The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale Conference

deadline for submissions: 
April 4, 2026
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The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale
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The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale will host its fourth annual conference via Zoom  May 1-2. This conference is completely free. We will be accepting proposals for presentations through April 4th. To submit a proposal or to register to attend, please fill out the form found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSciz7ZLd8jRxjMF05TQCf2UGuNmYFN_4N0Whs4jgWZaYVDVXQ/viewform?usp=publish-editor We accept presentations covering any aspect of science fiction, fantasy, or fairy tale in the Long Nineteenth Century (spanning from the late eighteenth century through World War I) from any part of the world as well as reinterpretations of the nineteenth century in contemporary literature and media. Our keynote speaker will be Renee Fox from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the Jordan-Stern Presidential Chair for Dickens and Nineteenth-Century Studies, Co-director of the Dickens Project, and Co-direct of of the Center for Monster Studies. Her Recent monograph, The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature looks at the ways monster stories/poems by writers like Mary Shelley, Robert Browning, and Bram Stoker reflect changing ideas about the form and function of history across the nineteenth century. If you'd like to find out more about the journal, you can read the most recent issue here https://libjournals.mtsu.edu/index.php/I19/issue/view/222/139 and you can follow us on Instagram at incredible19c.