[Commlist] Call for Chapters: Transnational Monsters Edited Volume

Transnational Monsters: Reframing Monstrosity and Global Crisis
Monstrosity has long been explored in a number of ways that connect 
gender, sexuality, class, race, nationality and other forms of otherness 
with depictions of monsters or monstrosity (Wood, Williams, Halberstam, 
Clover, Benshoff). While the collection explores cultural flow as it 
relates to the construction of a transnational genre, by both producers 
and by audiences, it also explores the ramifications of representations 
of monstrosity in socio-political terms as they relate to a tumultuous 
era of global crises. This era has of course been amplified and altered 
by the Covid pandemic, which frames the content of this collection. This 
ongoing crisis imbues the discourses of monstrosity, global catastrophe 
and societal and human vulnerability with significant expression in 
artistic terms.  
The authors in this book engage with the most contemporary period of 
Earth’s existence in which human activity has begun, markedly, to have 
affected the climate and ecological status of the planet. We are now in 
a novel period in time which is characterised by humankind’s dominance 
of ecological systems and many of the texts addressed within this book 
engage with the outcomes thereof, or as Keith Moser has characterised it 
in The Metaphor of the Monster: Interdisciplinary approaches to 
understanding the monstrous other in literature, the ‘disquieting 
ecological anxiety related to the dawn of the Anthropocene’ (2020: 63). 
The collection therefore explores the ways in which monsters 
metaphorically represent forms of social and political otherness as they 
relate to cross-cultural or transnational forms, either directly or 
indirectly. The examination of the figure of the monster from a 
transnational perspective offers the opportunity to better understand 
issues of cultural production and influence, the relationship between 
national cultures and transnational formations, hierarchies of cultural 
production, the ethics of transnationalism, as well as the possibility 
to explore how shifting cultural and political boundaries have been 
represented through tropes of monstrosity.
We are seeking several chapters from any aspect of screen studies, to 
complete our edited volume which is already under contract with 
Cambridge Scholars Press.
We are looking, in addition to broader proposals, for work which addresses:


Covid/Viral Horrors
Ancient Monsters
Gyno-Horror
Cross-border appropriations of traditional monsters
Reflections of monstrosity that metaphorise contemporary global crises 
(socio-economic, mental health, migration, climate, etc.)

Please include a 300-word abstract and a 100-word author bio and send it 
to both (s.rawle /at/ yorksj.ac.uk) and (m.hall /at/ yorksj.ac.uk) The deadline for 
proposals is 17th October 2022, with draft chapters due 1st June 2023.

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