Wednesday, February 12, 2025

CFP Medieval + Monsters in Comics (3/15/2025; online session 10/17-18/2025)

Medieval + Monsters in Comics

Online Sponsored Session Proposed for Medieval + Monsters: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM), Mid-America Medieval Association (MAMA), Illinois Medieval Association (IMA) Joint Conference with The Newberry Library
Hosted at Dominican University & the Newberry Library
17-18 October 2025

The Medieval Comics Project and the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association seek proposals of 250 words for a proposed online panel devoted to the theme of the medieval and the monstrous in sequential art, comics, manga, and related media.


Topics might include:


  • Adaptations of medieval monsters in modern comics/manga/related media

  • Monsters in sequential art of the medieval era

  • Monsters in marginalia in medieval manuscripts (akin to modern panel comics)

  • New monsters in comics/manga/related media set in the medieval era

  • The use of horror in comics/manga/related media set in the medieval era

  • The use of monstrosity to represent issues of class/gender/race in comic/manga versions of the Middle Ages



Please send submissions (250-word proposal plus a short biographical statement) to the session organizers (Michael A. Torregrossa, Karen Casey Casebier, and Benjamin H. Hoover) at Comics.Get.Medieval@gmail.com by 15 March 2025.



For more information on the Medieval Comics Project, please see our blog at https://medieval-comics-project.blogspot.com/.  


For more information on the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association, please see our blog at https://popularpreternaturaliana.blogspot.com/.  


Further details on the conference itself can be accessed at https://www.dom.edu/medieval-monsters-conference.  



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