Author: kristenfiggins
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CFP: Twain World, Twain’s Worlds
Twain World, Twain’s Worlds Mark Twain occupies a complex, often contradictory place in American culture: at once an icon of American exceptionalism, and yet also an artist who traffics in and on the murky waters of American history. Twain has become a rich text through which American identity is filtered,…
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Inferno 5 and Pop Music, Then and Now
Author: Elizabeth (Beth) Coggeshall Peer-Reviewers: Kathryn McClain and James FleuryWebsite Developer: Kristen Figgins Inferno 5 and Pop Music, Then and Now Course: ITT 3114: Dante’s Inferno Summary: This lesson is the keystone of my introductory course on Dante’s Inferno (in English translation), which I offer every fall to 60 undergraduates at Florida State University. The…
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Remix and Recreate! A Final Creative Project for “K-pop, Hip-hop, and R&B: Black, Asian, and American Cultural Interactions”
Author: Min Ji KangPeer-Reviewers: Kathryn McClain and James FleuryWebsite Developer: Kristen Figgins Final Creative Project: Remix and Recreate! Course: K-pop, Hip-hop, and R&B: Black, Asian, and American Cultural Interactions Summary: This assignment positions remixing as a mode of adaptation, inviting students to transform music across genres and cultures while analyzing the racial and gendered meanings…
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CFP: LFA/AAS Joint Conference
We’re excited to share the call for papers for the 2026 joint online conference of the Literature/Film Association and the Association of Adaptation Studies. This year’s theme, Adaptation and Collaboration, invites us to think & work with one another across disciplines, media, and methods. Details and submission info below. Please share…
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CFP: Frankenstein in the 21st Century
REIMAGINING FRANKENSTEIN IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Cross-Cultural Adaptations in Visual Culture deadline for submissions: December 1, 2025 full name / name of organization: Cenk Tan and Defne Ersin Tutan contact email: adaptingfrankenstein@gmail.com CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS REIMAGINING FRANKENSTEIN IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Cross-Cultural Adaptations in Visual Culture Edited by Cenk Tan…
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LFQ seeking submissions
Literature/Film Quarterly is actively seeking submissions! Anyone who can send us content by October 15 will be considered for potential publication in January or April of 2026! Our journal attracts thousands of readers every month, with over 130,000 active readers last year alone. So, if you want to publish in a…
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Call for Reviewers – Upcoming Film Adaptations
I’m currently commissioning film reviews for upcoming issues of Adaptation (Oxford University Press) and looking for contributors interested in writing on newly released or soon-to-be-released adaptations. Some of these films are already available, while others are on the horizon. But if you’d like to “call dibs” and contribute a timely review, I’d…
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CFP: Jekyll and Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of the most adapted, parodied, and referenced works of Gothic fiction. Even those who have never read the novella know the “story,” or at least the twist: Henry Jekyll becomes Edward Hyde to live a double life,…
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“‘In New York You Can Be a New Man’: Adapting American Mythology in Hamilton”
Author: Rachel M. Hartnett, College of Coastal Georgia, Survey of American LiteraturePeer-Reviewers: Kathryn McClain and James FleuryWebsite Developer: Kristen Figgins Summary This lesson originates from a lower-division undergraduate survey of American literature I taught at the University of Florida in Fall 2018. The course served as an introduction to well-known texts and authors…
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“L’Inferno (1911): Encountering Adaptation Through Silent Cinema”
Author: T. A. Morris, University of Florida, LIT2110–World Literature: Ancient to RenaissancePeer-Reviewers: Kathryn McClain and James FleuryWebsite Developer: Kristen Figgins Lesson Title: “L’Inferno (1911): Encountering Adaptation Through Silent Cinema” Summary This lesson covers a screening and discussion of the Dantescan silent film adaptation L’Inferno (1911). Italian and English language editions of this film…
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