[ecrea] CFP: Textual Reception – Exploring Audiences’ Writing Practices from a Gender Perspective

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CFP: Textual Reception – Exploring Audiences’ Writing Practices from a 
Gender Perspective (special issue of Genre en séries / Gender in Series)
Editors: Sébastien François (Labex ICCA, Université Paris 13)  and 
Thomas Pillard (IRCAV, Université Paris 3)


Whether through fan mail sent to celebrities and the popular press, 
critical pieces, derivative narratives such as fan fictions and other 
outlets, media audiences have often chosen writing as a privileged way 
to extend their experiences of reception. In very different contexts 
indeed, individuals have written about the cultural objects they loved 
or execrated, using various media to express themselves. If preserved 
and accessible, all these texts can reveal a lot about their authors, 
but also about the composition and structure of the audiences they 
belong or have belonged to. Above all, they are spaces in which the 
making of gendered identities and relationships within these audiences 
can be observed, providing scholars valuable resources to study media 
reception from a gender perspective.
This special issue of /Gender in Series/ aims to gather works dedicated 
to the analysis of audience's writing practices through the lens of 
gender, broadly speaking, to illuminate both the media cultures and the 
social discourses produced by these specific audiences. Previous works 
have already showed how “ordinary”, “domestic” or “fan” writings may be 
highly gendered and researchers are therefore invited to provide new 
case studies. Contributions that focus on the writers’ profiles, their 
writing and, if applicable, publishing conditions, are particularly 
encouraged, as well as those interested in the social meanings and uses 
of audience’s texts from individual or collective perspectives. In the 
line of works that have explored the relation between reading and gender 
or the construction of identities through mass media, it seems essential 
to understand how these writings can be means of self-presentation or 
how they convey ideological representations and determinations about 
gender. It is all the more important since they are inspired by cultural 
contents which are themselves embedded within social and gendered norms. 
Besides, as writing forms continue to have a central role – offline and 
online – in reception practices, this special issue also welcomes 
comparative works establishing bridges between different kinds of 
writing materials or between heterogeneous eras or contexts: identifying 
the proximities or ruptures within forms of textual reception will be 
helpful to discuss how media cultures and gender issues interact and how 
these interactions may change in time.
Contributors should feel free to focus on any type of written textual 
reception, whatever its content (correspondence, commentary, fiction, 
etc.) or media (paper, digital, etc.), and whether the texts were 
supposed to be publicly released or to remain in the private sphere. 
This special issue wishes to address textual reception in its diversity: 
articles may deal with objects of affection (or disgust) from literary, 
musical and audiovisual fields or deal with celebrities related to arts, 
sports or even politics. Proposals from any of the different social 
sciences (sociology, history, film and television studies, cultural and 
media studies, etc.) will be considered, provided the analysis is based 
on empirical material, derived from archives, ethnographic research 
and/or digital research. Articles may deal with the most involved 
amateurs, such as “fans”, but may also focus on more “ordinary” cultural 
consumers, as long as they have taken a pen or a keyboard to express 
themselves. Finally, even if studies about writings produced between the 
end of the nineteenth to the twenty-first century are preferred, more 
comparative works or approaches relying on older writings will, when 
appropriate, be taken into account.
Full CFP (with additional research directions, references, and practical 
information): 
http://www.thomaspillard.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/CFP-Gender-in-Series-Textual-Reception.pdf
(suggested references: 
http://genreenseries.weebly.com/bibliographie-appel-numeacutero-7.html)
Abstracts should be sent to the coordinators of this special issue:
- Sébastien François: (sebastien.francois /at/ rocketmail.com)
- Thomas Pillard: (thomas /at/ pillard.nom.fr)
Important dates:
- Deadline for submissions: November 30, 2016
- Notification of acceptance or rejection: December 15, 2016
- Reception of full papers: March 1, 2017
- Reviews sent to authors: May 2017
- Reception of final articles: September 1, 2017
- Online publication: Fall 2017
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