[Commlist] Call for Complete or Nearly Complete Chapters, Handbook on Games and Sex/Sexuality

Call for Complete or Nearly Complete Chapters, Handbook on Games and 
Sex/Sexuality

We have a contract with Bloomsbury Publishing for a handbook on the 
intersection of video games and sexual content and sexuality. 
Traditionally, handbooks are envisioned as comprehensive surveys of the 
discipline aimed at the library market. Volumes typically consist of 
about 25-35 contributions written by experts in their respective areas 
of the field. Much work has been done by our contributors already and we 
are working with them on final edits and revisions. However, to be 
blunt, attrition due to many factors has taken a toll on us and we are 
now a few chapters short of our target. Our publisher has given us 
permission to do a second call for contributors.

The concept behind a handbook is to compile a comprehensive assembly of 
essays in an attempt to map a discipline. As such we are primarily, but 
not necessarily exclusively, looking for synthesis/review essays that 
bring together existing research. We are not opposed to efforts which 
map out new directions in the field as long as they consider where we 
are as a basis for where we might/will be going. What makes this topic 
intriguing is that both the borders of sex and sexuality and the nature 
of video games resist easy categorization. Game Studies as an “academic 
field” is inherently interdisciplinary, creating both challenge and 
opportunity for how to conceptualize this (these) topic(s).

If you have a near publication quality paper to round out an impressive 
collection of chapters, we would love to work with you as a possible 
contributor. Please send it along with a short author(s) bio to Matthew 
Wysocki ((mwysocki /at/ flagler.edu)) AND Steffi Shook 
((Steffi.Shook /at/ mville.edu)). While the publisher is working with us the 
original schedule was to have the completed manuscript to them by the 
end of summer.


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