<p>The editors of Sontag and Beyond: New Perspectives on the Camp Aesthetic seek manuscripts on current cultural interpretations of Camp in recognition of the 50th anniversary of Susan Sontag’s influential and groundbreaking essay “Notes on Camp.”  The collection is under contract with a major publisher with an intended publication date of late 2016 or early-2017. &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/02/16/call-for-submissions-edited-collection-of-essays-on-camp/" class=

<p>The American Studies Program and the Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department at Brandeis University are pleased to announce a conference scheduled for October 27-28, 2016, to evaluate the legacy of comedian Lenny Bruce. His corrosive and transgressive satire as well as his boldness in pushing the envelope of the laws of &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/02/16/lenny-bruce-conference/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="sc

<p>NEPCA board member, two-term former president, and good friend Bob Niemi of St. Michael&#8217;s College has just published his sixth book, The Cinema of Robert Altman: Hollywood Maverick (Columbia University Press). You can order the book for yourself and/or your school library here: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-cinema-of-robert-altman/9780231176279  &nbsp;</p>

<p>We are soliciting manuscripts to be featured in Vol. I, No. 2 of Museum of Science Fiction’s Journal of Science Fiction (MOSF Journal of Science Fiction,<a href="http://publish.lib.umd.edu/scifi/index" rel="nofollow">http://publish.lib.umd.edu/scifi/index</a>). The inaugural issue was released on January 26, 2016, and Vol. I, No. 2 will be published by May 31, 2016. The MOSF Journal of Science Fiction is completely &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/02/15/mosf-journ

<p>The Research Society for American Periodicals announces the $1000 article prize for 2016. The prize will be awarded to the best article on American periodicals by an early-career scholar – that is, one who is pre-tenure, non-tenure, or independent, within five years of degree conferral – published in a peer-reviewed academic journal between January 1, &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/02/15/research-society-for-american-periodicals-1000-article-prize/" class="more-

<p>NEW FROM PLUTO PRESS: PAUL ROBESON: The Artist as Revolutionary By Gerald Horne Available here: http://bit.ly/1QT57vL</p>

<p>Medically unexplained symptoms, hysteria, neurasthenia, hypochondria, psychogenic illness, somatic symptoms, functional illness, malingering—there is ongoing debate amongst specialists in medicine, psychology, sociology, and the medical humanities about how to classify, diagnose, treat, and explain disorders affecting body and mind. Meanwhile, in popular culture, these terms are misunderstood, unknown, or rejected outright—what was once called “psychosomatic” illness is &h

<p>On Thursday, February 11, at 2pm Eastern U.S. time. the Football Scholars Forum is holding an online discussion of The Ugly Game: The Corruption of FIFA and the Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup by Heidi Blake and Jonathan Calvert. Blake and Calvert&#8217;s book draws on terabytes of leaked FIFA files received from a &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/02/06/online-discussion-the-ugly-game-on-world-cup-scandals/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-

<p>Call for Papers: “Queer Form” A special issue of ASAP/Journal Volume 2, Issue 1 (May 2017). Edited by Kadji Amin, Amber Jamilla Musser, and Roy Pérez. Submissions due May 1, 2016 &nbsp; Queer studies is currently undergoing a methodological renaissance.  In light of this renewed focus on method, the editors of this special issue of ASAP/Journal propose a critical return to questions of &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/02/04/queer-form-a-special-issue-of-asapjourna

<p>Call for Contributors – Abstracts by March 10, 2016. Critical Insights: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Nearly fifty years after its release, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey remains a turning point in the history of science fiction cinema, and one of the most critically acclaimed science-fiction films ever made.  As such, it’s been chosen &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/02/04/cfp-2001-a-space-odyssey/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-r

<p>LOVE BETWEEN THE COVERS: <a href="http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c924.shtml a" rel="nofollow">http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c924.shtml a</a> film about women filmmakers, is now available. Romance novels comprise over a billion dollars a year in book sales, outselling science fiction, fantasy, and mystery combined. So why is the genre so often dismissed as frivolous “scribble” rather than elevated as a radical literary form that pushes the envelope on &hellip;

<p>We are pleased to announce a call for reviews for a new publication, The Rising Dragon, a journal of Pacific Rim culture and media studies. The theme for our first edition is “Pacific Rim as Frontier and Heartland.” During his presidential nomination acceptance speech in 1960, President John F. Kennedy first posited the idea of &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/02/01/pacific-rim-journal-launched/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">

<p>Essay proposals are invited for a volume in the MLA’s Options for Teaching series entitled Teaching Jewish American Literature, to be edited by Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein. The purposes of this volume are to create important links between the innovative scholarship emerging on Jewish American literature and classroom pedagogies and resources; provide crucial academic &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/02/01/modern-language-association-options-for-teachin