Popular Culture Studies

We are looking for papers to round out a session on humor in popular/American culture. The topic is very broad and encompasses all aspects humor. We would be particularly interested in academic humor, but the call is in no way limited to this category.

I’m Already Dead: Essays on The CW’s iZombie and Vertigo’s iZOMBIE

Editors

Ashley Szanter, Weber State University

Jessica K. Richards, Weber State University

Project Overview

Making Stars: Biography and Eighteenth-Century Celebrity

Visualizing Kinship: Politics, Challenges, Opportunities

From June 5-7, 2019, Salisbury University will host "Chesapeake Studies: Casting a Wide Net," an inaugural interdisciplinary academic conference for professional scholars and graduate students studying the Chesapeake and Delmarva region.  We invite proposals for presentations and panel discussions that contribute to the scholarly understanding of the region from a broad range of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and the arts.  We intend for this to be the first in a series of conferences to promote the scholarly study of the region and hope it will stimulate

Terror On Tour 2018:

The Department of Languages, Linguistics and Literatures at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, is inviting papers that explore themes related to Caribbean speculative fiction. The last two decades have seen an increase in the publication of SF works by Caribbean writers who bring a Caribbean sensibility to a genre that has been steadily gaining global academic recognition.

Call for papers for the Sound Culture Studies and Modernity in Asia Conference
Organised by the Asian Sound Cultures and Modernity Project at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Date: 14- 15 September 2018
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Superheroes and Disability: Unmasking Ableism in the Media