Deadline: 31 January 2013
Open to: all American Gothic scholars, especially early career researchers
Benefits: publication in peer-reviewed journal
Description
Contributions are currently being accepted to a proposed Companion to American Gothic, to be published in 2015 by a major UK academic publisher as part of a new series of Gothic companions.
Proposals for chapters of 5500-6500 words (including notes) are invited. Early career researchers are encouraged to submit, but we welcome proposals from all American Gothic scholars.
Chapters are required that offer critically erudite, authoritative, and cogently written surveys and analyses, focused on appropriate examples, addressing the following topics:
- European Ghosts, American Witches: Early American Gothic Realism / Romance
- Slavery and the Gothic
- Romantic Gothic: The American Tradition
- American Modernism and the Southern Gothic
- American Gothic after 9/11
- American Art and the Gothic Sublime
- American Gothic Film and Television
- Gothic Gaming in Video and Role-Playing
- Gender and American Gothic
- African-American Gothic
- Border Magic – Chicano/Chicana Gothic
Submission
Proposals (500 words), and any queries about these topics, should be sent by email to the editors, Jason Haslam (Jason.Haslam@dal.ca) and John Sears (J.Sears@mmu.ac.uk), by January 31st 2013. Decisions for inclusion will be made by the end of February 2013, with completed chapters due for submission end of October 2013.
For questions and further information, please contact the editors at the emails listed above.
