CFPs

To help out my fellow pop culture scholars here is a list of open CFPs – calls for papers, calls for proposals, calls for abstracts, etc. – for publications and conferences that have crossed my path. If you have an open CFP that is pop culture studies related (film, TV, music, comics, games, books, etc.) that you’d like added to this list, shoot me an email. Text of CFPs are posted in my bi-weekly news updates.

Active Calls for Publications

TV Matters (Intellect Books)

Contemporary Indigenous Horror – Creative Writing (2026-07-14)

Werewolf Media – Horror Scholar Journal (2026-02-03)(FB Link)

Active Calls for Conferences

Twainian Regeneration: Adaptations of the Works, Life, and Legacy of Mark Twain (???)

Archived Calls for Publications

Peter Straub: New Critical Perspectives (2025-11-30)

Cinema’s First Epics in Focus: Silent Epic Film from Literary Adaptation to Contemporary Epic Narratives (2025-09-15)

Horror Videogames – A Companion (2025-08-31)

Metal Music Studies Retrospectives

Selling Scary Movies: Horror Film Promotion & the American Market (2025-05-31)

Contemporary Indigenous Horror (2025-05-30)

Twenty-First Century Neo-Victorian Gothic: Deviance and Transgression on Page and Screen (2025-04-01)

Dracula: A Companion (2025-03-31)

The Gore Gore Film Book (2025-02-28)

Play and the Gothic (2025-01-31)

The Handbook of Trans Cinema (2025-01-30)

Monstrous Consumption: The Diets of Monsters and Monstrous Diets in the Popular Imagination (2024-12-31)

Roger Corman’s Horror Movies: Collected Essays (2024-12-30)

The Dark Side of Lego: The Gothic Fantastic, and the Uncanny Pleasures of Lego (2024-11-30)

Phantom of the Paradise Edited Collection (2024-11-15)

Queer Horror: A Companion (2024-09-30)

Occult Detectives (2024-09-24)

Genre and Video Games (2024-08-15)

The Cursed Archive: Dangerous Texts, Deadly Communications, and Gothic Media (2024-06-30)

Emmanuelle, Black Emanuelle, and Emmanuelle Derivatives: Essays on the Emmanuelle Legacy (2024-05-31)

The Routledge Companion to Superhero Studies (2024-05-24)

The Mummy Edited Collection (2023-12-15)

Entering the Multiverse (2023-09-15)

Toyetic Television: A Companion (2024-08-30)

Three Stooges Zine (2023-08-13)

Russell Crowe (2023-07-25)

The Princess Bride (2023-04-01)

Anti-Fascist Black Metal (2023-??-??)

Archived Calls for Conferences

2025 Harry Potter Academic Conference (2025-09-01)

(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media (2025-07-24)

Silly Old Bear? Adaptations, Appropriations, and Transformations of Winnie-the-Pooh (2025-07-15)

We Live Again! Disney’s Gargoyles as an Evolving Transmedia Text (2025-07-15)

Technical and Professional Knowledge in Late Antiquity (2025-02-14)

Horror Studies Now 2025 (2025-03-14)

Gothic Crossroads (2025-02-28)

Medieval + Monsters in Comics (2025-03-15)

Airborne Gothic (2024-12-20)

“(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media” at 56th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) conference (2024-09-30)

Expanding Our View of Sherwood: Exploring the Matter of the Greenwood in Comics (2024-09-15)

“Children of the Night” International Dracula Congress 2024 (2024-08-31)

“Preternatural in Popular Culture” Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association
2024 Annual Conference (2024-06-15)

Heavy Metal & Global Premodernity II (2023-08-02)

Beowulfs Beyond Beowulf: Transformations of Beowulf in Popular Culture (Panel) (2023-09-30)

Music Medievalism In Popular Culture at ICMS in Kalamazoo (2023-09-15)

Creating Camelot(s): The Idea of Community in Arthurian Texts (virtual) (2023-09-15)

Ancient World, Modern Music II at CAMWS 2024 (2023-08-15)