<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> Gerry Canavan <gerrycanavan@gmail.com><br><b>Date:</b> May 1, 2023 at 20:18:47 PDT<br><b>To:</b> SFRA@jiscmail.ac.uk<br><b>Subject:</b> <b>CFP: "Black Girl Protagonists in Science Fiction TV and Film" (SFFTV)</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> Gerry Canavan <gerrycanavan@gmail.com><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";min-height:15px"><b style="font-size:11.5px">Call for Proposals:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><b style="font-size:11.5px">"<i>The Dark Fantastic </i>by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>Black Girl Protagonists in Science Fiction TV and Film"<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"><br></span></b><a href="https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/pb-assets/documents/Journals/sfftv_Black%20Fantastic%20CFP-1682698592.pdf">https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/pb-assets/documents/Journals/sfftv_Black%20Fantastic%20CFP-1682698592.pdf<b><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"><br></span></b></a></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Ebony Elizabeth Thomas’s pathbreaking book <i>The Dark Fantastic </i>(2019) has given new direction to debates about race, gender, and power in fantastic fiction. In her work, Thomas charts the Dark Fantastic Cycle, a pattern that consists of Black female characters moving through a sequence that includes the following: (1) spectacle, (2) hesitation, (3) violence, (4) haunting, and (5) emancipation. In examining this cycle, she posits that the Dark Other is a foundational presence in fantastic storyworlds, where desirable qualities are explicitly associated with whiteness and Blackness is consistently associated with “the monstrous Thing that is the root cause of hesitation, ambivalence, and the uncanny.” At the same time, Thomas voices a powerful call to “re-story” fantastic storyworlds in ways that release captive characters from the cycle of the Dark Fantastic, allowing for more participatory, and more imaginative stories and worlds—as many Afrofururist and Black fantasy storytellers have been doing across media.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><br>Thomas’s interdisciplinary approach to the “imagination gap” that has afflicted fantastic fiction gives us new ways to approach science fiction and its related genres. The editors of Science Fiction Film and Television are therefore proud to announce a forthcoming special issue dedicated to pushing Thomas’ work forward through a disruption of the Dark Fantastic Cycle with specific attention to Black girl protagonists in science fiction and film. For this issue, we have invited Drs. S. R. Toliver and Autumn A. Griffin, mentees of Dr. Thomas, as special co-guest editors, who have agreed to be centrally involved in the selection of articles and the overall organization of the special issue. We therefore invite contributions that engage meaningfully with the key concepts, methods, and proposals from The Dark Fantastic, and thereby to further the lines of thinking that Dr. Thomas has initiated in her book.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"><br></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Thomas argues that “an emancipatory Black fantastic requires interrupting the dark fantastic cycle in order to create new paradigms” (p. 169). Thus, potential questions for inquiry/interrogation include:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
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<li class="gmail-li3" style="margin:0px 0px 1.4px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">• How are science fiction authors (re)imagining stories about Black girls?<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></li>
<li class="gmail-li4" style="margin:0px 0px 1.4px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal">• </span>How are Black girls (re)imagined in science fiction stories (e.g. <i>See You Yesterday, Fast Color, Black Lightning, Titans)</i>?<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></li>
<li class="gmail-li4" style="margin:0px 0px 1.4px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal">• </span>How do Black women science fiction television and filmmakers (re)frame and (re)center Black girls’ racialized and gendered identities (e.g., <i>A Wrinkle in Time, Brown Girl Begins, Naomi, Lovecraft Country, Pumzi)</i>?<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></li>
<li class="gmail-li4" style="margin:0px 0px 1.4px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal">• </span>How are Black women creators narrating themselves into existence in science fiction film and television?<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></li>
<li class="gmail-li2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal">• </span>In what ways do Black women and girl science fiction fans (books, film, and TV) engage with/in fandom?<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></li>
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<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Timeline<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
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<li class="gmail-li4" style="margin:0px 0px 1.4px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal">• </span><b>May 1, 2023: </b>CFP<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></li>
<li class="gmail-li4" style="margin:0px 0px 1.4px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal">• </span><b>May 31, 2023: </b>Abstracts due<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></li>
<li class="gmail-li2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal">• </span><b>June 30, 2023: </b>Authors notified<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></li><li class="gmail-li4" style="margin:0px 0px 1.4px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal">• </span><b>December 2, 2023: </b>Drafts due to editors<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></li>
<li class="gmail-li4" style="margin:0px 0px 1.4px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal">• </span><b>March 8, 2024: </b>Initial feedback from editors<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></li>
<li class="gmail-li4" style="margin:0px 0px 1.4px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal">• </span><b>June 3, 2024: </b>Final drafts to editors to send for peer review<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></li>
<li class="gmail-li2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal">• </span><b>Fall 2024: </b>Special Issue Publication<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></li>
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<p class="gmail-p5" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";min-height:12px"><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>Questions can be sent to the Guest Editors, Autumn Griffin & Stephanie Toliver at: </b><span class="gmail-s3" style="color:rgb(4,98,193)"><b><a href="mailto:DarkFantasticSI2023@gmail.com">DarkFantasticSI2023@gmail.com</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div><span style="font-size:x-small"><br>---------------------</span><font size="1"><br>My working day may not be your working day. Please don't feel any obligation to reply to this email outside of your normal working hours.<br></font></div><div><font size="1"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><font size="1" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Need a meeting? Set one up here:</font><font size="1" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </font><u style="color:rgb(0,0,238);font-size:x-small"><a href="https://fantastical.app/gerrycanavan/30-minute-meeting" target="_blank">https://fantastical.app/gerrycanavan/30-minute-meeting</a></u></div><div><br></div><div><font size="1">Gerry Canavan (he/him)</font></div><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><font color="#222222" size="1">Immediate Past President, Science Fiction Research Association (2023-2025) </font></div><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><font color="#222222" size="1">Managing Editor, <i>Science Fiction Film and Television </i></font></div><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><font color="#222222" size="1">Associate Professor of 20th and 21st Century Literature and Chair</font><br></div><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><font color="#222222" size="1">English Department, Marquette University</font></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small"> </span></div><div><font size="1"><a href="mailto:gerry.canavan@marquette.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">gerry.canavan@marquette.edu</a> </font></div><div><a href="http://www.gerrycanavan.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><font size="1">http://www.gerrycanavan.com<br></font></a></div><div><a href="http://www.gerrycanavan.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><font size="1"><br></font></a></div><div><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><font size="1">Marquette University is located in Milwaukee County, the ancestral lands of the Menominee, Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, Fox, Mascouten, Sauk, and Ojibwe nations.</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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