Call for Papers: Supernatural: TV Goes to Hell
David Lavery and Stacey Abbott invite your contributions to
Supernatural: TV Goes to Hell, an in-development collection of essays
on Eric Kripke's American television series (The WB, 2005-2006, The
CW, 2006-2010), scheduled to end with the upcoming season.
The editors are seeking original, smart, intellectually challenging
but readable 3,000 to 5,000 word essays, demonstrating solid
knowledge of the series and its television context and appealing to
both academics and serious fans. A suggestive list of subjects can be
found below. A website for the book can be found
at http:// davidlavery.net/Supernatural.
Send your proposal (not more than 500 words) in length and a brief
bio to both (david.lavery /at/ gmail.com) and (s.abbott /at/ roehampton.ac.uk) by
no later than December 1, 2009. Contributors chosen for inclusion in
the book will then have until the end of the summer of 2010 to submit
their finished essays. Feel free to write the editors with
preliminary questions.
The Editors
David Lavery is Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State
University. The author of numerous essays and
reviews and author/co- author/editor/co-editor
of seventeen books published or under
contract, including Joss: A Creative Portrait of the Maker of the
Whedonverses (I. B. Tauris/St. Martin's, 2009), The Essential Cult TV
Reader (U P Kentucky, 2010), and volumes on such television series as
Twin Peaks, The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Sopranos,
Lost, Deadwood, Seinfeld, My So Called Life, Heroes, Gilmore Girls,
and Battlestar Galactica, he co-edits the e-journal Slayage: The
Online International Journal of Buffy Studies and is one of the
founding editors of Critical Studies in Television: Scholarly Studies
of Small Screen Fictions. He has lectured around the world on the
subject of television.
Stacey Abbott is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at
Roehampton University. She is the editor/co-editor of Reading Angel:
The TV Spin-off with a Soul (I. B. Tauris, 2005), Investigating
Alias: Secrets and Spies (I. B. Tauris, 2007), and (with Deborah
Jermyn) Falling in Love Again: Romantic Comedy in Contemporary
Cinema, and is the General Editor for Tauris' Investigating Cult TV
series. She is also the author of Angel (TV Milestones, Wayne State
University Press, 2007) and Celluloid Vampires (University of Texas
Press, 2007).
Supernatural Topics
This list is only intended to be suggestive. Please feel free to
propose papers on topics not listed here. SN = Supernatural
Jensen Ackles (SN actor) acting advertising/marketing of SN
Alastair (SN character) America American Godsâ?? (Neil Gaiman)
influence on Eric Kripke
ancillary texts (comics, novels, official and unofficial guides,
etc.) angels apocalypse
Ash (SN character) Azazel (SN character) Pamela Barnes (SN character)
Jim Beaver (SN actor) Charles Beeson (SN director) the Bible
books Steve Boyum (Supernatural director) Lisa Braeden (SN character)
Jeremy Carver (SN writer) Castiel (SN character) the Colt
Mischa Collins (SN actor) James L. Conway (SN director) Barry Cook
(SN character)
costuming' Crossroads Demon (SN character) Andrew Dabb (SN writer)
deaths of major characters demons, monsters, villains dreams
Ben Edlund (SN writer) Carver Edlund (pen name of Chuck Shurley)
Daniel Elkins (SN character)
Peter Ellis (Supernatural director) faith families
fight scenes folklore food
Sera Gamble (SN writer) gender genre
Ellen and Jo Harvelle (SN characters) Richard Hatem (SN writer) Hell
Hellblazer comicsâ?? influence on Eric Kripke FBI Agent Victor
Henricksen (SN character) high school
Terri Hughes (SN writer) humor Cathryn Humphris (Supernatural writer)
the Impala individual episodes of SN intertextuality
John Winchesterâ??s journal Kansas Eric Kripke (SN creator)
language(s) LARPING (live action role playinig) Lilith (SN character)
Daniel Loflin (SN writer) Lucifer (SN character) magic
Kim Manners (SN director) Meg Masters (SN character) McG (SN producer)
metatextuality Ron Milbauer (SN writer) Anna Milton (SN character)
minor characters Jessica Moore (SN character) Jeffrey Dean Morgan (SN
actor)
music narrative David Nutter (SN director)
Jared Padalecki (SN actor) Mark Pellegrino (SN actor) pop culture
references
prophecy race the road
road culture the Roadhouse (SN location) Mike Rohl (SN director)
romance Ruby (SN character) Ruby's knife
Sam & Dean as brothers Sam and Dean's "secret" identities Sandman
comicsâ?? influence on Eric Kripke
Season 1 of SN Season 2 of SN Season 3 of SN
Season 4 of SN Season 5 of SN season finales
self-referentiality set design sex
Philip Sgriccia (SN director) John Shiban (SN writer) Chuck Shurley
(SN character)
Julie Siege (SN writer) Bobby Singer (SN character) Robert Singer (SN
director/producer)
Singer Salvage Yard the 66 seals space and place
Harry Spangler (SN character) special effects story arcs
subplots subtexts SN & postmodernism
Supernatural & Quality TV SN & the American television industry SN &
religion
SN & television scheduling SN & the CW SN & the WB
SN & the writerâ??s strike SN & TV auteurism SN abroad
SNâ??s audience SN comic books SN â??s credit sequences
Supernatural directors SN DVD commentaries SN fan communities
SN fan fiction Supernatural in the media SN influences
SN merchandise SN Official Companions Supernatural on the web
SN tie-in novels SN writers SNâ??s influences
Bela Talbot (SN character) tall tales teaching SN
Tessa (SN character) â??thenâ?? and â??nowâ?? ("previously on"
Supernatural) J. Miller Tobin (SN director)
Tom (SN character) Raelle Tucker (SN writer) urban legends
Uriel (SN character) Vancouver Gordon Walker (SN character)
Dean Winchester (SN character) John Winchester (SN character) Mary
Winchester (SN character)
Sam Winchester (SN character) Young Dean Winchester (SN character)
Young John Winchester (SN character)
Young Mary Winchester (SN character) Young Sam Winchester (SN
character) the Winchester Gospels
Matt Witten (SN writer) Zachariah (SN character) Ed Zeddmore (SN
character)
Dr. Stacey Abbott
Reader in Film and Television Studies
Programme Convenor for Film Studies
School of Arts
Roehampton University
Roehampton Lane
London
SW15 5PH
tel: 0208 392 3439
