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Crossroads VIII: Alterity And The Comparative Imagination - Graduate Conference

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Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:52am
University of Massachusetts Amherst
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

Crossroads VIII: Alterity And The Comparative Imagination

University of Massachusetts Amherst, Program in Comparative Literature | Amherst, MA

April 10-11, 2026 (In-person conference)

Horrific Movies of the Week! - 1970s Made-for-TV Horror Films and Society

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Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:52am
University of Southern Queensland
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 26, 2026

Todd Gitlin pointed out in 1983 that ‘‘The three networks now underwrite more original movies than the studios combined” (in Stone, 2017: 616). The made-for-TV movie was a vast cultural phenomenon, commanding huge viewing figures and global, syndicated reach. Many of the most memorable and culturally resonant of these  were horror films. Despite this, the made-for-TV film, especially horror, remains largely under-explored in academic writing. If, as Pirie states, ‘Our fears are among the most revealing things about us’ (1994: 224), then what might these hugely popular films suggest about the society that produced them?

Special Panel on Esoteric, Occult, and Magical "Hunters" at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, Feb. 25-28, 2026, Albuquerque, New Mexico

updated: 
Saturday, November 1, 2025 - 5:33pm
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 14, 2025

The extraordinary success of K-Pop Demon Hunters (2025) as the most-watched original title in the history of Netflix (with over 325 million views) invites the reconsideration of a surprisingly vast and multivalent “mega-trope” that has proliferated throughout popular culture in numerous variations for centuries.  Its deep roots in folklore and mythology remain to be further explored, mapped, and connected with its various historical expressions throughout indigenous worldviews, Classical cultures and civilizations into Late Antiquity and ultimately through the global Middle Ages and straight through into the interactions of Western, East/Asian, and diverse global civilizations of the contemporary period.  While this mega-trope is here identified

Virginia Woolf Miscellany Special Topic: Panoramic Woolf (Fall 2026)

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:52am
Virginia Woolf Miscellany
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 1, 2025

Issue 105 of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany Special Topic:

Panoramic Woolf (Fall 2026)

Guest Editors: Oliver Case, Evelyn Malinowski, Teresa Prudente

Please submit article proposals of approximately 300 words by 1st December 2025

Final article drafts (no more than 2500 words including Works Cited) will be due by 15 May 2026

Please send submissions to: panoramicwoolf@gmail.com