*CFP* EDITED COLLECTION ON BONNIE JO CAMPBELL, CHAPTER BOOK

We invite chapter proposals for an edited collection on the writing of Bonnie Jo Campbell. Campbell is the author of three short-story collections—Mothers, Tell Your Daughters (2015), Women & Other Animals (1999), and American Salvage (2008), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics’ Circle Award. She has also published two novels—Q Road (2002) and Once Upon a River (2011), which was recently adapted into a feature film.

This collection will incorporate critical analysis as well as essays on teaching Campbell’s work. The editors seek proposals on any of Campbell’s published writing, especially as it pertains to intersecting elements of contemporary American identity. For instance, proposals may focus on Campbell’s attention to gender, class, or racial identities, not to mention rurality, violence, drug abuse, or other aspects of her fiction.

Using the webform, please submit a 250-word proposal, along with a short bio, by November 15, 2019. Completed chapters, which should be between 4000-6000 words, will be due by June 1, 2020. If you have questions, please contact the editors, Lisa DuRose (ldurose@inverhills.edu), Ross Tangedal (rtangeda@uwsp.edu), and Andy Oler (andy.oler@erau.edu).

*CFP* “GOTHIC MASH-UPS”, EDITED COLLECTION

From its beginnings in the 18th century, the gothic was disparaged for its predictable group style and unoriginality. The earliest reviewers and parodists criticized gothic novels for being admixtures of already clichéd gothic scenes thrown in merely to attract fans of the new genre. To this day, the gothic is a paradoxical genre, its outré subject matters seemingly at odds with a tendency to rely on familiar tropes and formulae. All gothic texts are mash-ups to the extent that they are haunted by previous texts. Far from being a failing, this propensity on the part of gothic storytellers to make new stories out of older ones is arguably the genre’s most compelling feature.

Intended for publication with Lexington Books, Gothic Mash-Ups will theorize and trace the way that producers of gothic fiction – from the 18th century to today – appropriate, combine, and reimagine elements from earlier texts and genres. Particularly welcome are essays about individual texts (or groups of texts) that bring together characters and storylines from two or more prior gothic narratives or cross gothic storylines with other kinds of stories. From Walpole’s early generic hodgepodge and Universal Pictures’ monster film crossovers to such contemporary “Frankenfictions” (De Bruin-Molé) as The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Penny Dreadful, this collection will examine the fundamental hybridity of the gothic as a genre.

*CFP* “FOLK HORROR IN THE 21ST CENTURY”, FALMOUTH UNIVERSITY (UK)

Folk Horror in the 21st Century

Thursday September 5 and Friday September 6, 2019

Falmouth University (UK)

Keynote and plenary speakers: Tanya Krzywinska (Falmouth University), Catherine Spooner (Lancaster University) and Bernice Murphy (Trinity College Dublin).

The conference organizers Ruth Heholt (Falmouth University, UK) and Dawn Keetley (Lehigh University, USA) invite proposals on all aspects of folk horror, in all periods, across all regions and in all mediums, exploring the meanings and manifestations of the folk horror renaissance in the 21st century.

Since at least 2010, critics and bloggers have been working to define folk horror, understand its appeal, and establish its key texts, including what has become the central triumvirate of the folk horror canon of the 1960s and 1970s— Witchfinder General  (Michael Reeves, 1968),  Blood on Satan’s Claw  (Piers Haggard, 1971), and  The Wicker Man  (Robin Hardy, 1973).