When Zac Efron was cast as Ted Bundy in Netflix’s 2019 production, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, this decision received a mixed reception. Some argued that Efron was too much of a ‘queasily parodic hottie’ for the role (Bradshaw 2019). Meanwhile, there was a counter argument to state that Efron’s starring role was in fact clever mimicry of Bundy’s alleged sex appeal and charisma, two defining qualities that enabled him to become such a prolific violent offender. Significantly though, Efron is far from the only conventionally attractive and high-profile actor to be cast in the role of a violent criminal.

The poet’s eye, in fine frenzy rolling, 

Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; 

And as imagination bodies forth 

The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen 

Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing

A local habitation and a name (5.1.17). 

Graduate Symposium Johns Hopkins-Yale

Mutamenti

Alien Perspectives

October 25-26, 2024

The Italian programs at Johns Hopkins and Yale Universities welcome submissions for the second edition of the graduate symposium to be held in person on October 25-26, 2024 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

International conference celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Genre en séries

https://journals.openedition.org/ges/

France’s #MeToo in Film and Media:

Establishing an academic research subject

Novels and Book History, an area of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association, is currently accepting proposals for the 2024 Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) conference in Atlantic City, NJ to be held November 7-9, 2024. 

This area welcomes all explorations of the novel and/or the history of the book as they interact with American and/or popular culture. Subjects include genre fiction, authors and authorship, literary time periods, cultures, settings, reading, publishing, media studies, bookishness, and representations of books/reading in other media. 

Acta Ludologica (ISSN 2585-8599, e-ISSN 2585-9218) is a double-blind peer-reviewed scientific journal published twice a year in both online and print versions. It focuses on the comprehensive discourse of games and digital games, including theoretical and empirical studies, research results, and their implementation into practice, as well as professional publication reviews and scientific reviews of digital games.

Acta Ludologica is inviting manuscripts for Vol. 7, No. 2, scheduled to be published in December 2024. The deadline for submissions has been extended to July 31, 2024.

Neo/noir and Thriller Imaginaries in US American Culture

Virtual Conference | September 6–7, 2024

EXTENDED DEADLINE: PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT BY 15 AUGUST 2024

We are looking for a few more contributions to our collection on trans parenting:

This anthology explores trans parenting and raising trans/non binary children from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective. We welcome submissions that explore various dimensions of trans parenting in literary, cultural, artistic, political, historical, social, and economic contexts.

*DEADLINE EXTENDED* Poetry & Poetry Studies at MAPACA 2024

November 7-9, 2024

Atlantic City, NJ

The Poetry and Poetry Studies area at the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA) seeks creative and critical proposals for this year’s annual conference.

Call for a Replacement Chapter on Race:

The Routledge Research Companion to Toni Morrison

Editor: Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem, CUNY

This is a call for chapter proposals for The Routledge Research Companion to Toni Morrison. This companion text is intended for a scholarly audience and as support for newer Morrison scholars as they approach their research.

Each chapter of the book is to have a dual function: 1) to review the Morrison scholarship in whatever general terrain the chapter falls within, and 2) to offer a new reading of Morrison in that area.

Conference will be held November 7-9, 2024, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA

Travel and Tourism Studies as a discipline continues to gain popularity in academia, in part because of its inter-disciplinary nature. The Travel and Tourism area seeks papers that discuss and explore any aspect of travel and/or tourism. Topics for this area include, but are not limited to, the following:-
- travel and gender/race/class
- travel and religion
- travel and war
- personal travel narratives
- heritage tourism
- material culture and tourism
- virtual travel and tourism: How has COVID affected travel around the globe?

Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) 2024 Annual Conference, November 7-9, 2024 in Atlantic City, NJ

UPDATED: Deadline has been extended to Sunday, July 7th!

CFP: J.R.R. Tolkien & Children’s Lit 

A Special Issue of Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 

Joseph T. Thomas, Jr., Guest Editor 

San Diego State University 

The deadline for submissions to this special issue is September 15, 2024. 

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Call for Contributions – IN VIVO ARTS – Issue No. 2

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