Author: kristenfiggins

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Call for papers: Transcr(é)ation – Adaptation and Animation

  • Essay Library Anthology CFP

    https://theessaylibrary.com/#vol7 The Essay Library is putting together another collaborative video essay project! Each volume of the Essay Library Anthology is a collection of 60-second micro-essays based on a shared theme. For Vol. 7, the theme is ADAPTATION. Whatever that means is up to you. For this project, anyone can participate, even…

  • Adapting Turkish Shakespeares (Edited Volume)

    deadline for submissions:  September 30, 2024 full name / name of organization: Turkish Shakespeares contact email: turkishshakespeares@gmail.com Call for Chapters Türkiye has a long tradition of reading, translating, and staging William Shakespeare’s plays, a practice dating back to the pre-Constitution era and persisting in the 21st century. Shakespeare is arguably the most…

  • CFP for Syllabi

    CFP for Syllabi

    By June 30, 2024, 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…

  • CFP for Blog Posts

    CFP for Blog Posts

    In addition to regularly scheduled calls for materials, Adaptation Today will publish an ongoing blog titled “What I Learned Teaching Adaptation Today.” This blog will provide the opportunity to share teaching reflections in an informal format with other adaptation educators. We ask that submissions (300-500 words) be sent by the…

  • LFA 2024: RECOGNITION AND EMPATHY

    LITERATURE / FILM ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE  YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA, YORK, PA SEPTEMBER 26-28, 2024  Film screening and Conversation: Dina Amer, director of You Resemble Me (2021) Keynote: Elsie Walker, Salisbury University, author of Life 24x A Second: Cinema, Selfhood, and Society (Oxford UP, 2023) In many ways, our current social and political moment has been…

  • CFP: To Make a Short Story Long: Theories of Adapting Short Fiction

    To Make a Short Story Long: Theories of Adapting Short Fiction The adaptation of short stories goes back to the beginning of cinema and continues today, yet the practice receives relatively little critical attention. While much energy has been spent theorizing film adaptation of the novel, there exists virtually no…