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Cultural Intertexts vol. 15/2025

updated: 
Monday, February 17, 2025 - 11:14pm
Cultural Intertexts
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

We hereby invite proposals of original articles related to the general theme of Cultural Intertexts, an academic journal of Literature and Cultural Studies, ISSN 2393-0624, E-ISSN 2393-1078.

 

The editors will consider for publication papers which tackle strategies of representation and of (inter)textual construction emerging from the dialogic relation between:

-       literature and the historical and cultural context of text production;

-       distribution and consumption;

-       literature and other arts (music, film, visual arts, etc.) or sciences (linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology, history, sociology and political sciences, internet and new technologies, etc.);

Dragons, Posthumanism, and Animality

updated: 
Sunday, February 16, 2025 - 1:37am
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by May 1, 2025. Chapters will be due by September 15, 2025.

All topics will be considered.

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

Dragon Games and Online Culture

updated: 
Sunday, February 16, 2025 - 1:37am
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Dragons in Gaming and Online Culture

I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by May 1, 2025. Chapters will be due by September 15, 2025.

All topics about dragons will be considered.

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

Paleontologists in Film, Literature, and Contemporary Media

updated: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025 - 11:45pm
Rachel Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025

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: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025 - 11:45pm
Rachel Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025

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.

Call for Proposals: LEARNING FROM FEAR

updated: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - 10:26am
University of Memphis English Graduate Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 21, 2025

Call for Papers: LEARNING FROM FEAR

The University of Memphis English Department will host a graduate student conference, Learning From Fear, on April 25th-26th, 2025, in Memphis, Tennessee. This conference aims to appeal to a variety of disciplines and interests, including rhetoric, communication, film and media studies, creative writing, linguistics, African American literature, museum studies, philosophy, graphic design, pop culture studies, psychology, educational studies, and web development. 

Key Research Questions

Heights, Depths, and Extremes: The 17th Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association

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Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:22am
Victorian Popular Fiction Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

The 17th Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association

Heights, Depths, and Extremes

The Birmingham & Midland Institute, Birmingham UK

14th-16th July 2025

The Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA) is delighted to announce its 17th annual conference for 2025, inviting scholars, researchers, and enthusiasts of Victorian literature to explore this year’s theme, Heights, Depths, and Extremes. This theme encourages an examination of the limits, boundaries, and expanses of Victorian popular fiction, encompassing everything from physical and metaphorical heights to the extremities of human emotion, imagination, and social structures.

Selling Scary Movies: Horror Film Marketing & the American Market

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:02am
Richard Nowell, FAMU (The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Hi folks,

I hope everyone is happy and well.

 

I would like to announce that I am putting together a new edited collection on horror film promotion in the US. At present, I am sketching out a due date for chapter submissions of January 2027, but obviously this can only really be provisional at this point. For the record, once a line-up is in place, I will be approaching Anthem Press about including the book in its "Series on Exploitation and Industry in World Cinema", of which I am a board member.

 

Selling Scary Movies: Horror Film Promotion & the American Market

Edited by Richard Nowell

 

Popular Arts Conference (PAC) 18th Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, August 28 – September 1, 2025

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 3:44pm
Popular Arts Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The Popular Arts Conference (PAC) invites submissions for our 18th Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, August 28 – September 1, 2025.

PAC is an annual academic conference for the studies of comics and the popular arts, including science/speculative fiction and fantasy literature, film, and other media; comic books; manga; graphic novels; anime; gaming; etc., presented to a mixed audience of scholars and fans. The mission of PAC is to promote scholarship on popular culture and to encourage the engagement between scholars and fans in order to deepen our understanding of the popular arts. PAC presentations are peer reviewed, based on scholarly research.

Propuestas para la colección Terror: Estudios críticos

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:35pm
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 30, 2025

 

English version below

 

La colección Terror. Estudios críticos, dirigida por Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns y localizada en la Universidad de Cádiz (España)busca manuscrito (monografia o colección editada) para año 2026/2027. Las propuestas y los manuscritos deben ser en español. Estamos interesados en un estudio académico (no meramente divulgativo) sobre los films de terror de Jacinto Molina (más conocido como Paul Naschy) realizados en España durante la década de oro del “Fantaterror” (1967-1976). Interesadas/os por favor mandar propuesta junto con CV completo al  email de la colección: coleccion.terror@uca.es hasta el 30 de marzo 2025.

 

Comedy: Darkness and Light

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 11:08am
International Society for Philosophy in Film
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

International Society for Philosophy in Film (ISPiF) Fourth Annual Symposium

Call for Abstracts August 28-30, 2025 London, England

https://www.philosophyliterature.com/ispif

Theme: Comedy: Darkness and Light

Abstract Deadline April 15, 2025

Completed papers due July 30, 2025 

Worlds Beyond: 48th Annual Williamson Lectureship

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Friday, February 7, 2025 - 10:56am
Jack Williamson Lectureship at Eastern New Mexico University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Theme: Worlds Beyond

The Jack Williamson Lectureship at Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU) invites scholars, academics, and researchers to submit abstracts for academic papers and/or proposals for panel presentations focused on the intersection of speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror, and hybrid genres) with the evolving notion of the (post)human. The theme for this year's Lectureship is "Worlds Beyond” with distinguished guest of honor Darcie Little Badger, the Locus, Nebula, Ignyte, and Newberry Honor Award winning author of Elatsoe and A Snake Falls to Earth. The event will also feature several other speculative fiction authors.  

Russell Crowe: His Films and Pop Cultural Impact

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 1:47am
Rachel Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

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

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Friday, February 7, 2025 - 1:46am
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 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. 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:

CFP: Religion, Popular Culture, and the Nineties

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:24am
Ilaria W. Biano, PhD
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 9, 2025

Although initially dismissed as “a holiday from history” (Will), a “frivolous if not decadent decade” (Rich), and a “time of trivial pursuits” (Halberstam) (cf. Chollet and Goldgeier 2008), the 1990s have increasingly been recognized as a pivotal historical moment. Scholars have underscored its defining impact, with Wegner characterizing the decade as “life between two deaths,” framed by the end of the Cold War and the events of 9/11 (2009).

Call for Proposals: Board Game Academics Volume III

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 10:33am
Board Game Academics
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

UPDATE: Submission deadline extended to March 1, 2025

The Board of Board Game Academics (BGA) is pleased to announce our call for papers for the 2025 journal. BGA is dedicated to the exploration of critical issues within the distinct yet overlapping communities of tabletop board and role-playing games.

While these communities are expanding, players, creators, and scholars of tabletop board and role-playing games have traditionally been late to addressing and including diverse representations and perspectives.

For instance, production companies such as Wizards of the Coast (best known for Dungeons & Dragons) have been criticized for their continued celebration of oppressive ideological perspectives, systems, and governments.

EXTENDED DEADLINE - Planet Flanagan: Essays on the Netflix Series of Mike Flanagan

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 10:29am
Zachary Sheldon, Baylor University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Working Title - Planet Flanagan: Essays on the Netflix Series of Mike Flanagan

Mike Flanagan has steadily made a significant name for himself in horror, garnering praise for his originality in films such as Oculus (2013) and Hush (2016), and further critical acclaim for works like Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), Gerald’s Game (2017) and especially his adaptation of Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep (2019).

Bildungsroman: Coming of Age Narratives

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:31am
Shiv Nadar University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 21, 2025

“Youth is, so to speak, modernity's ‘essence’, the sign of a world that seeks its meaning in the future rather than in the past”, says Franco Moretti as he dissects the genre of bildungsroman. Youth, he decidedly notes, is  at the heart of the genre, owing to the mobility and interiority that it facilitates, and  its characterisation as dynamic and unstable, yet transient and impermanent. Critics such as Barbra Whitman trace the genre as far back as Homer’s Iliad (8th century BCE) and evolving to include an array of narratives and characters, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1623) to Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister (1795-95).

Conference on Domestic Cats in Literature (EXTENDED DEADLINE)

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:18am
Ben P. Robertson / Troy University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15 FEBRUARY 2025.

Submissions are invited for a scholarly conference on domestic cats in literature to be hosted online 13-15 March 2025 by the Troy University Department of English.  

Papers may address any aspect of the subject, including—but not limited to—the following:

CFP - Edited Volume: Female and queer bodies in speculative fiction and visual culture

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:16am
María Gil Poisa/University of Oviedo (Spain)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

CFP - Edited Volume: Female and queer bodies in speculative fiction and visual culture

Edited by María Gil Poisa (University of Oviedo, Spain) and Débora Madrid Brito (University of La Laguna, Spain)

Chapter about Monsters that can control human minds

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 8:24am
Nizar Zouidi/University of Gafsa
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 10, 2025

This chapter will be part of an edited collection that 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. It also deals with the depiction of malignant non-human entities interfering with human thoughts and evil non-human cosmic intelligences interfering with human destinies.

Proposed Panel for ASA 2025: "Tourism and Self-Help Culture"

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 4:54pm
American Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 7, 2025

UPDATED DEADLINE: Feb, 7th, 20245.

I'm an Assistant Professor of English at The University of The Bahamas with a partial panel formed for this year's American Studies Association 2025 meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, held Nov. 20-22, 2025. We're looking for one more presenter and a chair for a panel on the following topic:

Proposed Session Title: Tourism and Self-Help Culture

History and Nostalgia: The 1950s in popular culture

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Sunday, February 2, 2025 - 7:36pm
PopCRN - the Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the 1950s in popular culture. Held online on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th of March 2025.

The 1950s was the decade where the world began to recover from the tragedy of the Second World War. This conference aims to explore both the popular culture of the 1950s, and how the 1950s have been depicted in the popular culture of other eras.

US-UK Transatlantic Crossings in the Arts and Literature from 1823 to Today (Nancy, France, 16-17 October 2025)

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:23pm
Université de Lorraine (France)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 20, 2025

The ongoing interdependence between the United Kingdom and the United States dates back further than the "Special Relationship" popularized by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1946. In the early decades of their independence, the United States maintained strong cultural ties with the United Kingdom (cf.

Horror Studies Now (29-30 May 2025, Northumbria University, UK)

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Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:15pm
Horror Studies Research Group, Northumbria University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

Horror Studies Now: A Two-Day Conference (29-30 May 2025, Northumbria University, UK)

Researchers working in the broad field of “Horror Studies”, are invited to submit abstracts about their research for an in-person conference, hosted by the Horror Studies Research Group at Northumbria University (https://research.northumbria.ac.uk/horrorstudies), on 29-30 May 2025.

Neo-Victorian Criminalities, Detection, and Punishment

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:15pm
University of Wolverhampton
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

CFP Neo-Victorian Criminalities, Detection, and Punishment

University of Wolverhampton, 23rd-24th June 2025

Keynote speakers: Professor Claire Nally, Lee Jackson, and Nat Reeve

Organisers: Dr Helen Davies, University of Wolverhampton, and Dr Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz, University of Malaga

Books That Teach Us About Character - Free Literary Conference

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:11pm
LitFest in the Dena 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

What can books teach us about character? The people in literary works face moral dilemmas—choosing between personal gain and doing the right thing, whatever the consequences. Fictional heroes often explore the boundaries of character, asking us which traits we deem noble. The same choices and internal struggles appear in nonfiction works such as biographies or histories, deepened by the impact of character on the real world. Looking at character in books helps us stay true to our values, even in the most threatening of circumstances. By immersing ourselves in the stories of others—be they true or imagined—we develop a stronger moral compass and a deeper understanding of how to live with character.

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