[Commlist] CFP: The Multiverse (edited collection)

Call for Chapters: /Entering the Multiverse/, Edited Collection



Editor:

Paul Booth, DePaul University



The multiverse is, seemingly, everywhere all at once. The recent success 
of multiverse-focused media across platforms (e.g., films like 
/Everything Everywhere All at Once /and/ Spiderman: Into the 
Spiderverse; /television like the CW/DC multiverse crossovers or the 
/His Dark Materials/ adaptation; literature like /Dark Matter/ by Blake 
Crouch or /This Is How You Lose The Time War/ by Amal El-Mohtar and Max 
Gladstone; multiple comic book/graphic novel storylines, etc.) speaks to 
significant issues within contemporary culture. Different from 
transmedia (one narrative told across media boundaries) or shared 
universes (spin-offs that take place within the same media universe), 
multiverse fiction explores alternate realities, multiple canons, and 
contradictory realities within the confines of one fictional narrative.

In this volume, I hope to encompass the multiplicity of the concept of 
the multiverse through multiple perspectives. This is a story that can 
only be told through the edited collection: where each essay advances a 
theory of the cultural relevance of the multiverse concept while 
retaining its own unique philosophy or theory. I am particularly 
interested in the concept of the multiverse across cultural boundaries, 
non-western approaches to the multiverse concept, and multiple 
iterations of the multiverse.



Essays may explore, but are certainly not limited to, the following topics:

-Scientific explorations of the concept of the multiverse

-The multiverse in various media forms

-Different types of multiverses

-Inclusion in multiverse fiction

-Historical explorations of the concept of the multiverse

-Multiversal theories

-Practical applications of multiverse theory

-Diversity and the multiverse


Please submit proposals of 300-500 words with a brief biographical 
statement and contact information via email attachment to Paul Booth at 
(pbooth /at/ depaul.edu) <mailto:(pbooth /at/ depaul.edu)> no later than Aug 31, 2023. 
Notice of acceptance will be sent out by Sept 15, 2023. Draft chapters 
of 5-6,000 words (inclusive of works cited) will be due March 15, 2024.


---------------
The COMMLIST
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier. Please use it responsibly and wisely.
--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://commlist.org/
--
Before sending a posting request, please always read the guidelines at http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ commlist.org)
URL: http://nicocarpentier.net
---------------