Bad Subjects: Iraq War Culture Review Essays

Second call for review essays of culture and public phenomena surrounding the Iraq War.

Bad Subjects is issuing an open call for review essays of 1500-3000 words dealing with the cultural landscape created by the Iraq War. We are interested in essays that examine cultural products (art, film/video, photography, writing, music, theater, dance, software) or public-sphere phenomena (protests, political events, media coverage, educational projects, public reports, law) that respond to the war and its social environment.

Distraction, an online journal dedicated to the study
of fanfiction, seeks submissions for its pilot issue.
Essays are welcome which thoughtfully examine any
aspect of fan-produced literature from any and all
fandoms, including literary, sociological, historical,
cultural, psychological, political, statistical and
other studies.

Topics include, but are by no means limited to:

Character Studies - Character definition or
re-definition through fanfiction, standard fanfiction
characterization ("fanon"), archetypes, pairings,
heroes and anti-heroes.