CFP closed!

We have closed the call for papers for the upcoming volume Animal Adaptations, which will be co-edited by Justyna Włodarczyk from our own team and Michael Fuchs from the University of Innsbruck.

We are thrilled (and somewhat surprised) by the interest the CFP generated, and we are sorry to have had to turn down so many exciting proposals due to lack of space. We are beyond excited about the team of authors who have agreed to contribute. The response suggests that we have managed to identify a timely topic that scholars are actively thinking about and believe deserves further exploration.

The volume will be related to this project but broader in scope: we have secured contributions that explore not only book-to-film adaptations but also the various transmedial circulations and transformations of animal life. It will bring animal studies into dialogue with adaptation and transmedia studies, showing how animal figures change as stories move across media. It will offer a wide-ranging archive of case studies spanning early cinema, literature, theatre, documentary film, and video games, with particular attention to medium-specific representations of animal life. It will also explore the ethical stakes of mediation, linking formal shifts in representation to audience response, interspecies imaginaries, and the treatment of real animals in media culture.

We’ll keep you posted as our work on the project progresses.

[image: Nell Shipman and members of her film company during the filming of Trail of the North Wind. This pictures includes Daddy Duffill, Dorothy Winslow Overmyer, Bert Van Tuyle, Robert Newhard, Ralph Cochner, and Barry Shipman. Public domain. Source: Wikimedia]