category: film and television

Popular and Current Art Submissions and Criticism Wanted: Open Deadline

full name / name of organization: 
Anna Faktorovich, Ph.D./ Anaphora Literary Press
contact email: 
director@anaphoraliterary.com

While great works of literature were written in the 19th century and prior, we live today in an age with major problems and solutions in the realm of art and communication that should be addressed by

The Films of Robert Rodriguez

full name / name of organization: 
Christopher Gonzalez
contact email: 
Chris.Gonzalez@tamuc.edu

Call For Papers: The Films of Robert Rodriguez

POST SCRIPT: Essays in Film and the Humanities invites submissions for a special issue on the Films of Robert Rodriguez.

[UPDATE] SAMLA 2013: (Con)Textual Networks and the Globalized Caribbean (due June 10)

full name / name of organization: 
Kristine A. Wilson
contact email: 
wilson67@purdue.edu



2013 SAMLA CONFERENCE, NOV 8-10, ATLANTA

SPECIAL SESSION: "(Con)Textual Networks and the Globalized Caribbean"

Apollon eJournal - Undergraduate Submissions deadline 6/15/2013

full name / name of organization: 
Apollon: eJournal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities
contact email: 
apollonejournal@gmail.com

Check the website, apollonejournal.org, for submission details on publication, or for an application to work with us

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Genre Films & Money; 2013 Film & History Conference; Nov. 20-24, 2013 (Madison)

full name / name of organization: 
Film & History
contact email: 
ahowe@lasierra.edu

Money & the Genre Film

An area of multiple panels for the 2013 Film & History Conference on Making Movie$: The Figure of Money On and Off the Screen

November 20-24, 2013

Special Issue on Contemporary Drama [July 15, 2013]

full name / name of organization: 
Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies
contact email: 
breac.djis@gmail.com

Special Issue on Contemporary Drama

SAMLA Special Session on Creating or Expanding a BA Program in English During Uncertain Times (June 20th- Abstract Deadline)

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA Special Session- November 8-10, Atlanta
contact email: 
SOrtolano@edison.edu

This panel invites participants from any college or university where there is an interest in building a B.A. in English or establishing a new programmatic track within the discipline.

Call for Papers - Patents for Humanity Special Issue - August 23 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Diana Vergara/ Technology and Innovation - Proceedings of the National Academy of Inventors
contact email: 
tijournal@research.usf.edu

In recognition of the USPTO’s Patents for Humanity program, Technology and Innovation - Proceedings of the National Academy of Inventors, will be publishing a special issue highlighting influential

Beyond Mad Men: Personal and Collective Nostalgia in British and American Period Dramas; SAMLA, Nov 8-10

full name / name of organization: 
Anthony Dotterman/Adelphi University
contact email: 
Anthony Dotterman/Adelphi University

In his article “The Forty Year Itch,” Adam Gopnik argues that the past “is not simply a good setting for a good story, but a good setting for you.” While Gopnik’s article focuses on nostalgi

International Journal of Welsh Writing in English (deadline September 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Dr Alyce von Rothkirch / Swansea University
contact email: 
ijwwe.editor@gmail.com

International Journal for Welsh Writing in English

Call for Papers

NeMLA 2014 Monstrous Maternity: Mothering Monsters, and Monsters as Mothers, Deadline 9/30/13

full name / name of organization: 
NeMLA
contact email: 
almishou@gmail.com

Monstrous Maternity: Mothering Monsters, and Monsters as Mothers

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

GLBTQ Studies at MAPACA - Atlantic City (Nov. 7th to 9th)

full name / name of organization: 
Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA)
contact email: 
markjohn@alumni.tufts.edu

The GLBTQ Studies Area of MAPACA welcomes proposals of relevance to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities.

Representations of Gender and Sexuality in John Dos Passos’s Writing

full name / name of organization: 
John Dos Passos Society
contact email: 
Victoria.M.Bryan@gmail.com; jdpsociety@gmail.com

Like his modernist contemporaries, John Dos Passos engages themes of gender and sexuality.

Call for Creative Writing Articles

full name / name of organization: 
Writing Commons -- a global, peer-reviewed, open-education resource for college students
contact email: 
dianne@writingcommons.org

Award-winning Writing Commons (http://writingcommons.org/), a global, peer-reviewed, open-education resource for college students invites the submission of creative writing articles intending to help

Cacophony and Communication in the Postmodern Novel

full name / name of organization: 
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
contact email: 
mjameson@lander.edu

Postmodern multivocality forefronts various attempts, and failures, to communicate; in the postmodern novel, television, radio, phones, print media, literature, works of art, and even graffiti simultaneously communicate and compete, harmonize and grate, as characters attempt to make meaning and make sense of their worlds.

UPDATE: Reinterpreting Carson McCullers (The 85th Annual SAMLA Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, November 8-10, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Courtney George: The Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians (Columbus State University)
contact email: 
george_courtney2@columbusstate.edu

DEADLINE EXTENDED: JUNE 1, 2013

Gender, Identity and Sexuality for NEPCA conference; deadline June 10, 2013; conference 10/25-26

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Popular Culture Association
contact email: 
GagnonD@wcsu.edu

Currently soliciting paper proposals for the upcoming NEPCA conference at St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont, October 25/26, 2013.

Jazz and Cinema

full name / name of organization: 
Cardiff University
contact email: 
jazzandcinema@gmail.com

The conference will gather academic scholars and others with an interest in the relationship between jazz and cinema from across a range of disciplines.

Possible themes could include:

SAMLA 85 Call for Papers. Deadline June 1, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
contact email: 
banerjeesuchi@gmail.com

Transnationalizing the Digital

[Update] Smallville: Essay Collection

full name / name of organization: 
Nadine Farghaly and Margo Collins
contact email: 
supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com, Nadine.Farghaly@gmx.net

Articles are invited for an essay collection on Smallville. This collection will specifically focus on issues of gender, sex, and power in this retelling and expansion of the Superman universe(s).

NeMLA 2014: Irish and Indian-Anglophone Writing in a Transnational Feminism Context

full name / name of organization: 
NeMLA 2014 (Northeast Modern Language Association)
contact email: 
tara.harney@uconn.edu

NeMLA 2014 cfp

Title: Irish and Indian-Anglophone Writing in a Transnational Feminism Context

CFP SAMLA 8-10 Novembre 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Maristella Cantini Ph.D. Madison College
contact email: 
scantini@hotmail.com

Could you please circulate this CFP?
Thank you,

Maristella Cantini

[UPDATE]"Past Tense, Future Tensions" SCLA Conference Oct. 18-19, 2013 (abstract deadline extended)

full name / name of organization: 
Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts
contact email: 
sclaconference@guilford.edu

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Abstracts due 6/1/13.

ReFocus: The Films of Budd Boetticher

full name / name of organization: 
Edinburgh University Press
contact email: 
Dr. Gary D. Rhodes, gdrhodes@gmail.com; Dr. Robert Singer, collegenowsinger@aol.com

From Escape in the Fog (1945) to Ride Lonesome (1959), among many other titles, few filmmakers created as unique a body of work in the United States as Budd Boetticher (1916-2001), but few directors h

ReFocus: Announcing a New Series of Film/American Studies Anthologies

full name / name of organization: 
Edinburgh University Press
contact email: 
Dr. Gary D. Rhodes, gdrhodes@gmail.com ; Dr. Robert Singer, collegenowsinger@aol.com

In 2015, the University of Edinburgh Press will launch a multivolume series of scholarly, refereed anthologies entitled ReFocus.

VI International Gothic Congress ‘Gothic Convergences’, UNAM, Mexico City, April 1, 2 & 3, 2014

full name / name of organization: 
International Gothic Congress, UNAM
contact email: 
antonio.alcala@itesm.mx

Transmedia Horror

full name / name of organization: 
University of Melbourne
contact email: 
Jessica.Balanzategui@unimelb.edu.au

Special Issue: Transmedia Horror (Abstracts due 20th of June 2013)

[Update] Call for Contributors: Encyclopedia of Asian American Culture

full name / name of organization: 
Lan Dong
contact email: 
ldong4@uis.edu

Call for Contributors: Encyclopedia of Asian American Culture

Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic

full name / name of organization: 
University of Sheffield
contact email: 
john.miller@sheffield.ac.uk

Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic

Edited by Robert McKay & John Miller (University of Sheffield, UK)

Slayage Special Issue: Critical Reflections on The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

full name / name of organization: 
Slayage: The Journal of the Joss Whedon Studies Association
contact email: 
jasie.stokes@louisville.edu

Italian-American Identity Politics, New Orleans, Oct. 3-5, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Italian-American Identity Politics
contact email: 
iasa2013conf@italianamericanstudies.net

Italian American Studies Association
2013 Conference
Call for Papers

Italian-American Identity Politics

New Orleans Marriott
October 3-5, 2013

[UPDATE] MMLA 2013 Special Session: Irony and Authenticity in Contemporary Artistic Production

full name / name of organization: 
Janessa Toro/ University of Missouri/ New Deadline: June 1
contact email: 
jltz85@mail.missouri.edu

Is there room for earnestness and authenticity in contemporary media?

Salaam Cinema: Representations and Interpretations - Celebrating 100 Years of Bombay Cinema

full name / name of organization: 
Edited by Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal and Parichay Patra
contact email: 
parichay.patra@gmail.com

Book Proposal

Salaam Cinema: Representations and Interpretations
Celebrating 100 Years of Bombay Cinema

Edited by Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal and Parichay Patra

Reconstruction 14.1 The Undead Arcade

full name / name of organization: 
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
contact email: 
reconstruction.submissions@gmail.com

Reconstruction 14.1: The Undead Arcade (to be published March 2014)

Edited by Carly A. Kocurek and Samuel Tobin

[UPDATE] L.M. Montgomery and War (26–29 June 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
L.M. Montgomery Institute, University of Prince Edward Island
contact email: 
ben@roomofbensown.net

Please note that the deadline for submissions is now 15 June 2013

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