CFP Routledge Handbook of Doctor Who (1/24/2025)

 

Routledge Handbook of Doctor Who

deadline for submissions: 

January 24, 2025

full name / name of organization: 

University of Southern Queensland

contact email: 

marcus.harmes@usq.edu.au

source:https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/03/routledge-handbook-of-doctor-who. 

Contributions of 4000 words are invited for the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Doctor Who. Under contract with Routledge and edited by Catriona Mills, Russell Sandberg and Marcus Harmes, this large-scale Handbook will be a generational work encompassing all aspects of the global phenomenon Doctor Who. The purpose of the work is to further academic research and the interdisciplinary approach that fuses the exploration of the official and the fan made.

 

The below table of contents indicates which chapters still require contributors. Please also review the notes below on what the overall focus of each section will be and tailor your abstract to this focus.

 

Please submit a 150 word abstract by January 24th 2025outlining what your proposed chapter would focus on. The editors will be interested in chapters which address the nominated area in novel ways.

 

The full chapter will be due by December 16th 2025.

 

Send to marcus.harmes@usq.edu.au, c.mills@uq.edu.au and SandbergR@cardiff.ac.uk

 

Part I: The Television Show

                   

1. Beginnings and Transformations (Lambert and her black and white successors)- Unavailable
2. Navigating the 1970s (Letts) - Unavailable
3. Triumphs and Tragedies (Hinchcliffe, Williams) - Unavailable
4. Navigating the 1980s (JNT) - Unavailable
5. False Hopes and Restarts - Unavailable
6. Triumph of the Timelord (RTD) - Unavailable
7. Too clever for its own good? (Moffat ) - Available
8. Contested Progress (Chibnall) - Available
9. RTD Redux - Available

 

Part II: Expanding Doctor Who Fictional Universes

 

10. The Peter Cushing Films - Available
11. K9and Company, the Sarah Jane Adventures and the Australian K9 - Unavailable
12. Torchwood and Class - Available
13. The War Between the Land and the Sea - Unavailable
14. Fragments and Experiments: Short Episodes, Webcasts, Animations and AI - Available
15. BBC and Big Finish Audio Productions - Available
16. Interactive Experiences: Stage plays, Exhibitions, Conventions and Cosplay - Unavailable
17. Gaming: Escape Rooms and Computer Games - Available
18. Annuals and Comics- Unavailable
19. The Target Range - Unavailable
20. Novels for Children - Available
21. Novels for Adults - Unavailable
22. Fan Fiction and Fan Films - Unavailable
23. Parodies – Unavailable
24. Merchandise - Unavailable

 

Part III: The Literatures on and about Doctor Who

 

25. Behind the Scenes Extras (including Doctor Who: Confidential, Totally Doctor Who and Doctor Who: Unleashed and DVD / Blu Ray extras content) - Unavailable
26. Doctor Who Magazine and fanzines – Available
27. Podcasts – Available
28. Reference Works and Guides - Available

 

Part IV: Production Practices

 

29. Special Effects from Practical to Digital - Available
30. Costumes - Unavailable
31. Art and Set Design - Unavailable
32. Sound Design and Music- Available
33. Archival Survival and Global Audiences - Available

 

Part V: Themes

 

34. Social Class – Available
35. Gender / Feminism - Available
36. Race - Available
37. Queerness - Available
38. Disability – Available
39. Ageing– Available
40. Non-human, post-human, and monsters – Available
41. Environmentalism and Ecology – Unavailable
42. Law and Order - Unavailable
43. History and the Past - Unavailable
44. Philosophy and Economics – Available
45. Colonialism and Empire - Unavailable
46. Education and Pedagogy - Unavailable
47. War and Conflict – Available
48. Religion and Spirituality – Unavailable
49. Science and Technology – Unavailable
50. Language and Communication - Unavailable

 

Part I: The Television Show

Section focus: Each chapter should engage with an overarching and unifying set of issues which are:

• Overview of the era: the casting of the lead actor/s, the production team priorities

• Critical and academic interpretations of the era showing the complete era as a major media text in its own right
• The intersections between the era and its cultural and social historical context
• The most critical points of significance about each era
• And will highlight one serial/story/episode which exemplified the era

 

Part II: Expanding Doctor Who Fictional Universes

Section focus: The next section on the wider universe acknowledges and interprets the multiplying media texts which build on and exist beyond the strict BBC television canon of the series explored in the first chapters. Each chapter will be tightly focused and the section overall will traverse a range of genres and outputs. Chapters in this section will also:

• Focus upon the production history
• The relevant academic literature
• The social and cultural context of the works
• And will highlight one particular serial/story/episode/sequence to serve as an exemplar.

 

Part III: The Literatures on and about Doctor Who

Section focus: The third part examines the way the entire franchise both its canonical BBC incarnation and its expanded universe have become the subject of both academic discourse but other types of meta-textual commentary and extrapolation.  Chapters in this section will be intersecting with broader issues of the growth of fan communities and activities and the creative intentions of the creators of different types of literatures.

• The section will demonstrate ways Doctor Who has not only followed but has led trends in merchandising television and popular culture and how emergent technologies from VHS to DVD and Blu-ray have enabled the expansion of what constitutes television merchandise, from just episodes to even merchandising production paperwork. Chapters in this section will also:
• Focus on the historical development of the work
• The relevant academic literature, the social and cultural context of the work
• And will suggest an exemplar work.

 

Part IV: Production Practices

Section focus: The fourth section is more practically oriented on the making of the classic and revised series and each tightly focused chapter will showcase the way resources, creativity and imagination have shaped what has appeared or been heard on screen and how these have inspired in turn fans’ imaginations.

• As Doctor Who is also only partly archivally intact, the section will also consider the significance of the programme in wider understanding of television heritage, the global dissemination of BBC drama, and the preservation and use of archives.

 

Part V: Themes

Finally this section opens up a wide thematic canvas with the chapters exploring the issues raised by the chosen theme. Both classic and new Who must feature and contributors are also welcome to include wider works as per section II.

 

categories

fan studies and fandom

film and television

journals and collections of essays

popular culture

science and culture

Last updated December 5, 2024

CFC What Writing is Like: The Many Worlds of Russell T Davies (7/30/2022)

Call for Contributions to a Book: What Writing is Like: The Many Worlds of Russell T Davies

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/04/07/call-for-contributions-to-a-book-what-writing-is-like-the-many-worlds-of-russell-t

deadline for submissions:
July 30, 2022

full name / name of organization:
Anindya Raychaudhuri, University of St Andrews

contact email:
ar220@st-andrews.ac.uk



Russell T Davies has been one of the foremost voices in British television for the last three decades. The range of Davies’s work is formidable - from his early work on children’s television such as Dark Season (1991) and Century Falls (1993), to his ground-breaking work creating programmes such as Queer as Folk (1999-2000), Bob and Rose (2001), The Second Coming (2003) and Mine All Mine (2004), to his phenomenally successful rejuvenation of Doctor Who (2005), through to his more recent work such as Cucumber (2015), Years and Years (2019) and It’s a Sin (2021). In the process, he has indelibly transformed the British televisual landscape.



The proposed volume will be the first major, book-length scholarly appraisal of his works. We are looking for 6000–7000-word chapters on any aspect of Russell T. Davies and his work. Innovative, interdisciplinary, and comparative approaches are encouraged. Possible topics may include:

• Sex and sexuality
• Religion
• Wales and welsh identity
• Politics
• Science fiction and fantasy
• Children’s television
• AIDS pandemic
• Dystopian futures
• The Television Industry
• Televisual Forms

University of Wales Press has expressed interest in this volume, and we will be submitting a formal proposal by the end of the year.



Please submit a short abstract (250 words) and a biographical outline to ar220@st-andrews.ac.uk by 30 July 2022. Full papers will be due around December 2022.




Last updated April 8, 2022

CFP Doctor Who and History (9/1/15)

Another call from the SFRA-L:

Call for Chapter Proposals: Doctor Who and History

Deadline: 1 September 2015 (contributors will be notified within two weeks of the deadline)

When Sydney Newman created a new family-orientated show for the BBC back in early 1963, he envisioned it as being, in John Reith’s terms, to “educate, inform and entertain”, one in which all stories “were to be based on scientific and historical facts as we knew them at that time”. It was no coincidence therefore that consequently the Doctor took on board the TARDIS a science teacher and a history teacher to learn from and share in his travels. “How wonderful,” Newman would later recall, “if today’s humans could find themselves on the shores of England seeing and getting mixed up with Caesar’s army in 54 BC, landing to take over the country; be in Rome burning as Nero fiddles; get involved in Europe’s tragic 30 years war, etc.” There would be no bug-eyed monsters, Newman warned, and the Doctor was not allowed to interfere in history, only to observe.

Over fifty years later, Doctor Who has itself become part of the cultural history of Britain, and its many stories across television, audio plays and books – whether set in the past or populated with the inevitable bug-eyed-monsters – have engaged directly and indirectly with important contemporary and historical issues, characters and events.

We invite contributions for an edited volume that focuses on Doctor Who and History: A Cultural Perspective. While there have been many publications recently celebrating the show’s longevity, or those reflecting on the programme as a product of the BBC as British institution, this volume focuses specifically on the topic of history. This publication promotes a scholarly and interdisciplinary approach to Doctor Who, exploring how the programme reflects on and contributes to notions of history.

Doctor Who engages with history in multifarious ways and can therefore reveal much about how history is practised, produced, consumed and remediated. Chapter proposals may therefore seek to explore Doctor Who from a diverse range of academic approaches (e.g. media studies; reception theory; fan studies; education) and should draw on and identify appropriate historiographical methods and debates. It is envisaged that the collection will speak both to the programme and to history as a subject area.

Your contribution may focus on the classic series, the reboot (or both), the Big Finish audios, original novels, or fan fiction.

That said, your contribution might focus on some aspect of

• Reflections in the programme of particular social and political eras and events
• How the show engages with historical cultural icons
• How the show expresses a continuing dialogue with literature, folklore, and mythology
• Tensions between academic and ‘public history’, between history from above and below
• How changing approaches to history and alterations in understanding of historical fact have impacted upon the show
• Non-canonical historical travels or themes
• The interaction of media and technologies in how they inform the practice of history in the programme
• Developments in the Doctor’s strict policy of non-intervention – or not
• Case studies of the ‘pure historicals’/pseudo historicals/celebrity historicals

Topics already under consideration include the depiction of Nero and the early Roman Empire in 1965’s The Romans, imagery of the Holocaust, focalisation techniques in lost story Marco Polo, and an investigation into the cultural practices and social sign-posting in The Awakening.

Proposals/abstracts should be 300-350 words in length and sent as a Word file. Accepted proposals will be developed into 5000-8000 word essays (including notes and references). Please send your abstract (and all correspondence) to Carey Fleiner, University of Winchester (carey.fleiner@winchester.ac.uk) James A. Jordan, University of Southampton (J.A.Jordan@soton.ac.uk) and Dene October, University of Arts London (d.october@lcc.arts.ac.uk).

See https://doctorwhoandhistory.wordpress.com/. for details.


--
Dr Lincoln Geraghty FHEA, FRSA
Reader in Popular Media Cultures

School of Media and Performing Arts
University of Portsmouth

Millennial Mythmaking: Essays on the Power of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Films and Games

Been catching up on my McFarland collections. Perlich and Whitt offer a varied yet deeply informative set of essays.

Millennial Mythmaking: Essays on the Power of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Films and Games
http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-4562-2
Edited by John Perlich and David Whitt

Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-4562-2
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-7864-5592-8
notes, bibliographies, index
212pp. softcover (6 x 9) 2010

Price: $39.95
Available for immediate shipment

About the Book
Contemporary myths, particularly science fiction and fantasy texts, can provide commentary on who we are as a culture, what we have created, and where we are going. These nine essays from a variety of disciplines expand upon the writings of Joseph Campbell and the hero’s journey. Modern examples of myths from various sources such as Planet of the Apes, Wicked, Pan’s Labyrinth, and Spirited Away; the Harry Potter series; and Second Life are analyzed as creative mythology and a representation of contemporary culture and emerging technology.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Preface: "There and Back Again…"      1

Contrasting Colors
1. Sorting Heroic Choices: Green and Red in the Harry Potter Septology
(KIRSTIN CRONN-MILLS and JESSICA SAMENS)      5
2. The Complexity of Evil in Modern Mythology: The Evolution of the Wicked Witch of the West
(JASON EDWARDS and BRIAN KLOSA)      32
3. Polysemous Myth: Incongruity in Planet of the Apes
(RICHARD BESEL and RENEE SMITH BESEL)      51

New Champions
4. The Hero with the Thousand-and-First Face: Miyazaki’s Girl Quester in Spirited Away and Campbell’s Monomyth
(DEE GEORTZ)      67
5. The Odyssey of Madame Souza: A Heroine’s Quest in The Triplets of Belleville
(DAVID WHITT)      83
6. Rethinking the Monomyth: Pan’s Labyrinth and the Face of a New Hero(ine)
(JOHN PERLICH)      100

No Boundaries
7. Actors and Their Mythic Heroes: From the Doctor to Captain Kirk
(DJOYMI BAKER)      129
8. Running Free in Angelina Jolie’s Virtual Body: The Myth of the New Frontier and Gender Liberaton in Second Life
(ELLEN GORSEVSKI)      146
9. So Where Do I Go from Here? Ghost in the Shell and Imagining Cyborg Mythology for the New Millennium
(JAY SCOTT CHIPMAN)      167

Epilogue: "Always in Motion Is the Future…"      193
About the Contributors      197
Index      199


About the Editors
John Perlich is a professor of communication studies at Hastings College in Hastings, Nebraska.
David Whitt is an associate professor of communication at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska.

CFP Doctor Who (Spec. Issue of Deletion) (5/30/14)

Another older call of interest:

CFP: Deletion, special themed episode on Dr Who
Source: http://fanstudies.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/cfp-deletion-special-themed-episode-on-dr-who/
Deletion Special Episode CFP Doctor Who: “…definitely a madman with a box!”

Deletion, the open access online forum in science fiction studies, is calling fororiginal contributions for a special themed ‘episode’ on Doctor Who. Following the 50th anniversary celebrations the return of the Time Lord later this year. What new directions are possible for a series with such history, production demands and passionate fandom?

Deletion invites contributions from science, philosophy and all other approaches that consider the visual alongside the aural and the aesthetic, to critically engage with the series’ future, past and present and to forge new perspectives for the study of this iconic SF imaginarium. We aim to reflect a diversity of approaches and seek contributions that offer new critical dimensions and concepts to engage with the series, its themes and concepts, its cultural importance and its impact, directions and meaning. Deletion encourages the submission of non-standard submissions such as creative pieces.

Contributions should be between 1200 -1500 words, but can also take the form of 2-3 minute podcasts, video blogs, image galleries, and other media.

Submission are Due May 30, 2014.

Topics may include but are not limited to:

• Death and Life and Regeneration
• Reimagining Time and Space: multi-dimensional perspectives and places
• Conservation and environmentalism restarting the universe
• Mental health and time travel
• Companion; bodies, genders, races and people
• Technology; and non-technology technology
• Whovians and fan cultures, commodities, cosplay, crafts, economies, and relations
• Genre policing: science fiction, fantasy or space opera?
• Time Lords: politics, power, society, order and chaos,
• New Who and Old Who: transmedia, paratextual industries and innovation

Please contact the editors for the episode Christopher Moore (chrism@uow.edu.au) or Daniel Lewis (djle@deakin.edu.au) for further information.

CFP Symposium on The Politics and Law of Doctor Who (1/17/14)

Thanks to IAFA for the head's up:

Symposium Announcement and First Call for Papers: The Politics and Law of Doctor Who

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Public Information Officer

Friday 5th September 2014

University of Westminster

Doctor Who is the BBC’s longest-running drama television series and the world’s longest-running science fiction series. The massive public attention devoted to the show’s 50th anniversary and to its choice of new lead actor confirms that the programme merits serious academic attention. Politics, law and constitutional questions often feature prominently in Doctor Who stories, whether in the form of the Time Lords’ guardianship of the universe, the Doctor’s encounters with British Prime Ministers, or the array of governance arrangements in Dalek society. The show’s politics is also an adventure through time, from the internationalising moralism of the Barry Letts-Terrance Dicks years, the dark satire of Andrew Cartmel’s period as script editor and the egalitarianism of the Russell T. Davies era. Yet the politics and law of Doctor Who have yet to be the subject of wide-ranging scholarship. Proposals for 20 minute papers are therefore invited for a symposium on 5th September 2014, to be held in the University of Westminster’s historic Regent Street building just metres away from BBC headquarters. Possible subjects for papers might include, but are by no means limited to:

• Doctor Who’s ideology
• The Doctor’s political morality
• Comparison of politics of Doctor Who with politics of other
science fiction
• The merits/demerits of Harriet Jones as Prime Minister
• Doctor Who and devolution
• Portrayals of British sovereigns in Doctor Who
• Doctor Who’s politics of class, gender and sexuality
• Fan responses to “political” Doctor Who stories
• International law, intergalactic law and non-interference
• Globalisation and corporate domination
• Satire in Doctor Who
• Politics and law in audio adventures, comic books and novels
• War crimes and genocide
• The politics of UNIT and Torchwood
• The will of villains to secure power
• Political history and political nostalgia in Doctor Who
• Doctor Who’s construction of British national identity

Abstracts should be 250 words in length, and should be accompanied by a 100-word biography of the author. Abstracts should be sent to nicold@wmin.ac.uk – deadline for receipt of abstracts 17 January 2014.

Doctor Who / Torchwood for SWPACA (11/15/13)

Sorry for the short notice. Deadline for papers closes tonight.


CFP: Doctor Who and/or Torchwood-REVISED

Location:	New Mexico, United States
Conference Date:	2014-02-19
Date Submitted:	2013-11-03
Announcement ID:	208205

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Area of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association invites paper or panel proposals on Doctor Who and/or Torchwood at the 35th annual meeting of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association in Albuquerque, New Mexico. February 19-22, 2014 Any and all topics will be considered, although we especially encourage proposals on: o genre (comedy, horror, mystery, science fiction, fantasy, etc.) o reception/transmission of either series internationally (past or present) o Doctor Who as brand o regeneration(s) of the series o gender o Use/misuse of technology o Perspectives on the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who o Queer readings and/or presentations of LGBQT characters o auteur-ship o fandom and fanwork o Intersections of Doctor Who and/or Torchwood with this year’s theme “Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow” Proposals Due: November 15, 2013 Submit 250-word paper or full panel (title & 250-wd abstract for each panelist) proposals at: http://conference2014.southwestpca.org Database opens July 1 Submit in category Science Fiction & Fantasy—Doctor Who Questions: Erin Giannini (egiannini37@gmail.com) For more details on the conference, please visit the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association: http://southwestpca.org or follow us on Facebook & Twitter at www.facebook.com/southwestpca or @southwestpca More about the SF&F Area: With an average of 70+ presenters annually, The Science Fiction and Fantasy Area of the Southwest and Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association is one of the most dynamic and well attended areas at the conference. Numerous book and article publications have originated from our panels. The Area was founded in 1995 by Prof. Richard Tuerk of the Texas A&M University-Commerce (formerly East Texas State University) and author of Oz in Perspective (McFarland, 2007). The Area is currently chaired by Ximena Gallardo C. of the City University of New York-LaGuardia and co-author of Alien Woman: The Making of Lt. Ellen Ripley (Continuum: 2004); Rikk Mulligan of Longwood University, author of “Zombie Apocalypse: Plague and the End of the World in Popular Culture” (End of Days, McFarland 2009); Tamy Burnett of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, co-editor of The Literary Angel (McFarland, 2010); Brian Cowlishaw of Northeastern State University, author of "No Future Shock Here: The Jetsons, Happy Tech, and the Patriarchy" (The Galaxy is Rated G, McFarland: 2011); Erin Giannini, independent scholar, who has presented and published work on series such as Dollhouse, Supernatural, and Mystery Science Theater 3000; and Susan Fanetti, Associate Professor at California State University Sacramento.

Erin Giannini, PhD Albuquerque, NM 87102 egiannini37@gmail.com Email: egiannini37@gmail.com Visit the website at http://conference2014.southwestpca.org/

Doctor Who Companions CFP

The following was posted on H-PCAACA recently. Unfortunately, the text is a bit corrupted. I will post a revised version when/if it becomes available.

*Call for Papers*

*Companions in Doctor Who: Roles, Characters and Themes*

On introducing the new companion Clara in March 2013, Steven Moffat,

*Doctor on the Doctor, her [sic] adventure that she [sic] goes on with the Doctor

Agree or disagree with this view, it is clear that the companion has become an integral part of the series *Doctor Who*. Rarely has the Doctor travelled without a companion since the show began in 1963.

as individuals and as a whole.

The editors welcome chapter proposals which deal with the companions as individuals, thematic groupings of companions by era/Doctor, gender and sexuality, feminism and its many permutations, or

With over forty characters travelling with the Doctor over the life of the series, there are many options available.

Proposals are due the 31 October 2013. The final article/chapter should be around 20-25 pages (Double spaced, Times New Roman 12)

Important dates:

Proposals due 31 October 2013; papers 30 September 2014; final edit 15 March 2015.

Editors: Dr Sherry Ginn & Dr Gillian Leitch

Please email your proposals to gilliandoctor@gmail.com

Thank you.

New Doctor Who--Who Cares?

Apparently the BBC announced yesterday that actor Peter Capaldi will be taking over as the next Doctor Who. Details (and some comments by fans at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23570354). Capaldi is 55 now, so this a big change from the younger Doctors we've had in recent years and (perhaps) suggests a change in the series's demographics (or the network's propagandist strategies).


However, as my post's title suggests, I'm not sure I really care about the Doctor anymore. Its been a good--sometimes great--run since 2005, but the departure of "the Ponds" (Amy Pond and Rory Williams) earlier in Season 7 seemed like a large slap in the face to fans (details at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2210593/Doctor-Who-fans-say-goodbye-Amy-Pond-killed-hands-weeping-angels.html and http://www.themarysue.com/steven-moffat-ponds/ and http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2012/aug/31/doctor-who-farewell-amy-ponds and (sorry) http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/most-heartbreaking-moments-of-the-ponds-exit-40223.htm [there's lots more to view at https://www.google.com/search?q=doctor+who+ponds+no+more]; more on Amy at http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2012/aug/31/doctor-who-farewell-amy-ponds) and I haven't had the desire to watch further.


Michael Torregrossa
Blog Editor

Sociology and Neil Gaiman Collect CFP (6/1/13)

Still catching up. Here is the first of 3 calls for papers with upcoming deadlines.

Magic and Dreams and Good Madness: Sociology and Neil Gaiman
Location: Ireland
Call for Papers Date: 2013-06-01 (in 8 days)
Date Submitted: 2013-03-12
Announcement ID: 202210

Neil Gaiman is considered one of the most popular authors of science fiction and fantasy alive today. He has written novels, short stories, film and television scripts, comic books and graphic novel series; and maintains an extremely prolific online presence through his blog, tumblr and twitter accounts. Some of his most popular works include The Sandman comics, the novels Coraline, American Gods, and Stardust, and two episodes of the popular British science fiction series Doctor Who. Gaiman has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and The Bram Stoker Award. In 2009 he was awarded The Newberry Medal for children’s novel The Graveyard Book and the following year was also awarded The Carnegie Medal, becoming the first author ever to win both awards for the same work.

This collection will contain 20 essays inspired by the work of any of Gaiman’s publications over his career. His books, graphic novels and the movies they have inspired, provide endless possibilities for sociological analysis. This collection will be unique, encouraging the publication of chapters by those beginning their academic careers. It will prioritise submissions from graduate students currently working on their MA and PhD programs.

Suggested topics include, but are in no way limited to:
 - Society and its portrayal
- Sexuality and the Erotic
- Prejudice
- Bodies and Embodiment
- The Law and the Criminal System
- Government and Politics
- Education Systems
- Gender, Race and Class
 - Relationships (sexual, friendship, the family, magic, etc…)
- Human and Non-Human Rights
- Conformity and Deviance
- Socialisation
- Mental Health

Please submit proposed abstracts of 500 words, along with a 250 word biography in Microsoft Word format to goodmadnesscfp@gmail.com by June 1 2013.

Gráinne O'Brien and Alexandra Dunne
Email: goodmadnesscfp@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://goodmadnesscfp.blogspot.com/

Time Travel in the Media CFP (6/16/13)

CFP: Time Travel in the Media edited collection
 Call 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

PCA Science Fiction and Fantasy Area CFP

Science Fiction and Fantasy Area of PCA 27-30 March 2013
full name / name of organization:
Popular Culture Association
contact email:
pcasff@gmail.com

One of the largest and most vibrant of the association, the Science Fiction and Fantasy (SF/F) Area invites proposals for its 2013 national conference. The goals of our area are (1) to share and support research, scholarship, and publication and (2) to mentor emerging scholars. As a result, we invite proposals from professors, independent scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates (with the guidance of a professor).

PCA/ACA SF/F welcomes any theoretical or (inter)disciplinary approach to any topic related to SF/F: art; literature; radio; film; television; comics and graphic novels; video, role-playing, and multi-player online games. Though not at all an exhaustive list, potential presenters may wish to consider the following topics. We would particularly like to encourage submissions for 2013 that celebrate a momentous event in the history of SFF. Next year marks the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. We welcome proposals that examine and celebrate this remarkable achievement. Next year also marks the 5th anniversary of the end of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a series that changed the face of television.

General Topics
• Fans and Fandom/Community Building
• Gender and Sexuality
• Class and Hierarchies
• Hybridity and Liminality
• Utopia/Dystopia
• Audience Reception
• Translation Issues
• Cross-Media Texts
• Regeneration—Moving Narratives from One Medium to Another
• Language and Rhetoric
• Genre—Space Opera, Cyberpunk, Dark Fantasy, etc.
• Franchising Narratives
• Intertexuality
• Marketing and Advertising
• Textual Analysis
• Sociological or Psychological Readings
• Archival Research
• Technology—Textual and Literal
• Pedagogy—Teaching Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Online Identity Construction
• Use of Music and Silence
• Visual, Spatial, and Design Elements
• Mythology and Quest Narratives
• Steampunk

Examples of Fantasy Texts
• Classic and Contemporary Literature—Gilgamesh; Homer’s Odyssey; J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings; C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia; Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels; J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series; Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials collection; Frank Baum’s Oz series; Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; and works by such authors as Piers Anthony, Marian Zimmer Bradley, Neil Gaiman, Douglas Adams, Orson Scott Card, Margaret Weis, Ursula K. LeGuin, Mercedes Lackey, Patricia McKillip, and others.
• Film—The Princess Bride (1987), Willow (1988), Labyrinth (1986), The Dark Crystal (1982), The NeverEnding Story (1984), The Clash of the Titans (1981; 2009), Ladyhawke (1985), Spirited Away (2001), Donnie Darko (2001), Chocolat (2000), Amelie (2001), Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), etc.
• Television—The Twilight Zone (1959-64), The Prisoner (1967-68), Dark Shadows (1966-71), Wonder Woman (1975-79), Beauty and the Beast (1987-90), Wonderfalls (2004), The Dresden Files (2007), Supernatural (2005-), Xena: Warrior Princess (1995-2001), Charmed (1998-2006), Angel (1999-2004), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003), Lost (2004-), Being Human (2009-), Grimm (2011-) and others.
• Comics and Graphic Novels—Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 9; Japanese manga; European comics; underground comics movement, etc.
• Gaming—Tomb Raider, World of Warcraft, Dungeons & Dragons, Everquest, Myst, Vampire: The Masquerade, etc.

Examples of Science Fiction Texts
• Classic and Contemporary Literature—from the works of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Mary Shelley to Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Phillip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, Octavia E. Butler, Anne McCaffrey, Marge Piercy, James Tiptree Jr., Frank Herbert, and Candas Jane Dorsey.
• Film—from Le Voyage Dans La Lune (1902), Frankenstein (1931), and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) to 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Star Wars (1977), Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982), 12 Monkeys (1995), The Matrix (1999), Children of Men (2006), Iron Man (2008), The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008), Transformers 2 (2009), Star Trek (2009).
• Television—classic TV such as Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-1969) and The Twilight Zone (1959-1964) to recent series of interest, including Lexx (1997-2002), Twin Peaks (1990-91), The X-Files (1993-2002), Dark Angel (2000-02), The 4400 (2004-07), the Stargate series including Universe, Babylon 5 (1993-98), Battlestar Galactica (2004- 2008), Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles (2007 - 2009), Torchwood (2006-), Primeval (2007-), Heroes (2007-), Firefly (2002-03), Sanctuary (2008-12), Eureka (2006-12), and others.

The SF/F Area is also interested in featuring science fiction and fantasy writers and poets. Creative writers are welcomed.

Submission Guidelines: In Word (.doc/.docx), Rich Text Format (.rtf), or PDF, completed papers or 250-word proposals for individual papers, panels, roundtables, workshops, or creative writing readings should be submitted through the PCA website. Instructions for submission can be found at www.pcaaca.org/conference/instructions.php and submissions made at http://ncp.pcaaca.org . The document should contain the following information in this order:

• Name(s) of presenter(s)—indicate main contact person if submitting a group presentation
• Institutional affiliation—if applicable
• Name and contact information of cooperating professor—undergraduates only
• Address(es), telephone number(s), and email address(es) of presenter(s)
• Title(s) of paper(s), panel, roundtable, or workshop
• Completed paper(s) or 250-word proposal(s)—if submitting a workshop, please specifically indicate what those in attendance will gain
The paper/panel proposal will be acknowledged when received, and the sender will be notified of the submission’s status no later than 1 January 2013.

Please be aware that the Area Chairs are not able to submit proposals on your behalf. If there is a problem while submitting papers please contact the Chair.

Please, do not simultaneously submit the same proposal to multiple areas. Doing so is a discourtesy to area chairs. Also please note that, per PCA/ACA guidelines, a person may present only one paper at the annual meeting, regardless of subject area. This includes roundtables, that is, a person cannot present a paper and a roundtable discussion.

Submission Deadline: 29 November 2012

Each year after the last conference panel on Saturday evening, the SF/F Area hosts a fundraising event that includes a film, snacks, and a prize raffle of DVDs, novels, academic books, etc.—thousands of dollars in merchandise. Come enjoy the food, friendship, and fun! Location TBA; film TBA. Fundraising supports area activities and, beginning with the 2011 conference, awards to the two best papers, graduate student and professional. More details about these awards can be found at the area’s website: www.pcasff.org

Please be aware that the PCA offers several travel bursaries and deadlines for them are the 7 January 2013. Check the PCA website www.pcaaca.org for more information.

Hope to see you in DC!

Your Area Co-Chairs:

Dr. Gillian I Leitch
23 Blvd Mont-Bleu, #1
Gatineau, QC
Canada J8Z 1H9

and

Dr. Sherry Ginn
Rowan-Cabarrus Community College
1531 Trinity Church Rd
Concord, NC 28110 USA

Direct all enquiries to our email address: pcasff@gmail.com

NOTE: While the PCA/ACA welcomes fresh approaches to subjects, we also appreciate serious commitment to scholarship and to presenting at the conference.

Doctor Who Fan Phenomena CFP

CFP: Doctor Who Fan Phenomena
Call for Papers Date: 2012-08-15 (in 8 days)
Date Submitted: 2012-05-21
Announcement ID: 194671

CFP: Doctor Who: Fan Phenomena (Intellect)

Now accepting abstracts for consideration for the new Doctor Who (Fan Phenomena) title from Intellect Press. This will be part of the second series of Fan Phenomena books, which aim to explore and decode the fascination we have with what constitutes an iconic or cultish phenomenon and how a particular person, TV show or film character/film infiltrates their way into the public consciousness.

The Doctor Who (Fan Phenomena) title will look at particular examples of Doctor Who fan culture and approach the subject in an accessible manner aimed at both fans and those interested in the cultural and social aspects of Doctor Who and fan culture. The editor is particularly interested in exploring the changing characteristics of Doctor Who fandom, from scholars and fans alike, over the fifty-year history of the programme.

As such, we invite papers that address the nature of fandom, the unique attributes of Doctor Who fandom specifically, or the relationship between Doctor Who as a multi-generational text and its fans. Other topics could include (but are not limited to):

• Fandom of specific Doctors
• Changing norms of fandom
• How one knows he/she is a fan
• Aca-Fandom
• The influence of other factors on Doctor Who fandom
• Fandom of Doctor Who ancillary products, like the Big Finish audio or Virgin book titles
• Specific fan practices (vidding, fanfic, cosplay, et al.)
• Multi-generational fandom
• Doctor Who conventions
• Gender/Sexuality in Doctor Who fandom
• New Who vs. Classic Who fandom
• Fandom of Doctor Who DVD
• Fan collecting
• Learning through Doctor Who

This book is aimed at both fans and those interested in the cultural and social aspects of Doctor Who. The book is intended to be entertaining, informative, and generally jargon-free (or at least jargon-lite).

Abstracts should be 300 words long. Please also send a CV or resume with your abstract. Abstracts due 15 Aug 2012. Final chapters of 3000-3500 words will be due 01 Nov 2012. The final book will include ten chapters. Please direct all questions and submissions to Paul Booth, pbooth@depaul.edu.

Paul Booth
Email: pbooth@depaul.edu

Doctor Who 2012

BBC America has uploaded to their website the following trailer for the new season of Doctor Who:

Doctor Who Returns

The Doctor returns (briefly) for this year's Christmas special:

BBC America This Saturday

Coming this Saturday (1 October). BBC America premieres the season finale of Doctor Who and the series opener of Bedlam. Trailers follow.

Doctor Who Returns 27 August

The hit series Doctor Who returns to BBC America on Saturday, 27 August, and reruns air throughout the month on the network. (My thanks to the Spinoff Online web site for the head's up.)

CFP Worlds Apart: Science Fiction Conference April 2012 (11/30/11)

http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/41954

Call for papers: Worlds Apart: Science Fiction Conference April 2012
full name / name of organization:
University of Hertfordshire
contact email:
p.a.wheeler@herts.ac.uk
English Literature and Creative Writing Group, University of Hertfordshire, UK
contact email:
p.a.wheeler@herts.ac.uk

Keynote Speakers: TBA

Call for Papers
Potential contributors are invited to submit an abstract for a conference to be held at the University of Hertfordshire on April 2nd & April 3rd 2012. This inter-disciplinary conference will explore science fiction in all its forms both in popular culture and in the academy. Papers, reports, work-in-progress, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited on issues related to (but not limited to) any of the following themes:
scientific romance
steampunk
cyberpunk
mundane science fiction
the pulps
comics and graphic novels
science fiction film
science fiction television
feminist science fiction
science fiction and gender
science fiction and sexuality
science fiction and race
apocalypse and science fiction
utopias and dystopias
ecocriticism and science fiction
children’s science fiction

Panels and papers on Joanna Russ particularly welcome
Panels and Papers on Doctor Who particularly welcome

300 word abstracts should be submitted by 30th November 2011. Abstracts should be submitted to the conference organizer, Dr Pat Wheeler: p.a.wheeler@herts.ac.uk. Emails should be entitled Worlds Apart Conference: Abstract and should contain the following information:

a) author(s) of paper/presentation; b) affiliation; c) title of abstract; d) body of abstract

Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things

Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things: Cultural Perspectives on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures 
Editor: Ross P. Garner, Melissa Beattie and Una McCormack

Date Of Publication: May 2010
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-1960-2
Isbn: 1-4438-1960-3

The successful regeneration of Doctor Who in the twenty-first century has sparked unprecedented popular success and renewed interest within the academy.

The ten essays assembled in this volume draw on a variety of critical approaches—from cultural theory to audience studies, to classical reception and musicology—to form a wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of Doctor Who, classic and new, and its spin-off series, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures.

With additional contributions from Andrew Pixley, Robert Shearman, Barnaby Edwards, and Matt Hills, the volume is intended to be accessible to everyone, from interested academics in relevant fields to the general public.



TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editors’ Acknowledgements....................................................................... ix

Foreword .................................................................................................... xi
Andrew Pixley

Introduction
Fifty Not Out: The Doctor’s Enduring Appeal........................................ xvii
Ross P. Garner, Melissa Beattie, and Una McCormack

Part I: The Ongoing Storm: The Doctor in British Society and Culture
The Regeneration Game: Doctor Who and the Changing Faces
of Heroism................................................................................................... 3
John Paul Green

The Doctor’s Burden: Racial Superiority and Panoptic Privilege
in New Doctor Who................................................................................... 25
Christine Gilroy

Army of Ghosts: Sight, Knowledge, and the Invisible Terrorist in
Doctor Who ............................................................................................... 45
Matthew Jones

Constructing a Space for the Subversive: Science Fiction, Comedy,
and Cultural Commentary in New Doctor Who ........................................ 62
Erica Moore

Part II: The Myth (Re-)Makers: Classical Tropes and Methodologies
Beware of Geeks Appropriating Greeks: Viewer Reception
of the Myth of Philoctetes in Torchwood .................................................. 79
Amanda Potter

Sideways Pompeii!: The Use of a Historical Period to Question
the Doctor’s Role in History...................................................................... 94
Antony G. Keen

A Kiss is Just a Kiss (Except When it’s Not): Life and Breath
in the Whoniverse.................................................................................... 118
Melissa Beattie

Part III: Travelling with Auntie: Institutional Debates and Framings
“Not sure if it’s Marxism in action or a West-End musical”:
Class, Citizenship, and Culture in New Doctor Who............................... 145
Lisa Kerrigan

“Don’t You Forget About Me”: Intertextuality and Generic Anchoring
in The Sarah Jane Adventures ................................................................. 161
Ross P. Garner

The Popular Electronic: Doctor Who and the BBC’s Radiophonic
Workshop ................................................................................................ 182
E. Charlotte Stevens

“Working with Daleks”: A Discussion with Robert Shearman
and Barnaby Edwards.............................................................................. 201

Afterword: Scholar-Fandom’s Different Incarnations............................. 210
Matt Hills

Contributors............................................................................................. 218


Ross P. Garner is a PhD candidate at Cardiff University researching the construction of discourses of nostalgia within twenty-first century British time-travel television dramas.

Melissa Beattie is a postgraduate research student at Cardiff University. Her areas of study cover a range of disciplines including ancient history and popular culture.

Una McCormack is a writer. Her novel Doctor Who: The King’s Dragon, featuring the eleventh Doctor, is published by BBC Books (2010).

Contents Update British Science Fiction Film and Television

British Science Fiction Film and Television: Critical Essays

Edited by Tobias Hochscherf and James Leggott
Series Editors Donald E. Palumbo and C.W. Sullivan III

Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-4621-6
EBook ISBN: 978-0-7864-8483-6
notes, bibliography, index
237pp. softcover 2011
Price: $35.00

About the Book
Written by international experts from a range of disciplines, these essays examine the uniquely British contribution to science fiction film and television. Viewing British SF as a cultural phenomenon that challenges straightforward definitions of genre, nationhood, authorship and media, the editors provide a conceptual introduction placing the essays within their critical context. Essay topics include Hammer science fiction films, the various incarnations of Doctor Who, Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, and such 21st-century productions as 28 Days Later and Torchwood.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: British Science Fiction Beyond the TARDIS
TOBIAS HOCHSCHERF and JAMES LEGGOTT 1

1. H.G. Wells and Science Fiction Cinema
JAMES CHAPMAN 11
2. Aftermaths: Post-Apocalyptic Imagery
CHRISTIAN HOFFSTADT and DOMINIK SCHREY 28
3. The BBC Versus “Science Fiction”: The Collision of Transnational Genre and National Identity in Television of the Early 1950s
DEREK JOHNSTON 40
4. Hammer Horror and Science Fiction
DAVID SIMMONS 50
5. Robert Fuest and The Final Programme: Science Fiction and the Question of Style
MICHAEL DU PLESSIS 60
6. “Anything Can Happen in the Next Half-Hour”: Gerry Anderson’s Transnational Science Fiction
JONATHAN BIGNELL 73
7. Tracking UFO: Format, Text and Context
PETER HUTCHINGS 85
8. A Clockwork Orange, Exploitation and the Art Film
I.Q. HUNTER 96
9. Visions of an English Dystopia: History, Technology and the Rural Landscape in The Tripods
LINCOLN GERAGHTY 104
10. The Future of History in Dennis Potter’s Cold Lazarus
CHRISTINE SPRENGLER 117
11. Expatriate! Expatriate! Doctor Who: The Movie and Commercial Negotiation of a Multiple Text
PETER WRIGHT 128
12. Invasion of the Brit-Snatchers: National Identity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema
AIDAN POWER 143
13. A Cosy Catastrophe: Genre, National Cinema, and Fan Responses to 28 Days Later
BRIGID CHERRY 156
14. Desiring the Doctor: Identity, Gender and Genre in Online Fandom
REBECCA WILLIAMS 167
15. Invaders from Space, Time Travel and Omnisexuality: The Multi-Layered Narrative of Torchwood
LEE BARRON 178

Chapter Notes 193
Select Bibliography 213
About the Contributors 217
Index 221

About the Author
Tobias Hochscherf is a professor of audio-visual media at University of Applied Sciences in Kiel, Germany. His research on European film and television culture has been widely published.
James Leggott is a senior lecturer in film and television studies at Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. He has published on various aspects of British film and television culture.
Donald E. Palumbo is a professor of English at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He lives in Greenville.
C.W. Sullivan III is a professor of arts and sciences at East Carolina University and a full member of the Welsh Academy. He is the author of numerous books and the on-line journal Celtic Cultural Studies.