[Commlist] CFP Screening Queer Horror - An Edited Collection

CFP: Screening Queer Horror A collection of essays edited by Dr Linnie 
Blake and Heather Petrocelli of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies.

2019 was a watershed moment for queer horror visibility, particularly in 
cinema: from Shudder’s announcement of their upcoming queer horror 
documentary to Rue Morgue ’s first-ever ‘Queer Fear’ special issue, and 
from the world’s largest study about horror-loving queers to the rapid 
proliferation of queer horror podcasts. With this increased focus and 
attention on the relationship between queerness and horror, we propose 
an edited collection focused on queer/queered horror that not only 
recasts a critical eye on the cinematic past, but also explores 
theoretical perspectives on and new queer readings of horror films of 
the post-millennial present. Screening Queer Horror welcomes work from 
both emerging scholars who cast an analytic, theoretical, and 
historically engaged ‘queer lens’ on horror films, horror shorts, horror 
television, and horror video games. Transdisciplinary in scope, this 
collection welcomes papers from varied theoretical, historical, 
critical, and/or methodological approaches. We especially encourage 
submissions from queer women, POC, and/or Trans* scholars. Those working 
within materialist parameters, including the feminist tradition, are 
particularly welcome. Themes and topics may include (but are not limited 
to): ● New analytical perspectives on historical queer/queered subtext 
in horror ● The politics of queer representation ● Queer horror in its 
historical moment ● The interface of queer identity discourse ● The 
actualities of life in the neoliberal period, from the 1970s to the 
present ● Global perspectives of identity and representation in queer 
horror ● Queer/queered bodies in horror ● Queer monstrosity and the 
“Other” ● The 21st-century international renaissance of horror 
television ● Queer horror directors, screenwriters, producers and actors 
● Queer horror fandom ● Horror film festivals and conventions 
Submission Guidelines: Potential contributors should submit a 300-word 
abstract for a proposed paper and a short bio by June 1, 2020 editors: 
(l.blake /at/ mmu.ac.uk) & (heather.petrocelli /at/ stu.mmu.ac.uk) . Images, if used, 
should be free from copyright issues (i.e. permissions should be 
obtained from the copyright holders and/or sourced from the public 
domain/creative commons). Deadlines: Abstract submission: 1 June 2020 
(with abstract acceptance notification within the month) Chapter 
submission (of between 5000 and 7000 words): 1 December 2020.


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