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 monthly news updates.
Active Calls for Publications
Dragon Age: Worlds of Power and Play (2026-06-01)
Contemporary Indigenous Horror – Creative Writing (2026-07-14)
Active Calls for Conferences
Northeast Popular Culture Association Monsters & the Montrous (2026-06-15) (Google Docs Link)
Twainian Regeneration: Adaptations of the Works, Life, and Legacy of Mark Twain (???)
Archived Calls for Publications
Werewolf Media – Horror Scholar Journal (2026-02-03)
Peter Straub: New Critical Perspectives (2025-11-30)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)