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EXTENDED DEADLINE: The Handbook of Trans Cinema

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 5:37pm
Douglas Vakoch
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Deadline extended for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We warmly invite additional chapters, with high priority for chapters exploring transgender films from Africa, Latin America, Asia, Oceania, and Europe. Proposals due March 6. We already have 40+ confirmed chapters exploring trans films from 6 continents. Following this list of confirmed chapters, you will find details about how to submit your proposal for additional chapters. The handbook will include only one chapter for each topic, so please do not send proposals for any of the confirmed chapters listed here:

MLA 2026 CFP: Masters of Whose House?: Haunted Spaces and Immigrant Narratives in Contemporary Literature and Film

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:05pm
MLA 2026 - Toronto
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 16, 2025

For MLA 2026 - Toronto, we invite papers that examine how contemporary literature and film reimagine haunted space narratives through the lens of immigrant experiences and displaced families. Please e-mail a 250-word abstract, title, and short bio by March 16th, 2025 to Ibrahim and Laura.

Panel organizers:Ibrahim Williams, The University of Mississippi (iawillia@go.olemiss.edu )Laura Evers, Washington University in St Louis (e.laura@wustl.edu )

MLA 2026 Convention – Roundtable on "Bad Adaptations"

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:04pm
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

CFP: MLA 2026 Convention – Roundtable on "Bad Adaptations"

The Adaptation Studies Forum invites submissions for a roundtable discussion at the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto (January 8-11, 2026). In collaboration with the Screen Arts and Culture Group, this roundtable will engage in a critical exploration of what constitutes a “bad” adaptation and how these works can be understood and assessed both aesthetically and pedagogically.

Title: Bad Adaptations

Issue 4.1

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:57am
Journal of Consent-Based Performance
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 2, 2025

Call for Papers

 

The Journal of Consent-Based Performance invites artists, educators, and scholars engaged with consent-based performance—in theory or in practice—to interrogate our existing practices and propose new ideas in pursuit of increasingly more equitable, ethical, anti-oppressive, and effective consent-based practices within our field. In our endeavor to promote the work of all individuals engaged in improving the intimacy specialization fields, we invite authors to submit any writings centered upon consent-based performance practices. We encourage authors to submit essays that do the work of: 

JAMS@AX25 - Anime Expo Academic Symposium

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:54am
Billy Tringali - JAMS@AX Symposium
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 7, 2025

JAMS@AX25

Want to present your work at the one-and-only Anime Expo? The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies(JAMS) and Anime Expo have once-again teamed up to give you the JAMS@AX25 academic symposium, July 3- July 6, 2025 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. This symposium presents an incredible opportunity to connect fans of all ages directly to scholars researching and writing about the medium we all love. 

While the JAMS@AX25 welcomes all papers taking a scholarly perspective on anime, manga, cosplay, and their fandoms, we specifically welcome papers that match Anime Expo’s theme of: “Academics''!

MLA 2026 Convention Session - "Bad Adaptations"

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:54am
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Call for Papers: MLA 2026 Convention – Roundtable on "Bad Adaptations"

The Adaptation Studies Forum invites submissions for a roundtable discussion at the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto (January 8-11, 2026). In collaboration with the Screen Arts and Culture Group, this roundtable will engage in a critical exploration of what constitutes a “bad” adaptation and how these works can be understood and assessed both aesthetically and pedagogically.

Title: Bad Adaptations

Last Call for Special Issue:Representing Animals in Asian Screen Media

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:51am
University of Nottingham Ningbo China
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Special Issue title: Representing Animals in Asian Screen Media

Journal: Society & Animals (SCI & SSCI indexed)

Edited by: Dr. Zhaoyu Zhu (First Author); Dr. Thomas William Whyke (Corresponding Author)

University of Nottingham Ningbo China
 
Background and scope

CFP Medieval + Monsters in Comics (3/15/2025; online session 10/17-18/2025)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:51am
Michael A Torregrossa / Medieval Comics Project and the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Medieval + Monsters in Comics

 

Online Sponsored Session Proposed for Medieval + Monsters: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM), Mid-America Medieval Association (MAMA), Illinois Medieval Association (IMA) Joint Conference with The Newberry Library

Hosted at Dominican University & the Newberry Library

17-18 October 2025

 

The Medieval Comics Project and the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association seek proposals of 250 words for a proposed online panel devoted to the theme of the medieval and the monstrous in sequential art, comics, manga, and related media.

 

Topics might include:

Medieval Monsters

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:40am
Medieval Association of the Midwest/Mid-Atlantic Medieval Association/Illinois Medieval Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

October 17 & 18, 2025

Hosted at Dominican University and The Newberry Library

Extended Deadline: Call for Chapter on Morgan Spurlock's "30 Days" Reality Series on the FX Channel

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 10:48am
David Pierson, University of Southern Maine & Brian Faucette, Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute USA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

This is a call for chapter proposals on the late Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days reality TV series (2005-08) on the FX Channel for the FX Reader, an anthology of FX's best original TV series, which is under a two-volume book contract with Syracuse University Press.  In each 30 Days episode, Spurlock, or some other person or group of people, would spend 30 days immersing themselves in a particular lifestyle or environment with which they are not familiar, which include such topics as working for minimum wage, being in prison, a Christian living as a Muslim, and others.

Cultural Intertexts vol. 15/2025

updated: 
Monday, February 17, 2025 - 11:14pm
Cultural Intertexts
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

We hereby invite proposals of original articles related to the general theme of Cultural Intertexts, an academic journal of Literature and Cultural Studies, ISSN 2393-0624, E-ISSN 2393-1078.

 

The editors will consider for publication papers which tackle strategies of representation and of (inter)textual construction emerging from the dialogic relation between:

-       literature and the historical and cultural context of text production;

-       distribution and consumption;

-       literature and other arts (music, film, visual arts, etc.) or sciences (linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology, history, sociology and political sciences, internet and new technologies, etc.);

The Magic Kingdom: Exploring Disney’s Impact on Popular Culture

updated: 
Sunday, February 16, 2025 - 4:57pm
PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) is back with a virtual conference exploring all things Disney, to be held online on Thursday 24th and Friday 25th of July 2025.

Since the Walt Disney was founded his eponymous film studio in 1923, the Disney brand has been a mainstay of popular entertainment. The iconic Micky and Minnie Mouse head the line-up of an impressive array of characters and actors that have become cultural icons. Today Disney is a conglomerate of entertainment businesses, investing in theme parks, sports television, a cruise line, resort destinations, National Geographic Expeditions, clothing, games, and publishing.

Delicious, Nutritious and Fictious: Food in Popular Culture

updated: 
Sunday, February 16, 2025 - 4:57pm
PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Sydney, Australia and Zoom 25-26 September 2025

 

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free conference online exploring representations of food in popular cultures in history and today, on 25 and 26 September 2025.

Delicious, Nutritious and Fictitious: Food in Popular Culture is asymposium that aims to interrogate the ways that food, recipes, cooking, eating and nutrition are evident in popular culture. This may be representations of food in television, film, literature, art, music, as text, narrative, discourse or any other scholarly form or genre.

Enhanced Human Bodies in Literature and Cinema

updated: 
Sunday, February 16, 2025 - 2:06am
Aqib Javid / Psau, KSA
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025

We live in an age of optimization. Norms of beauty and performance are relentlessly getting harder to achieve without modifying the psychophysiology of human beings. Humans are faced with choices and demands regarding increasing and reducing the size, mass, and weight of different body parts and the modification of the way they function. The normal no longer means the common, it means the optimal. From special diets and extreme workouts to silicon injections and from plastic surgery to brain chips, the human body is transforming into a workshop for different arts and technologies. The cosmetic surgery market, for example, is worth more than 57 billion dollars and is expected to continue to grow very fast.

Paleontologists in Film, Literature, and Contemporary Media

updated: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025 - 11:45pm
Rachel Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025

This collection seeks essays on paleontologists in film, literature, and contemporary media. The Jurassic Park franchise solidified the presence of paleontology in the pop cultural imagination, but there have been other media and portrayals that have captured the public's imagination. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

-Studies of specific films

-Studies of specific novels

-Studies of fictional and/or real-life paleontologists in modern media

Chapters will be due in September 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.

Dinosaurs in Film, Literature, and the Arts

updated: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025 - 11:45pm
Rachel Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025

This collection seeks essays on dinosaurs in film, literature, and the arts. The Jurassic Park franchise solidified the presence of dinosaurs in the pop cultural imagination, but there have been other media and dinosaur portrayals that have captured the public's imagination. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

-Studies of specific films

-Studies of specific novels

-Studies of special effects renderings of dinosaurs

-Artwork with dinosaurs

Chapters will be due in September 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.

Mapping Body Space Continuum in Urbanscapes

updated: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - 12:14am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Space is not defined objectively, but in relation to bodies, as it is a manifestation of their needs, intentions, and desires. It is not a container in which objects exist but is intertwined with the body’s orientation in the world and its movements within the space. Human body, therefore, is at the centre of all spaces, which are more than a geometrical concept in abstraction. Individual bodies apprehend and appropriate space differently and give meaning to embedded systems and institutions through established and evolving associations. Any assumption of personalised space, whether private or public, is embedded with historical, cultural, and social meanings which help curate embodied experiences.

The Art of Storytelling: Archetypes in Focus

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:23am
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 4, 2025

Call for Papers:
The Art of Storytelling: Archetypes in Focus
A Transdisciplinary Conference
May 24-26, 2025

Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/storytelling-2025/

Where:
May 24-25, 2025: Oxford University (and Online)
May 26: Online only

Fees:
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)
Prices exclude eventbrite fees

Selling Scary Movies: Horror Film Marketing & the American Market

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:02am
Richard Nowell, FAMU (The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Hi folks,

I hope everyone is happy and well.

 

I would like to announce that I am putting together a new edited collection on horror film promotion in the US. At present, I am sketching out a due date for chapter submissions of January 2027, but obviously this can only really be provisional at this point. For the record, once a line-up is in place, I will be approaching Anthem Press about including the book in its "Series on Exploitation and Industry in World Cinema", of which I am a board member.

 

Selling Scary Movies: Horror Film Promotion & the American Market

Edited by Richard Nowell

 

Current Research in Speculative Fiction Conference 2025

updated: 
Monday, February 10, 2025 - 11:35am
CRSF
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 24, 2025

Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2025

15th Annual Conference

Boundaries: transgression, subversion, deconstruction

July 3rd & 4th 2025

University of Liverpool (Hybrid)

All bodies are, in some sense; engines driven by the health or disease of their owners, jackets of flesh that are the physical sum of their wearers. But to become your disease? To become the consumption itself? (Kathe Koja, The Cipher)

That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live inits reality. (Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation)

Popular Arts Conference (PAC) 18th Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, August 28 – September 1, 2025

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 3:44pm
Popular Arts Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The Popular Arts Conference (PAC) invites submissions for our 18th Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, August 28 – September 1, 2025.

PAC is an annual academic conference for the studies of comics and the popular arts, including science/speculative fiction and fantasy literature, film, and other media; comic books; manga; graphic novels; anime; gaming; etc., presented to a mixed audience of scholars and fans. The mission of PAC is to promote scholarship on popular culture and to encourage the engagement between scholars and fans in order to deepen our understanding of the popular arts. PAC presentations are peer reviewed, based on scholarly research.

Ecocritical perspectives on literature and other media

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:36pm
Istanbul University & Marmara University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

This call for papers seeks contributions examining the relationship between narratives and ecological issues, focusing on the ways storytelling addresses ecological challenges. Narratives – whether literary, cinematic, or multimodal – have the potential to critique environmental exploitation, envision sustainable futures, and explore human and non-human interconnections. The intersection of ecocriticism and storytelling offers fertile ground for discussions about the role of culture in shaping ecological consciousness and practices.

Propuestas para la colección Terror: Estudios críticos

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:35pm
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 30, 2025

 

English version below

 

La colección Terror. Estudios críticos, dirigida por Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns y localizada en la Universidad de Cádiz (España)busca manuscrito (monografia o colección editada) para año 2026/2027. Las propuestas y los manuscritos deben ser en español. Estamos interesados en un estudio académico (no meramente divulgativo) sobre los films de terror de Jacinto Molina (más conocido como Paul Naschy) realizados en España durante la década de oro del “Fantaterror” (1967-1976). Interesadas/os por favor mandar propuesta junto con CV completo al  email de la colección: coleccion.terror@uca.es hasta el 30 de marzo 2025.

 

My Wild Heart Bleeds: New Perspectives on Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:30pm
Dr Sam Hirst
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

CFP: ‘My Wild Heart Bleeds: Exploring Sheridan Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’and its legacy’

 

Sheridan Le Fanu published his sapphic vampire tale ‘Carmilla’ in 1872, reworking the vampire genre, and creating a figure who has inspired subsequent original works and reimaginings. This collection focuses on new explorations and readings of ‘Carmilla’ and its ongoing legacy, from adaptations and reimaginings to more subtle influences on the figure of the female vampire and the vampiric tradition more broadly.

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