CFP Adapting Bridgerton Collection (4/30/2022)

Of potential interest: 

Adapting Bridgerton

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/02/24/adapting-bridgerton

deadline for submissions:
April 30, 2022

full name / name of organization:
Valerie Frankel

contact email:
valerie@calithwain.com



Adapting Bridgerton

If Jane Austen and the history books present one version of the regency, Bridgerton shows a far different one. While the series had many surprises for viewers, it’s less clear what’s responsible. Does this come from being a 2020 show? From Netflix style? From the romance novels source material? Let’s consider and also weigh what worked and what didn’t. I’m seeking essays on:

Length will depend on how many submissions arrive. They will be in MLA format, secondary sources welcome, scholarly be approachable and fun for fans. Abstracts Due April 30, with a rolling acceptance, essays due June 30.

Please send to valerie@calithwain.com with a subject of Bridgerton.

Suggested topics include but are not limited to the following:

• The music, lighting, and other staging effects.
• Context: comparisons with Downton Abbey, Outlander, The White Queen, Austen adaptations, etc.
• Netflix franchises
• The show’s origin in a romance novel
• Costume and manners anachronisms
• The sex scenes
• Race
• Consent in the MeToo era
• Fan response/fans changing the content
• Memes, reviews, fanfic and other online responses to the show

Last updated March 16, 2022

Survey for MLA Approaches Volume on the Epic of Gilgamesh

Contribute to an MLA Approaches Volume on the Epic of Gilgamesh

Posted 11 March 2019

https://news.mla.hcommons.org/2019/03/11/contribute-to-an-mla-approaches-volume-on-the-epic-of-gilgamesh/


The volume Approaches to Teaching the Epic of Gilgamesh, edited by David Damrosch and Sophus Helle, is now in development in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature. Instructors who have taught this work are encouraged to contribute to the volume by completing a survey about their experiences. Information about proposing an essay is available at the end of the survey.



At the end of the survey are details to propose articles for the volume:

15. If you would like to propose an original essay for this volume, please submit an abstract of approximately 500 words in which you describe your approach or topic and explain its usefulness for both students and instructors. The focus of your essay should be pedagogical, and the abstract should be as specific as possible. Please attach a short CV.

If you plan to quote from student writing in your essay, you must obtain written permission from the student. Proposed essays should not be previously published.

Abstracts and CVs should be sent to the volume editors by 1 May 2019. Please send electronic submissions, comments, or queries to David Damrosch (ddamrosc@fas.harvard.edu) and Sophus Helle (sophushelle@cc.au.dk). Send any supplemental materials (e.g., course descriptions, course plans, syllabi, assignments, bibliographies, or other relevant documents) as separate attachments. Surface mail submissions can be sent to David Damrosch, Dana-Palmer House 201, Harvard Univ., 16 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138.

CFC Fantasy/Animation Research Network

Fantasy/Animation Research Network, Call for Contributors
https://www.fantastic-arts.org/2018/fantasy-animation-research-network-call-for-contributors
September 10, 2018

Following the recent publication of Fantasy/Animation: Connections Between Media, Mediums and Genres (Routledge, 2018), we are pleased to announce the arrival of the Fantasy/Animation Research Network that pursues further the relationship between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. We are hoping that the network will open out a critical conversation on the study of the rich legacy and complexity of animated fantasy media, in whatever form this might take, and provide a space for discussion and debate among like-minded academics, practitioners, special interest groups and fans of fantasy and/or animation. This will, we hope, lead to the building of a much-needed scholarly community that will continue, develop and complicate some of the ideas put forward in the anthology. The website has recently gone live, so visit https://www.fantasy-animation.org/ to read all our news/events and collection of blog posts, as well as listening to our associated Fantasy/Animation podcast.

We are also delighted to open out a call for contributors to write short pieces or posts for the website. These blog posts can take several forms, but we anticipate starting off with 500-1000 word written blog posts that might come together as either:

– a short editorial (movie analysis/critical reflection on an idea or concept)
– event/conference reports
– film reviews
– book reviews

Potential methodological/critical approaches within individual contributions are varied, and our concern is not necessarily how animation operates as fantasy or how fantasy operates through animation, but rather how both ideas can be productively considered in dialogue with one another. This methodology allows fantasy and animation to function as a dialectic that critically examines a relationship that has, to date, been assumed, pre-supposed or obfuscated within both popular and critical discourse.

If potential contributors have ideas for blogs, or want to suggest other possible formats for content (interviews/Q&As, pieces to camera, video essays), then please do send them over and let us know the type of post under which it fits, as well as 3-4 keywords that relate to your post. We would welcome any ideas submitted either to us directly (christopher.Holliday@kcl.ac.uk and asergeant@bournemouth.ac.uk) or through the ‘Contact Us’ Tab on the network’s website.

Best wishes, and many thanks,

Christopher Holliday and Alexander Sergeant