Author: kristenfiggins
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Literatures in English and Film
The “Literatures in English and Film” course at the University of Oviedo, Spain, is a 6-credit introductory module aimed at second-year English Studies students. The course provides a foundational understanding of the relations between literature and cinema, focusing on the analysis of films adapted from literary works in English. The…
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Adaptation, Archives, and Digital Remix Culture
The upper-division research seminar, led by Eleni Palis, explores adaptation theories and videographic criticism through a mash-up methodology. Focused on literary-to-film adaptations and remix practices, the course includes an archival segment utilizing the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound. Students complete a research project or video essay.
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Modern Fairy Tale: Contemporary Retellings of “Once Upon a Time”
This course will unpack how fairy tale adaptations across cultures both reflect and inform the values adherent to distinct time periods, places, and/or communities. We will also reflect upon the personal impacts that fairy tales and their modern adaptations have had on our own lives and understandings of the world.
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Adapting Turkish Shakespeares (Edited Collection)
Eds. Özlem Özmen Akdoğan and Murat Öğütcü This volume aims to fill this gap by exploring the intricate ways in which Shakespeare has been adapted, translated, domesticated, politicised, and commercialised in Türkiye. For this book, we are looking forward to receiving abstracts for 7,000-word chapters (including Bibliography) that document and…
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Current CFP for Syllabi
By May 31, 2025, we encourage you to email one or more adaptation-related syllabi to the Adaptation Today Pedagogy Team: James Fleury (fleuryjb@wustl.edu) and Kathryn J. McClain (kmcclain@coloradomesa.edu). You are welcome to submit one or more syllabi focused either entirely or partly on the study of adaptation; in addition to…
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Call for articles for the Chiasma volume “Annie Ernaux Beyond Words: Images and Scenes”
Call for articles in the bilingual (English-French) volume of Chiasma (Brill) Annie Ernaux Beyond Words: Images and Scenes Michèle Bacholle, Eastern Connecticut State University, USA Jacqueline Dougherty, University of Pennsylvania, USA Since the publication of Les Armoires vides in 1974, Annie Ernaux has consistently and fearlessly tested the boundaries of traditional literary paradigms in…
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Media Reviews Editor
Expressions of interest are invited for a Media Reviews Editor for Adaptation (Oxford University Press)to replace the Film Reviews Editor. The post will involve commissioning and receiving reviews of approximately 1,000 words on adaptations in various media formats, including, but not limited to, video games, film, television, podcasts, radio, prose, and poetry.…
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CFP – Electricdreams – Between fiction and society III / CONFLICTS AND MARGINS: IMAGINING OTHERNESS, ECOCATASTROPHES, PERPETUAL WAR, TECHNOLOGICAL IMBALANCE, AND SYSTEMIC INJUSTICE THROUGH SPECULATIVE FICTION
NB: this event will be part of the Electricdreams (https://www.iulm.it/wps/wcm/connect/iulm/minisiti-en/sogni-elettrici), an international film festival dedicated to fantasy and science fiction. Electricdreams – Between fiction and society III / CONFLICTS AND MARGINS: IMAGINING OTHERNESS, ECOCATASTROPHES, PERPETUAL WAR, TECHNOLOGICAL IMBALANCE, AND SYSTEMIC INJUSTICE THROUGH SPECULATIVE FICTION 2024-06-13 The international conference Electricdreams – Between…
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Gothic Practice (CfP)
For Adaptation Studies colleagues working on the Gothic and/or with an artistic practice, please find below a CfP for a special issue of Gothic Studies guest edited by the Internet Ghost Collective (Chera Kee, Erika Kvistad, Line Henriksen, and Megen de Bruin-Molé) “As a habitus, the Gothic describes a way…
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