popular culture

I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by January 20, 2025. Chapters will be due by July 15, 2025.

All topics about dragons will be considered.

Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu

Popular Culture Association: British Popular Culture 

Call for Papers

The British Popular Culture area of the Popular Culture/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) is now accepting submissions for the 2025 national conference to be held April 16-19, 2025, in New Orleans, LA!

Academics at all stages in their careers, as well as independent scholars, are encouraged to apply. We particularly encourage submissions by graduate students. 

The Kurt Vonnegut Society invites proposals for presentations at the 36th annual American Literature Association conference in Boston, MA, 21 May 2025 - 24 May 2025. You can learn more about the conference from the ALA's general call for papers: Call for Papers. 

Mission Shakti

Thoughts on Women Empowerment

Sub Themes :

Here are some sub-themes for the  call for papers on the book titled  Mission Shakti: Thoughts on Women Empowerment. These are just indicative points . The book is not limited to these themes only . The authors can select any appropriate theme in commensurate with the main topic.

1. Education and Empowerment: Exploring the role of education in empowering women and promoting gender equality.

2. Breaking Gender Stereotypes: Challenging traditional gender norms and stereotypes that hinder women's empowerment.

For the 2025 Symposium on Music of the Sea, we are seeking proposals for papers in Music, Ethnomusicology, History, Literature, Folklore, or other appropriate disciplines that address any aspect of music or verse of the sea, rivers, or inland waters from the Age of Sail until the present. 

CFP FOR EDITED COLLECTION (2025)

Call for abstracts for papers for edited collection on the effects of ageing populations and generational disparities in Asian societies as represented in literature, film, and other forms of media

Working Title for Proposed Volume: 

Ageing Asia: multimedia representations of ageing and older adults in Asian societies

Editors:

Dr. Bernard Wilson

Department of English Language and Culture,

Department of International Social Sciences,

Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan

NEH Medical Humanities Conference

Sam Houston State University

Huntsville, Texas

October 2-3, 2025

Call for Panel and Paper Proposals

 Contemporary Indigenous Horror

Edited by Dr. Naomi Simone Borwein and Dr. Krista Collier-Jarvis

Speakers are invited to share experiences, insights, and expertise on a roundtable exploring how neurodivergence shapes and intersects with professional academic life. This session will examine the nuanced realities of neurodivergence within academia and related spaces, particularly for faculty, researchers, and academic staff. Speakers will give a short presentation (5-10 minutes), followed by a moderated discussion. This format is envisioned as an opportunity to share ideas and experiences in a less formal way than traditional research panels. 

We welcome presentations that explore, but are not limited to, the following topics:

In this special issue we will look at environmental aspects of Fantasy. Since its very earliest manifestations, in taproot texts such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, Beowulf, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Fantasy has been entangled with the natural and supernatural world.

‘The force that through the green fuse drives the flower.’
Dylan Thomas

The existence of a sense of contact within a particular culture remains inherently interdisciplinary and intersectional in terms of literature, the performative arts, and the social sciences. Contact essentially entails a continuity, one that consciously evolves from the preceding line of thought to facilitate the production of the interiority of further signification. As human societies evolved, diverse communities established distinct cultural, social, and literary traditions. The resultant intersections foster and foreground the ‘unconforming’, resulting in the emergence of new socio-cultural utterances.

With the ‘Comics studies having finally arrived’, the young genre no longer has an obligation to justify its existence and significance. The legitimacy of the medium has been endorsed time and again by decades of scholarly works produced and being produced in the domain. Alongside this ongoing legitimation process, we are now witnessing a multifaceted engagement with a plethora of works – including both fiction and non-fiction – produced in the comics medium, leading to the rise of comics as a global literary phenomenon.

Call for Papers – CLOSURE: Journal of Comics Studies #12 (November 2025)

Thematic Section: »Queer Comics«

Open Call for Submissions

The e-journal CLOSURE will once again provide a platform for all facets of comic studies in its twelfth issue, to be published in Fall 2025. From cultural, visual, and media studies to social and natural sciences, and beyond, CLOSURE invites essays and academic reviews that engage with the »state of the comic«. Whether in-depth analysis, comic theory, or innovative new approaches—for the open topic section, we welcome diverse contributions from the interdisciplinary field of comics research.

Playing Nice: Sincerity and Irony in Television

Edited by Owen Cantrell and Sage Westfall

Deadline for Submission: ASAP

We are urgently looking for at least one more completed essay for this collection under contract with a fast-approaching deadline. Please submit a 300-word abstract for a previously unpublished paper which is already or nearly complete. If accepted, we are looking to review your chapter and edit it within weeks, not months.

Full chapters should be between 6-8K words in length.

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