[ecrea] cfp: Queering the Whedonverses

Queering the Whedonverses—a Slayage special issue

Over the last 15 years, Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies and other 
publications have featured a range of writing and scholarship about 
queer issues, identity and representations related to the Whedonverses 
but there has not yet been a publication dedicated solely to queer 
Whedon studies. A renewed interest in feminism and queer identities in 
mainstream culture and academia, alongside greater public recognition 
for LGBTQ issues and more attention being paid to popular culture across 
media: all suggest that the time is right for a concentrated examination 
of the Whedonverses from the perspective of queer theory and queer 
identities as they overlap but also differ, in all their complexity as 
they exist within an intersectional world. The editors of this Slayage 
special issue thus invite proposals for papers on any aspect of 
queerness and the Whedonverses, in specific national or international 
contexts.

Contributions may focus on, but are not restricted to:
•       Queer sex and sexualities
•       Queer bodies
•       Queering as a discourse or position of subversion or “troubling” 
normativity
•       Queer studies, the Whedonverses, and the academy
•       Teaching queer studies via Whedonverse texts
•       Subject-specific approaches to queering the Whedonverses
•       Intersectional approaches to queerness within the Whedonverses
•       Production and creation
•       Acting and performance
•       Audiences, reception, consumption
•       Fan activity and production
•       Formats, platforms and media—are some more open to being queered 
than others?
•       Aesthetics (including sound and music)
•       Comparative studies of Whedonverse productions, or the 
Whedonverses and, e.g., the Marvel Universe
•       Genres and genre-queering: comedy, musical, melodrama, horror, 
Gothic, action, science fiction, superheroes
•       Tropes, stereotypes and the same old stories
•       Cult and mainstream, high and low culture, taste and ‘quality’

Send a 200-300 word proposal and a short bio by 16 December 2016 to 
Lorna Jowett ((lorna.jowett /at/ northampton.ac.uk)) and Hélène 
Frohard-Dourlent ((helenefd /at/ gmail.com)), who will notify you early in 
January 2017 if your proposal is accepted. If your proposal is accepted 
please note that a first draft will be due in April 2017.


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