Gothic writers embrace the genre for its inclusive and representational nature. The genre is, in effect, a palimpsest as it prominently features both the past and memory. The creators in the genre continue to create plots that center on women, queer, transgender, and racialized characters and create stories that address societal inequalities. The environment (the Ecogothic) also continues to be a prominent character in the genre.

This special issue of Horror Studies aims to address female empowerment (cis- and transgender women) in literary and cinematic horror from 2010 to the present. The issue will showcase horror media (literature, films, television, and gaming) created by women. An intersectional approach should be applied to analyses, stressing categories of race, gender, sexuality, class and/or age in submissions. While we are interested in submissions focused on various forms of horror media, we are eager to receive submissions that foreground literary texts.

The book is part of the Scholarly Collection Series and seeks to include quality works which provide new insights into cultural memory studies and further uncover the dimensions of translation and transmission of cultural memory through various media.

 EDITORS

Dr. Ananta Geetey Uppal, Professor of English and Business Communication, School of Liberal Arts and Management Studies, P P Savani University, India
Dhairya Barot, Assistant Professor of English, School of Liberal Arts and Management Studies, P P Savani University, India

Quality unpublished works as chapters are invited to the book. The chapters should strictly be according to the coverage scope of the book.

Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture, a scholarly, peer-reviewed publication edited by graduate students in the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of History of Art & Architecture, invites submissions of short-form content for its upcoming relaunch issue.

Many teachers of 21st century anglophone literature would agree that the field’s strength lies in how it has opened up literary study to new authors, genres, mediums, and methods. But the field lacks unifying vocabularies, canons, and pedagogies. Among teachers themselves, there is bafflingly little deliberation about the goals of our teaching and what we expect our students to learn from the study of the literature of the present. So, what exactly is the job of teaching 21st century literature?

Conference online: 5-6 June 2025

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​        How do we remember and represent our migration experiences? Who is involved in these processes? How does history remember these events? What helps migrants and societies to adapt? The significance of these and related questions have made their way into our daily lives, from the refugee crisis to policy decisions, individual psychotherapy to (re)building identities, communities, and memories.  

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

Psychoanalyzing the Post-Apocalypse:

Psychoanalytic Approaches to 21st Century Fiction and Film

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

Editors’ Introduction

Seeking chapters about Asian films featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents, including chapters devoted to Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Japan, Mainland China, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam. We especially welcome the following high-priority chapters on Asian films for the handbook's Part II (National Overviews of Trans Cinema): 

Seeking chapters about African films featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents, including chapters devoted to films from Cape Verde, Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda. We welcome the following high-priority chapters on African films for the handbook's Part II (National Overviews of Trans Cinema):

Seeking chapters about European films featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents, including chapters devoted to France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and Sweden. We especially welcome the following high-priority chapters on European films for the handbook's Part II (National Overviews of Trans Cinema): 

Presentation Format: In-Person Only

Taking inspiration from the convention theme, this year’s short story panel asks presenters to consider how the unique properties of the form contribute to its ability to offer hope, particularly the hope of human connection in an inhuman time.

Panelists might explore how formal considerations inform the short story’s relationship with hope:

Archipelago of Extremity:  

Fragmentation and Renovation in Puerto Rico

Editors 

Daniel Nevárez Araújo, PhD, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras

Nelson Varas-Díaz, PhD, Florida International University

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Update: Keynote Speakers Announced - See details here: 

https://www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-events/conferences/reconfigurations-2025...

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In Blue Ecocriticism, Sydney I. Dobrin provocatively calls for viewing “oceanic deficit” as form of “disciplinary critique” (9) in order to open up the epistemic realm of ecocriticism which primarily deals with the representation of ecological substance in literary and cultural works.