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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 timely fashion with great outreach,…
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 love to hear from you.…
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, disconnected from societal pressures and…
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 critically engage with the impact…
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 both form and content. With La…
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. Please send an EoI together…
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 of writing, a way of…
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 those who have never made…
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 popular foreign writer within Turkish…
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 systematic treatment of the practice…
Essay CFP: Ecoadaptations: Mediating Nature and the Environment
CFP: Ecoadaptations: Mediating Nature and the Environment(edited collection) (3/31/24; 12/15/24) Call for Essay Submissions Contact: Pamela Demory Contact email: phdemory@ucdavis.edu Proposals are invited for an edited collection of essays that explore the relationship between adaptation studies and the environment. The editors of the Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture series have expressed interest in…
Call for Book Chapters: “Environments of Art, Recording, and Containment”
Click here to see CFP on Vernon Press site. Vernon Press invites book chapters for a forthcoming edited volume on the subject of “Environments of Art, Recording, and Containment.” With each passing year, the pressures of climate change make it clear that the natural world and human endeavor are irrevocably intertwined. We invite scholars to…
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