Call for Papers
Edited Collection: Ages of Heroes, Eras of Men
Edited By
Julian C. Chambliss, Assistant Professor Department of History, Rollins
College, Thomas C. Donaldson, Department of History, University of Albany
and William Svitavsky, Associate Professor & Electronic Resource Librarian,
Rollins College
This edited volume will offer a collection of essays that explores the
current scholarship related to superhero comics and comic culture in U.S.
society. Despite the current popularity of superhero comics in the popular
media, scholarship exploring the comic medium remains limited in scope and
depth. Adding to recent scholarship that has striven to define the
superhero's unique relationship to American culture, this volume will offer
critical appraisal of the race, class, and gender as presented in superhero
stories and how, if at all, this genre informs the construction,
representation, and distortion of American culture.
Topics of interest for submission may include but are not limited to the
following:
Race and the Superhero
Gender and the Superhero
Superheroes and Nationalism
Religion and the Superhero
The Superhero in the Media
The Superhero and Identity
Please note, we are especially interested in consideration of specific
comic eras from the above perspectives.
For consideration, please send the following information to William
Svitavsky (wsvitavsky_at_rollins.edu) by 1st May 2008:
1. Paper title and abstract/proposal (500 words max.)
2. Brief vita or one-paragraph biography
3. Complete personal information: name, department, academic institution,
mailing address, and e-mail address.
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Iain Robert Smith
Institute of Film and Television
School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
University Park
NG7 2RD
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