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



Last updated June 11, 2024

CFP (Dis)ability and Comics: Fifth Annual Dartmouth College Conference on Illustration, Comics, and Animation (1/7/2019; 4/26/2019)

(Dis)ability and Comics: Fifth Annual Dartmouth College Conference on Illustration, Comics, and Animation
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/09/11/disability-and-comics-fifth-annual-dartmouth-college-conference-on-illustration

deadline for submissions:
January 7, 2019

full name / name of organization:
Dartmouth College Conference on Illustration, Comics, and Animation

contact email:
michael.chaney@dartmouth.edu



How do comics and related visual media such as illustrated books, comic strips, and animation represent disability differently from other media, and what new possibilities do they propose for thinking about or visualizing ability?

Join us for a one-day conference at Dartmouth College on Friday April 26, 2019.

Of particular interest are papers that consider comics as graphic medicine, comics and ableism, comics and neuro-divergence, autism in graphic novels and comics, disability and graphic memoir, creative titles or series by comics artists and writers who identify with or include ability-challenged perspectives, disability studies/theory approaches to contemporary comics and/or issues in comics studies, race and /or gender and sexuality and disability in comics, and comics and pictorial literacy as tools within developmental education studies.

To participate in the conference, please send a two hundred-word abstract of your talk along with a short professional bio to

Michael A. Chaney

Conference Director

michael.chaney@dartmouth.edu

Please be sure to submit your materials before January 7, 2019.

We hope to see you at Dartmouth College next April!

CFP Superheroes and Disability: Unmasking Ableism in the Media Collection (7/27/2018)

Seeking Book Chapters: Superheroes and Disability: Unmasking Ableism in the Media
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/06/08/seeking-book-chapters-superheroes-and-disability-unmasking-ableism-in-the-media

deadline for submissions:
July 27, 2018

full name / name of organization:
Amber E. George & JL Schatz

contact email:
mediaanddisability@gmail.com



Superheroes and Disability: Unmasking Ableism in the Media

Both disability studies and comic studies are a continually growing field for academic departments across the globe. Scholars have noticed the increasing presence of their intellectual approaches in political and philosophical theorizing both inside and outside of the academy. In fact, the growing popularity of superheroes confronting disability has led to a litany of scattered publications and essays about supercrips and other discriminatory representations that associate disability with villainy. However, there has yet to be a collection that focuses exclusively on unmasking ableism and ability privilege inherent in popular superhero representations. This collection targets mainstream consumers who are interested in disability studies and enjoy watching superhero movies and reading comics. By helping readers understand the intersection of media representation and real-world connections to disability, this collection proves that media is never neutral and that not all superheroes fight on the side of good, even if that is their goal.

This collection explores representations of disability in the media using critical disability studies, media studies, cultural studies, and other interdisciplinary fields. Activists, academics, artists, and allies are invited to submit a 250-300 word abstract for the collection along with a 100-word bio by July 27th, 2018 to mediaanddisability@gmail.com. We are particularly interested in chapters that are interdisciplinary in scope and have an interest in liberation and anti-oppressive politics, as well as ones that are focused on alternatives instead of open-ended critiques.

We are interested in essays that explore disability from the ever-shifting and changing definitions of biological impairment, espoused by the medical model, to that of disability as a cultural phenomenon. This anthology will attempt to highlight the social and political factors that give rise to medicalization and the subsequent demonization of disability. We are interested in narratives that disrupt and challenge predominant negative assumptions about disability from an intersectional perspective. New frameworks, interpretations, and analysis that empower people with disabilities are particularly important. As such, we are open to a wide interpretation of what counts as a superhero within the media. We’d like contributors to explore new perspectives on disability that may include an analysis of both people with disabilities as producers, consumers, and product of media related to superheroes. We invite the exploration of disability identity, culture, and intersections with other disciplines such as critical race theory, gender studies, and the other viewpoints.

Our goal for this text is to increase awareness of disability in the media, and highlight disability perspectives that are sometimes misappropriated, misused, or missing altogether. The goal is to offer solutions to how these representations, and our relationship to them, can be changed. Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to the following categories, all of which are contextualized within media:

• Disability in relation to comic studies in general
• Superheroes in activism and community organizing around disability
• Casting choices for superheroes with disabilities
• Disability and animality in relation to superheroes
• Disability and bioethics in relation to cyborg superheroes
• Disability in children specific superhero programming
• The use of superheroes and disability in advertising
• Analysis of overcoming narratives as heroic
• Disability and classism in relation to superheroes
• Disability, culture, and identity in relation to superheroes
• Disability as metaphor in relation to superheroes
• Disability and music in relation to superheroes
• Disability and race in relation to superheroes
• Disability and sexuality in relation to superheroes
• Disability and science-fiction or fantasy in relation to superheroes
• Supercrip in relation to superheroes
• Disability as villainy in superhero representations
• Ecology and disability in relation to superheroes
• Specific interpretations of individual superheroes in film, television, or comics
• Invisible disabilities in relation to superheroes
• Medical and social models of disability in relation to superheroes
• Queering disability in relation to superheroes
• Instructional pieces geared to how to guide conversations on disability and superheroes

All abstracts must be written in English (250-300 words) and contain title, name(s) of the author(s) and contact information (institutional affiliation, mailing address, and email address), as well as a short 100-word biography. The deadline for submissions is July 27st, 2018. We will inform people no later than August 11th, 2018 of their acceptance. Please submit your proposal to mediaanddisability@gmail.com. Feel free to contact us if you should have any questions or ideas for a chapter.


Sincerely,

Dr. Amber E. George & Dr. JL Schatz