Author Archives: Skye Cervone

Link: http://www.trap.no/en/project/science-fiction-short-story-competition Borders have always been a central political problem. Discussions of national and territorial boundaries, ethnic geo-rootedness, many kinds of -exits, mark our news feeds. Digital border crossings challenge and hack into political manipulations as well as offer new … Continue reading →

CfP: QUEER TOLKIEN STUDIES Paper Session(s) and or Roundtable Please note that this call is for individual proposals to be sent to the two area chairs who will organize them into complete sessions to be uploaded into the conference database. … Continue reading →

Investigating Identities in Young Adult (YA) Narratives: Symposium on the 13/12/2017 at The University of Northampton UK deadline for submissions: October 8, 2017 full name / name of organization: The University of Northampton UK contact email: anthony.stepniak2@northampton.ac.uk Investigating Identities in … Continue reading →

Disasters, Apocalypses, and Catastrophes: PCA/ACA 2018 3/28-3/31 Indianapolis deadline for submissions: October 1, 2017 full name / name of organization: Pop Culture/American Culture Association contact email: disasterculture@yahoo.com PCA/ACA 2018 Indianapolis, IN Disasters, Apocalypses, and Catastrophes (Ficociello and Bell) The PCA/ACA … Continue reading →

The New Urban Gothic Edited Collection Call for Chapters deadline for submissions: August 30, 2017 full name / name of organization: Holly-Gale Millette, Southampton University, Ruth Heholt, Falmouth University contact email: h.millette@soton.ac.uk Urban Gothic is a subgenre of Gothic fiction, … Continue reading →

Folklore and Popular Culture deadline for submissions: October 1, 2017 full name / name of organization: Popular Culture Association contact email: kathryn.edney@regiscollege.edu POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION & AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION 2018 JOINT NATIONAL CONFERENCE Indianapolis, IN March 28-March 31, 2018 For … Continue reading →

Beyond Afrofuturism Extrapolation guest editors Lisa Yaszek and Isiah Lavender III seek original essays by scholars and artists who are interested in the question of what might co-exist with—or lie beyond—Afrofuturism. Ever since Mark Dery introduced the term in 1993, … Continue reading →

CFP: “When the Astronaut is a Woman: Beyond the Frontier in Film and Television” special issue of Science Fiction Film and Television Guest Editors: Lorrie Palmer and Lisa Purse https://gerrycanavan.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/sfftv-special-is…-for-submissions/ With the release of Hidden Figures (Melfi, 2016), public perception … Continue reading →