CfP: “It’s Happening Again”: Twenty-Five Years of Twin Peaks: EXTENDED DEADLINE!
“It’s Happening Again”: Twenty-Five Years of Twin Peaks: EXTENDED DEADLINE! (new submission date: September 30 2015) Call for Papers for “It’s Happening Again”: 25 Years of Twin Peaks, a proposed edited collection on the television show Twin Peaks. Eric Hoffman[...]
read moreCfP: Panel: The Impact of War on Science Fiction or Fantasy Literature
Panel: The Impact of War on Science Fiction or Fantasy Literature Northeast Modern Language Association March 17-20, 2016 Hartford, CT Paper Proposal/ Abstract deadline: September 25th, 2015 Various wars have had a profound impact on many utopian, dystopian and apocalyptic[...]
read moreCfP: Texts and Contexts: The Cultural Legacies of Ada Lovelace
Call for Papers Texts and Contexts: The Cultural Legacies of Ada Lovelace “That brain of mine is more than merely mortal; as time will show.” A workshop for graduate students and early career researchers Tuesday 8 December 2015 Mathematics Institute[...]
read moreCall for Papers: Philip K. Dick Conference 2016
Call for Papers for the Acacia Group’s Philip K. Dick Conference to be held at Cal State Fullerton, April 29-30, 2016. Confirmed Special Guests: Dr. Ursula Heise, Jonathan Lethem, Tim Powers and James Blaylock. Deadline for proposals: Interested individuals should[...]
read morePosition Announcement: Research Associate, Portsmouth City Council’s Arthur Conan Doyle Collection
The Centre for Studies in Literature at the University of Portsmouth seeks to appoint a Research Associate to work on Portsmouth City Council’s Arthur Conan Doyle Collection, as part of a project on ‘Celebrities, Fans and Muses’. The post is[...]
read moreCfP: Gender and Fantasy
Gender and Fantasy In her seminal Fantasy: A Literature of Subversion, critic Rosemary Jackson calls fantasy “a literature of desire”, one that “traces the unsaid and unseen of culture, that which has been silenced, made invisible, covered over and made ‘absent'”. This issue[...]
read moreCfP: PULP STUDIES AREA Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA)
National Conference March 22–25, 2016 Seattle, WA Deadline for Abstracts is November 1, 2015 Pulp magazines were a series of mostly English-language, predominantlyAmerican, magazines printed on rough pulpwood paper. They were often illustrated with highly stylized, full-page cover art and numerous line[...]
read moreBrian Aldiss: pioneer of British sci-fi
Brian Aldiss: pioneer of British sci-fi By Jake Kerridge 7 AUGUST 2015 • 1:56PM Brian Aldiss, one of the pioneers of British science fiction, has written or edited more than 100 books. He has met Dylan Thomas, John Masefield and[...]
read moreCfP: Haunted Europe: Continental Connections in English-Language Gothic
Writing, Film and New Media 9 – 10 June 2016. Leiden University, The Netherlands Keynote speakers: Professor Robert Miles (University of Victoria) Professor Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck – University of London) Professor Tanya Krzywinska (Falmouth University) Lesley Megahey (director of the[...]
read moreVictorian Popular Fiction in the 21st Century
Victorian Popular Fiction in the 21st Century (Roundtable at NeMLA, Hartford, CT, USA March 17-20, 2016) An ever increasing interest in Victorian popular fiction prompts us to ask why have we in Victorian Studies become so invested in the popular[...]
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