<div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)" class="gmail_default">Perhaps of interest ...</div><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Sherryl Vint (she/her)</font><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Distinguished Professor</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Departments of English and of Media & Cultural Studies</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Managing Editor, <i><a href="https://online.ucpress.edu/sfs" target="_blank">Science Fiction Studies</a> </i></font></div><div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font size="1" face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><i>We at UCR would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our </i><i>responsibility to the original and current caretakers of this land, water, </i><i>and air: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of </i><i>their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. Today this </i><i>meeting place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, </i><i>including UCR faculty, students, and staff, and we are grateful to have the </i><i>opportunity to live and work on these homelands.</i></font></div></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Sorcha Ni Fhlainn</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:S.Ni-Fhlainn@mmu.ac.uk">S.Ni-Fhlainn@mmu.ac.uk</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, 16 Sept 2025 at 01:42<br>Subject: Invitation: 50 Years of Star Wars (MUP)<br>To: Sherryl Vint <<a href="mailto:sherrylv@ucr.edu">sherrylv@ucr.edu</a>><br>Cc: Christine Gengaro <<a href="mailto:christinegengaro@gmail.com">christinegengaro@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div class="msg4981271862462500034">
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Dear Sherryl,</div>
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We wanted to invite you to the call below, in case it is of interest? </div>
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We are seeking targeted submissions for an upcoming publication on the impact of <i>
Star Wars</i> for the 50th anniversary of <i>A New Hope</i>. The primary focus will be on the Original Trilogy (OT), although we will consider chapters on the prequels, sequels, and extended universe material, so long as explicit connections are made with the
OT. We welcome submissions addressing the production history of the OT, including locations, special effects and technological advances, costumes, music, sound design, set design, editing, marketing, and merchandising. Also of interest is the global cultural
impact of the OT, including the rise of SW fandom, remakes and re-interpretations, parodies and imitations, and re-evaluations of the OT through various lenses.<br>
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The proposal for this collection, edited by Sorcha Ní Fhlainn and Christine Lee Gengaro, will be submitted to Manchester University Press (MUP) for their series,
<i>Multiplexities: Popular Screen Cultures</i>.</div>
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Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent to <a href="mailto:multiplexitiesmup@gmail.com" target="_blank">multiplexitiesmup@gmail.com</a> by 1 December 2025. Please include an author bio of 100 words with your submission.</div>
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If you have any questions or queries, please do get in touch. We are very happy to discuss the shape of your proposal before submission, if desired.</div>
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Read some of my recent work: </div>
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<i><a title="https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-twentieth-century-gothic.html" href="https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-twentieth-century-gothic.html" target="_blank">Twentieth-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion</a></i>, Ní Fhlainn & Murphy, eds.
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">EUP, 2022</span> | <a title="https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/gothic.2022.0134" href="https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/gothic.2022.0134" target="_blank">
'A Rift between Worlds: The Retro-1980s and the Neoliberal Upside Down in Stranger Things',</a>
<i>Gothic Studies</i>, Vol. 24, 2. 2022 <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
| </span><i><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137583765" target="_blank">Postmodern Vampires - Film, Fiction and Popular Culture</a></i>, Palgrave, 2019 - Winner of the Lord
Ruthven Prize for Vampire Non-Fiction, International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, 2020 |
<i><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719096921/" target="_blank">Clive Barker - Dark imaginer</a></i>, MUP, 2017</div>
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