The journal Forum for World Literature Studies will be publishing a special issue devoted to politics and visual literature. Much of it springs from the 2010 Comparative Literature Conference at Purdue University, "Graphic Engagement: The Politics of Comics and Animation," but we're also looking for contributions outside of the conference. Our understanding of "political" is broad in scope, relating not only to affairs of state (at home and abroad), but also the praxis of visual narrative and ways it impacts individual identity and community dynamics. Possible paper topics may include, but are not limited to:

New issue of Wide Screen is now available

Wide Screen Vol.2 No.2: Special Issue on Production Studies

Guest Editors: Dorota Ostrowska and Graham Roberts

Available at: http://widescreenjournal.org/index.php/journal/issue/current

Studies in Gothic Fiction, a peer-reviewed, on-line journal is seeking articles and reviews. We welcome articles on all issues of Gothic literature and related media studies. Articles should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words. Reviews should be approximately 1,000 words with full publication dates and details of the subject: novels and graphic novels, film, television, drama, video games etc. All articles should be written in endnote format, following MLA style. Deadline for Spring is Feb. and Fall is Sept. 2011. Submit articles for consideration as word attachments to fpotter@nu.edu.

Call for Papers: Literature: Ecocriticism & Environment

PCA/ACA & Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations
Joint Conference
April 20-23, 2011
San Antonio, TX
http://www.swtxpca.org
Proposal submission deadline: December 15, 2010
Conference hotel: Marriott Rivercenter San Antonio
101 Bowie Street
San Antonio, Texas 78205 USA
Phone: 1-210-223-1000

Panels are now being formed for presentations regarding Literature, Ecocriticism and the Environment. Specific areas might include:

That Pride and Prejudice would inspire a zombie rewriting was perhaps surprising to Austen fans and critics, but "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" has itself inspired enough monstrous mash-ups from "Alice in Zombieland" to "Jane Slayre" to "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim" constitute a genuine genre: monster classics. Something of a pun on the afterlife of fiction, what, if anything, do these neo-Romantic and neo-Victorian monstrosities suggest about the culture from which they are drawn? About our own culture? This panel welcomes papers that consider any aspect of the monster classic phenomena, from theories of adaptation and mutation to considerations of genre or canon.

Visualisation in the Age of Computerisation

Call for proposals deadline: 1 December 2010

Conference: 25-26 March 2011, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

The Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) is organising a two-day conference on 25-26 March 2011 at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, with support from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the Oxford e-Social Science project.