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[Commlist] CFP: Multiverse (Edited collection)

Tue Aug 01 10:06:57 GMT 2023




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

Update: Call for new forms/chapters (fiction, creative nonfiction, academic essay, comic, poem, etc.)



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 /or/Spider-man: 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 chapter of which advances a theory of the cultural relevance of the multiverse concept while retaining its own unique philosophy or theory.

Chapters can be in whatever form the author thinks best suits the topic: fiction, creative non-fiction, academic essay, comic, poem, etc.

Paul Booth is particularly interested in the concept of the multiverse across cultural boundaries, non-western approaches to the multiverse concept, and multiple iterations of the multiverse.



Chapters 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. In your proposal, please note what genre you will be writing in. 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.


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