CFP Neo-Dickens for a New Audience: Reading, Watching, and Teaching Dickens in the 21st Century (9/30/208; NeMLA 2019)

"Neo-Dickens for a New Audience: Reading, Watching, and Teaching Dickens in the 21st Century" (Dickens Society Sponsored Panel)
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/06/15/neo-dickens-for-a-new-audience-reading-watching-and-teaching-dickens-in-the-21st

deadline for submissions: September 30, 2018

full name / name of organization: Northeast Modern Language Association

contact email: matobin@psu.edu



"Neo-Dickens for a New Audience: Reading, Watching, and Teaching Dickens in the 21st Century" (Dickens Society Sponsored Panel)

Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2018
Name of organization: Northeast Modern Language Association
Contact email: matobin@psu.edu

Call for proposals for the Dickens Society sponsored panel at the Northeast Modern Language Society convention to be held in Washington, DC March 21-24, 2019


"Neo-Dickens for a New Audience: Reading, Watching, and Teaching Dickens in the 21st Century" (Dickens Society Sponsored Panel)

Chair: Mary Ann Tobin, PhD, The Pennsylvania State University

As Jessica Cox defines it, Neo-Victorianism involves "creative works that in some way engage with Victorian literature and culture, and scholarly works that seek to explore the shifting relationship with the Victorian period . . . often through a critical investigation of Neo-Victorian creative works." Charles Dickens's characters, settings, and Boz himself have been re-imagined, appearing in Neo-Vic novels, television shows, films, and videogames, like Lynn Shepherd's "The Solitary House," BBC One's "Dickensian," Ridley Scott's "The Man Who Invented Christmas," and Ubisoft's "Assassin's Creed: Syndicate." This panel will consider what Neo-Dickensian works like these tell us about our current "relationship with the Victorian period" and suggest ways to make productive use of them in the classroom.

The submission deadline is September 30, 2018. All abstracts must be submitted through the NeMLA CFP web site at https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/. Search for panel #17234, "Neo-Dickens for a New Audience: Reading, Watching, and Teaching Dickens in the 21st Century." General guidelines for abstracts can be found at https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention/callforpapers/submit.html. View the conference web site at https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html. Send questions regarding the panel to matobin@psu.edu.

Panelists will be notified of acceptance or rejection by October 15, 2018. NeMLA membership is not required to submit abstracts. However, if your abstract is accepted to a session and you agree to present at the convention, you will be required to pay for membership and convention registration.

CFP Journal Issue on Tim Burton (Spec Issue of Parol: Qauderni d'Arte e di Epistemologia) (expired)

Sorry to have missed posting this earlier; it is certainly a publication worth looking out for:

Journal Issue on Tim Burton
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/03/16/journal-issue-on-tim-burton

deadline for submissions: May 15, 2018

full name / name of organization: Dr. Antonio Sanna

contact email: isonisanna@hotmail.com



Journal Issue on Tim Burton

Edited by Antonio Sanna

Tim Burton is certainly one of the most popular directors of contemporary Hollywood. His oeuvre includes blockbuster films such as Batman (1989), Planet of the Apes (2001) and Alice in Wonderland (2010) as well as less profitable– but still highly recognizable - films such as Ed Wood (1994). His work with stop motion, evident in Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (2005) and the recent Frankenweenie (2013) has further popularized and updated a technique that has been fundamental in cinema since the silent era. His distinctive and personal touch, a visionary style that is now referred to as “Burtonesque”, and his frequent collaborations with Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Danny Elfman (to mention merely a few) has contributed to establish a unique and identifiable brand.

The Italian academic and peer-reviewed journal Parol: Qauderni d'Arte e di Epistemologia will dedicate one of its next issues to the artistic production of the American director, including a total of six/seven papers on the subject, that explore Burton’s multi-medial oeuvre from multidisciplinary perspectives. The issue will be edited by Antonio Sanna, co-editor of the volume A Critical Companion to Tim Burton (Lexington Books, 2017). The editor seeks previously-unpublished essays that explore the American director’s heterogeneous career, and is particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches to the subject that can illuminate the diverse facets of the Burton’s work and his unique visual style.

There are several themes worth exploring when analyzing Burton’s works, utilizing any number of theoretical frameworks of your choosing. The editor requests the papers to be based on formal analysis and to use an academic language. Papers on the visual style of Burton will be particularly appreciated, but contributions may include the following topics:

• Burton and the visual arts
• Humour, Black Humour and the Macabre
• Burton and fairy tales
• Gender and queer readings
• Neo-Victorian art
• Exploration of dreams and the subconscious
• Fascination with machines and ecocriticism
• Mob mentality
• Alienation and misperception, conformity/nonconformity
• Disfigurement, deformity and (dis)ability
• Death and the afterlife
• Intertextuality
• Adaptations, Remakes and Appropriations
• Music and Danny Elfman
• Tim Burton in/and translation
• Evil Clowns
• Fan practice and fan communities

The journal issue will be organized around these topics and others that emerge from submissions. I am open to works that focus on other topics as well and authors interested in pursuing other related lines of inquiry. Feel free to contact the editor with any questions you may have about the project and please share this announcement with colleagues whose work aligns with the focus of this volume.

Submit a 300-500 word abstract of your proposed paper contribution, a brief CV and complete contact information in a single word file to Dr. Antonio Sanna (isonisanna@hotmail.com) by 15 May, 2018. Full chapters of 4000-6000 words will be due by 1 July, 2018 at the latest. Note: all full chapters submitted will be included subject to review.

CFP Neo-Victorian Fiction: Excavating the Bygone in the Modern World (8/31/2015; Athens, Greece 1/3-6/2016)

Panel on Neo-Victorian Fiction: Excavating the Bygone in the Modern World, 3-6 January 2016, Athens, Greece
full name / name of organization: The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER)
contact email: vice-president@atiner.gr
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/63415

The Arts and Humanities Research Division (AHRD) of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) is organizing a Panel on Neo-Victorian Fiction: Excavating the Bygone in the Modern World which will be held in Athens, Greece on 3-6 January 2016. In the past, the five research units of AHRD have organized 50 annual international conferences on history, philosophy, literature, linguistics, languages, as well as the visual and performing arts. The aim of the conference session lies in discussing the significance of recollecting the Victorian literary past in the present-day fiction by means of diversified historical narratives.
Moreover, other topics are welcome (but are not confined to):

• The notion of historical fiction: history in neo-Victorian texts
• The idea behind the revival of the Victorian past
• Neo-Victorian fiction and the process of historical recollection
• Is neo-Victorian fiction always “historical”?
• Victorian morality and social standards introduced in the modern literary context - (is it valid?)
• “Readerly communities” – reading habits as the nexus between the Victorians and us
• Neo-, retro- or post-Victorian fiction – proliferation of terms and their significance
• “Reviving the ghosts:” nostalgia and longing for the past in neo-Victorian fiction
• Neo-Victorian biographies
• The relations between the author and the reader in the Victorian and neo-Victorian texts
• Neo-Victorian prequels/sequels to the Victorian texts and their significance in the study of the literary past
• The notion of Bildunsgroman in the Victorian and neo-Victorian texts
• The notion of “gentleman” in the Victorian and neo-Victorian texts
• Women as protagonists in neo-Victorian fiction
• Class-consciousness as presented in the Victorian and neo-Victorian texts
• The idea of the “Victorian values” and their use/misuse in the modern literary discourse and historical narratives
• The marginalised voices in neo-Victorian texts

Fee structure information is available on http://www.atiner.gr/2016/fees.htm.

Special arrangements will be made with a local hotel for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate. In addition, a number of special events will be organized: A Greek night of entertainment with dinner, a special one-day cruise to selected Greek islands, an archaeological tour of Athens and a one-day visit to Delphi. Details of the social program are available at http://www.atiner.gr/2016/SOC-HUM.htm.

All areas of arts, humanities and related disciplines will be considered, including papers on education. Please submit a 300-word abstract before 31 August 2015, by email, to the vice-president@atiner.gr Dr. George Poulos, Vice President of Research, ATINER. Please include: Title of Paper, Full Name (s), Current Position, Institutional Affiliation, an email address and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your submission. Decisions will be reached within four weeks of your submission. Please use the abstract submitting form available at http://www.atiner.gr/2016/FORM-HUM.doc.

If your submission is accepted, you will receive information on registration deadlines and paper submission requirements. Should you wish to participate in the Conference without presenting a paper, for example, to chair a session, to evaluate papers which are to be included in the conference proceedings or books, to contribute to the editing of a book, or any other contribution, please send an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, President, ATINER & Honorary Professor, University of Stirling, UK (gregory.papanikos@stir.ac.uk).

The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) was established in 1995 as an independent academic association and its mission is to act as a forum, where academics and researchers - from all over the world - can meet in Athens in order to exchange ideas on their research and to discuss future developments in their disciplines.

The organizing and hosting of International Conferences and Symposiums, the carrying out of Research, and the production of Publications are the basic activities of ATINER. Since 1995, ATINER has organized more than 400 International Conferences and other events, and has published close to 200 books. In 2012, the Association launched a series of conference paper publications (click here), and at the beginning of 2014, it introduced its own series of Journals (click here).

Academically, the Association is organized into seven Research Divisions and thirty-nine Research Units. Each Research Unit organizes at least an Annual International Conference, and may also undertake various small and large research projects.

Academics and Researchers are more than welcome to become members and to contribute to ATINER's objectives. If you would like to become a member, please download the relevant form (membership form). For more information on how to become a member, please send an email to: info@atiner.gr.


By web submission at 08/13/2015 - 05:41

CFP Neo-Victorian? Pop Culture, Lowbrow, and Genre Victoriana (9/30/2015; NeMLA 3/17-20/2016)

Sounds like a great idea:

CFP: NeMLA Panel “Neo-Victorian? Pop Culture, Lowbrow, and Genre Victoriana” (9/30/2015; 3/17-20/2016)
posted by NAVSA on JUL 23, 2015
http://navsa.org/2015/07/23/cfp-nemla-panel-neo-victorian-pop-culture-lowbrow-and-genre-victoriana-9302015-317-202016/

CFP: Neo-Victorian? Pop Culture, Lowbrow, and Genre Victoriana (Panel)
Northeast Modern Language Association
Hartford, Connecticut
March 17-20, 2016
Deadline: September 30, 2015

In the rapidly expanding field of neo-Victorian studies, the million-dollar question remains: what qualifies as neo-Victorian? For guidance, many scholars have relied on Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn’s definition, which specifies that to be called neo-Victorian, a text “must in some respect be self-consciously engaged with the act of (re)interpretation, (re)discovery and revision concerning Victorians.” The implication is that this is a subgenre for respectable texts, of clear intellectual pedigree.

Yet, just as the Victorian era had its penny dreadfuls, musical halls, and melodramas, so contemporary acts of reengaging the Victorian may come in less elevated packages. Alongside sleek heritage films and postmodern literary novels, Victorian tales and times have been adapted or newly imagined in horror movies, pulp romances, Japanese manga, scripted web series, and a variety of other media. Some are successful and satisfying on their own terms, some less so, but all raise significant questions about how a subgenre is to be defined: by project, content, or some aesthetic standard?

While scholars have addressed many such works individually, this panel invites readings that explore the broader question of whether/how the field of neo-Victorian studies might benefit from considering “lowbrow” or pop culture Victoriana. This panel seeks to shed light on how contemporary culture at large imagines, stereotypes, (mis)remembers, and manipulates the Victorian era, while continuing to celebrate it.

Possible paper topics could include but are not limited to:

• Adaptations of canonical texts in atypical genres
• Adaptations of non-canonical Victorian texts
• Victorian characters in new settings
• Victorian values or aesthetics contemporized
• Depictions of Victorian bodies: eroticized, (dis)abled, racialized, and/or monstrous
• Genre film and television that engages the Victorian
• Children’s and young adult literature
• Comics, graphic novels, or anime
• Romance fiction (category or single-title)
• Fantasy, science fiction, or horror
• New media storytelling
• “Bad” works: ambitious failures and “guilty pleasures”

Please submit abstracts via NeMLA’s online CFP: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15843. The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2015.

CFP Neo-Victorianism & Discourses of Education (Spec Issue of Neo-Victorian Studies) (papers by 10/15/2015)

Been meaning to post this for a while. Of potential interest:

CFP: Neo-Victorian Studies. “Neo-Victorianism & Discourses of Education” (10/15/2015)
posted by DUSTIN MEYER on APR 12, 2015
http://navsa.org/2015/04/12/cfp-neo-victorian-studies-neo-victorianism-discourses-of-education-10152015/

CFP
Neo-Victorian Studies
Deadline: October 15, 2015

“Neo-Victorianism & Discourses of Education”

Guest Editors:

Frances Kelly
Judith Seaboyer

The nineteenth century saw the beginnings of mass education in Britain and elsewhere, while the more recent millennial turn has seen a range of reforms and ‘revolutions’ within educational systems world-wide, not least the insistent commercialisation of universities and a concomitant move to redefining educators and students as ‘service providers’ and ‘customers’ respectively. A large number of neo-Victorian novels are set in or engage with educational contexts, including universities, libraries, anatomy schools, private tutoring/governessing, ragged schools, and art colleges, mirroring the settings and concerns with Bildung in canonical works by Victorian writers such as Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, and others. Just as significantly, however, are contemporary self-conscious engagements with inherited nineteenth-century ideas regarding the purposes and ethos of education, such as character building, civic identity formation, the connection between personal and societal development, issues of widening access, the inculcation of moral values and national ideologies, and the perception that education systems serve as ‘engines’ of the economy. Then as now, however, prevalent concerns and anxieties about the achievements and failings of education hardly constituted a monolithic uncontested discourse; rather they divided public opinion and provoked continuous political and societal debate, much as these same concerns continue to do today. This special issue will explore how neo-Victorian works contribute to this on-going debate by foregrounding the ‘origins’ of modern-day educational systems and approaches. What particular aspects of nineteenth-century education are highlighted and why? What are the main points of contention? How do today’s politicians appropriate (past) educational discourses for party-specific agendas? To what extent are nineteenth-century educational models proposed as alternatives to present-day problems in education? What nineteenth-century educational aims and ideals are depicted as still unfulfilled and unrealised? Possible topics may include, but need not be limited to the following:

• the discourse of universal access and the move to ‘mass’ higher education
• education as a means for national progress and economic development
• Gradgrindean echoes of educational utilitarianism and measurable outcomes (performance statistics, league tables, proportional admission targets for economically disadvantaged groups, etc.)
• representations and biofictions of educators and students past and present
• curriculum changes and modifications, including tailoring courses to ‘consumer’ demand, the high proportion of nineteenth-century content (e.g. slavery, the British Empire, the US Civil War), links to conservative political agendas, targeted funding, and the recent valorisation of Science and Technology over the disparaged Arts and Humanities
• higher education, universities, and the growing centrality of research and publication to institutional identities since the nineteenth century
• Bildung and the Bildungsroman tradition (the idea of character formation, education in civic responsibilities, education as nation-building, etc.)
• desired outcomes (the ideal of rational autonomy, personal development, societal prosperity and progress, production of a skilled workforce, national and international competitiveness, graduate attributes, etc.)
• the emergence of disciplines at the nineteenth-century fin-de-siècle vs. more recent moves towards interdisciplinary teaching and research
• the ethos of future pasts: nineteenth-century models, unrealised ambitions, and anticipated trajectories in education systems
• discourses of liberal humanism and neo-liberalism, the impact on education of laissez-faire economics, and the revitalisation of (Smiles’) ‘self-help’ discourse
• education and creativity, including Ruskinean notions of curiosity, mystery and wonder, discursive constructions of creativity, and the harnessing of creativity for capitalism
• education, industry, and the shift to a knowledge-based society in the information age

Please address enquiries and expressions of interest to the guest editors:
Frances Kelly at f.kelly@auckland.ac.nz and Judith Seaboyer at j.seaboyer@uq.edu.au.
Completed articles and/or creative pieces will be due by October 15, 2015
and should be sent via email to both guest editors, with a copy to neovictorianstudies@swansea.ac.uk.
Please consult the NVS website ( http://www.neovictorianstudies.com )
(‘Submission Guidelines’) for further guidance.

CFP Victorian Period in 21st-Century Children’s Literature (8/1/14)

[UPDATE] The Victorian Period in 21st-Century Children’s Literature: Representations & Revisions, Adaptations & Appropriations
full name / name of organization:
Sara K. Day and Sonya Sawyer Fritz
contact email:
Vic21Collection@gmail.com

This proposed volume seeks essays that analyze how twenty-first century texts for young audiences across a variety of media--including print, film, television, and digital formats--interact with Victorian literature and culture.

A significant aim of contemporary literature for young people is to provide a window into a variety of historical periods and cultural milieus. Such representations of the past have educational, creative, and political resonances, reflecting both on historical periods and contemporary values. However, since the turn of the twenty-first century, we seem to have reached a critical mass of works for children that engage the Victorian period in particular.

Perhaps the most visible form that this trend has taken is Neo-Victorianism, a literary and cultural phenomenon that has shaped contemporary fiction for children and young adults through the general prevalence and popularity of Neo-Victorian series such as the Enola Holmes novels and the Gemma Doyle trilogy. A recent special issue on the child in Neo-Victorian Studies also indicates that the critical discussion inspired by this genre has specific implications for studies of youth culture.

However, Victorian influences and impulses extend beyond works that can be categorized as Neo-Victorian. Historical fiction and timeslip fantasy set in the Victorian period interact with the past through placing the modern reader in the position of the nineteenth-century child, while steampunk fiction imagines alternate histories and technologies that emerge from the nexus of Victorian culture. Contemporary texts also engage Victorian fiction through adaptations and retellings: films such as Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Disney’s Treasure Planet (2002) reconfigure the iconic works of Lewis Carroll and Robert Louis Stevenson for a twenty-first century audience, as do intertextual retellings such as April Lindner’s Catherine and Cara Lockwood’s Wuthering High, both young adult novels that update and revise the narrative of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights.

Critical questions that this volume seeks to address include but are not limited to the following: What do such works reveal about contemporary understandings or assumptions regarding Victorian values and sensibilities? What has made the Victorian era such a productive and inspiring space for so many authors and young audiences of the twenty-first century? What is lost and what might be gained by reframing a text for Victorian adults for a contemporary audience of young people?

Essay topics may include but are not limited to

• the Victorian text as intertext in contemporary literature
• Neo-Victorian literature
• steampunk fiction
• representations of the Victorian past in time-slip fantasy and/or ghost stories
• contemporary retellings of iconic Victorian stories
• the portrayal of the Victorian period in contemporary nonfiction
• film adaptations of Victorian literature
• representations of Victorian cultural icons (Queen Victoria, Charles Darwin, Jack the Ripper)
• Victorian sensibilities and aesthetics as influences on contemporary fiction
• historical fiction set in the Victorian period

We are currently seeking a book contract for this volume. Submit a 500-word abstract, along with a working bibliography and a brief, up-to-date CV by August 1, 2014 to Sara K. Day and Sonya Sawyer Fritz at Vic21Collection@gmail.com. Completed essays of 5000-7000 words will be due by March 1, 2015.


By web submission at 06/04/2014 - 17:06