popular culture

Michel-Rolph Trouillot closed his 1995 Silencing the Past by reminding us that “History doesn’t belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it in their own hands.” This is nowhere more true than in two historical periods seldom in conversation - the medieval phenomenon called the “Crusades,” and the 19th-century American Civil War. Scholars here seek to clarify these periods among themselves, while popular audiences voraciously consume these and other retellings of the past, and others on the political left and right “take it in their own hands” by toppling monuments or explicitly evoking these periods as direct predecessors of their own.

I am looking for a scholar to write an entry on “Domestic Violence” for Violence in American Society: An Encyclopedia of Trends, Problems, and Perspectives. Unfortunately, I had this entry fall through—someone cancelled last-minute and now I’m scrabbling to find a writer able to take on the subject, which would generally include violence at home, often (but not always) directed at children and spouses. The entry would look at historical, contemporary, and mediated depictions of domestic violence in the United States.

Special Edition: ‘Horrific Bodies: surveillance, screens and screams’

Edited by Susan Flynn, University of the Arts, London

and Antonia Mackay, Oxford Brookes University

Northern Lights Film and Media Studies Yearbook

https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/nl/2018/00000016/00000001

The Wilkie Collins Journal

Special issue: Neo-Victorian Collins

Guest editors: Jessica Cox (Brunel University) and Claire O’Callaghan (Loughborough University)

DEADLINE NOW EXTENDED THROUGH JANUARY 15th

ImageText in Motion: Animation and Comics