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Monsters with Minds of Their Own (Edited collection)

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 2:21pm
Nizar Zouidi (Ph.D.)/University of Gafsa
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Chapters are needed for an edited collection entitled Monsters with Minds of Their Own in Western and Global Literatures and Media. This collection seeks to contribute to a series on the non-human in literature and culture. It aims at examining (the intersections between) the notions of monstrosity and evil in the literary and artistic depictions of non-human and hybrid (or post-human) intelligence in different cultural and historical contexts. It focuses on the representation of monsters and creatures that have cognitive abilities as well as on the demonizing and vilification of artificially or magically enhanced human intelligence.

Taylor Swift and Swiftie Studies at SWPACA

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 12:44pm
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Call for Papers

Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies 

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024

 

Call For Papers: The Films of George A. Romero

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 11:49am
Sue Matheson
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

A Critical Companion to George A. Romero

 

Part of the Critical Companion to Popular Directors series edited by Adam Barkman and Antonio Sanna

 

Extended deadline Oct. 15th--NeMLA 2025 roundtable From Medical to Health Humanities: Evolving Interventions

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 11:11am
Natalie Mera Ford / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

The fields of medical and health humanities often aim to intervene in socially embedded systems of care and advance health justice. This roundtable explores ways to work toward that goal through pedagogy, research, and community partnership.

Dialogues with D. H. Lawrence: Connection, Collaboration, and Allusion

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 6:40am
Jo Jones (University of Manchester); Laura Ryan (University of Limerick)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

In a 2023 article, the Black British writer Derek Owusu describes the transformative experience of reading D. H. Lawrence’s St Mawr (1925) as simultaneously an awakening to language and to a wider sense of connectedness. ‘I don’t have the words to describe what happened to me while turning the pages of that short story,’ he writes, ‘but I know language became something three-dimensional, and everything around me seemed connected by an unexpressed narrative.’

Themes of (R)evolution in Atwood's Works and Adaptations

updated: 
Sunday, October 6, 2024 - 9:25pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference - Philadelphia, March 6-9, 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

The “Themes of (R)evolution in Atwood’s Works and Adaptations” panel at NeMLA 2025 (March 6-9, Philadelphia) invites proposals for 20-minute papers exploring themes of revolution and evolution in Margaret Atwood’s texts, adaptations, and real-life crossovers. In what ways has Atwood’s works sparked revolutionary change—or not? What role does evolution play in her texts?

Please submit an abstract (250-300 words) and a brief bio (<100 words) by September 30th through the NeMLA portal for consideration: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21213. Please reach out to Riley Thomas at riley.thomas@temple.edu with any questions.

ACLA Virtual Conference 2025: Ghost Figures in World Literature

updated: 
Sunday, October 6, 2024 - 6:16am
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

A ghost, Avery Gordon writes, “has a real presence and demands its due, your attention” (2008, Ghostly Matters). To answer this demand, our seminar invites submissions that turn their attention to literary and artistic ghosts. After all, ghosts are profoundly literary figures; like poetics, they are defined by their repetitions and returns, and constantly referring to something else, though failing to fully represent it. However, ghosts are not any literary figures. They are haunting, and although they have a strong presence they come into life in place of something absent. Moreover, in their haunting presence, they are signalling “repressed or unresolved social violence” (Gordon, 2008).

 

PAMLA - Migration, Diaspora, and Critical Nostalgia in Modern Arab American Literature

updated: 
Sunday, October 6, 2024 - 4:28am
Aliyah Alsaber/Imam University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 14, 2024

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Migration, Diaspora, and Critical Nostalgia in Modern Arab American Literature

Apply here: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19317

 

The complexities of migration, diaspora, and critical nostalgia provide a lens through which to explore identity, belonging, and cultural memory. In the context of Arab American literature, these themes take on added significance, reflecting the multiple experiences and narratives of individuals and communities navigating the intersections of Arab and American senses of un-be-longing.

Potential topics for exploration include, but are not limited to:

Performing Crisis: Interdisciplinary Insights on Identity and Existence

updated: 
Sunday, October 6, 2024 - 3:33am
Prof Shuchi Sharma and Ms Mitali Bhattacharya
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Call for Book Chapters for Edited Volume

 

Performing Crisis: Interdisciplinary Insights on Identity and Existence

 

Deadline for Abstract Submissions has been extended to October 31, 2024

 

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced” (Baldwin 2).

Global childhoods and cosmopolitan identities, call for papers

updated: 
Saturday, October 5, 2024 - 4:19pm
Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 3, 2025

Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities (Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities (uwi.edu) is a new, open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of cultural and social issues related to complex cosmopolitan identities arising from mobile global childhoods which transcend conventional categories of migrancy and diaspora.

Animated Diversity: Queer Representations in Children’s Audiovisual Narratives

updated: 
Saturday, October 5, 2024 - 7:52am
Dr. Sotiris Petridis, Hellenic Open University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Call for Chapter Proposals

 

Editor Dr. Sotiris Petridis invites chapter proposals for an edited volume titled Animated Diversity: Queer Representations in Children’s Audiovisual Narratives. This book seeks to explore the increasing visibility and significance of queer identities in children’s animation, television, and film. The objective is to evaluate the cultural, educational, and social ramifications of this trend while analyzing the incorporation of LGBTQIA+ characters and themes into children's media.

 

Reinventing The Witch: Witchcraft and Sorcery in 21st Century Fiction and Film

updated: 
Saturday, October 5, 2024 - 7:23am
Nazan Yıldız Çiçekçi and Cenk Tan
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

Reinventing The Witch: Witchcraft and Sorcery in 21st Century Fiction and Film

 “Under Strong Interest” by McFarland’s "Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy" Series

-UPDATE on the CHAPTERS-

Editors’ Introduction

Russell Crowe: His Films and Pop Cultural Impact

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 11:23pm
St. Thomas University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 29, 2024

Russell Crowe’s talents were globally recognized in the early 2000s after he appeared in a slate of well-received films – L.A. Confidential, Gladiator, and A Beautiful Mind, among others – that earned him critical acclaim. Nevertheless, in the years following these productions, he has continued to be a part of numerous projects with international and creative appeal. Alongside his films are his associations with Roman soccer teams – established in Spera’s (2023) chapter in my recent volume on Gladiator (https://vernonpress.com/book/1213) – his social media presence, and his musical performances.

Gladiator 2 Edited Collection

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 11:23pm
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The twentieth anniversary of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000) was an important moment in film history, for it not only marked a great film and work of art, but it also reminded audiences how peplum and historical epics still mattered. The edited collection “A Hero Will Endure”: Essays at the Twentieth Anniversary of ‘Gladiator’ (2023) provided insights on the film two decades after its release.

Yet now there is a sequel with a November 2024 release. This CFP therefore serves to build on the work done in the 2023 essays and provide a further avenue of exploration for connections between the two films as well as innovative readings of Gladiator 2 on its own.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Paleontologists in Film, Literature, and Contemporary Media

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 11:22pm
Rachel Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 29, 2024

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: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 11:21pm
Rachel Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 29, 2024

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.

UPDATED CFP (Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media (10/15/2024; NeMLA Philadelphia 3/6-9/2025)

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 8:58pm
Michael A Torregrossa / Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media

Co-organizers Michael A. Torregrossa, Karen Casey Casebier, and Carl B. Sell

Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 15 October 2024

56th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown (Philadelphia, PA)

On-site event: 6-9 March 2025

 

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UPDATE CFP Saving the Day for Medieval Studies (10/15/2024; NeMLA Philadelphia 3/6-9/2025)

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 8:19pm
Michael A Torregrossa / Medieval Comics Project
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Saving the Day for Medieval Studies: Using Comics for Teaching the Middle Ages (Roundtable)

 

Co-organizers Michael A. Torregrossa, Karen Casey Casebier, and Carl B. Sell

Sponsored by Medieval Comics Project, an outreach effort of the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 15 October 2024

56th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown (Philadelphia, PA)

On-site event: 6-9 March 2025

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ReFocus: The Films of Guru Dutt

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 4:42pm
Edinburgh University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Guru Dutt’s films are integral to the golden age of Hindi cinema as they were both critical and commercial successes. In a short career spanning twenty years, Dutt has served as an actor, a director, and a producer. His versatility is testament to a deep understanding of every aspect of filmmaking. Critics contend that contradictory ideas coalesced in his movies. A prominent theme of nationalism is at the heart of Dutt’s oeuvre. While he set out to refashion Indian national identity, Dutt envisioned a utopia for the new nation. Ideologically, Dutt was influenced by Nehruvian socialism, which finds its expression in his selection of subjects and themes. His movies also critiqued the new nation’s failure to afford equal opportunities to every citizen.

Call for Papers for the New issue: Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN: 2791-6553)

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 1:42pm
Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN: 2791-6553)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies invites submissions for the fourth issue of the journal - a general issue on Literature and Drama Studies. 

Indexed by MLA and EBSCO databases.

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal that serves as a forum for multi- and interdisciplinary discussions across Literature and Drama Studies, providing academicians, scholars, professionals and students with the opportunity to disseminate their research to a diverse audience of peers and professionals.

The second issue aims to cover literary and theatrical works in general.

Call for Papers ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 1:41pm
ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Call for Papers

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies invites submissions for the fifth issue of the journal - a general issue on literature, theatre and culture studies.

Black Genres of Political Theology

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 1:34pm
ACLA 2025 Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical development … but also because of their systematic structure, the recognition of which is necessary for sociological consideration of these concepts. 

–Carl Schmitt, Political Theology (1922)

 

Werner Herzog, Film Director: A Multidisciplinary Collection

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 1:12pm
Jeff Birkenstein & Robert Hauhart/Saint Martin's University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

CFP: Werner Herzog, Film Director:

A Multidisciplinary Collection

Proposals due December 31, 2024

OVERVIEW:

Narrative Nonfiction in the Creation and Understanding of Identity in Turbulent Times

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 11:58am
Dr. Amy Leshinsky / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Educators empower students through narrative nonfiction and writing that allows for empathy, candid discussion, and articulation of self. This roundtable will seek to examine how narrative nonfiction literature and writing is used in a variety of contexts and courses to engage students and empower them to embrace facets of their identities and strengthen their ties to our national and international community.

This roundtable seeks collegiate voices that will contribute to a robust conversation on narrative nonfiction literature and writing with a focus on how we use narrative nonfiction and writing to help students navigate conceptions of their identity and negotiate their place in the world. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

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