[ecrea] CFP--Reception Studies Society

Sent for Professor Daniel Morris at (dmorris /at/ purdue.edu):

The Reception Study Society is pleased to announce a call for essays on 
the histories, practices, and futures of fandom as it intersects with 
reception studies.  The proposed edited book collection, which will be 
submitted to Bloomsbury Academic for review, will include essays on 
fandom and the history of reading and the book, cultural studies, 
audience and communication studies, institutional studies, and 
interpretive strategies.

  The editors of this collection are seeking essays in all genres and 
historical periods. The editors, for example, would look forward to 
reading essays devoted to strategies of cultural consumption and 
unauthorized production in the Victorian period (that is, how fans 
treated Sherlock Holmes as a real person whose death was unimaginable; 
the frenzy surrounding performance tours by opera singer Jenny Lind, and 
the musical compositions of Richard Wagner; amateur-authored fanfiction 
serials such as Pickwick Abroad.)  The editors would equally like to see 
work on manifestations of fandom as a form of reception in relation to 
such contemporary phenomena as those surrounding Harry Potter, /Fifty 
Shades of Grey/, anime, cosplay (costume play), message boards, and 
gaming subcultures.

  The editors seek essays that examine theoretical issues and critical 
topics related to fandom as an active form of cultural reception that 
blurs the lines between production and consumption. Essays might 
explore, among other topics:

·         how the subcultural practice of fandom challenges ideas of 
authorship, originality, and copyright;

·         the question of fan labor and marketing in the modernist 
period of mass culture and in the digital period, replete with various 
narrowcastings of the audience;

·         the legal, ethical, and creative relationships of fanfiction 
and cosplay in relation to canonical texts;

·         the role of social media and social networking in the 
development of fandom;

·         the nature of amateurism, performance, and international and 
transnational contexts;

·         the relation of fandom to disease, disability, and mania;

·         conventions, collecting, fan mail, and pilgrimages;

·         issues of class, race, and gender constructions in 
reception/fandom.

If you are interested in contributing a chapter of approximately 15-30 
pages please email the volume editor Professor Daniel Morris at 
(dmorris /at/ purdue.edu) with an informative abstract of at least 500 words, 
along with a biography indicating your current position, affiliation, 
and research interests. Abstracts should be not only a brief 
description, but also indicate research methodologies, case studies, 
and/or theoretical positions, along with conclusions drawn.

This call will close on December 15, 2017.




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