[UPDATE] Extended Deadline: 01/18/2016: The Weird and the Southern Imaginary
Deadline extension: Our first round netted some excellent submissions, but we are extending the deadline for proposals to January 18, 2016.
Keynote: The Weird & the Southern Imaginary will introduce the aesthetics and generic conventions of the Weird to cultural studies of the U.S. South and the region's local, hemispheric, and (inter)national connections. Contributions from literary critics, film and popular culture scholars, philosophers, and critical theorists will consider forms of the Weird in a range of texts (literature, art, film & television, comics, music) from, about, or resonant with conceptions of different South(s).