PAMLA 2026: Technoscience in Literature and Culture
Panel: Technoscience in Literature and Culture (special session)
(SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SAT, JULY 25, 2026)
|
a service provided by www.english.upenn.edu |
FAQ changelog |
Panel: Technoscience in Literature and Culture (special session)
(SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SAT, JULY 25, 2026)
Exploring the overlapping cultural and literary impacts of Taylor Swift, this session considers her songs, legacy, political endeavors, friendships, feuds, collaborations, and fandom especially through this year's themes of culture, power, and conflict. We ask: What might lively, critical analysis of Taylor Swift offer to cultural and literary studies?
We invite chapter proposals for an edited collection titled Metafictional Horror Cinema: The Screen as Mirror, to be submitted to the UWP Horror Studies series. The volume explores how horror cinema reflects on its own formal strategies, lays bare its narrative and technological mechanisms, and confronts viewers with unsettling modes of self-awareness.
The volume will explore the role of metafiction within horror cinema, from postmodern genre revisions and reflexive found-footage films to avant-garde and hybrid works that fracture narrative logic, collapse diegetic boundaries, break the fourth wall, or explicitly implicate the viewer in acts of spectatorship and violence.