<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-panel-pane gmail-pane-node-title" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,"DejaVu Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div class="gmail-pane-content"><h2 style="line-height:2em;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em">Transgender Science Fiction</h2></div></div><div class="gmail-panel-separator" style="margin:0px 0px 1em;clear:both;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,"DejaVu Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px"></div><div class="gmail-panel-pane gmail-pane-entity-field gmail-pane-node-field-cfp-due-date" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,"DejaVu Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div class="gmail-pane-content"><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-name-field-cfp-due-date gmail-field-type-datetime gmail-field-label-inline gmail-clearfix"><div class="gmail-field-label" style="font-weight:bold;float:left">deadline for submissions: </div><div class="gmail-field-items" style="float:left"><div class="gmail-field-item even"><span class="gmail-date-display-single">August 15, 2023</span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-panel-separator" style="margin:0px 0px 1em;clear:both;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,"DejaVu Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px"></div><div class="gmail-panel-pane gmail-pane-entity-field gmail-pane-node-field-cfp-contact-name" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,"DejaVu Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div class="gmail-pane-content"><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-name-field-cfp-contact-name gmail-field-type-text gmail-field-label-above"><div class="gmail-field-label" style="font-weight:bold">full name / name of organization: </div><div class="gmail-field-items"><div class="gmail-field-item even">Douglas A. Vakoch, PhD</div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-panel-separator" style="margin:0px 0px 1em;clear:both;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,"DejaVu Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px"></div><div class="gmail-panel-pane gmail-pane-entity-field gmail-pane-node-field-cfp-contact-email" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,"DejaVu Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div class="gmail-pane-content"><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-name-field-cfp-contact-email gmail-field-type-email gmail-field-label-above"><div class="gmail-field-label" style="font-weight:bold">contact email: </div><div class="gmail-field-items"><div class="gmail-field-item even"><a href="mailto:dvakoch@ciis.edu">dvakoch@ciis.edu</a></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-panel-separator" style="margin:0px 0px 1em;clear:both;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,"DejaVu Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px"></div><div class="gmail-panel-pane gmail-pane-entity-field gmail-pane-node-field-cfp-content" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,"DejaVu Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div class="gmail-pane-content"><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-name-field-cfp-content gmail-field-type-text-long gmail-field-label-hidden"><div class="gmail-field-items"><div class="gmail-field-item even"><p style="margin:1.5em 0px">Chapter proposals are invited for the edited book <strong><em>Transgender Science Fiction</em></strong>. Interested authors should submit a 300-word abstract, a 200-word biography, and a sample of a previously published chapter or article to the Dropbox folder at <a href="https://bit.ly/Transgender_Science_Fiction">https://bit.ly/Transgender_Science_Fiction</a> no later than August 15, 2023.</p><p style="margin:1.5em 0px">A sampling of<strong> confirmed contributors</strong> includes:</p><ul style="margin:1.5em 0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 30px"><li>“A Trans-ing of Liminal Gender in Michael Faber’s <em>Under the Skin</em>,” Nicole Anae, PhD, Department of Literary and Cultural Studies, <strong>Central Queensland University, Australia</strong></li><li>“Unpacking Time Loops in <em>See You Yesterday</em>,” Joshua Bastian Cole, PhD, Department of Performing and Media Arts, <strong>Cornell University, USA</strong></li><li>“Speculative Disidentifications: Multiple Gender and Multiplication of Species in the Novels <em>La comemadre</em> by Roque Larraquy, <em>La mucama de Omicunlé</em> by Rita Indiana, and <em>Ornamento</em> by Juan Cárdenas,” Cristián Opazo, PhD, Facultad de Letras, <strong>Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile</strong>; Ignacio Pastén Lopez, MA, Latin American, Iberian and Latin Cultures Program (LAILaC), <strong>City University of New York (CUNY), USA</strong></li></ul><p style="margin:1.5em 0px"><strong>We seek a broadly international group of scholarly contributors.</strong></p><p style="margin:1.5em 0px">The editor’s previous books include <em><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Ecofeminist-Science-Fiction-International-Perspectives-on-Gender-Ecology/Vakoch/p/book/9780367716417">Ecofeminist Science Fiction </a></em>(2021), <em><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-96386-6">Transgender India</a></em> (2022), <em><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Transecology-Transgender-Perspectives-on-Environment-and-Nature/Vakoch/p/book/9780367512958">Transecology</a></em> (2021), <em><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Xenolinguistics-Towards-a-Science-of-Extraterrestrial-Language/Vakoch-Punske/p/book/9781032399591">Xenolinguistics</a></em> (2024), <em><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Dystopias-and-Utopias-on-Earth-and-Beyond-Feminist-Ecocriticism-of-Science/Vakoch/p/book/9780367716233">Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond </a></em>(2021), and <em><a href="https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Ecofeminism-and-Literature/Vakoch/p/book/9781032050119">The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature</a></em> (2023).</p><p style="margin:1.5em 0px">This is a<strong> volume of literary, film, and media theory and criticism</strong> guided by both <strong>transgender studies </strong>and<strong> science fiction studies</strong>. To be competitive, abstracts must:</p><ul style="margin:1.5em 0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 30px"><li>Show how <strong>transgender studies</strong> and <strong>science fiction studies </strong>can each provide perspectives typically overlooked, ignored, or downplayed by the other field.</li><li>Engage one or more <strong>key scholarly works from both transgender studies and science fiction studies</strong>, demonstrating the value of diverse approaches to analyzing literature, film, and other media. (If you do not list specific writings from both transgender studies and science fiction studies that you will draw upon, you have not addressed this point.)</li><li>As the result of this dialogue between transgender studies and science fiction studies, <strong>provide insights into literature, film, and other media that neither transgender studies nor science fiction studies can offer by itself</strong>.</li></ul><p style="margin:1.5em 0px"><strong>Any abstract that does not explicitly address the above three points in depth will likely be rejected.</strong></p><p style="margin:1.5em 0px">Solid first drafts of full chapters are due by February 1, 2024, and final versions that cross-reference other chapters extensively are due April 1, 2024. <strong>At least one author of each chapter must have already completed their doctorate.</strong> In your 200-word biography, please note the year and university where you earned your doctorate. <strong>Only previously unpublished works will be considered.</strong> </p><p style="margin:1.5em 0px">As you search for scholarly journals to support your analysis, good places to start for science fiction studies include <em><a href="https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/extr">Extrapolation</a>, <a href="https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/masthead.htm">Science Fiction Studies</a>, <a href="https://www.sf-foundation.org/">Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction</a>, <a href="https://publish.lib.umd.edu/?journal=scifi">MOSF Journal of Science Fiction</a>, <a href="https://www.nyrsf.com/">The New York Review of Science Fiction</a>,</em> and <em><a href="http://journal.finfar.org/">Fafnir—Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research</a></em>. In transgender studies, helpful journals include <em><a href="https://read.dukeupress.edu/tsq">TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly</a>,<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/action/aboutThisJournal?journalCode=wijt20"> International Journal of Transgender Health</a>, <a href="https://bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/">Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies</a>,</em> and <em><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjgs20/current">Journal of Gender Studies</a>.</em></p><p style="margin:1.5em 0px">Abstracts and biographies should be submitted as Word documents, and previously published chapters or articles should be submitted as PDFs. Both Word files and PDFs should contain the author’s name in the file names. <strong>Please include your email address in your biography file, or there will be no way to contact you.</strong></p></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>andré m. carrington <br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Associate Professor of English</div><div>University of California, Riverside</div><div>--</div><div><a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/speculative-blackness" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>