CFP: Special Issue of The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture (15.2 2026) on K-Pop, deadline 15th June 2026.

With KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix, 2025) making history at the 2026 Academy Awards, winning best animated feature and its viral hit song "Golden" winning best original song, the phenomenon of K-pop has firmly established itself on the global cultural stage. This special themed issue seeks to explore the “Korean wave” in contemporary popular culture, particularly through the explosion of K-pop, to examine its transnational and transmedial virality across forms and genres, fandoms and identities, and varying representations of storytelling, narrative, and world-building creation. This issue welcomes submissions from disciplines including film and media studies; Korean studies; cultural studies; celebrity, fandom and reception studies; genre studies; gender studies; performance studies and beyond.

The deadline for submissions of full articles for consideration in the K-Pop Special Issue is 15th June 2026.  

• Articles should be between 5,000-7,000 words and referenced using the Harvard style system.
• All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under consideration by other publications. 

Please submit following the instructions outlined on the Journal’s website via the submission portal. Further information can be found here: https://www.intellectbooks.com/the-australasian-journal-of-popular-culture  

If you wish to discuss your proposed article submission, you may email Principal Editor Lorna Piatti-Farnell (lorna.piatti-farnell@sae.ac.nz) & Associate Editor Ashleigh Prosser (ashleigh.prosser@murdoch.edu.au).

The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal devoted to the scholarly understanding of everyday cultures. The journal publishes articles that focus on Australasian examples, as well as broader critical and comparative topics viewed through a global lens. The Journal is indexed in SCOPUS (among others), and its remit is broad and international, publishing innovative scholarly research about a broad range of popular culture topics. 

ISSN 20455852, ONLINE ISSN 20455860