission Deadline: December 31, 2021

The Fifth Annual Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference at StokerCon 2022

Conference Dates: Thursday, May 12, 2022 - Sunday, May 15, 2022

Conference Hotel: The Curtis Hotel, 1405 Curtis Street, Denver, CO 80202

Conference Website: https://www.stokercon.com

The Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference co-chairs invite all interested scholars, researchers, academics, and non-fiction writers to submit presentation abstracts related to horror and gothic studies for consideration to be presented at the annual StokerCon which will be held May 12 - 15, 2022 in Denver, CO. This will by a hybrid convention with both in-person and online events via Hopin. 

The Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference is an opportunity for individuals to present on completed research or work-in-progress horror studies projects that continue the dialogue of academic analysis of the horror genre in all of its forms. As in prior years, we are looking for presentations that look to expand the scholarship in various facets of horror that proliferates in: 

• Art

• Cinema

• Comics/Manga

• Literature

• Music

• Poetry

• Television

• Video Games

• Cartoons/Anime

• Etc.

We invite papers that take an interdisciplinary approach to their subject matter and apply a variety of lenses and frameworks, such as, but not limited to:

• Auteur theory

• Close textual analysis

• Comparative analysis

• Cultural and ethnic

• Fandom and fan studies

• Film studies

• Folklore

• Gender/LGBTQIA+, studies

• Genre studies

• Historic analysis

• Interpretations

• Intertextuality

• Linguistic

• Literature studies

• Media and communications

• Media Sociology

• Modernity/Postmodernity

• Mythological

• Psychological

• Racial studies

• Semiotics

• Theoretical (Adorno, Barthes, Baudrillard, Dyer, Gerbner, etc.)

• Transmedia

• And others

Conference Details

• Please send a 250 – 300 word abstract on your intended topic, a preliminary bibliography, and your CV to AnnRadCon@gmail.com by December 31, 2021. Responses will be emailed out during the month of January. Final acceptances will require proof of StokerCon registration.

• Presentation time consideration: 15 minute maximum to allow for a Question and Answer period. Limit of one presentation at the conference. 

• This will be a hybrid conference, with the ability to present either in person and/or online via Hopin. Those presenting in person are strongly encouraged to make a recording of their presentation to have on Hopin as we will not be live streaming in person presentations.

• There are no honorariums for presenters. 

• In support of HWA’s Diverse Works Inclusion Committee goals, the Ann Radcliffe Academic co-chairs encourage the widest possible diverse representation to apply and present their scholarship in a safe and supportive environment. More information at: http://horror.org/category/the-seers-table/

• Please subscribe the StokerCon’s Newsletter to keep abreast for the latest conference information. 

Organizing Co-Chairs

Michele Brittany and Nicholas Diak

Email: AnnRadCon@gmail.com

Twitter: @AnnRadCon1

The Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference is part of the Horror Writers Association’s Outreach Program. Created in 2016 by Michele Brittany and Nicholas Diak, the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference has been a venue for horror scholars to present their work. The conference has also been the genesis of the Horror Writer Association’s first academic release, Horror Literature from Gothic to Post-Modern: Critical Essays, comprised entirely of AnnRadCon presenters and was released by McFarland in February, 2020.

Membership to the Horror Writers Association is not required to submit or present, however registration to StokerCon 2022 is required to be accepted and to present. StokerCon registration can be obtained by going to https://www.stokercon.com. 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.

 

CFP The Mouse’s Monsters at PCA (12/23/2021; PCA Virtual 4/13-16/2021)

The Mouse’s Monsters at PCA: Further Examples of Monsters and the Monstrous in the Worlds of Disney

Sponsored Session Proposed for the 2022 Virtual Conference of the Popular Culture Association

Sponsored by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area and the Disney Studies Areas of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association for PCA’s Disney Studies Special Topic Area.

Virtual event: 13-16 April 2022.

Proposals due by 21 January 2022 (UPDATED).

 

At its 2021 Virtual Conference, the Monsters & the Monstrous Area and the Disney Studies Areas of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association (a.k.a. NEPCA) organized three successful sessions on the theme of monsters and the monstrous in the fictional worlds of the Walt Disney Company.

We’d like to continue to build on those investigations this coming spring at the national meeting of the Popular Culture Association (a.k.a. PCA) and to also help support the PCA’s new Disney Studies Special Topic Area.

For this session, we’re most interested in proposals related to representations of monsters and the monstrous in the traditional Disney brand and in Pixar, but papers related to more recent properties and acquisitions (for example ABC, ABC Family/Freeform, Hulu, Lucasfilm, Marvel, the Muppets, Saban Entertainment, and Twentieth Century Fox) can be also be valid approaches. All submissions will also be considered for inclusion in a collection of essays based on the topic.

 

Potential topics might include the following:

• Adaptations of classic monster stories.
• Aliens.
• Animals as monsters.
• Attractions.
• Bad dreams.
• Communities of monsters.
• Constructs.
• Cryptids.
• Curses.
• Dinosaurs.
• Disguises.
• Disney as monstrous.
• Disney Villains.
• Gargoyles.
• Ghosts.
• Halloween.
• Halloween-themed productions.
• Haunted houses (and mansions)
• Horror-themed productions.
• Human “monsters”.
• Imaginary creatures.
• Legendary creatures.
• Magical creatures.
• Magic-users.
• Othered individuals.
• Reanimated dead.
• Shape-shifters.
• Technology and monsters.
• Undead/zombies.
• Underworld and other realms of the dead.
• Vampires.
• Weather-related monsters.
• Witchcraft/witches and wizards.

 

If you are interested in joining this session, please submit your information into PCA’s online system at https://pcaaca.org/conference/submitting-paper-proposal-pca-conference. You’ll need to create a profile and upload a biographical statement AND join the PCA for the coming year before the system will allow you to reach the proposal screen. Be sure to select “Disney Studies” as the area for your paper. Proposals should be about 250 words.

Please also send a copy of your proposal to the session organizers, so we can keep track of them: Michael A. Torregrossa (NEPCA’s Monsters & the Monstrous Area Chair) at popular.preternaturaliana@gmail.com and Priscilla Hobbs (NEPCA’s Disney Studies Area Chair) at p.hobbs-penn@snhu.edu.

Further details on PCA’s Disney Studies Special Topic Area can be found at https://pcaaca.org/area/disney-studies-special-topic-2022.

NEPCA’s Monsters & the Monstrous Area maintains a blog at https://popularpreternaturaliana.blogspot.com/.

 

 

 

CFP Premodern Otherness (Spec Issue of Otherness: Essays and Studies) (2/1/2022)

Special Issue: Premodern Otherness (Otherness: Essays and Studies 9.1)

deadline for submissions: February 1, 2022


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


contact email: engms@cc.au.dk


Source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/11/24/special-issue-premodern-otherness-otherness-essays-and-studies-91

The peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal Otherness: Essays and Studies is now accepting submissions for its special issue: Premodern Otherness: Encounters with and Expressions of the Other in Classical Antiquity, Medieval, and Early Modern Periods, Autumn 2022.



Otherness: Essays and Studies publishes research articles from and across different scholarly disciplines that critically examine the concepts of Otherness and alterity. We particularly appreciate dynamic cross-disciplinary study.



This special issue will focus on representations and ideas of Otherness in classical antiquity, medieval, and early modern periods. Confrontations with and distinctive conceptualizations of Otherness were also present in the premodern era. The papers in this issue will focus on the different ways in which Otherness was expressed in thought, representations, and processes during this period. This can include but is not limited to, philosophical or literary works, material culture, historiography, treatises, etc.



Thinking about Otherness is not limited to contemporary identity politics nor Orientalism in the modern era. Socrates based his anamnesis principle, the idea that we have known everything in a previous life but have simply forgotten it, on his questioning how to deal with the Other and the unknown. However, the relevance of this theory and other premodern thoughts and texts on Otherness is often overlooked. When we discuss Otherness today, we mention modern thinkers such as Levinas or Derrida and might then discount the role Socrates and other premodern philosophers have had. The ideas of ancient thinkers have long remained relevant throughout the Middle Ages too and left their traces in the cultural production of that period and beyond. Think, for example, of the interactions in the Old English poem Beowulf between the monster Grendel and his surroundings, or encounters with the Faërie in Arthurian romances. The way in which these unnatural or unfamiliar phenomena are treated can generate fruitful discussions when it comes to Otherness and how it has been conceptualized through time. How can we now study and interpret these traces and what exactly are they? How are the encounters with Otherness or the Other visualised, presented, and described in premodern artwork or treatises? What can we learn from looking at representations of Otherness in the past and use those in our own dealings with Otherness now?



For this special issue of Otherness: Essays and Studies, we invite papers that explore representations and conceptualisations of the Other in the premodern period. These representations can be historiographical, literary, architectural, artistic, or interdisciplinary. We seek practice-led research outcomes, cross-disciplinary theoretical considerations, conceptualizations and theory formations and critical and analytical readings of source material.



Welcome topics include but are not limited to:

• Representation and Reception of Otherness in Classical and Medieval Philosophy
• Translation of Otherness in Premodern Literature
• Theoretical Frameworks for Premodern Alterity
• Framing the Other in Premodern Historiographical Texts
• Representations of the Other in Premodern Material Culture
• Spatial Practices in the Premodern Periods and the Other
• Encounters with Monstrosities in Premodern Art
• The Treatment of Women in Premodern Texts
• Marginalisation of Race in Premodern Treatises

Articles should be between 5,000 – 8,000 words. All electronic submissions should be sent via email with Word document attachment formatted to Chicago Manual of Style standards to the guest editor Bregje Hoed at Otherness.research@gmail.com



Further information: http://www.Otherness.dk/journal/



The deadline for submissions is 1 February 2022.

 Last updated December 1, 2021 

 

CFP Ghostbusters--A Companion (2/28/2022)

Ghostbusters – A Companion

deadline for submissions: February 28, 2022

full name / name of organization: 

Simon Bacon, series editor; Cathleen Allyn Conway, collection editor; Peter Lang, Oxford

contact email: conwaycat@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/11/17/ghostbusters-%E2%80%93-a-companion

Call for Papers: Ghostbusters – A Companion The release of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the fourth installment coming almost 40 years after the original Ghostbusters film, prompts inquiry into this beloved and oftentimes fraught film franchise. While the original and (and its sequel) was a paean to academics becoming the working class heroes who act as the ghost janitors of New York City, the third and fourth films, reimagined with new casts, have become a battleground for who ‘owns’ nostalgia, and have acted as meta-commentaries on the question. As Charles Bramesco wrote in his Guardian review of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, “Perhaps it’s appropriate and telling that the 2021 incarnation of an 80s artifact would be imbued with all the issues most endemic to the current studio release. Here, we can find a damning summary of modern Hollywood’s default mode – a nostalgia object, drained of personality and fitted into a dully palatable mold, custom-made for a fandom that worships everything and respects nothing.” We are asking for essays of 2,500 words that frame a theoretical aspect of the cultural role Ghostbusters plays by centering on one text, whether literary or cinematic, to use as a lens to look at the wider topic. The essays themselves should be accessible but address the big ideas, placing Ghostbusters into cultural and historical context. We are specifically interested in the intersections of gender, race, class, disability and LGBT+ concerns with the franchise, its tie-ins and extended universe. We are particularly interested in hearing from scholars from marginalised groups. We prioritise Own Voices and encourage you to self-identify in your bio for this purpose. The proposed Companion will be divided into several sections. The topics in each section may include but are not limited to the following, with understanding there is room for crossover: 

Films

• Ghostbusters (1984)
• Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
• Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (2016)
• Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
• Plus: All soundtracks, trailers, deleted scenes, directors’ commentaries, and tie-in shorts related to the theatrical and home video release of all four films. 

Extended Universe

• Animated series
• Comics and graphic novel adaptations and new series

Multimedia tie-ins

• Gaming: board games, video games, handhelds, card games, role playing
• Fan fiction: film, art, music 

Fandom

• Live meetups and regional fan groups
• Cosplay, costume and prop makers
• Model builders and automobile restoration enthusiasts
• Small business tie-ins
• Ghost hunters 

Merchandising/licensing

• Food tie-ins and merchandisingVintage toy collectors
• Licensing
• Pin Trading
• Ghostbusters cameos/callbacks/references in other media 

Please send 300 word abstracts and a 50-word bio to editor Cathleen Allyn Conway (conwaycat@gmail.com) by 28 February 2022 for consideration in the collection, which will be part of the Peter Lang, Oxford Genre, Literature and Film Companion Series.

Last updated November 19, 2021

CFP Journal of Gods and Monsters Upcoming Special Issues (3/15/2022)

CFP Journal of Gods and Monsters Upcoming Special Issues

source: https://www.theofantastique.com/2021/10/18/cfp-journal-of-gods-and-monsters-special-issues/

The Journal of Gods and Monsters is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that seeks to explore the connections between the sacred and the monstrous. “Religion” can refer to the world’s religious traditions or to ideas that are religious in a substantive sense, such as God, demons, or death and the afterlife.   However, the journal will also consider articles that explore the “religious” dimension of culture in a functional sense as relating to values, myths, and rituals.

Special Issue #1: Religion, Monstrosity, and the Paranormal

Lead Issue Editor: John Morehead

Deadline for Submission: March 15, 2022

Although typically dismissed and viewed as fringe phenomena by scholars, the paranormal is enduring. The Chapman University Survey of American Fears, which includes survey data on paranormal beliefs, those phenomena at odds with mainstream science and orthodox religion, reported in 2018 that large numbers of people find the paranormal of interest. Some 58% believe that places can be haunted by spirits, 57% believe in lost ancient civilizations like Atlantis, and 41% believe aliens once visited the earth in the ancient past. The paranormal often functions as a source of transcendence and meaning for people, even as it draws upon various forms of monstrosity. We would like to produce a theme issue of the journal on the paranormal intersecting with monstrosity and religion.

Special Issue #2: Candyman

Guest Editor: Joseph P. Laycock

Deadline for Submission: March 15, 2022

The Journal of Gods and Monsters seeks papers for a special issue on Candyman, to be guest edited by Joseph Laycock.  We especially seek papers interpreting the 2021 film directed by Nia DeCosta.  However, we also encourage papers that consider the previous films (1992, 1995, and 1999), as well as Clive Barker’s original story “The Forbidden” (1985).

Some possible angles of analysis might include:

• The significance of ritual and summoning in the Candyman mythos
• Candyman as monstrous object of horror and/or prophetic agent of justice
• The nature and function of narrative and folklore in the Candyman mythos
• Candyman as object of worship
• The intersection of the monstrous with anxieties over race and (in 1992 film) miscegenation
• How the religious dimension of the BLM movement has influenced the Candyman mythos
• Themes of damnation, destiny, and the Gothic in Candyman

Submissions for BOTH special issues:

Proposals should be submitted directly to the journal via its online system, but authors may reach out to the guest editor for more information or to submit a 250-word abstract.

Submissions for both issues should be scholarly in nature, between 5000 and 10000 words, and are requested by March 15, 2022 (submissions after this date will be considered for future issues). We encourage submissions from all disciplines, geographic areas, and time periods. Articles should be submitted via the online system at https://godsandmonsters-ojs-txstate.tdl.org after registration. In the case of questions please contact the editorial team at editorsJGM@gmail.com or at their professional email addresses. Please reach out to John Morehead and Joseph Laycock individually with specific questions or concerns on each special issue.

To inquire regarding book or media reviews for either special issue, please contact Brandon Grafius (bgrafius@etseminary.edu).

CFP The Exorcist: Studies on Possession, Influence, and Society (due date 10/31/2021)

Sorry to have missed posting this earlier:

The Exorcist: Studies on Possession, Influence, and Society

 

deadline for submissions: October 31, 2021


full name / name of organization: Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural


contact email: cuevae@uhd.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/04/11/the-exorcist-studies-on-possession-influence-and-society


 

Special Edition of Revenant:

“The Exorcist: Studies on Possession, Influence, and Society”

Deadline for abstract submissions: October 31, 2021

Guest Editors: Edmund P. Cueva (University of Houston-Downtown) and Nadia Scippacercola (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)

The Exorcist, both as a book and film, has had a lasting influence beyond the world of horror. It is essentially a foundational, multivalent work: on the one hand, it helps understand and approach the theological concept and spiritual dimension of demonic possession as found in the Catholic faith, and on the other hand, it investigates domestic/public, spaces, dynamics, and spheres. Indeed, The Exorcist examines social discourse and narratives from a transformative and turbulent period of American history, sheds light on the difficulties that aging populations face in societies that do not offer adequate social safety nets, and exposes the miserable circumstances that people with mental health conditions and medically uninsured individuals and families often endure. Moreover, The Exorcist also speaks directly to the colonization and neo-colonization of archaeological sites and religions.

The Exorcist has much to offer as the foci for extensive and sustained research in the humanistic disciplines. This Special Edition of Revenant aims to start a new conversation on The Exorcist according to three dimensions: 1) to go back to the roots of the concept of possession, 2) to assess the cultural impact of the book and film, and 3) to present new scholarly developments about the book and film. Potential topics include but are not limited to: 

• possession in antiquity – literary accounts
• possession in antiquity – anthropological, psychological, archaeological data and observations
• antiquity as a bridge between medieval and/or modern religious views of possession
• possession in post-classical – pre-modern times
• the influence of ancient literature and thought on the book and movie
• possession in the modern age
• similarities differences between Western and non-Western possession (ancient, post-classical, and modern) – literary accounts; anthropological, psychological, archaeological data and observations
• possession in the arts
• possession and witches
• mysticism and altered state of consciousness
• psychology/psychiatry and possession
• the influence of the book and movie(s)
• the persistence of the popularity of the book and movie

For articles and creative pieces (such as poetry, short stories, flash fiction, videos, comics, artwork, and music) please send a 500-word abstract and a short biography by October 31st, 2021. If your abstract is accepted, the full article (maximum 7000 words, including Harvard referencing) and the full creative piece (maximum 5000 words if a written piece) will be due April 30th, 2022. Reviews of books, films, games, events, and art related to The Exorcist will be considered (800-1,000 words in length). Please send full details of the title and medium you would like to review as soon as possible. Further information, including Submission Guidelines, are available at the journal website: www.revenantjournal.com. Inquiries are welcome and, along with all submissions, should be directed to cuevae@uhd.edu and nadia.scippacercola@gmail.com.

Last updated April 15, 2021 

 

CFP Edited Collection: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (due 10/31/2021)

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Edited Collection: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

deadline for submissions: October 31, 2021

full name / name of organization: Cori Mathis

contact email: cemathis@lipscomb.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/07/22/edited-collection-chilling-adventures-of-sabrina


In the world of teen drama (or YA drama, as some prefer), there are a number of ways to represent adolescence and its attendant horrors, and we’ve seen a great deal of fantasy-based approaches; beginning with Buffy, some establish that high school is actual hell. But few series come close to Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’s devotion to that idea. The Netflix series (2018-20), based on the Archie Comics spin-off and featuring a much darker version of Sabrina Spellman, may be difficult for audiences to reconcile with ABC’s Sabrina the Teenage Witch, the previous adaptation. While one is a teen sitcom in which Sabrina’s powers get her into wacky situations, and she is supported by a talking Salem the cat, the other might feel closer to The Craft. However different this version of Greendale is from what we may be used to, it certainly offers much to explore.



We invite proposals for a forthcoming collection of essays on Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and welcome those that engage with industry perspectives, textual approaches, audience studies, and issues of critical reception.

We anticipate a broad audience for this collection, which includes scholars as well as students of the humanities at both graduate and undergraduate levels. As such, submissions from contributors at various levels and from diverse fields are encouraged. Suggested themes include but are not limited to:

• Genre (teen/YA drama, horror, etc.)
• Gender (masculinities, femininities, etc. as represented in the series)
• Girlhood studies
• Race and ethnicity (both in the series and from a production perspective)
• Queer readings and approaches
• Dis/ability
• Religion (Christianity, Wicca, etc., both in reality and in the world of CAoS)
• Historical, cultural, televisual, and other contextual frameworks
• Intertextuality
• Industry/production
• Adaptation
• Love and romance
• Family constructions
• Autonomy and consent
• Class and economics
• Freedom and power

Submission Details:

Proposals should be between 300 and 500 words (along with 3-5 key sources) and should clearly describe the author’s thesis and proposed outline of the essay. Completed essays (6000-7500 words, including references) are also welcome. In a separate document, authors should provide a short CV with contact information and relevant publications and presentations. (Please send these as attachments.)



Please note: submitted proposals/essays should not have been previously published nor currently be under consideration for publication elsewhere. An academic press is already interested in this collection.



Submission Deadlines:

Abstract Due: October 31, 2021

Notification of Acceptance: November 15, 2021

Full Essay Due: January 31, 2021



Questions and submissions to Dr. Cori Mathis, cemathis@lipscomb.edu


Last updated August 2, 2021 

 

CFP Journal of Dracula Studies (5/1/2022)

 Journal of Dracula Studies

Source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/11/03/journal-of-dracula-studies

deadline for submissions: May 1, 2022

full name / name of organization: Anne DeLong/Curt Herr

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.

Please follow 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.

Submissions must be received no later than May 1, 2022, in order to be considered for the Fall 2021 issue.

Send electronic submissions to journalofdraculastudies@kutztown.edu

Contact: Dr. Anne DeLong or Dr. Curt Herr

Last updated November 3, 2021

CFP Vampire Studies (2022 PCA/ACA National Conference)

Note: PCA has recently shifted the conference to online AND extended the submission deadlines.

Vampire Studies (2022 PCA/ACA National Conference)

Source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/08/30/vampire-studies-2022-pcaaca-national-conference

deadline for submissions: November 15, 2021

full name / name of organization: Popular Culture Association

contact email: pcavampires@gmail.com

The Vampire Studies Area of the PCA welcomes papers, presentations, panels, and roundtable discussions that cover all aspects of the vampire as it appears throughout global culture. This year's conference will be held April 13-16 in Seattle, WA.

This year the Vampire Community celebrates the centenary of Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror.  We welcome papers, panel presentations, or creative pieces about this classic genre defining film.  As well as this broad theme we also welcome papers, presentations, and panels that cover any of the following:

•       The Non-Western Vampire (i.e. Black, Asian, Latino/a/x, African)
•       The Horror Vampire Byronic vs Hedonistic, or Horror vs Romantic
•       Vampires at the end of the world and beyond
•       The vampire on legacy television shows (i.e. Dark Shadows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Moonlight, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals)
•       The vampire on recent television shows (i.e. What We Do In the Shadows, From Dusk Till Dawn, Castlevania)
•       Legacy Cinematic vampires (i.e., Nosferatu, Interview with the Vampire, Near Dark, Twilight etc.)
•       Recent Cinematic Vampires (i.e., Bit, Crucible of the Vampire: Therapy for the Vampire etc.)
•       Vampire Cultures and Contexts (i.e., vampire RPGs or other gaming universes, fan studies, graphic novels)
•       Vampires and the Marginalized (i.e., race, gender, sexualities, national origin)
•       Genres such as Gothic Horror, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Steampunk, Young Adult, Erotica, Comedy
•       Historic and contemporary vampiric locations and geographies (i.e. cemeteries, castles, cities)
•       Vampire Studies (i.e., the vampire in the classroom, vampire scholarship)

And anything and everything in between!

To have your proposal/abstract considered, please submit your proposal/abstract of approximately 250 words at the Popular Culture Association Website. We also welcome complete panel proposals of 3-4 people.

We do not currently accept papers from fledgling/undergraduate scholars, but you can submit your proposal to the special Undergraduate Area.

If you have questions, contact us at pcavampires@gmail.com.  Also, follow us on Twitter @pca_vampires or join our Facebook groups PCA Vampire Studies and Vampire Scholars.

2022 Conference Dates and Deadlines

01Aug-21           2022 Conference Information Available on website

01-Sept-21         Submissions Open

01-Oct-21           Early Bird Registration Begins

15-Nov-21          Deadline for Paper Proposals and Grant Applications

 

Last updated September 1, 2021