The editors of the volume are calling for chapter abstracts for a volume focused on the representation of disability in superhero film and media, with a particular focus on intersectional discourses of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, power, and beyond. The volume will provide perspectives on the growing field of superheroes and disability by placing a specific focus on screen representations. As such, the collections will engage with critical debates over super-identities and super-bodies as politicized spaces in the 21st centuries. 

This volume is intended for inclusion in the recently established book series on Superhero Studies, published by Lexington/Rowman&Littelfield. For more information, please see here: https://rowman.com/action/series/_/lexshs

Topics for the volume may include, but are not limited to:

• Superheroes, disability, and race/ethnicity
• Superheroes, disability, and gender/sexuality
• Superheroes, disability, and Indigenous discourses
• Superheroes, disability, and the body
• Superheroes and neurodivergence
• Superheroes, disability, and power
• Superheroes, disability, and capitalism
• Superheroes, disability, and grief/trauma
• Superheroes, disability, and memory
• Superheroes, disability, and history
• Superheroes, disability, and LGBTGI+ discourses
• Superheroes, disability, and war
• Superheroes, disability, and digital representations
• Superheroes, disability and AI
• Superheroes, disability, and trans/posthumanism
• Superheroes, disability, and fandom
• All of the above, with a focus on supervillains

If accepted, final chapters will be 5-6,000 words, and needed by September 2025.

The deadline for submission of abstracts (of around 250 words, plus 100-words bio) is 15 August 2024. Please send abstracts to attention of both editors:

Professor Lorna Piatti-Farnell: lorna.piatti-farnell@aut.ac.nz

Professor Katie Ellis: katie.ellis@curtin.edu.au