We've just launched a new endeavor called Popular Preternaturaliana: Studying the Monstrous in Popular Culture at http://popularpreternaturaliana.blogspot.com/. The site is sponsored
by the Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Area and (like NEPCA Fantastic) hosted by The
Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages in the
hopes of providing a place to promote further study and debate of the
preternatural where ever and when ever
it may appear.
In the future, calls for papers and other postings relating to the monstrous, gothic, and horror can be found on the new site.
Michael A. Torregrossa
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Area Chair, Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association
Co-Founder, The
Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Friday, May 17, 2013
Thursday, May 16, 2013
CFP World SF Film/TV (journal issue) (9/1/13)
CFP: world sf film and television (journal special issue)
Publication Date: 2013-09-01
Date Submitted: 2012-04-18
Announcement ID: 194038
Science Fiction Film and Television (http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/121631/) is seeking articles for a special issue in on world sf.
Although excluding the US from discussions of world cinema and television creates a problematic opposition(ality), we are seeking critical work on sf from other national/transnational, and especially non-Anglophone, contexts, both historical and contemporary. We are particularly, but not exclusively, interested in work which introduces and/or offers fresh insights into specific national cinemas/televisions, or which reconceptualises sf by relativising US/First Cinema variants as culturally-specific approaches rather than generic norms, or which addresses the following:
• globalisation
• transnationalism
• imperialism, neo-imperialism, post-imperialism
• colonialism, decolonisation, neo-colonialism, post-colonialism
• sf from the Third World/Developing World/Global South
• indigenous, Fourth World and Fourth Cinema sf
• the subaltern
• nationhood, national identity, regional identity
• race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality
• global networks, informational black holes
• borders, borderlands
• homelands, migrations, diasporas
• national, international or transnational contexts of production, distribution or consumption
• specific production cycles
Articles should be approximately 9000 words, including footnotes and bibliography. Submissions (in word or rtf, following MLA style) should be made via our website at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/lup-sfftv.
Any queries should be directed to the editors, Mark Bould (mark.bould@gmail.com) and Sherryl Vint (sherryl.vint@gmail.com).
The deadline for submission to this special issue is September 1 2013.
Dr Mark Bould
Department of Arts
The University of the West of England
St Matthias Campus
Oldbury Court Road
Fishponds
Bristol BS16 2JP
United Kingdom
Email: mark.bould@gmail.com
Publication Date: 2013-09-01
Date Submitted: 2012-04-18
Announcement ID: 194038
Science Fiction Film and Television (http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/121631/) is seeking articles for a special issue in on world sf.
Although excluding the US from discussions of world cinema and television creates a problematic opposition(ality), we are seeking critical work on sf from other national/transnational, and especially non-Anglophone, contexts, both historical and contemporary. We are particularly, but not exclusively, interested in work which introduces and/or offers fresh insights into specific national cinemas/televisions, or which reconceptualises sf by relativising US/First Cinema variants as culturally-specific approaches rather than generic norms, or which addresses the following:
• globalisation
• transnationalism
• imperialism, neo-imperialism, post-imperialism
• colonialism, decolonisation, neo-colonialism, post-colonialism
• sf from the Third World/Developing World/Global South
• indigenous, Fourth World and Fourth Cinema sf
• the subaltern
• nationhood, national identity, regional identity
• race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality
• global networks, informational black holes
• borders, borderlands
• homelands, migrations, diasporas
• national, international or transnational contexts of production, distribution or consumption
• specific production cycles
Articles should be approximately 9000 words, including footnotes and bibliography. Submissions (in word or rtf, following MLA style) should be made via our website at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/lup-sfftv.
Any queries should be directed to the editors, Mark Bould (mark.bould@gmail.com) and Sherryl Vint (sherryl.vint@gmail.com).
The deadline for submission to this special issue is September 1 2013.
Dr Mark Bould
Department of Arts
The University of the West of England
St Matthias Campus
Oldbury Court Road
Fishponds
Bristol BS16 2JP
United Kingdom
Email: mark.bould@gmail.com
CFP Performing Fandom (Journal Issue) (March/April 2014)
CFP: Special Issue Performing Fandom, Journal of Transformative Works and Cultures
Call for Papers Date: 2014-03-01
Date Submitted: 2011-12-19
Announcement ID: 190620
Call for papers Performing Fandom Special issue of Transformative Works and Cultures, March 2015 Edited by Jen Gunnels (New York Review of Science Fiction) and Carrie J. Cole (University of Arizona, Tucson)
Surprisingly, fan studies and performance studies remain relative strangers in scholarship. With a few exceptions, there seems to be little crossover between fields in terms of analysis, theory, and methodology. Such a situation, on both sides of the equation, should be addressed given the potential productive overlap between the two. With this special issue, we want to encourage scholars of both fan and performance to open up further avenues of study and methodological practice in order to expand both fields to their mutual benefit. Fandom is a performed set of practices. It’s something that one does. For many, being a fan is a distinct part of their performed identity. This practice may take many forms, from the performativity inherent to fan writing to more blatant performances such as LARPs and cosplay. From the other side of the fence, performance studies has had little interaction with fan studies, and investigations into intersections between the disciplines around such issues as identity performance and participant/performer ethnographies would further energize both fields.
We invite scholars in fan studies and performance studies to examine how fandom is performed, what performance practices can reveal about fandom, and how fan studies can benefit performances. We welcome submissions dealing with, but not limited to, aspects of:
• Specific performance analysis of particular fandoms.
• Fan fiction as performative or dramaturgical.
• Identity and community performance in specific franchise fandoms and in general.
• Cosplay.
• Live-action role-playing games.
• Design and performance in nonfranchise fandoms such as steampunk.
• Fan communities and participation as applied to traditional performances.
• Online performance within fan listservs and sites.
Submission guidelines:
TWC accommodates academic articles of varying scope as well as other forms that embrace the technical possibilities of the Web and test the limits of the genre of academic writing. Contributors are encouraged to include embedded links, images, and videos in their articles or to propose submissions in alternative formats that might comprise interviews, collaborations, or video/multimedia works. We are also seeking reviews of relevant books, events, courses, platforms, or projects.
Theory: Often interdisciplinary essays with a conceptual focus and a theoretical frame that offer expansive interventions in the field. Blinded peer review. Length: 5,000–8,000 words plus a 100–250-word abstract.
Praxis: Analyses of particular cases that may apply a specific theory or framework to an artifact; explicate fan practice or formations; or perform a detailed reading of a text. Blinded peer review. Length: 4,000–7,000 words plus a 100–250-word abstract.
Symposium: Short pieces that provide insight into current developments and debates. Nonblinded editorial review. Length: 1,500–2,500 words.
Submissions are accepted online only. Please visit TWC's Web site (http://journal.transformativeworks.org/) for complete submission guidelines, or e-mail the TWC Editor (editor AT transformativeworks.org). Contact We encourage potential contributors to contact the guest editors with inquiries or proposals: Jen Gunnels and Carrie J. Cole (fandom.performance AT gmail.com).
The call for papers is available here: http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/announcement/view/22
Due dates:
Contributions for blinded peer review (Theory and Praxis essays) are due by March 1, 2014.
Contributions that undergo editorial review (Symposium, Interview, Review) are due by April 1, 2014.
Jen Gunnels, New York Review of Science Fiction P.O. Box 78 Pleasantville NY 10570 Carrie J. Cole, University of Arizona, Tucson Theatre Film and Television P.O. Box 210003 Tucson AZ 85721-0003 (520) 621-3205
Email: fandom.performance@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/announcement/view/22
Call for Papers Date: 2014-03-01
Date Submitted: 2011-12-19
Announcement ID: 190620
Call for papers Performing Fandom Special issue of Transformative Works and Cultures, March 2015 Edited by Jen Gunnels (New York Review of Science Fiction) and Carrie J. Cole (University of Arizona, Tucson)
Surprisingly, fan studies and performance studies remain relative strangers in scholarship. With a few exceptions, there seems to be little crossover between fields in terms of analysis, theory, and methodology. Such a situation, on both sides of the equation, should be addressed given the potential productive overlap between the two. With this special issue, we want to encourage scholars of both fan and performance to open up further avenues of study and methodological practice in order to expand both fields to their mutual benefit. Fandom is a performed set of practices. It’s something that one does. For many, being a fan is a distinct part of their performed identity. This practice may take many forms, from the performativity inherent to fan writing to more blatant performances such as LARPs and cosplay. From the other side of the fence, performance studies has had little interaction with fan studies, and investigations into intersections between the disciplines around such issues as identity performance and participant/performer ethnographies would further energize both fields.
We invite scholars in fan studies and performance studies to examine how fandom is performed, what performance practices can reveal about fandom, and how fan studies can benefit performances. We welcome submissions dealing with, but not limited to, aspects of:
• Specific performance analysis of particular fandoms.
• Fan fiction as performative or dramaturgical.
• Identity and community performance in specific franchise fandoms and in general.
• Cosplay.
• Live-action role-playing games.
• Design and performance in nonfranchise fandoms such as steampunk.
• Fan communities and participation as applied to traditional performances.
• Online performance within fan listservs and sites.
Submission guidelines:
TWC accommodates academic articles of varying scope as well as other forms that embrace the technical possibilities of the Web and test the limits of the genre of academic writing. Contributors are encouraged to include embedded links, images, and videos in their articles or to propose submissions in alternative formats that might comprise interviews, collaborations, or video/multimedia works. We are also seeking reviews of relevant books, events, courses, platforms, or projects.
Theory: Often interdisciplinary essays with a conceptual focus and a theoretical frame that offer expansive interventions in the field. Blinded peer review. Length: 5,000–8,000 words plus a 100–250-word abstract.
Praxis: Analyses of particular cases that may apply a specific theory or framework to an artifact; explicate fan practice or formations; or perform a detailed reading of a text. Blinded peer review. Length: 4,000–7,000 words plus a 100–250-word abstract.
Symposium: Short pieces that provide insight into current developments and debates. Nonblinded editorial review. Length: 1,500–2,500 words.
Submissions are accepted online only. Please visit TWC's Web site (http://journal.transformativeworks.org/) for complete submission guidelines, or e-mail the TWC Editor (editor AT transformativeworks.org). Contact We encourage potential contributors to contact the guest editors with inquiries or proposals: Jen Gunnels and Carrie J. Cole (fandom.performance AT gmail.com).
The call for papers is available here: http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/announcement/view/22
Due dates:
Contributions for blinded peer review (Theory and Praxis essays) are due by March 1, 2014.
Contributions that undergo editorial review (Symposium, Interview, Review) are due by April 1, 2014.
Jen Gunnels, New York Review of Science Fiction P.O. Box 78 Pleasantville NY 10570 Carrie J. Cole, University of Arizona, Tucson Theatre Film and Television P.O. Box 210003 Tucson AZ 85721-0003 (520) 621-3205
Email: fandom.performance@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/announcement/view/22
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance CFP (6/1/13)
Essay Collection: Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance
Publication Date: 2013-06-01 (in 30 days)
Date Submitted: 2013-02-05
Announcement ID: 201091
Articles about urban fantasy and romance novels are invited for a new, multi-contributor collection.
During the last few decades, urban fantasy and paranormal romance novels have come to the forefront in the publishing world. Normative heroes and heroines have been joined by werewolves, vampires, mermaids, shape-shifters, centaurs and dragons, to name but a few. These magical creatures fill the pages of books and the screens of movie theaters in ever-increasing numbers.
Such a vast industry—one that generated at least 75 million readers in 2008 alone (and has been growing since)—should not be disregarded. This collection will offer critical examinations of both urban fantasy and paranormal romance.
The following categories suggest possibilities but are by no means exhaustive:
• Gender
• Race
• Sexuality
• Romance
• Desire
• Domesticity
• Power
• Monstrosity
• Witchcraft
• Fandom and/or Reception
• Transformation and/or Adaptation
• Vampires, Shapeshifters, and other Supernatural Creatures
• Hybridity
• Heroism
• Villainy
• Memory
What to Send:
300 - 500 word abstracts (or complete articles, if available) and CVs should be submitted by June 1, 2013. If an abstract is accepted for the collection, a full draft of the essay (5000 – 8000 words) will be required by December 1, 2013.
Abstracts and final articles should be submitted to: paranormalromance.urbanfantasy@gmail.com
Margo Collins and Nadine Farghaly
Email: paranormalromance.urbanfantasy@gmail.com
Publication Date: 2013-06-01 (in 30 days)
Date Submitted: 2013-02-05
Announcement ID: 201091
Articles about urban fantasy and romance novels are invited for a new, multi-contributor collection.
During the last few decades, urban fantasy and paranormal romance novels have come to the forefront in the publishing world. Normative heroes and heroines have been joined by werewolves, vampires, mermaids, shape-shifters, centaurs and dragons, to name but a few. These magical creatures fill the pages of books and the screens of movie theaters in ever-increasing numbers.
Such a vast industry—one that generated at least 75 million readers in 2008 alone (and has been growing since)—should not be disregarded. This collection will offer critical examinations of both urban fantasy and paranormal romance.
The following categories suggest possibilities but are by no means exhaustive:
• Gender
• Race
• Sexuality
• Romance
• Desire
• Domesticity
• Power
• Monstrosity
• Witchcraft
• Fandom and/or Reception
• Transformation and/or Adaptation
• Vampires, Shapeshifters, and other Supernatural Creatures
• Hybridity
• Heroism
• Villainy
• Memory
What to Send:
300 - 500 word abstracts (or complete articles, if available) and CVs should be submitted by June 1, 2013. If an abstract is accepted for the collection, a full draft of the essay (5000 – 8000 words) will be required by December 1, 2013.
Abstracts and final articles should be submitted to: paranormalromance.urbanfantasy@gmail.com
Margo Collins and Nadine Farghaly
Email: paranormalromance.urbanfantasy@gmail.com
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Time Travel in the Media CFP (6/16/13)
CFP: Time Travel in the Media edited collectionCall for Papers Date: 2013-06-16
Date Submitted: 2013-03-18
Announcement ID: 202340
We are currently seeking chapter proposals for the first collection of essay to address time travel across different media formats. The collection, to be be published by McFarland, will be edited by Joan Ormrod (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Matthew Jones (UCL).
Time travel has been a topic that has fascinated the media since the 19th century. Indeed, cinema has used flashbacks and montage since its earliest days to experiment with time. However, film is not the only medium fascinated by the concept. Television series such as Doctor Who (1963-1989, 1996 and 2005-present), Quantum Leap (1989-1993), The Time Tunnel (1966-1967) and Torchwood (2006-2011) explore history and play with notions of time as a social construct. Video games, manga and animé also examine time travel's unique narrative possibilities, for instance in The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time (1998) or Final Fantasy XIII-2 (2011). Graphic novels such as Watchmen (1986-1987) and superhero narratives use time travel to explore heroes’ ingenuity and the problems created by paradoxes.
Time travel narratives have invoked socio-historic concerns for subjectivity, narrativity, history, the future and potential apocalypse. The future and the past are frequently depicted as a means of understanding the problems of the present. Lately, time travel narratives have used philosophical issues based on scientific theories such as string theory, multiple universes and the philosophical construction of time. Contemporary time travel stories also acknowledge the potential for experimentation in media narratives. Such diversity surely requires more scrutiny in academic discourse. This collection of essays will be the first dedicated solely to the topic.
The collection is aimed at:
• undergraduate and postgraduate students in film and media, cultural studies, philosophy, social sciences, history and science programmes.
• science fiction and fantasy fandoms across a range of media.
The volume will address a broad range of media, including television, cinema, video games, anime and manga, comics and graphic novels and radio plays. It will be divided into five sections addressing narrative and media form, time travel as genre, philosophical and theoretical concepts, time and culture and a number of case studies
We are currently inviting 500-word proposals for 5000-7000 word chapters. These might address, but need not be limited to, the following topics:
• Adaptation and the differences between time in media forms
• Parallel worlds/alternative realities in virtual media, gaming and avatars
• Narrative devices such as the causal time loop
• Cinematic and media apparatus as time machine
• Experimental and avant garde depictions of time and time travel
• Narrative tropes
• Key characters - H. G. Wells, The Doctor, Sam Becket, Marty McFly
• Iconography - the time travel machine, distinguishing the past/future from the present
• The adaptability of the time travel narrative to many genres - science fiction, fantasy, romance, teenpics
• The depiction of history and historical characters
• The rules and regulations of time travel and parallel worlds
• The experience and means of time travel (machine, magic, supernatural)
• Use of specific theoretical models of narrative interrogation, such as psychoanalytic, carnivalesque, discursive, Deleuzian, Ricoeur, Bergson, postmodern and semiotic perspectives or new theoretical contexts
• Philosophical considerations, such as free will and determinism, religious and ritualistic perspectives
• String theory and parallel universes
• Socio-historic notions of time (linear time, cyclical time, the Enlightenment and the mythic)
• Tourism - cosmopolitanism, the flâneur
• Time-travel narratives within the context of their socio-historic production
• Case studies which examine a specific aspect of time travel in one text.
Proposals along with a 50 word biography should be sent to timetravelcollection@gmail.com
Deadline: 16 June 2013
Joan Ormrod
Manchester Metropolitan University
Chatham 307
Manchester 44 161 247 1938
Email: timetravelcollection@gmail.com
CW's Superrnatural CFP (5/15/13)
One more from supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com for the night:Essay Collection: CW's "Supernatural" television
Publication Date: 2013-05-15 (in 18 days)
Date Submitted: 2013-01-22
Announcement ID: 200641
Articles are invited for an edited collection on issues related to any element of the CW television series Supernatural.
The following categories suggest possibilities but are by no means exhaustive:
• Monstrosity
• Fandom and/or Reception
• Transformation and/or Adaptation
• Gender
• Race
• Desire and Sexuality
• Hybridity
• Vampires
• Shapeshifters
• Ghosts and Hauntings
• Demons and Angels
• Heroism
• Villainy
• Desire
• History and Memory
• Family
• Power
• Possession and/or Mind Control
What to Send: 300 - 500 word abstracts (or complete articles, if available) and CVs should be submitted by May 15, 2013. If an abstract is accepted for the collection, a full draft of the essay (5000 – 8000 words) will be required by October 15, 2013.
Abstracts and final articles should be submitted to supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com. Please include “Supernatural Submission” in your subject line.
Dr. Margo Collins
Email: supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com
Vampire Diaries Collection CFP (5/1/13)
Almost missed this one (though I'm starting to feel like I'm advertising for supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com). The Vampire Diaries (2009-) is a very popular series and a spin-off on The Originals has recently been announced for the fall.Essay Collection: "The Vampire Diaries"
Publication Date: 2013-05-01 (in 4 days)
Date Submitted: 2013-01-22
Announcement ID: 200642
Articles are invited for an edited collection on issues related to any element of The Vampire Diaries (either the original books or the CW’s television series).
The following categories suggest possibilities but are by no means exhaustive:
• Monstrosity
• Fandom and/or Reception
• Transformation and/or Adaptation
• Gender
• Race
• Vampirism
• Shapeshifters
• Hybridity
• Witchcraft
• Heroism
• Villainy
• Adolescence
• Desire
\• History
• Memory
• Domesticity
• Power
• Possession and/or Mind Control
What to Send: 300 - 500 word abstracts (or complete articles, if available) and CVs should be submitted by May 1, 2013. If an abstract is accepted for the collection, a full draft of the essay (5000 – 8000 words) will be required by October 1, 2013.
Abstracts and final articles should be submitted to supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com. Please include “Vampire Diaries Submission” in your subject line.
Dr. Margo Collins
Email: supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com
Zombie/Comedy CFP (6/1/13)
Another zombie collection. (See also a CFP on The Walking Dead at our comics blog.)
Edited Collection: Zombies and Comedy
Publication Date: 2013-06-01
Date Submitted: 2013-01-30
Announcement ID: 200898
The recent re-animation of the zombie in popular culture has led to the creation of the “zombie romantic comedy,” or the zomromcom. Examples of zombie comedies can be found in books, movies, and on the internet. Articles are invited for an edited collection on issues related to any element of zombie comedies (romantic or otherwise).
The following categories suggest possibilities for exploration but are by no means exhaustive:
• Love and zombies/the undead
• Love in the postapocalyptic world
• Romance and monstrosity
• Fandom and/or reception
• Transformation and/or adaptation in zombie comedies
• Gender
• Race
• Hybridity
• History and Memory
• Sex and the undead
• The literary zombie comedy
• The cinematic zombie comedy
• Zombie comedies and the internet
What to Send: 300 - 500 word abstracts (or complete articles, if available) and CVs should be submitted by June 1, 2013. If an abstract is accepted for the collection, a full draft of the essay (5000 – 8000 words) will be required by November 1, 2013.
Abstracts and final articles should be submitted to supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com. Please include “ZomCom” in your subject line.
Dr. Margo Collins
Email: supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com
Edited Collection: Zombies and Comedy
Publication Date: 2013-06-01
Date Submitted: 2013-01-30
Announcement ID: 200898
The recent re-animation of the zombie in popular culture has led to the creation of the “zombie romantic comedy,” or the zomromcom. Examples of zombie comedies can be found in books, movies, and on the internet. Articles are invited for an edited collection on issues related to any element of zombie comedies (romantic or otherwise).
The following categories suggest possibilities for exploration but are by no means exhaustive:
• Love and zombies/the undead
• Love in the postapocalyptic world
• Romance and monstrosity
• Fandom and/or reception
• Transformation and/or adaptation in zombie comedies
• Gender
• Race
• Hybridity
• History and Memory
• Sex and the undead
• The literary zombie comedy
• The cinematic zombie comedy
• Zombie comedies and the internet
What to Send: 300 - 500 word abstracts (or complete articles, if available) and CVs should be submitted by June 1, 2013. If an abstract is accepted for the collection, a full draft of the essay (5000 – 8000 words) will be required by November 1, 2013.
Abstracts and final articles should be submitted to supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com. Please include “ZomCom” in your subject line.
Dr. Margo Collins
Email: supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com
MTV's Teen Wolf Collection CFP (6/1/13)
Essay Collection: MTV's Teen WolfPublication Date: 2013-06-01
Date Submitted: 2013-02-19
Announcement ID: 201568
Articles are invited for an essay collection on the new MTV serial remake of Teen Wolf. In “Upright Citizens on All Fours: Nineteenth-Century Identity and the Image of the Werewolf,” Chantal Bourgault du Coudray notes that ‘an ever-growing body of scholarship utilises the concept of hybrid or heterogeneous identity. The hybrid identity is theorised and celebrated as a response to the demands of a fragmented, multi-dimensional, postmodern world, one in which shifting boundaries and a multiplicity of subject positions make it impossible to assume a homogeneous or stable subjectivity.’ Theorists such as Katherine Hayles and Donna Haraway discuss the implications of hybridity in the posthuman. Asa Simon Mittman and Peter J. Dendle deal with the monstrosity of hybridity. Many critics discuss iterations of the werewolf in literature and film. This volume aims to discuss the new MTV serial remake of Teen Wolf in terms of its connection to the popular and literary culture, though other approaches are welcome, as well.
The following categories suggest possibilities but are by no means exhaustive:
• Monstrosity and/or Hybridity
• Fandom and/or Reception
• Personal Transformation and/or Adaptation
• Genre Transformation and/or Adaptation
• Gender
• Race
• Desire and Sexuality
• Heroism and/or Villainy
• History and Memory
• Family
• Power
We are also interested in the intersections of Teen Wolf with:
• the werewolf in 19th century literary history
• the werewolf in 20th century literary history
• post humanism in teen culture
• the werewolf in the 1980s
• the werewolf in Comics (such as the werewolf in Dell comics, Marvel comics, Legends of the Dark Night)
• the werewolf in fairy tales and/or folk mythology
• the werewolf in American pulp fiction
• the werewolf in children’s literature
• the werewolf in adult television (True Blood, Doctor Who, Sanctuary, Grimm)
• the werewolf in games or anime
What to Send: 300 - 500 word abstracts (or complete articles, if available) and CVs should be submitted by June 1, 2013. If an abstract is accepted for the collection, a full draft of the essay (5000 – 8000 words) will be required by January 1, 2014.
Abstracts and final articles should be submitted to supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com. Please include “Teen Wolf Submission” in your subject line.
Dr. Kamille Stone Stanton
supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com
Email: supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com
Humor & Horror/SF/Fantasy CFP (4/30/13 MPCA/MPCA)
Humor & Horror/SF/Fantasy
Location: Missouri, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2013-04-30 (in 4 days)
Date Submitted: 2013-03-26
Announcement ID: 202555
Dear Humor & Horror/SF/Fantasy Scholars, this is your invitation to SUBMIT to the Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association annual meetings in St. Louis, MO, from Friday through Sunday, October 11-13, 2013.
Going too far in these genre may actually just be considered a good starting point, and genre-bending is invited. Don't resist. You want to submit. You need to submit. Nothing good is off-limits.
All details are available from this page < https://www.msu.edu/user/jdowell/MPCA/MPCA-2013CFP-HumorHorror.pdf>.
Is Chuck Palahniuk truly transgressive horror, a postmodern Arthur Machen, or more like Christopher Moore tweaking on meth with a beat up copy of Gray’s Anatomy in his lap? Why wasn’t John Dies at the End the next Naked Lunch? Was The Cabin in the Woods a revival of “smart horror” or was it just a prequel for the revisioning of Evil Dead? Think The Walking Dead is yet another tragicomic soap opera? What about the writings of “humanistic humorists” such as Vonnegut, Twain, or Carlin? What of posthumanism? What can an “Americanist perspective” gain from the mad genius of giallo or Theatre du Grand-Guignol, or, for that matter, Alan Moore, Florence Foresti, Eddie Izzard, Roald Dahl, Peter Jackson, Aldous Huxley, or Ricky Gervais? Beyond the obvious, that is. But you don’t have to limit yourself to that humor/horror mashup if it’s not your thing. What of the classic horrific humorists/ironists such as H.H. Munro, Shirley Jackson, Washington Irving, or Dorothy Parker? Has “web2.0” (Twitter, YouTube, indie web movie sites, blogs, that stuff) significantly changed the way humor or horror/SF/fantasy gets distributed or consumed in some way that’s not obvious? If so, was Serenity proof of it, or the exception? What else ya got? Straight-up humor or horror or SF or fantasy? Dandy!
John A Dowell
Michigan State University
434 Farm Lane, Rm 202, Bessey Hall
Phone: 517.884.3686
(please use submissions.mpcaaca.org)
(all here: https://www.msu.edu/user/jdowell/MPCA/MPCA-2013CFP-HumorHorror.pdf)
Email: jdowell@msu.edu
Visit the website at http://submissions.mpcaaca.org
Location: Missouri, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2013-04-30 (in 4 days)
Date Submitted: 2013-03-26
Announcement ID: 202555
Dear Humor & Horror/SF/Fantasy Scholars, this is your invitation to SUBMIT to the Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association annual meetings in St. Louis, MO, from Friday through Sunday, October 11-13, 2013.
Going too far in these genre may actually just be considered a good starting point, and genre-bending is invited. Don't resist. You want to submit. You need to submit. Nothing good is off-limits.
All details are available from this page < https://www.msu.edu/user/jdowell/MPCA/MPCA-2013CFP-HumorHorror.pdf>.
Is Chuck Palahniuk truly transgressive horror, a postmodern Arthur Machen, or more like Christopher Moore tweaking on meth with a beat up copy of Gray’s Anatomy in his lap? Why wasn’t John Dies at the End the next Naked Lunch? Was The Cabin in the Woods a revival of “smart horror” or was it just a prequel for the revisioning of Evil Dead? Think The Walking Dead is yet another tragicomic soap opera? What about the writings of “humanistic humorists” such as Vonnegut, Twain, or Carlin? What of posthumanism? What can an “Americanist perspective” gain from the mad genius of giallo or Theatre du Grand-Guignol, or, for that matter, Alan Moore, Florence Foresti, Eddie Izzard, Roald Dahl, Peter Jackson, Aldous Huxley, or Ricky Gervais? Beyond the obvious, that is. But you don’t have to limit yourself to that humor/horror mashup if it’s not your thing. What of the classic horrific humorists/ironists such as H.H. Munro, Shirley Jackson, Washington Irving, or Dorothy Parker? Has “web2.0” (Twitter, YouTube, indie web movie sites, blogs, that stuff) significantly changed the way humor or horror/SF/fantasy gets distributed or consumed in some way that’s not obvious? If so, was Serenity proof of it, or the exception? What else ya got? Straight-up humor or horror or SF or fantasy? Dandy!
John A Dowell
Michigan State University
434 Farm Lane, Rm 202, Bessey Hall
Phone: 517.884.3686
(please use submissions.mpcaaca.org)
(all here: https://www.msu.edu/user/jdowell/MPCA/MPCA-2013CFP-HumorHorror.pdf)
Email: jdowell@msu.edu
Visit the website at http://submissions.mpcaaca.org
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Science Fiction Studies Update
Not sure how far behind I am/was with regards to Science Fiction Studies, but the journal's website includes contents details for the last six issues at http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/recent_issues.htm and the journal is now available on JSTOR at http://www.jstor.org/page/journal/sciefictstud/about.html.
Extrapolation Spring 2013
The latest issue of Extrapolation is now available. Contents can be accessed from the new publisher, Liverpool UP, at http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/p15186u62165/?p=f95244ee51914e20b18b5add454be9b3&pi=0.
Older content is also on Metapress at http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/122345/.
Bardolatry, Fantasy, and Elvish Glamour
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| DOI | 10.3828/extr.2013.2 |
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| DOI | 10.3828/extr.2013.3 |
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SF, Philip K. Dick, and the Space Age
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| DOI | 10.3828/extr.2013.4 |
| Author | Jorge Martins Rosa |
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E. R. Eddison's Easter manifesto
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| DOI | 10.3828/extr.2013.5 |
| Author | Joseph Rex Young |
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| DOI | 10.3828/extr.2013.6 |
Older content is also on Metapress at http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/122345/.
Science Fiction Studies No. 119 for March 2013
Forever catching up:
ARTICLES SPECIAL ISSUE ON CHINESE SCIENCE FICTION (Edited by Yan Wu and Veronica Hollinger)
Science Fiction Studies
#119 = Volume 40, Part 1 = March 2013
ARTICLES SPECIAL ISSUE ON CHINESE SCIENCE FICTION (Edited by Yan Wu and Veronica Hollinger)
- Han Song. Chinese Science Fiction: A Response to Modernization
- Liu Cixin. Beyond Narcissism: What Science Fiction Can Offer Literature
- Nathaniel Isaacson. Science Fiction for the Nation: Tales of the Moon Colony and the Birth of Modern Chinese Fiction
- Shaoling Ma. “A Tale of New Mr. Braggadocio”: Narrative Subjectivity and Brain Electricity in Late Qing Science Fiction
- Michael Saler. Science, the Paranormal, and Science Fiction: Cheng’s Astounding Wonder and Kripal’s Mutants and Mystics
- Nicholas Ruddick. Unheimlich Maneuvers: Beaumont’s The Spectre of Utopia and James’s Maps of Utopia
- Clarke’s Conversations with Jonathan Lethem and Lethem’s The Ecstasy of Influence (Paweł Frelik)
- Gaspar’s The Time Ship: A Chrononautical Journey (David Wittenberg)
- Dillon’s Walking the Clouds (Amy Ransom)
- Murphy/Vint’s Beyond Cyberpunk (Gerry Canavan)
- Page’s The Literary Imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells: Science Evolution, and Ecology (Patrick Parrinder)
- Schmeink/Böger’s Collision of Realities and Schmeink/Müller’s Fremde Welten: Wege und Räume der Fantastik (Franz Rottensteiner)
- Smith’s The Journalism of H.G. Wells (John Huntington)
- Stallings/Evans’s Murray Leinster: The Life and Works (Joe Sanders)
- Westfahl’s The Spacesuit Film: A History, 1918-1969 (J.P. Telotte)
- Zgorzelski’s Born of the Fantastic (Grzegorz Trźbicki)
- Cutting Up in der Kunsthalle (Rob Latham)
- The Politics of Adaptation Conference (Gerry Canavan)
- The PKD Festival in San Francisco (Umberto Rossi)
- Tales from the British Museum (Roger Luckhurst)
- Fi-Sci (Alexis Kirke and Eduardo Miranda)
- The Posthuman at Home (Hallvard Haug)
- “Sounds of Space” Workshop (Paweł Frelik)
- Who Originated the Term “Chronoclasm”? (David Ketterer)
- A Feminist Utopia for Annie Denton Cridge? (Taryne Jade Taylor)
- SFS Symposium at the 2013 Eaton/SFRA Conference (SFS editors)
CFP Frankenstein and Adaptation (6/30/13)
Thanks to Gene Kannenberg of Comics Research & Such for the head's up:
Adapting Frankenstein: The Monster’s Eternal Lives in Popular Culture
Paper proposals should be around 300-450 words and should reflect current inter-textual approaches in adaptation theory. They might ask such questions as how an adaptation engages its source(s), our culture, and, perhaps, other adaptations; the relevance of a particular adaptation in the context of its time and culture; the significance of the monster’s role as cultural icon or matrix figure; how an adaptation changes our view of the source text, etc. Studies on adaption such as Hutcheon, The Theory of Adaptation, Leitch, Film Adaptation and its Discontents, Perry and Sederholm, Adapting Poe: Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture, and Albrecht-Crane and Cutchins, Adaptation Studies: New Approaches provide model adaptation studies and theory along the lines we suggest. We expect that successful articles will be rigorous and scholarly, but accessible to a more general audience.
Send proposals to Professors Dennis R. Perry (dperry@byu.edu) or Dennis Cutchins (dennis_cutchins@byu.edu) before June 30, 2013.
Adapting Frankenstein: The Monster’s Eternal Lives in Popular Culture
We propose to edit a book of new essays on the general
subject of the many ways Frankenstein has been adapted in popular
culture, including films, television, radio, graphic novels, comic
books, newspaper cartoons, music, the stage, novels, short stories,
children’s and adolescent literatures, new media, and so forth.
We are interested in what has made Frankenstein’s monster so indestructibly fascinating to the public mind through the many generations since his inception in 1818—almost 200 years ago! We are interested in essays that explore the creature’s versatile ability to appear as threatening monster or sympathetic high school loser, as Milton the Monster or Frankenweenie, as eternal outsider refined in a Tibetan monastery or as a cloned sheep. We are also interested in indirect adaptations: Edward Scissorhands, The Stepford Wives, The Golem, The Colossus of New York, Godzilla and other spawn of the atomic age, as well as zombies and the various replicants, androids, robots, and re-animations.
We are interested in what has made Frankenstein’s monster so indestructibly fascinating to the public mind through the many generations since his inception in 1818—almost 200 years ago! We are interested in essays that explore the creature’s versatile ability to appear as threatening monster or sympathetic high school loser, as Milton the Monster or Frankenweenie, as eternal outsider refined in a Tibetan monastery or as a cloned sheep. We are also interested in indirect adaptations: Edward Scissorhands, The Stepford Wives, The Golem, The Colossus of New York, Godzilla and other spawn of the atomic age, as well as zombies and the various replicants, androids, robots, and re-animations.
Paper proposals should be around 300-450 words and should reflect current inter-textual approaches in adaptation theory. They might ask such questions as how an adaptation engages its source(s), our culture, and, perhaps, other adaptations; the relevance of a particular adaptation in the context of its time and culture; the significance of the monster’s role as cultural icon or matrix figure; how an adaptation changes our view of the source text, etc. Studies on adaption such as Hutcheon, The Theory of Adaptation, Leitch, Film Adaptation and its Discontents, Perry and Sederholm, Adapting Poe: Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture, and Albrecht-Crane and Cutchins, Adaptation Studies: New Approaches provide model adaptation studies and theory along the lines we suggest. We expect that successful articles will be rigorous and scholarly, but accessible to a more general audience.
Send proposals to Professors Dennis R. Perry (dperry@byu.edu) or Dennis Cutchins (dennis_cutchins@byu.edu) before June 30, 2013.
Journal of Popular Culture February 2013
Catching up:
The Journal of Popular Culture
Vol. 46.1, February 2013
Editorial Gary Hoppenstand
Articles
Brigman Award Winner “Forged in Love and Death: Problematic Subjects in The Vampire Diaries” by Mary Bridgeman
“The Sand/wo/man: The Unstable Worlds of Gender in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman Series” by Ally Brisbin and Paul Booth
“Camping with Bigfoot: Sasquatch and the Varieties of Middle-Class Resistance to Consumer Culture in late Twentieth-Century North America” by Joshua Blu Buhs
“Broadcasting Diversity: Alan Lomax and Multiculturalism” by Rachel C. Donaldson
“The White Savior and his Junior Partner: The Lone Ranger and Tonto on Cold War Television (1949-1957)” by Michael Ray Fitzgerald
“Cowboys of the High Seas: Representations of Working-Class Masculinity on Deadliest Catch” by Lisa A. Kirby
“Hansberry’s Hidden Transcript” by Lisbeth Lipari
“The Monomyth in Star Trek (2009): Kirk & Spock Together Again for the First Time” by Donald Palumbo
“Rakim, Ice Cube then Watch the Throne: Engaged Visibility through Identity Orchestration and the Language of Hip-Hop Narratives” by David Wall Rice
“Don’t It Make My Black Face Blue: Race, Avatars, Albescence, and the Transnational Imaginary” by John G. Russell
Book Reviews
Milestone, Katie and Anneke Meyer. Gender & Popular Culture. Malden, MA: Polity, 2012. Reviewed by Heather McIntosh.
Tresca, Michael J. The Evolution of Fantasy Role-Playing Games. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2011. Reviewed by Christopher T. Conner.
Brundage, W. Fitzhugh, Ed. Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Reviewed by Jennifer Forsberg.
Paoletti, Jo B. Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2012. Reviewed by Tanfer Emin Tunc.
Edgerton, Gary R., Ed. Mad Men: Dream Come True TV. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011. Reviewed by Gretchen Dietz.
Strong, Catherine. Grunge: Music and Memory. London: Ashgate Publishing, 2011. Reviewed by Hilarie Ashton.
Jess-Cooke, Carolyn. Film Sequels: Theory and Practice from Hollywood to Bollywood. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009, 2012. Reviewed by Anthony Metivier.
Negra, Diane, Ed. Old and New Media After Katrina. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Reviewed by Kimberly Springer.
Hay, Simon. A History of the Modern British Ghost Story. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Reviewed by Taryn Norman.
The Journal of Popular Culture
Vol. 46.1, February 2013
Editorial Gary Hoppenstand
Articles
Brigman Award Winner “Forged in Love and Death: Problematic Subjects in The Vampire Diaries” by Mary Bridgeman
“The Sand/wo/man: The Unstable Worlds of Gender in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman Series” by Ally Brisbin and Paul Booth
“Camping with Bigfoot: Sasquatch and the Varieties of Middle-Class Resistance to Consumer Culture in late Twentieth-Century North America” by Joshua Blu Buhs
“Broadcasting Diversity: Alan Lomax and Multiculturalism” by Rachel C. Donaldson
“The White Savior and his Junior Partner: The Lone Ranger and Tonto on Cold War Television (1949-1957)” by Michael Ray Fitzgerald
“Cowboys of the High Seas: Representations of Working-Class Masculinity on Deadliest Catch” by Lisa A. Kirby
“Hansberry’s Hidden Transcript” by Lisbeth Lipari
“The Monomyth in Star Trek (2009): Kirk & Spock Together Again for the First Time” by Donald Palumbo
“Rakim, Ice Cube then Watch the Throne: Engaged Visibility through Identity Orchestration and the Language of Hip-Hop Narratives” by David Wall Rice
“Don’t It Make My Black Face Blue: Race, Avatars, Albescence, and the Transnational Imaginary” by John G. Russell
Book Reviews
Milestone, Katie and Anneke Meyer. Gender & Popular Culture. Malden, MA: Polity, 2012. Reviewed by Heather McIntosh.
Tresca, Michael J. The Evolution of Fantasy Role-Playing Games. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2011. Reviewed by Christopher T. Conner.
Brundage, W. Fitzhugh, Ed. Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Reviewed by Jennifer Forsberg.
Paoletti, Jo B. Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2012. Reviewed by Tanfer Emin Tunc.
Edgerton, Gary R., Ed. Mad Men: Dream Come True TV. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011. Reviewed by Gretchen Dietz.
Strong, Catherine. Grunge: Music and Memory. London: Ashgate Publishing, 2011. Reviewed by Hilarie Ashton.
Jess-Cooke, Carolyn. Film Sequels: Theory and Practice from Hollywood to Bollywood. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009, 2012. Reviewed by Anthony Metivier.
Negra, Diane, Ed. Old and New Media After Katrina. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Reviewed by Kimberly Springer.
Hay, Simon. A History of the Modern British Ghost Story. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Reviewed by Taryn Norman.
Journal of Popular Culture December 2012
Catching up:
The Journal of Popular Culture
Vol. 45.6, December 2012
Editorial Gary Hoppenstand
Articles
“Terror in Horror Genres: The Global Media and the Millennial Zombie” by Nicole Birch-Bayley
“Edith Wharton Meets Aquaman: The Glimpses of the Moon and Imperiled Male Culture in Entourage” by Donna Campbell
“Failure to Launch: Not-So-Superheroes in Gravity’s Rainbow and Superfolks” by Megan Condis
“Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach’s Vampire Story ‘Wake Not the Dead’” by Heide Crawford
“Challenging Lilywhite Hollywood: African Americans and the Demand for Racial Equality in the Motion Picture Industry, 1963-1974” by Andrew Dawson
“The Accidental Supermom: Superheroines and Maternal Performativity, 1963-1980” by Laura Mattoon D’Amore
“Smiles of Oblivion: Demonic Clowns and Doomed Puppets as Fantastic Figures of Absurdity, Chaos, and Misanthropy in the Writings of Thomas Ligotti” by Jason Marc Harris
“The Female Link: Citation and Continuity in Watchmen” by Erin M. Keating
“A Myth about the Present: The Shaw Brothers’ The Monkey Goes West Series in the 1960s” by Yan Liang
“Shock Corridors: The New Rhetoric of Horror in Gus Van Sant’s Elephant” by Jennifer A. Rich
BOOK REVIEWS
Hatfield, Charles. Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2012. Reviewed by Matthew Costello.
Athanasourelis, John Paul. Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe: The Hard-Boiled Detective Transformed. McFarland & Company, 2012. Reviewed by Len Gutkin.
Gill, D.C. How We Are Changed by War: A Study of Letters and Diaries from Colonial Conflicts to Operation Iraqi Freedom. New York: Routledge, 2010. Reviewed by Bob Johnson.
Vinegar, Aron. I am a Monument, On Learning from Las Vegas. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. Reviewed by Sally L. Levine.
Lehman, Katherine J. Those Girls: Single Women in Sixties and Seventies Popular Culture. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2011. Reviewed by Chadwick Roberts.
Wetzel, Richard D. The Globalization of Music in History. New York: Routledge, 2012. Reviewed by Mindy Clegg.
Hochscherf, Tobias and James Leggott, eds. British Science Fiction Film and Television: Critical Essays. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland, 2011. Reviewed by Julie Anne Taddeo.
The Journal of Popular Culture
Vol. 45.6, December 2012
Editorial Gary Hoppenstand
Articles
“Terror in Horror Genres: The Global Media and the Millennial Zombie” by Nicole Birch-Bayley
“Edith Wharton Meets Aquaman: The Glimpses of the Moon and Imperiled Male Culture in Entourage” by Donna Campbell
“Failure to Launch: Not-So-Superheroes in Gravity’s Rainbow and Superfolks” by Megan Condis
“Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach’s Vampire Story ‘Wake Not the Dead’” by Heide Crawford
“Challenging Lilywhite Hollywood: African Americans and the Demand for Racial Equality in the Motion Picture Industry, 1963-1974” by Andrew Dawson
“The Accidental Supermom: Superheroines and Maternal Performativity, 1963-1980” by Laura Mattoon D’Amore
“Smiles of Oblivion: Demonic Clowns and Doomed Puppets as Fantastic Figures of Absurdity, Chaos, and Misanthropy in the Writings of Thomas Ligotti” by Jason Marc Harris
“The Female Link: Citation and Continuity in Watchmen” by Erin M. Keating
“A Myth about the Present: The Shaw Brothers’ The Monkey Goes West Series in the 1960s” by Yan Liang
“Shock Corridors: The New Rhetoric of Horror in Gus Van Sant’s Elephant” by Jennifer A. Rich
BOOK REVIEWS
Hatfield, Charles. Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2012. Reviewed by Matthew Costello.
Athanasourelis, John Paul. Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe: The Hard-Boiled Detective Transformed. McFarland & Company, 2012. Reviewed by Len Gutkin.
Gill, D.C. How We Are Changed by War: A Study of Letters and Diaries from Colonial Conflicts to Operation Iraqi Freedom. New York: Routledge, 2010. Reviewed by Bob Johnson.
Vinegar, Aron. I am a Monument, On Learning from Las Vegas. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. Reviewed by Sally L. Levine.
Lehman, Katherine J. Those Girls: Single Women in Sixties and Seventies Popular Culture. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2011. Reviewed by Chadwick Roberts.
Wetzel, Richard D. The Globalization of Music in History. New York: Routledge, 2012. Reviewed by Mindy Clegg.
Hochscherf, Tobias and James Leggott, eds. British Science Fiction Film and Television: Critical Essays. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland, 2011. Reviewed by Julie Anne Taddeo.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
NEPCA Fantastic 2013 Updated CFP
Here's the revised CFP for this fall.
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
GENRE CROSSINGS: EXPLOITING THE GENERIC FLUIDITY OF THE FANTASTIC
FIFTH-ANNIVERSARY SESSIONS OF THE SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, AND LEGEND AREA
Online at NEPCA Fantastic: http://sf-fantasy-legend.blogspot.com/
2013 Conference of The Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association (NEPCA)
St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont 25-26 October 2013
Proposals by 10 June 2013
Formed in 2009, the Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Area celebrates its fifth anniversary in 2013, and, in commemoration of this event, we seek proposals from scholars of all levels for papers that explore the interrelationships between the various aspects of the intermedia traditions of the fantastic (including, but not limited to, elements of science fiction, fantasy, fairy tale, gothic, and legends) and how creative artists have altered our preconceptions of these subtraditions by producing, in diverse countries and time periods and for audiences at all levels, innovative, genre-crossing or (perhaps) genre-breaking works. Please see our website NEPCA Fantastic (http://sf-fantasy-legend.blogspot.com/) for further details and ideas.
Presentations will be limited to 15-20 minutes in length (depending on final panel size). If you are interested in proposing a paper or panel of papers, please send a copy of the NEPCA Paper Proposal Form (appended below) with your proposal of approximately 250 to 400 words AND a one-page CV to both the Program Chairs AND to the Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Area Chair at the following addresses (please note "NEPCA Fantastic Proposal 2013" in your subject line):
Program Chairs:
Robert Niemi (rniemi@smcvt.edu)
Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman (Jennifer.Tebbe@mcphs.edu)
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Legend Area Chair:
Michael A. Torregrossa (Popular.Culture.and.the.Middle.Ages@gmail.com)
The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (http://nepca.wordpress.com/) was founded in 1974 as a professional organization for scholars living in New England and New York. It is a community of scholars interested in advancing research and promoting interest in the disciplines of popular and/or American culture. NEPCA’s membership consists of university and college faculty members, emeriti faculty, secondary school teachers, museum specialists, graduate students, independent scholars, and interested members of the general public.
NEPCA is an independently funded affiliate of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Membership is open to all interested parties, regardless of profession, rank, or residency.
NEPCA holds an annual conference that invites scholars from around the globe to participate. In an effort to keep costs low, it meets on college campuses throughout the region.
Membership in NEPCA is required for participation. Annual dues are currently $30 for full-time faculty and $15 to all other individuals. Further details are available at http://nepca.wordpress.com/ (see the "Membership Information" tab). =================================================================== NEPCA PAPER PROPOSAL FORM (please include in your email) (Send a one-page CV to the program and area chair when you submit this form)
Name: (Exactly as you’d like to see it listed. (No titles listed.)
Affiliation: (As you’d like to see it listed. (Choose just one. If none at present, use Independent Scholar.)
E-mail: (List the one you consult most regularly.)
Phone: (List the one you use most.)
Abstract: Please confine this abstract to 250 to 400 words. Bear in mind that it must be understandable to a committee, some of whose members may not be experts in your discipline. NEPCA also encourages the use of “plain”speech over specialized jargon.
===================================================================== Michael A. Torregrossa Science Fiction, Fantasy and Legend Area Chair
34 2nd St Smithfield, RI 02917
Email: popular.culture.and.the.middle.ages@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://sf-fantasy-legend.blogspot.com/
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
GENRE CROSSINGS: EXPLOITING THE GENERIC FLUIDITY OF THE FANTASTIC
FIFTH-ANNIVERSARY SESSIONS OF THE SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, AND LEGEND AREA
Online at NEPCA Fantastic: http://sf-fantasy-legend.blogspot.com/
2013 Conference of The Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association (NEPCA)
St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont 25-26 October 2013
Proposals by 10 June 2013
Formed in 2009, the Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Area celebrates its fifth anniversary in 2013, and, in commemoration of this event, we seek proposals from scholars of all levels for papers that explore the interrelationships between the various aspects of the intermedia traditions of the fantastic (including, but not limited to, elements of science fiction, fantasy, fairy tale, gothic, and legends) and how creative artists have altered our preconceptions of these subtraditions by producing, in diverse countries and time periods and for audiences at all levels, innovative, genre-crossing or (perhaps) genre-breaking works. Please see our website NEPCA Fantastic (http://sf-fantasy-legend.blogspot.com/) for further details and ideas.
Presentations will be limited to 15-20 minutes in length (depending on final panel size). If you are interested in proposing a paper or panel of papers, please send a copy of the NEPCA Paper Proposal Form (appended below) with your proposal of approximately 250 to 400 words AND a one-page CV to both the Program Chairs AND to the Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Area Chair at the following addresses (please note "NEPCA Fantastic Proposal 2013" in your subject line):
Program Chairs:
Robert Niemi (rniemi@smcvt.edu)
Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman (Jennifer.Tebbe@mcphs.edu)
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Legend Area Chair:
Michael A. Torregrossa (Popular.Culture.and.the.Middle.Ages@gmail.com)
The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (http://nepca.wordpress.com/) was founded in 1974 as a professional organization for scholars living in New England and New York. It is a community of scholars interested in advancing research and promoting interest in the disciplines of popular and/or American culture. NEPCA’s membership consists of university and college faculty members, emeriti faculty, secondary school teachers, museum specialists, graduate students, independent scholars, and interested members of the general public.
NEPCA is an independently funded affiliate of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Membership is open to all interested parties, regardless of profession, rank, or residency.
NEPCA holds an annual conference that invites scholars from around the globe to participate. In an effort to keep costs low, it meets on college campuses throughout the region.
Membership in NEPCA is required for participation. Annual dues are currently $30 for full-time faculty and $15 to all other individuals. Further details are available at http://nepca.wordpress.com/ (see the "Membership Information" tab). =================================================================== NEPCA PAPER PROPOSAL FORM (please include in your email) (Send a one-page CV to the program and area chair when you submit this form)
Name: (Exactly as you’d like to see it listed. (No titles listed.)
Affiliation: (As you’d like to see it listed. (Choose just one. If none at present, use Independent Scholar.)
E-mail: (List the one you consult most regularly.)
Phone: (List the one you use most.)
Abstract: Please confine this abstract to 250 to 400 words. Bear in mind that it must be understandable to a committee, some of whose members may not be experts in your discipline. NEPCA also encourages the use of “plain”speech over specialized jargon.
===================================================================== Michael A. Torregrossa Science Fiction, Fantasy and Legend Area Chair
34 2nd St Smithfield, RI 02917
Email: popular.culture.and.the.middle.ages@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://sf-fantasy-legend.blogspot.com/
Friday, March 22, 2013
Beautiful Creatures the Movie
Out now from Warner Bros.
Additional clips at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVfin74Qx3tUqDc6Z5obiFlE2u-DTCFHw.
Additional clips at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVfin74Qx3tUqDc6Z5obiFlE2u-DTCFHw.
Wreck-It Ralph on Video
Meant to post something on this sooner; it looks like an interesting film:
More videos at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-muvh_380IY5N8-dQ9_hk-ytv9AMcN7H.
More videos at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-muvh_380IY5N8-dQ9_hk-ytv9AMcN7H.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Return to Neverland News
An upcoming release revealed (appropriately) in the packaging for Peter Pan Diamond Edition:
Friday, November 30, 2012
Essential Supernatural Out Now
Knight, Nicholas, and Christopher Cerasi. The Essential Supernatural: On the Road with Sam and Dean Winchester. Foreword Eric Kripke. San Rafael, CA: Insight Editions, 2012. Print. 978-1-60887-145-2
Profusely illustrated, this over-sized book serves as both a guide to and celebration of the first seven seasons of the Supernatural television series. The book includes a wealth of photographs from the show, commentary by the cast and crew, and a variety of extras for the fans. The book concludes with predictions for the upcoming season eight and a short episode guide devoted to seasons one through seven.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Little Mermaid News
Disney has released the following advertisement for an upcoming release of The Little Mermaid (1989), the film that ushered in the Disney Renaissance:
Peter Pan Diamond Edition
JPC for August 2012
I seem to have missed posting this over the summer:
The Journal of Popular Culture (access at Wiley Online Library)
Volume 45, Number 4
August 2012
Pages 685–920
Editorial
Editorial: Something Wonderful This Way Came (pages 685–686)
Gary Hoppenstand
Guest Editorial
Deep Culture (pages 687–694)
Margaret J. King
Articles
Going Places: The Pleasures of Production and Imperial Visual Cultures in the Stratemeyer Syndicate's The Moving Picture Boys (pages 695–711)
Stephen M. Charbonneau
Chuck Versus the Machine: The Intersection of Biology, Technology, and Identity on Chuck (pages 712–726)
Joseph J. Darowski
“I Was Just Doing a Little Joke There”: Irony and the Paradoxes of the Sitcom in The Office (pages 727–748)
Eric Detweiler
Resistive Radio: African Americans’ Evolving Portrayal and Participation from Broadcasting to Narrowcasting (pages 749–768)
Judy L. Isaksen
Like Sportive Birds: The Girl Aviators Series and the Culture of Flight in America, 1911–12 (pages 769–788)
Lisa M. Stepanski
Transnational Transformations: A Gender Analysis of Japanese Manga Featuring Unexpected Bodily Transformations (pages 789–806)
June M. Madeley
Light for Light's Sake: Thomas Kinkade and the Meaning of Style (pages 807–827)
Julia Mason
“Say, Who Are You Anyway?”: Clowns, Childhood, and Madness in The Character of Harpo Marx (pages 828–845)
Richard Niland
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: The Web of Racial, Class, and Gender Constructions in late 1960s America (pages 846–861)
Anne Gray Perrin
Haunted Infocosms and Prosthetic Gods: Gibsonian Cyberspace and Renaissance Arts of Memory (pages 862–882)
Joel Elliot Slotkin
The Coexistence of Folk and Popular Culture as Vehicles of Social and Historical Activism: Transformation of the Bumba-meu-boi in Northeast Brazil (pages 883–901)
Meredith W. Watts and Simone Linhares Ferro
Book Reviews
Indie: An American Film Culture. Michael Z. Newman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. 296 pp. $26.50 paperback. (pages 902–905)
Michael Civille
Cameras into the Wild: A History of Early Wildlife and Expedition Filmmaking, 1895–1928. Palle Petterson. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. 236 pp. $45.00 paperback. (pages 905–908)
John M. Kinder
Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy. Matthew Alford. London: Pluto Press, 2010. 224 pp. $25.00 paperback. (pages 908–910)
Irene Garza
Haunted Ground: Journeys through a Paranormal America. Darryl V. Caterine. Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2011. 199 pp. $34.95 cloth. (pages 910–912)
Christopher Blythe
Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. Robin Bernstein. New York: New York University Press, 2011. 318 pp. $22.80 paperback. (pages 913–915)
Meredith A. Bak
Football/Soccer: History and Tactics. Jaime Orejan. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. 256 pp. $34.95 paperback. (pages 915–917)
Yuya Kiuchi
Affirmative Reaction: New Formations of White Masculinity. Hamilton Carroll. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. 221 pp. $21.80 paperback. (pages 917–920)
Shelleen Greene
The Journal of Popular Culture (access at Wiley Online Library)
Volume 45, Number 4
August 2012
Pages 685–920
Editorial
Editorial: Something Wonderful This Way Came (pages 685–686)
Gary Hoppenstand
Guest Editorial
Deep Culture (pages 687–694)
Margaret J. King
Articles
Going Places: The Pleasures of Production and Imperial Visual Cultures in the Stratemeyer Syndicate's The Moving Picture Boys (pages 695–711)
Stephen M. Charbonneau
Chuck Versus the Machine: The Intersection of Biology, Technology, and Identity on Chuck (pages 712–726)
Joseph J. Darowski
“I Was Just Doing a Little Joke There”: Irony and the Paradoxes of the Sitcom in The Office (pages 727–748)
Eric Detweiler
Resistive Radio: African Americans’ Evolving Portrayal and Participation from Broadcasting to Narrowcasting (pages 749–768)
Judy L. Isaksen
Like Sportive Birds: The Girl Aviators Series and the Culture of Flight in America, 1911–12 (pages 769–788)
Lisa M. Stepanski
Transnational Transformations: A Gender Analysis of Japanese Manga Featuring Unexpected Bodily Transformations (pages 789–806)
June M. Madeley
Light for Light's Sake: Thomas Kinkade and the Meaning of Style (pages 807–827)
Julia Mason
“Say, Who Are You Anyway?”: Clowns, Childhood, and Madness in The Character of Harpo Marx (pages 828–845)
Richard Niland
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: The Web of Racial, Class, and Gender Constructions in late 1960s America (pages 846–861)
Anne Gray Perrin
Haunted Infocosms and Prosthetic Gods: Gibsonian Cyberspace and Renaissance Arts of Memory (pages 862–882)
Joel Elliot Slotkin
The Coexistence of Folk and Popular Culture as Vehicles of Social and Historical Activism: Transformation of the Bumba-meu-boi in Northeast Brazil (pages 883–901)
Meredith W. Watts and Simone Linhares Ferro
Book Reviews
Indie: An American Film Culture. Michael Z. Newman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. 296 pp. $26.50 paperback. (pages 902–905)
Michael Civille
Cameras into the Wild: A History of Early Wildlife and Expedition Filmmaking, 1895–1928. Palle Petterson. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. 236 pp. $45.00 paperback. (pages 905–908)
John M. Kinder
Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy. Matthew Alford. London: Pluto Press, 2010. 224 pp. $25.00 paperback. (pages 908–910)
Irene Garza
Haunted Ground: Journeys through a Paranormal America. Darryl V. Caterine. Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2011. 199 pp. $34.95 cloth. (pages 910–912)
Christopher Blythe
Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. Robin Bernstein. New York: New York University Press, 2011. 318 pp. $22.80 paperback. (pages 913–915)
Meredith A. Bak
Football/Soccer: History and Tactics. Jaime Orejan. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. 256 pp. $34.95 paperback. (pages 915–917)
Yuya Kiuchi
Affirmative Reaction: New Formations of White Masculinity. Hamilton Carroll. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. 221 pp. $21.80 paperback. (pages 917–920)
Shelleen Greene
Monday, November 19, 2012
Upcoming Fantasy Films
The blog is in need of much updating (especially a post on NEPCA last month), but, in the meantime, I've been intrigued by some of the latest trailers featuring innovative takes on fictional and legendary heroes:
Monday, November 5, 2012
Return to Middle-earth with Brian Sibley
In anticipation of the release next month of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has released Brian Sibley's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: Official Movie Guide. As with Sibley's earlier volumes on The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the book offers an extensively well-illustrated look at the making of the film and includes much commentary from the cast and crew. Details as follows:The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Official Movie Guide
By Brian Sibley
Publication Date:2012-11-06
Price: $14.95
Format: Trade Paper, 192 pages
Trim Size: 8 5/8 x 11 1/4
Also available as: Fixed Layout E-Book
ISBN-13/ EAN:9780547898551
ISBN-10:054789855X
Book Description
Enter Bilbo Baggins’ world through exclusive interviews with director Peter Jackson, Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen and all the principal cast and filmmakers, who share film-making secrets and tales of what it was actually like making movie magic in Middle-earth.
Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of behind-the-scenes photos of the actors, locations, sets, creatures and costumes, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Official Movie Guide has been produced in collaboration with the filmmakers who have brought J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic novel into breathtaking three-dimensional life.
Mythlore Fall/Winter 2012
The latest number of Mythlore is available for purchase from The Mythopoeic Society. Contents as follows:
Mythlore 119/120
Volume 31, Issue 1/2
2012 Fall/Winter
204 pages
Table of Contents
Editorial
—Janet Brennan Croft
Yggdrasil and the Stave Church
—G. Ronald Murphy, S.J.
The Inklings Remembered: A Conversation with Colin Havard
—Justin T. Noetzel and Matthew R. Bardowell
The Steward, The King, and the Queen: Fealty and Love in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and in Sir Orfeo
—Sue Bridgwater
Charles Williams’s Anti-Modernist Descent into Hell
—Lydia R. Browning
The Wondrous Orientalism of Lord Dunsany: Traditional and Non-traditional Orientalist Narratives in The Book of Wonder and Tales of Wonder
—Alyssa House-Thomas
Reciprocal Colonization in the Irish Fairy Tales of Lord Dunsany
—Erin L. Sheley
Changing the Story: Transformations of Myth in Yeats’s Poem “Cuchulain’s Fight with the Sea”
—Roxanne Bodsworth
Grief Poignant as Joy: Dyscatastrophe and Eucatastrophe in A Song of Fire and Ice
—Susan Johnston
Reviews
Burdge, Anthony S., Jessica Burke, and Kristine Larsen, eds. The Mythological Dimensions of Neil Gaiman. (Reviewed by Birns, N.)
Fastitocalon: Studies in Fantasticism Ancient to Modern. #2.1&2 (2011). (Reviewed by Croft, J.B.)
Frankel, Valerie Estelle. Buffy and the Heroine’s Journey: Vampire Slayer as Feminine Chosen One. (Reviewed by Croft, J.B.)
Hiley, Margaret. The Loss and the Silence: Aspects of Modernism in the Works of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams. (Reviewed by Ordway, H.)
Honegger, Thomas, ed. Tolkien in Translation. (Reviewed by Sims, H.J.)
Honegger, Thomas, ed. Translating Tolkien: Text and Film. (Reviewed by Brown, S.)
Jennbert, Kristina. Animals and Humans: Recurrent Symbiosis in Archaeology and Old Norse Religion. (Reviewed by Auger, E.E.)
Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society. #53 (Spring 2012). (Reviewed by Croft, J.B.)
North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies. #30 (2011). (Reviewed by Croft, J.B.)
Reno, Frank D. Arthurian Figures of History and Legend: A Biographical Dictionary. (Reviewed by Williams, D.T.)
Sandner, David. Critical Discourses on the Fantastic, 1712-1831. (Reviewed by Young, J.)
Stirling, Kirsten. Peter Pan’s Shadows in the Literary Imagination. (Reviewed by Wiggins, K.M.)
Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review. #9 (2012). (Reviewed by Croft, J.B.)
Trout, Paul A. Deadly Powers: Animal Predators and the Mythic Imagination. (Reviewed by Walker, L.)
Wolfe, Judith and B.N. Wolfe, eds. C.S. Lewis and the Church: Essays in Honour of Walter Hooper. (Reviewed by Christopher, J.R.)
Mythlore 119/120
Volume 31, Issue 1/2
2012 Fall/Winter
204 pages
Table of Contents
Editorial
—Janet Brennan Croft
Yggdrasil and the Stave Church
—G. Ronald Murphy, S.J.
The Inklings Remembered: A Conversation with Colin Havard
—Justin T. Noetzel and Matthew R. Bardowell
The Steward, The King, and the Queen: Fealty and Love in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and in Sir Orfeo
—Sue Bridgwater
Charles Williams’s Anti-Modernist Descent into Hell
—Lydia R. Browning
The Wondrous Orientalism of Lord Dunsany: Traditional and Non-traditional Orientalist Narratives in The Book of Wonder and Tales of Wonder
—Alyssa House-Thomas
Reciprocal Colonization in the Irish Fairy Tales of Lord Dunsany
—Erin L. Sheley
Changing the Story: Transformations of Myth in Yeats’s Poem “Cuchulain’s Fight with the Sea”
—Roxanne Bodsworth
Grief Poignant as Joy: Dyscatastrophe and Eucatastrophe in A Song of Fire and Ice
—Susan Johnston
Reviews
Burdge, Anthony S., Jessica Burke, and Kristine Larsen, eds. The Mythological Dimensions of Neil Gaiman. (Reviewed by Birns, N.)
Fastitocalon: Studies in Fantasticism Ancient to Modern. #2.1&2 (2011). (Reviewed by Croft, J.B.)
Frankel, Valerie Estelle. Buffy and the Heroine’s Journey: Vampire Slayer as Feminine Chosen One. (Reviewed by Croft, J.B.)
Hiley, Margaret. The Loss and the Silence: Aspects of Modernism in the Works of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams. (Reviewed by Ordway, H.)
Honegger, Thomas, ed. Tolkien in Translation. (Reviewed by Sims, H.J.)
Honegger, Thomas, ed. Translating Tolkien: Text and Film. (Reviewed by Brown, S.)
Jennbert, Kristina. Animals and Humans: Recurrent Symbiosis in Archaeology and Old Norse Religion. (Reviewed by Auger, E.E.)
Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society. #53 (Spring 2012). (Reviewed by Croft, J.B.)
North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies. #30 (2011). (Reviewed by Croft, J.B.)
Reno, Frank D. Arthurian Figures of History and Legend: A Biographical Dictionary. (Reviewed by Williams, D.T.)
Sandner, David. Critical Discourses on the Fantastic, 1712-1831. (Reviewed by Young, J.)
Stirling, Kirsten. Peter Pan’s Shadows in the Literary Imagination. (Reviewed by Wiggins, K.M.)
Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review. #9 (2012). (Reviewed by Croft, J.B.)
Trout, Paul A. Deadly Powers: Animal Predators and the Mythic Imagination. (Reviewed by Walker, L.)
Wolfe, Judith and B.N. Wolfe, eds. C.S. Lewis and the Church: Essays in Honour of Walter Hooper. (Reviewed by Christopher, J.R.)
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Monsters at Williams-Sonoma
The Frankenstein's Monster is especially interesting as he is depicted as both green and scarred (two elements of iconography from the Karloffian model) but is missing the usual set of neck bolts. He is also very cute for a "monster".
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Journal of Popular Culture October 2012
The latest number 45.5 of The Journal of Popular Culture is now available in print and online at the Wiley Online Library. Contents as follows:
Editorial
Editorial: Adaptation and Disappointment (pages 921–922)
Gary Hoppenstand
Articles
“Incloseto Putbacko”: Queerness in Adolescent Fantasy Fiction (pages 923–942)
Anne Balay
Behind the Behind the Scenes of Disney World: Meeting the Need for Insider Knowledge (pages 943–959)
Mathew J. Bartkowiak
“People of Colors”: Multiethnic Humor in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle and Weeds (pages 960–978)
David Gillota
Performing the Imperial Abject: The Ethics of Cocaine in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four (pages 979–999)
Benjamin D. O'Dell
“When the Life Giver Dies, All Around Is Laid Waste.” Structural Trauma and the Splitting of Time in Signal to Noise, a Graphic Novel (pages 1000–1019)
Andrés Romero-Jódar
Gay Characters in the Margins: Gender-Based Stereotypes in Subtitled French Film (pages 1020–1040)
Sheila Turek
Remembering Why We Once Feared the Dark: Reclaiming Humanity Through Fantasy in Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II (pages 1041–1059)
Tony M. Vinci
Feminism and Early Twenty-First Century Harlequin Mills & Boon Romances (pages 1060–1089)
Laura Vivanco
The Killer Angels, Popular Memory, and the Battle of Gettysburg Sesquicentennial (pages 1090–1108)
Nicholas White
Book Reviews
Doing Time in the Depression: Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons. Ed. Ethan Blue. New York: New York University Press, 2012. (pages 1109–1113)
Laura Hapke
That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader. Eds. Murray Forman and Mark Anthony Neal. Second Edition. New York: Routledge, 2012. 760 pp. $47.00 paperback. (pages 1113–1116)
Shanesha R. F. Brooks-Tatum
Virtual Orientalism: Asian Religions and American Popular Culture. Jane Iwamura. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 232 pp. $24.95 paperback. (pages 1116–1118)
Kate Netzler Burch
Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W Adorno. Miriam Hansen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. 408 pp. $79 cloth; $29.90 paperback. (pages 1118–1122)
Dora Valkanova
The Jukebox in the Garden: Ecocriticism and American Popular Music Since 1960. Ingram David. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010. 278 pp. $79.44 paperback. (pages 1122–1123)
Stephen Rust
Digital Detroit: Rhetoric and Space in the Age of the Network. Rice Jeff. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. 264 pp. $39.95 paperback. (pages 1123–1126)
Nicholas Porter
The Galaxy is Rated G: Essays on Children's Science Fiction Film and Television. Eds. R. C. Neighbors and Sandy Rankin. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. 292 pp. $40.00 paperback. (pages 1126–1128)
Rachel E. Page
Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter and the Modern Horror Film. Ed. Kendall R. Phillips. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. 256 pp. $30.00 paperback. (pages 1128–1131)
Daniel R. Mistich
The Films of James Cameron: Critical Essays. Eds. Matthew Kapell and Stephen McVeigh. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. 239 pp. $40.00 paperback. (pages 1131–1133)
Shannon McRae
Announcements
Announcement: The William Brigman JPC Award (page 1134)
Editorial
Editorial: Adaptation and Disappointment (pages 921–922)
Gary Hoppenstand
Articles
“Incloseto Putbacko”: Queerness in Adolescent Fantasy Fiction (pages 923–942)
Anne Balay
Behind the Behind the Scenes of Disney World: Meeting the Need for Insider Knowledge (pages 943–959)
Mathew J. Bartkowiak
“People of Colors”: Multiethnic Humor in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle and Weeds (pages 960–978)
David Gillota
Performing the Imperial Abject: The Ethics of Cocaine in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four (pages 979–999)
Benjamin D. O'Dell
“When the Life Giver Dies, All Around Is Laid Waste.” Structural Trauma and the Splitting of Time in Signal to Noise, a Graphic Novel (pages 1000–1019)
Andrés Romero-Jódar
Gay Characters in the Margins: Gender-Based Stereotypes in Subtitled French Film (pages 1020–1040)
Sheila Turek
Remembering Why We Once Feared the Dark: Reclaiming Humanity Through Fantasy in Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II (pages 1041–1059)
Tony M. Vinci
Feminism and Early Twenty-First Century Harlequin Mills & Boon Romances (pages 1060–1089)
Laura Vivanco
The Killer Angels, Popular Memory, and the Battle of Gettysburg Sesquicentennial (pages 1090–1108)
Nicholas White
Book Reviews
Doing Time in the Depression: Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons. Ed. Ethan Blue. New York: New York University Press, 2012. (pages 1109–1113)
Laura Hapke
That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader. Eds. Murray Forman and Mark Anthony Neal. Second Edition. New York: Routledge, 2012. 760 pp. $47.00 paperback. (pages 1113–1116)
Shanesha R. F. Brooks-Tatum
Virtual Orientalism: Asian Religions and American Popular Culture. Jane Iwamura. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 232 pp. $24.95 paperback. (pages 1116–1118)
Kate Netzler Burch
Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W Adorno. Miriam Hansen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. 408 pp. $79 cloth; $29.90 paperback. (pages 1118–1122)
Dora Valkanova
The Jukebox in the Garden: Ecocriticism and American Popular Music Since 1960. Ingram David. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010. 278 pp. $79.44 paperback. (pages 1122–1123)
Stephen Rust
Digital Detroit: Rhetoric and Space in the Age of the Network. Rice Jeff. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. 264 pp. $39.95 paperback. (pages 1123–1126)
Nicholas Porter
The Galaxy is Rated G: Essays on Children's Science Fiction Film and Television. Eds. R. C. Neighbors and Sandy Rankin. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. 292 pp. $40.00 paperback. (pages 1126–1128)
Rachel E. Page
Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter and the Modern Horror Film. Ed. Kendall R. Phillips. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. 256 pp. $30.00 paperback. (pages 1128–1131)
Daniel R. Mistich
The Films of James Cameron: Critical Essays. Eds. Matthew Kapell and Stephen McVeigh. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. 239 pp. $40.00 paperback. (pages 1131–1133)
Shannon McRae
Announcements
Announcement: The William Brigman JPC Award (page 1134)
Journal of American Culture September 2012
The latest number 35.3 of The Journal of American Culture is now available in print and online at the Wiley Online Library. Contents as follows:
ARTICLES
Capturing the American Past: The Cowboy Song and the Archive (pages 207–218)
Michael Slowik
Walt Disney's Song of the South and the Politics of Animation (pages 219–230)
M. Thomas Inge
“Keep it Under Your Hat”: Safety Campaigns and Fashion in the World War II Factory (pages 231–243)
Stephen R. Patnode
Writing Ojibwe: Politics and Poetics in Longfellow's Hiawatha (pages 244–257)
Tom Nurmi
Satirical Fake News and/as American Political Discourse (pages 258–275)
Ian Reilly
BOOK REVIEWS
DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World. David Kinkela. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. (pages 276–277)
Drew A. Swanson
Fatal Self-Deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South. Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. (pages 277–278)
Drew A. Swanson
From Liberation to Conquest: The Visual and Popular Cultures of the Spanish–American War of 1898. Bonnie M. Miller. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011. (pages 278–279)
Benjamin A. Coates
Making Marriage Work: A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth-Century United States. Kristin Celello. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. (pages 279–280)
William Kuby
Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America. Jo B. Paoletti. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012. (pages 280–282)
Kathy Merlock Jackson
Reinventing Childhood after World War II. Paula S. Fass, and Michael Grossberg, Eds. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. (pages 282–283)
Kathy Merlock Jackson
The Ages of Superman: Essays on the Man of Steel in Changing Times. Joseph J. Darowski, Ed. Jefferson: McFarland, 2012. (pages 283–284)
John Shelton Lawrence, Emeritus
The Production of Modernization: Daniel Lerner, Mass Media, and the Passing of Traditional Society. Hemant Shah. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011. (pages 284–285)
Brad Stoddard
Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History. David Cowart. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011. (pages 285–286)
Stephen Hock
User Unfriendly: Consumer Struggles with Personal Technologies, from Clocks and Sewing Machines to Cars and Computers. Joseph J. Corn. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. (pages 286–287)
Lawrence C. Rubin
West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977. Elissa Auther and Adam Lerner, Eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. (pages 287–288)
Kirstin L. Ellsworth
ARTICLES
Capturing the American Past: The Cowboy Song and the Archive (pages 207–218)
Michael Slowik
Walt Disney's Song of the South and the Politics of Animation (pages 219–230)
M. Thomas Inge
“Keep it Under Your Hat”: Safety Campaigns and Fashion in the World War II Factory (pages 231–243)
Stephen R. Patnode
Writing Ojibwe: Politics and Poetics in Longfellow's Hiawatha (pages 244–257)
Tom Nurmi
Satirical Fake News and/as American Political Discourse (pages 258–275)
Ian Reilly
BOOK REVIEWS
DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World. David Kinkela. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. (pages 276–277)
Drew A. Swanson
Fatal Self-Deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South. Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. (pages 277–278)
Drew A. Swanson
From Liberation to Conquest: The Visual and Popular Cultures of the Spanish–American War of 1898. Bonnie M. Miller. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011. (pages 278–279)
Benjamin A. Coates
Making Marriage Work: A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth-Century United States. Kristin Celello. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. (pages 279–280)
William Kuby
Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America. Jo B. Paoletti. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012. (pages 280–282)
Kathy Merlock Jackson
Reinventing Childhood after World War II. Paula S. Fass, and Michael Grossberg, Eds. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. (pages 282–283)
Kathy Merlock Jackson
The Ages of Superman: Essays on the Man of Steel in Changing Times. Joseph J. Darowski, Ed. Jefferson: McFarland, 2012. (pages 283–284)
John Shelton Lawrence, Emeritus
The Production of Modernization: Daniel Lerner, Mass Media, and the Passing of Traditional Society. Hemant Shah. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011. (pages 284–285)
Brad Stoddard
Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History. David Cowart. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011. (pages 285–286)
Stephen Hock
User Unfriendly: Consumer Struggles with Personal Technologies, from Clocks and Sewing Machines to Cars and Computers. Joseph J. Corn. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. (pages 286–287)
Lawrence C. Rubin
West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977. Elissa Auther and Adam Lerner, Eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. (pages 287–288)
Kirstin L. Ellsworth
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Halloween at Design Toscano
Design Toscano offers a wealth of Halloween- and Gothic-themed products (including zombies, vampires, skeletons, reapers, witches, and, of course, their signature gargoyles) at their website. Details and images at http://www.designtoscano.com/category/more+themes/halloween+decor.do?sortby=bestSellers&page=all.
Friday, October 12, 2012
Art of the Hobbit
Details as follows:
The Art of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
By Wayne G. Hammond, Christina Scull, J.R.R. Tolkien
About the Book
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780547928258
ISBN-10: 0547928254
Price: $40
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
Publication Date: 2012-09-18
Trim Size: 10 x 10
Book Description:
J.R.R. Tolkien’s complete artwork for The Hobbit, presented for the first time in celebration of the 75th anniversary
When J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit, he was already an accomplished amateur artist, and drew illustrations for his book while it was still in manuscript. The Hobbit as first printed had ten black-and-white pictures, two maps, and binding and dust jacket designs by its author. Later, Tolkien also painted five scenes for color plates, which comprise some of his best work. His illustrations for The Hobbit add an extra dimension to that remarkable book, and have long influenced how readers imagine Bilbo Baggins and his world.
Written and edited by leading Tolkien experts Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, The Art of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien showcases the complete artwork created by the author for his story—including related pictures, more than one hundred sketches, drawings, paintings, maps, and plans. Some of these images are published here for the first time, others for the first time in color, allowing Tolkien’s Hobbit pictures to be seen completely and more vividly than ever before.
Vampire Teddy (with Cookies)
There are a number of monstrous mash-ups being sold for this Halloween, including this vampiric teddy bear (with Bela Lugosi's signature widow's peak and a variation on his classic costume) sold by MrsFields.com:Vampire Bites Bear
Item ID 12F307
Current Price $29.99
(as add-on $14.99)
NEW! Comes with a sampler of 18 Nibblers® bite-sized cookies and two hand-frosted ghost cookies or as an add-on to most catalog items.
Monday, September 17, 2012
Fastitocalon 4 CFP
Perpetually catching up it seems:
Call for papers (PDF)
Fastitocalon: Studies in Fantasticism Ancient to Modern volume IV (2013)
Published by Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (WVT)
http://fastitocalon.kolbitar.de
Crime and the Fantastic
If there is one thread that consistently runs through all forms of the fantastic from the antiquity to the present it is a preoccupation with crime and harm – and with the obligations to make things right which these violations place on individuals and communities alike. Although definitions of crime and justice in The Epic of Gilgamesh will be different from those in Odyssey, Beowulf, Peter Pan or The Graveyard Book, the spectrum of the fantastic—from classical myths to literary fantasy—has always been fascinated by issues of crime, punishment and justice. From betrayed rulers and spouses avenging their wrongs or culture heroes defending their families and communities, through orphan boys or girls exposing oppressive regimes and defeating evil Wizard conspiracies, to talking animals or other nonhuman species who assert their minority status, many of the proponents of the fantastic in their textual and filmic forms are predicated on the search for the most appropriate response to crime, inequality and violation. The protagonists are mostly rebels rather than the empire, outlaws rather than the establishment. The stories of their struggles define various facets of crime, punishment and justice and transpose these concepts from abstract principles to specific representations.
Our goal in Volume IV of Fastitocalon: Studies in Fantasticism Ancient to Modern is to offer a sustained reflection upon the nexus of crime and the fantastic. We encourage submissions that explore manifestations of crime, punishment and justice in and through the frame of the fantastic in all its current and historical media. Contributions to our Crime and the Fantastic issue may focus on individual works, authors, genres, series or adaptations. They may discuss the development and transformations of the various crime topoi or explore the literary-theoretical aspects connected with them in the context of, among others, class structures, social inequalities, war and international conflicts, representations of criminal justice or legal systems, ecology, politics, imperialism, sexuality, ethnicity and gender.
Abstracts (300-450 words) accompanied by a brief biographical note (100-150 words) must be sent in to the editors electronically at ddh2@psu.edu and mco1@psu.edu by December 31, 2012.
Essays accepted for inclusion in the volume must range between 6000 and 8000 words and will be due on April 30, 2013.
Fastitocalon: Studies in Fantasticism Ancient to Modern is a peer-reviewed journal. Abstracts and/or full papers submitted will be reviewed by the editors and members of the advisory board.
The editors:
Dr. Daniel D. Hade, The Pennsylvania State University, ddh2@psu.edu
Dr. Marek Oziewicz, The University of Wroclaw, Poland, marekoziewicz@uni.wroc.pl
and The Pennsylvania State University, mco1@psu.edu
Call for papers (PDF)
Fastitocalon: Studies in Fantasticism Ancient to Modern volume IV (2013)
Published by Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (WVT)
http://fastitocalon.kolbitar.de
Crime and the Fantastic
If there is one thread that consistently runs through all forms of the fantastic from the antiquity to the present it is a preoccupation with crime and harm – and with the obligations to make things right which these violations place on individuals and communities alike. Although definitions of crime and justice in The Epic of Gilgamesh will be different from those in Odyssey, Beowulf, Peter Pan or The Graveyard Book, the spectrum of the fantastic—from classical myths to literary fantasy—has always been fascinated by issues of crime, punishment and justice. From betrayed rulers and spouses avenging their wrongs or culture heroes defending their families and communities, through orphan boys or girls exposing oppressive regimes and defeating evil Wizard conspiracies, to talking animals or other nonhuman species who assert their minority status, many of the proponents of the fantastic in their textual and filmic forms are predicated on the search for the most appropriate response to crime, inequality and violation. The protagonists are mostly rebels rather than the empire, outlaws rather than the establishment. The stories of their struggles define various facets of crime, punishment and justice and transpose these concepts from abstract principles to specific representations.
Our goal in Volume IV of Fastitocalon: Studies in Fantasticism Ancient to Modern is to offer a sustained reflection upon the nexus of crime and the fantastic. We encourage submissions that explore manifestations of crime, punishment and justice in and through the frame of the fantastic in all its current and historical media. Contributions to our Crime and the Fantastic issue may focus on individual works, authors, genres, series or adaptations. They may discuss the development and transformations of the various crime topoi or explore the literary-theoretical aspects connected with them in the context of, among others, class structures, social inequalities, war and international conflicts, representations of criminal justice or legal systems, ecology, politics, imperialism, sexuality, ethnicity and gender.
Abstracts (300-450 words) accompanied by a brief biographical note (100-150 words) must be sent in to the editors electronically at ddh2@psu.edu and mco1@psu.edu by December 31, 2012.
Essays accepted for inclusion in the volume must range between 6000 and 8000 words and will be due on April 30, 2013.
Fastitocalon: Studies in Fantasticism Ancient to Modern is a peer-reviewed journal. Abstracts and/or full papers submitted will be reviewed by the editors and members of the advisory board.
The editors:
Dr. Daniel D. Hade, The Pennsylvania State University, ddh2@psu.edu
Dr. Marek Oziewicz, The University of Wroclaw, Poland, marekoziewicz@uni.wroc.pl
and The Pennsylvania State University, mco1@psu.edu
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Mythcon Updates
The 2012 Mythcon was held last month in Berkeley, California. Details and program of events can be accessed at http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/43/.
The call for papers for the 2013 Mythcon has recently been posted. Details as follows:
Mythcon 44 (July 2013)
Green and Growing: The Land and its Inhabitants in Fantasy Literature
Call for Papers: Mythopoeic Society Conference 44
Kellogg Conference Center, Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI – July 12-15, 2013
http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/44/
Download the Call for Papers (PDF)
Author Guest of Honor: Franny Billingsley
Franny Billingsley is the author of children’s and young adult fantasy novels The Folk Keeper (winner of the 2000 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature), Well Wished, and Chime.
Scholar Guest of Honor: Christopher Mitchell, Ph.D.
Christopher Mitchell is the Director of the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College, Illinois, a major research collection of materials by and about seven British authors: Owen Barfield, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald, Dorothy L. Sayers, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams.
How does mythopoeic literature address the relationship between the land and its inhabitants, between the wild and the cultivated? What are their respective moral values, their dangers and delights? Tangled forests, majestic trees, ordered fields, carefully tended gardens; or untamed, wild beauty: each offers a different kind of bounty to those who would live off the land. What role do advocates and protectors of the land play in fantasy literature, particularly as personified in characters such as Yavanna, Radagast, Sam Gamgee and, of course, Tom Bombadil.
Our theme also voices many a cautionary tale– Tolkien’s Dead Marshes, the scouring of the Shire, the desolations of Smaug, Saruman and Sauron, the unnatural winter in Narnia– inviting eco-critical approaches to mythopoeic literature. From the whimsical wild places of Baum, Seuss and Sendak; to the mysterious and often tutelary landscapes of Orwell, Garner and Burroughs– not to mention those of our favorite Inklings– we invite papers on any aspect of the green and growing land in mythopoeic writing.
Papers and panels dealing with the conference themes (or other themes sparked in your brain by this topic) are encouraged. As always, we especially welcome proposals for papers and panels focusing on the work and interests of the Inklings (especially J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Charles Williams), of our Guests of Honor, and of other fantasy authors and themes. Papers and panels from a variety of critical perspectives and disciplines are welcome.
Individual papers will be scheduled for one hour to allow time for questions, but should be timed for oral presentation in 40 minutes maximum. Two presenters who wish to present shorter, related papers may also share a one-hour slot, in which case please indicate this on your proposal. Panels will be scheduled for 1.5-hour time slots and normally will include 3-5 presenters who will speak briefly on the subject (usually 10 minutes or less), leaving substantial time for discussion with the audience.
Paper and panel proposals (250 word maximum), along with contact information, should be sent to the appropriate Papers or Panels Coordinator at the following email addresses by 30 April 2013. AV and technology requests must be included in your proposal.
Papers Coordinator
Dr. Leslie A. Donovan
Associate Professor, University of New Mexico
ldonovan@unm.edu
Panels Coordinator
Dr. Judith J. Kollman
Professor Emerita, University of Michigan- Flint
jkollman@umflint.edu
Participants are encouraged to submit papers chosen for presentation at the conference to Mythlore, the refereed journal of the Mythopoeic Society (http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore). All papers should conform to the MLA Style Manual. Graduate and undergraduate students are especially encouraged to submit proposals and to apply for the Alexei Kondratiev Award for Best Student Paper (see http://www.mythsoc.org/awards/student-paper). For deadlines and applications for this award, contact the Papers Coordinator. Scholars needing financial assistance to attend Mythcon may apply for the Mythopoeic Society’s Glen GoodKnight Memorial Scholarships (formerly called the Starving Scholars Fund). Scholars may request the application form for these awards from the Papers Coordinator.
The Mythopoeic Society is an international literary and educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and mythopoeic literature. We believe the study of these writers can lead to greater understanding and appreciation of the literary, philosophical, and spiritual traditions which underlie their works, and can engender an interest in the study of myth, legend, and the genre of fantasy. Find out about past conferences at http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon.
The call for papers for the 2013 Mythcon has recently been posted. Details as follows:
Mythcon 44 (July 2013)
Green and Growing: The Land and its Inhabitants in Fantasy Literature
Call for Papers: Mythopoeic Society Conference 44
Kellogg Conference Center, Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI – July 12-15, 2013
http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/44/
Download the Call for Papers (PDF)
Author Guest of Honor: Franny Billingsley
Franny Billingsley is the author of children’s and young adult fantasy novels The Folk Keeper (winner of the 2000 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature), Well Wished, and Chime.
Scholar Guest of Honor: Christopher Mitchell, Ph.D.
Christopher Mitchell is the Director of the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College, Illinois, a major research collection of materials by and about seven British authors: Owen Barfield, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald, Dorothy L. Sayers, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams.
How does mythopoeic literature address the relationship between the land and its inhabitants, between the wild and the cultivated? What are their respective moral values, their dangers and delights? Tangled forests, majestic trees, ordered fields, carefully tended gardens; or untamed, wild beauty: each offers a different kind of bounty to those who would live off the land. What role do advocates and protectors of the land play in fantasy literature, particularly as personified in characters such as Yavanna, Radagast, Sam Gamgee and, of course, Tom Bombadil.
Our theme also voices many a cautionary tale– Tolkien’s Dead Marshes, the scouring of the Shire, the desolations of Smaug, Saruman and Sauron, the unnatural winter in Narnia– inviting eco-critical approaches to mythopoeic literature. From the whimsical wild places of Baum, Seuss and Sendak; to the mysterious and often tutelary landscapes of Orwell, Garner and Burroughs– not to mention those of our favorite Inklings– we invite papers on any aspect of the green and growing land in mythopoeic writing.
Papers and panels dealing with the conference themes (or other themes sparked in your brain by this topic) are encouraged. As always, we especially welcome proposals for papers and panels focusing on the work and interests of the Inklings (especially J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Charles Williams), of our Guests of Honor, and of other fantasy authors and themes. Papers and panels from a variety of critical perspectives and disciplines are welcome.
Individual papers will be scheduled for one hour to allow time for questions, but should be timed for oral presentation in 40 minutes maximum. Two presenters who wish to present shorter, related papers may also share a one-hour slot, in which case please indicate this on your proposal. Panels will be scheduled for 1.5-hour time slots and normally will include 3-5 presenters who will speak briefly on the subject (usually 10 minutes or less), leaving substantial time for discussion with the audience.
Paper and panel proposals (250 word maximum), along with contact information, should be sent to the appropriate Papers or Panels Coordinator at the following email addresses by 30 April 2013. AV and technology requests must be included in your proposal.
Papers Coordinator
Dr. Leslie A. Donovan
Associate Professor, University of New Mexico
ldonovan@unm.edu
Panels Coordinator
Dr. Judith J. Kollman
Professor Emerita, University of Michigan- Flint
jkollman@umflint.edu
Participants are encouraged to submit papers chosen for presentation at the conference to Mythlore, the refereed journal of the Mythopoeic Society (http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore). All papers should conform to the MLA Style Manual. Graduate and undergraduate students are especially encouraged to submit proposals and to apply for the Alexei Kondratiev Award for Best Student Paper (see http://www.mythsoc.org/awards/student-paper). For deadlines and applications for this award, contact the Papers Coordinator. Scholars needing financial assistance to attend Mythcon may apply for the Mythopoeic Society’s Glen GoodKnight Memorial Scholarships (formerly called the Starving Scholars Fund). Scholars may request the application form for these awards from the Papers Coordinator.
The Mythopoeic Society is an international literary and educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and mythopoeic literature. We believe the study of these writers can lead to greater understanding and appreciation of the literary, philosophical, and spiritual traditions which underlie their works, and can engender an interest in the study of myth, legend, and the genre of fantasy. Find out about past conferences at http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon.
Film and History 2012 Conference
The 2012 Film and History Conference meets later this month from 26-30 September 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Downtown in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There are a number of papers and emtire sessions devoted to the fantastic. The complete program can be accessed at http://www.filmandhistory.org/conference/conference2012.php.
Monday, September 10, 2012
ALA Gothic Symposium CFP
Call for Papers (PDF)
American Literature Association Symposium
“Fear and Form:
Aspects of the Gothic in American Culture”
Keynote Speakers:
Teresa A. Goddu, Vanderbilt University
Eric Savoy, University of Montreal
February 21-23, 2013
ALA symposia provide opportunities for scholars to meet in pleasant settings, present papers, and share ideas and resources. The February 2013 symposium will meet in the self-proclaimed “most haunted city in America” and focus on the role of the Gothic in American literary culture. We welcome proposals for presentations on the place of the Gothic in the writings of both popular and canonical American authors (Brown, Poe, Hawthorne, Faulkner, O’Connor, Wright, Morrison, and others). We are particularly interested in studies relating Gothic modes to other forms, including the historical novel, poetry, the graphic novel, and detective fiction. In addition, we welcome studies exploring the roles of ghosts, vampires, demons, zombies, haunted houses, ancestral curses in American literary culture, including film. Proposals for panels and roundtable discussions are also encouraged.
Location: Hyatt Regency Savannah
Two W. Bay Street
Savannah, Georgia 31401
Hotel Rate: The Hyatt is offering a special rate of $150 (plus tax) per night for a single or double room.
Conference Fee: $150 (includes two meals and two receptions)
Conference Directors:
Alfred Bendixen, Texas A & M University
Rene H. Trevino, Texas A & M University
Please email all proposals to Rene Trevino
trevinreo@tamu.edu
Before October 1, 2012
Conference Details: The American Literature Association will meet in the Hyatt Regency in Savannah for a symposium on the Gothic in American Culture, February 21-23, 2013.
Please plan to stay in the conference hotel as this helps us meet our commitment to the hotel and keeps our rates low. The Hyatt is ideally located on the waterfront and right next to the largest historic district in the United States.
Sessions run Friday and Saturday, February 22-23. On Friday September 22rd, there will be a luncheon as well as an evening reception featuring a key note speaker. The second luncheon will be Saturday February 24, with a closing keynote and reception scheduled for the evening. Meal preferences will be sent to conference participants at a later date. The conference fee of $150 includes two lunches and two receptions.
Individuals may propose papers or panels by emailing the conference director, Rene Trevino, at trevinreo@tamu.edu no later than October 1, 2012. The proposal should include the title of the presentation or panel, an abstract that provides the conference director with a clear idea of the material that will be covered, a brief vita or description of the presenter’s qualifications, and complete emails for all participants. The proposal should be both pasted into an email and sent as an attachment (preferably in WORD). All emails will be acknowledged in a timely manner. The conference directors welcome proposals for roundtables and panels that deal with the development of important genres and literary movements.
Please note that no audiovisual equipment will be available for the symposium.
Those proposing papers and/or panels will be informed of acceptances in mid October Participants will be asked to make their hotel reservations immediately and to pre-register using the material posted at the end of this announcement. A program will be placed on the website prior to the conference and printed programs will be available at the symposium.
ALA Guidelines: The most common ALA format is a time slot of one hour and twenty minutes with three papers and a chair. This permits time for discussion and three papers of approximately 20 minutes (or nine typed double-spaced pages). Organizers of panels are free to use other formats provided they respect the time limits. Furthermore, the ALA encourages panel organizers to experiment with innovative formats including discussion groups and panels featuring more speakers and briefer papers. Chairs will make sure that the panels start and end on time and that no speaker goes beyond the allotted time limit. We prefer that chairs not present papers on the panels that they are moderating, and no one may present more than one paper at an ALA symposium.
The conference fee covers the costs of the conference including two meals and two receptions. We encourage all of those who are on the program to pre-register. The conference fee is $150 for all participants. We regret that we are unable to offer a lower rate for graduate students and independent scholars for this symposium.
ALA Membership: Membership in the ALA is not required in order to propose or present a paper. In fact, technically the members of the American Literature Association are the various author societies. Individuals may keep informed about the activities of the ALA by checking our website (www.americanliterature.org), which is the primary source for information about ALA activities
The easiest way to find out about the conference and all ALA activities is by consulting our website: www.americanliterature.org
Please note that the American Literature Association maintains the lowest conference fees of any major scholarly organization because it operates without a paid staff. If you have any questions that are not answered by this announcement, please contact the conference director or Alfred Bendixen, Executive Director of the ALA, at abendixen@tamu.edu.
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