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Thursday, July 18, 2024

CFP Superheroes and Disability on Screen Collection (8/15/2024)

Superheroes and Disability on Screen: Intersectional Perspectives on Super-Bodies and Super-Identities as Politicized Spaces


deadline for submissions:
August 15, 2024

full name / name of organization:
Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Auckland University of Technology and Katie Ellis, Curtin University

contact email:
lorna.piatti-farnell@aut.ac.nz

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/06/09/superheroes-and-disability-on-screen-intersectional-perspectives-on-super-bodies-and



The editors of the volume are calling for chapter abstracts for a volume focused on the representation of disability in superhero film and media, with a particular focus on intersectional discourses of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, power, and beyond. The volume will provide perspectives on the growing field of superheroes and disability by placing a specific focus on screen representations. As such, the collections will engage with critical debates over super-identities and super-bodies as politicized spaces in the 21st centuries.

This volume is intended for inclusion in the recently established book series on Superhero Studies, published by Lexington/Rowman&Littelfield. For more information, please see here: https://rowman.com/action/series/_/lexshs

Topics for the volume may include, but are not limited to:

  • Superheroes, disability, and race/ethnicity
  • Superheroes, disability, and gender/sexuality
  • Superheroes, disability, and Indigenous discourses
  • Superheroes, disability, and the body
  • Superheroes and neurodivergence
  • Superheroes, disability, and power
  • Superheroes, disability, and capitalism
  • Superheroes, disability, and grief/trauma
  • Superheroes, disability, and memory
  • Superheroes, disability, and history
  • Superheroes, disability, and LGBTGI+ discourses
  • Superheroes, disability, and war
  • Superheroes, disability, and digital representations
  • Superheroes, disability and AI
  • Superheroes, disability, and trans/posthumanism
  • Superheroes, disability, and fandom
  • All of the above, with a focus on supervillains

If accepted, final chapters will be 5-6,000 words, and needed by September 2025.

The deadline for submission of abstracts (of around 250 words, plus 100-words bio) is 15 August 2024. Please send abstracts to attention of both editors:

Professor Lorna Piatti-Farnell: lorna.piatti-farnell@aut.ac.nz

Professor Katie Ellis: katie.ellis@curtin.edu.au



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